Heritage Hall Blacksburg

Nursing Home

Updated Sep 1, 2022 by Nick Lata

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Heritage Hall Blacksburg's website

3610 South Main Street,
Blacksburg VA 24060

(540) 951-7000

71.28% estimated occupancy ¹

Heritage Hall Blacksburg is a senior living facility in Blacksburg, Virginia, a city with a total of 53,311 people. This facility is a lower end nursing home. A grade in this range suggests we found a few red flags. If you are not happy with this facility's poor overall grade, you may find your options to be limited in Blacksburg. The city has just one other nursing home. Despite all this, one of the few highlights of this facility's profile is its impressive inspection reports. You can scroll down to learn more about inspections and other category scores

Quick Details

Accepts Medicare ¹
Accepts Medicaid ¹
No CCRC
Has Resident Council
No Family Council
For profit - Limited Liability company
Offers Hospice
Offers Respite Care
Offers Inpatient Rehab

Specialized Services

Speech Therapy
Occupational Therapy
Physical Therapy
Nutritional Counseling
Pharmacy
Lymphedema Care

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Facility Inspections

While this facility's overall score was not a highlight, it actually received a very good grade in the area of inspections. We awarded it a grade of B for that area, which is one of our better scores. Perhaps the most critical factor we look at in determining our inspection grades is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. It is typically in your best interest to avoid nursing homes that have a long list of deficiencies. Fortunately, although this place had a few minor dings on its report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G through L. This means that the government inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. A couple minor deficiencies are not the end of the world.

Long-term Care Quality

This facility's long-term care score ended up being one of its better scores. The nursing home received a B- in this category. For prospective residents in need of a permanent residence rather than skilled nursing, long-term care is a very important category. One of the factors we considered in addition to nurse's aid hours is vaccinations. Thankfully, this facility provided the pneumonia vaccine to 100 percent of its patients. Lastly, this facility was also able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

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Nurse Quality

Unfortunately, this facility only received a grade of D for its nursing grade, which was actually one of its better category grades. Our nursing grade is largely associated with the nursing home's level of nurse staffing. This place averaged only 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient each day. This is well below average. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in computing our nursing grades. This nursing home fared well in the area of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers.

Short-term Care Quality

The final area we looked at was short-term care, in which this facility was given a poor score here also. It received an F in this category, which is definitely very concerning. In the category of short-term care, we try to evaluate indicators of a nursing home's rehabilitation. We look at a facility's skilled nursing services, such as the ones performed by registered nurses and various therapists. Not surprisingly, we found that this nursing home provides far less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than the average facility. Lastly, we considered the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. This wasn't a strength for this facility. We found that just 4.8 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home. At most facilities, around half of their residents are able to return home so this is well below average.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

Heritage Hall Blacksburg Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

In Heritage Hall Blacksburg, 8.72% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This datapoint is an indication of the percentage of long-term residents which are suffering from new or worsened pressure ulcers . We consider this statistic when determining our nursing grades.

Minimizes Serious Falls

In Heritage Hall Blacksburg, 3.64% of Patients had Serious Falls

This is an indication of the percent of long-term residents who sustained a fall which caused major injury. Falls can arise for a variety of reasons, but excessive numbers of falls could be an indication of poor nursing care.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

In Heritage Hall Blacksburg, 2.55% of Patients had UTIs

This is the percentage of residents who sustained a urinary tract infection. Urinary tract infections are routinely associated with facilities with lower levels of hygiene. Closer supervision minimizes the percentage of residents in a nursing home who suffer from UTI's. We want to point out that this metric is affected by by the fact that nursing homes have varying reporting standards for urinary tract infections.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

In Heritage Hall Blacksburg, 13.56% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This statistic tells you the percent of long-term care residents that are given antipsychotic medication. High levels of antipsychotic drug use may mean a nursing home is using these drugs to subdue residents in situations where such medications aren't medically required. Nevertheless, some facilities may need to rely more on these medications due to an increased number of residents with Alzheimer's or other dementias.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

In Heritage Hall Blacksburg, 20.28% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This figure is a measure of the percent of long-term care residents taking antianxiety medications.

Managing Depression Among Residents

In Heritage Hall Blacksburg, 3.63% of Patients

This datapoint is a measure of the percent of long-term stay residents who are exhibiting signs of depression.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

In Heritage Hall Blacksburg, 91.12% of Patients

This is the percent of residents that were given the pneumonia and flu vaccines. High vaccination rates should be demanded by residents.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

In Heritage Hall Blacksburg, 16.48% Percentage of Patients

This indicates the percent of patients who required more assistance with activities of daily living over time.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

In Heritage Hall Blacksburg, 21.22% Percentage of Residents

This datapoint measures the percentage of long-term residents who maintained mobility. Many in the industry would argue that mobility is important for residents' well-being.

Hospitalizations

In Heritage Hall Blacksburg, 1.29 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days

This is the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of care. There is a correlation between keeping patients out of the hospital and the overall quality of long-term care.

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

In Heritage Hall Blacksburg, 21.22 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized

This is a measure of the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term care.

Short-term Care: ER Visits

In Heritage Hall Blacksburg, 11.62 Percentage of Patients

This metric is a measure of the number of emergency room visits per 1,000 days of short-term care. Avoiding medical emergencies is one way to gauge patient care during rehabilitation.

Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement

In Heritage Hall Blacksburg, 75.54% Percentage of Resident

This indicates the percent of short-term stay patients who saw functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living.

Nearby Hospitals

Lewisgale Hospital MontgomeryAcute Care Hospitals 0.11 miles away3700 South Main Street Blacksburg Virginia 24060Proprietary(540) 951-1111
Carilion New River Valley Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 8.79 miles away2900 Lamb Circle Christiansburg Virginia 24073Voluntary non-profit - Private(540) 731-2000
Carilion Giles Community HospitalCritical Access Hospitals 19.27 miles away159 Hartley Way Pearisburg Virginia 24134Voluntary non-profit - Private(540) 921-6000

Nearby Dialysis

Fmc - Montgomery0.93 miles away106 Southpark Dr Sw Ste A Blacksburg Virginia 24060Dialysis Stations: 15 (540) 951-1466
Davita - Radford Dialysis8.33 miles away600 E Main St Suite F Radford Virginia 24141Dialysis Stations: 17 (540) 639-9561
Bma - New River Valley8.74 miles away1200 Tyler Ave Stu. A Radford Virginia 24141Dialysis Stations: 15 (540) 731-0610