Heritage Hall Dillwyn

Heritage Hall Dillwyn is a facility located in Dillwyn, Virginia, a city with 8,212 people. We gave this facility an overall grade of D. A score of this caliber generally indicates some red flags. Based on our ratings, this facility may not be a great fit for most prospective residents. If you aren't deterred by this facility's profile, you can continue reading to learn more about its category grades. We discuss inspections in the next paragraph.

While this nursing home's overall grade was not a highlight, it actually excelled in the area of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A for that category, which is one of our best scores. Inspection grades weigh several factors, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can learn more about each of these items by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this nursing home had some minor dings on its government inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones labeled as categories G through L. This tells you 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 few minor deficiencies are not necessarily the end of the world.

This nursing home received its second highest category score in the area of long-term care. We awarded this facility a grade of C in this category, which is an acceptable grade. In a long-term care environment, the facility's primary objective is to maintain patients' quality of life and keep them safe. After looking at the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we then looked at the facility's vaccination data. We were pleased to discover that this facility vaccinated 100 percent of its residents for pneumonia. Lastly, this place was also able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

This facility's next best category was nursing, but even there it received a grade of just D. This is still a well below average grade. Nursing grades are mostly based on a facility's level of nurse staffing. With a meager 3 hours of nursing care per resident per day, this place's nurse staffing levels were significantly below average. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in computing our nursing scores. This facility performed well in the area of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls.

Moving on to our next area, this facility did not fare very well in this area either. Due to an abysmal grade of F in short-term care, this is about as terrible as it gets. Our short-term care ratings are critical for residents in need of rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally utilizes additional skilled nursing services. This includes a wide range of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other types of therapy. As you might expect, we discovered that this nursing home offers significantly less registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than the typical facility. The last datapoint we assessed in this category is the percentage of patients that ultimately returned home from the nursing home. This facility struggled quite a bit in this metric as well, with just 42.7 percent of its residents returning home. Unfortunately, this was quite a bit below the national average.