Heritage Hall - Laurel Meadows is a small nursing home located in Laurel Fork, Virginia. We gave this nursing home an overall grade of B-. A grade of this caliber requires some solid scores. Based on our analysis, this place ought to meet the needs of many people. We were also pleased to find that this facility was consistent in each of the major categories. More information about its category grades can be found below.
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Heritage Hall - Laurel Meadows
- Nursing Home
- Memory Care
Updated Apr 1, 2023 by Nick Lata
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- 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
- Transportation
- Speech Therapy
- Occupational Therapy
- Physical Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
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Facility Inspections
While this facility's overall grade was not bad, it really fared well in the category of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A for that category, which is one of our best scores. Inspection scores are tied to several datapoints found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that excel in this category have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these places generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. Unfortunately, we were not able to find deficiency counts for this nursing home. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
Long-term Care Quality
Another one of this facility's higher category scores was in the area of long-term care. In that area, we gave this facility a B. For prospective residents in need of a permanent residence as opposed to rehabilitation, long-term care is an important category. One of the datapoints we considered in addition to nurse's aid hours is vaccines. This facility provided the pneumonia vaccination to 78.21782 percent of its residents. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.
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Short-term Care Quality
The next best area we awarded this facility in any area came in the category of short-term care, where we awarded it a grade of C. Our short-term care ratings are thought to be more critical for folks needing rehabilitation from their nursing home. Rehabilitation generally utilizes higher levels of highly-skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes not only nursing, but also physical and respiratory therapy, as well as other types of therapy. Unfortunately, we weren't able to locate registered nurse or physical therapy staffing data for this facility. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of residents that returned home from this facility. We found that 5.3 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home. This figure was actually well below the national average.
Nurse Quality
Moving on to our fourth category, this nursing home received a C in nursing, which is a decent grade. Our nursing grade is mostly associated with a nursing home's nurse staffing. This nursing home provides only 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis. This is a somewhat concerning figure which is well below average. Lastly, our nursing scores also consider quality-based measures, such as preventing major falls. Despite not having the highest total nursing hours, this place performed admirably in the area of preventing major falls. This is usually a good indicator that a place has quality controls in place. Some falls could be avoided if a nursing home provides enough nurses aids to assist its residents.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Heritage Hall - Laurel Meadows Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Heritage Hall - Laurel Meadows, 8.53% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This indicates the percent of residents who suffered from a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are skin damage due to staying in one position for an excessive period of time.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Heritage Hall - Laurel Meadows, 3.74% of Patients had Serious Falls
This measures the percentage of long-term patients which experienced falls leading to major injury. Falls can arise for a variety of reasons, but high rates of major falls may be a sign of poor nursing care.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Heritage Hall - Laurel Meadows, 2.25% of Patients had UTIs
This indicates the percentage of residents who suffered from a urinary tract infection. UTI's are routinely caused by nursing homes with worse hygiene protocols. Better nursing care can minimize the percentage of residents in a nursing home who suffer from UTI's. We want to point out that this datapoint is sometimes skewed by the fact that facilities have different reporting standards for these infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Heritage Hall - Laurel Meadows, 15.09% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This is the percent of residents given antipsychotic drugs. Antipsychotic drugs are given to residents for many conditions, including dementia. Sadly, in limited cases, increased usage of these drugs may mean a facility is using these drugs to control patient behavior.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Heritage Hall - Laurel Meadows, 19.63% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This is the percentage of patients who were given antianxiety drugs. Antianxiety medications are prescribed to patients suffering from anxiety or depression.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Heritage Hall - Laurel Meadows, 5.07% of Patients
This tells you the percent of residents showing symptoms of depression. High levels of depression could reveal worse patient care.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Heritage Hall - Laurel Meadows, 88.92% of Patients
This datapoint measures the percent of long-term care patients who received the flu and pneumonia vaccines.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Heritage Hall - Laurel Meadows, 17.15% Percentage of Patients
This is the percentage of patients who needed increased assistance with activities of daily living over time.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Heritage Hall - Laurel Meadows, 18.14% Percentage of Residents
This datapoint measures the percent of long-term stay residents that maintained mobility. Some experts would argue that mobility is vital to residents' mental and physical well-being.
Hospitalizations
In Heritage Hall - Laurel Meadows, 1.38 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This is a measure of the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of patient care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Heritage Hall - Laurel Meadows, 18.14 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
This is the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term care.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Heritage Hall - Laurel Meadows, 12.25 Percentage of Patients
This is a measure of the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term patient care. Staying out of the emergency room is one way to gauge patient care during rehabilitation.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Heritage Hall - Laurel Meadows, 74.96% Percentage of Resident
This metric measures the percentage of short-term care residents that experienced functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. Some experts argue that this is a measure of a nursing home's rehabilitation performance.
Nearby Hospitals
- Northern Hospital of Surry CountyAcute Care Hospitals 17.89 miles away830 Rockford St Mount Airy North Carolina 27030Government - Hospital District or Authority(336) 719-7000
Nearby Dialysis
- Mount Airy Dialysis Center of Wake Forest University18.12 miles away1280 Newsome Street Mount Airy North Carolina 27030CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 27 (336) 789-4090