Heritage Hall Nursing Home /Na

Sadly, we gave this facility some really bad category grades. This includes an F for its inspection rating. This is a very important area. Grades in this range generally point to some red flags on the nursing home's government inspections. For nursing homes with poor inspection scores, you should really scrutinize any severe deficiencies found on their recent inspection reports. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like we have information on deficiency's for this nursing home. Lastly, this nursing home was cited by CMS for possible abuse or neglect. This is generally a really bad sign. We would never recommend this facility.

Unfortunately, this facility received an F for its short-term care grade. In computing our short-term care grades, we analyze a facility's levels of highly skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other licensed professionals. This rating is more often than not a reliable measure of a facility's rehabilitation. With its grade in this category, we were not surprised to discover that this place is well below average in terms of the number of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its patients based on the metrics we looked at. The final statistic we considered in this category is the percentage of residents who ultimately returned home from the nursing home. This facility struggled quite a bit in this area as well, with just 4.8 percent of its patients returning home.

Our next category we graded was long-term care, where this nursing home received an F. Facilities that do not fare well in long-term care typically are not as well-staffed and are lagging in some of the areas of routine personal care we looked at. One of the statistics we considered in addition to nursing hours is vaccines. Candidly, we were a bit worried that this nursing home provided the pneumonia vaccination to only 81.64893 percent of its residents. To our surprise, this nursing home was actually decent at keeping its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had just 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. This was its best score in this category.

The final category we looked at is nursing, in which this facility was given a very poor grade in this area also. It received an F in this area, which is obviously somewhat alarming. Our nursing rating is based on numerous data points. The most important one is the amount of time nurses spent with residents. This facility averaged only 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient each day. This is an alarmingly low total. In addition to ranking below average in nursing hours per resident, this place also had poor marks in the quality-based measures we looked at in determining our nursing ratings. We looked at the percent of patients sustaining major falls and pressure ulcers. This facility was at about 1.5 times the national average in both of these metrics. This is likely a bad sign when you consider that many falls and bed sores are believed to be preventable with better nursing care. These scores pulled down this nursing home's nursing grade quite a bit.