Heritage Harbour Health and Rehabilitation Center is a large nursing home located in Annapolis, Maryland. With an overall score of C, this appears to be a middle of the road nursing home. Based on the data we reviewed, there are certainly much worse nursing homes out there. The best part of this nursing home's profile is is its short-term care score. We discuss short-term care in the next section.
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Heritage Harbour Health and Rehabilitation Center
- Nursing Home
Updated Nov 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
Specialized Services
- Speech Therapy
- Occupational Therapy
- Physical Therapy
- Respiratory Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Pharmacy
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Registered Staff Hours
Short-term Care Quality
This nursing home received a short-term care grade which is stronger than its overall grade. We gave this facility a B in this category. This really helped its overall profile. In the area of short-term care, we seek to qualify indicators of a nursing home's rehabilitation services. We look at the facility's skilled nursing services, such as the ones performed by registered nurses and various therapists. It doesn't look like this facility submitted information about its staffing of registered nurses or physical therapists. The last datapoint we considered in this area is the number of residents that were able to return home from the facility. We found that 4.8 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.
Nurse Quality
Another one of this nursing home's stronger areas was in the category of nursing care. In that area, we gave this facility a grade of B. When determining our nursing grades, we analyze both nursing hours and the levels of licensure of the nurses. This particular nursing home provided 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality-based metrics and this nursing home excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any place the country in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can frequently be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as by employing a protocol of turning patients at least once a day.
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Facility Inspections
This nursing home earned a good score in the area of inspections as well. In fact, we awarded it a grade of B- for that category, which is one of our better scores. We believe that one of the most important factors in assessing an inspection report is deficiencies. In this regard, we especially focus on the severity of those deficiencies. Although this nursing home had some deficiencies on its inspection report, none were severe based on CMS' scale. A couple minor deficiencies should not stop you from considering a nursing home.
Long-term Care Quality
Turning to the next area, this nursing home was given a decent long-term care score of C. In forming these long-term care scores, we assess the nursing home's personal care services. One of the statistics we considered in addition to nursing hours is vaccines. Candidly, we were a bit concerned this facility provided the pneumonia vaccine to only 79.189186 percent of its residents. Nevertheless, this facility keeps its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Heritage Harbour Health and Rehabilitation Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Heritage Harbour Health and Rehabilitation Center, 9.24% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This is an indication of the percent of long-term stay residents that suffered from pressure ulcers . We bake this statistic into both nursing and long-term care grades.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Heritage Harbour Health and Rehabilitation Center, 4.86% of Patients had Serious Falls
This statistic measures the percentage of long-term residents which sustained falls leading to major injury. This is one of the statistics we use in computing our nursing ratings.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Heritage Harbour Health and Rehabilitation Center, 0.81% of Patients had UTIs
This datapoint is a measure of the percent of long-term residents which experienced a urinary tract infection. While more of these infections could reflect poorly on a facility's cleanliness, it is problematic to compare between nursing homes due to facilities having inconsistent reporting standards.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Heritage Harbour Health and Rehabilitation Center, 7.08% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This tells you the percentage of residents who were given antipsychotic drugs. Antipsychotic drugs are given to patients for a variety of medical conditions, including Alzheimer's or other dementias. Unfortunately, in limited cases, excessive reliance on these medications may suggest that a facility is using these drugs to control patient behavior.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Heritage Harbour Health and Rehabilitation Center, 18.02% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This indicates the percent of residents given antianxiety medications. Antianxiety medications are prescribed to patients suffering from anxiety or depression.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Heritage Harbour Health and Rehabilitation Center, 11.55% of Patients
This metric measures the percent of long-term care patients demonstrating depressive symptoms. Many in the industry argue this is a measure of resident quality of care.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Heritage Harbour Health and Rehabilitation Center, 87.02% of Patients
This metric measures the percent of long-term care residents who were given the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be fatal for nursing home residents, making these types of vaccines critical to patient safety.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Heritage Harbour Health and Rehabilitation Center, 27.69% of Patients
This indicates the percent of patients that needed increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. High levels of dependence on staff for assistance with activities of daily living may be a sign of the decline of a resident's health.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Heritage Harbour Health and Rehabilitation Center, 31.17% of Residents
This is the percentage of residents that retained mobility levels over time. Optimizing mobility is often a good sign for residents' health.
Hospitalizations
In Heritage Harbour Health and Rehabilitation Center, 0.02 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Measures the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of patient care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Heritage Harbour Health and Rehabilitation Center, 31.17% of Residents Rehospitalized
This is the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term patient care. There is a correlation between staying out of the hospital and the quality of rehabilitation services.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Heritage Harbour Health and Rehabilitation Center, 13.53% of Patients
This tells you the number of emergency room visits per 1,000 days of short-term care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Heritage Harbour Health and Rehabilitation Center, 72.75% of Resident
This is the percent of short-term stay residents who experienced functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living.
Scores for Annapolis, MD
- Overall Rating has a grade of B
- Nurse Rating has a grade of B-plus
- Long-term Care Rating has a grade of B
- Short-term Care Rating has a grade of B-plus
- Inspection Rating has a grade of B-plus
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Nearby Dialysis
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