Heritage Health-Bloomington

Nursing Home

Updated Jun 1, 2022 by Nick Lata

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Heritage Health-Bloomington's website

700 East Walnut,
Bloomington IL 61701

(309) 827-8004

53.06% estimated occupancy ¹

Heritage Health-Bloomington is an average-sized nursing home located in Bloomington, Illinois. Sporting an overall grade of A-, this nursing home is among the higher-rated nursing homes we assessed. We were so impressed with this nursing home that we ranked it in the top third of all nursing homes nationally. This nursing home's strong report card was highlighted by its short-term care score, which you can find in the next section.

Quick Details

Accepts Medicare ¹
Accepts Medicaid ¹
No CCRC
Has Resident Council
No Family Council
For profit - Corporation
Offers Hospice
Offers Respite Care
Offers Inpatient Rehab
Offers Outpatient Rehab

Specialized Services

Personal Care
Medication Management
Home Making
Transportation
Medical Transportation
Speech Therapy
Stroke Recovery
IV Antibiotic Therapy
Wound Care
Occupational Therapy
Tracheotomy Care
Physical Therapy
Respiratory Therapy
Nutritional Counseling
Pharmacy
Recreational Therapy
Pain Management
Orthopedic Rehabilitation

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Short-term Care Quality

One of the many reasons this turned out to be a great nursing home is that it received an A+ short-term care grade. This is simply as good as it gets in this category. In computing our short-term care ratings, we scrutinize a nursing home's levels of highly skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other highly trained professionals. This area is frequently a reliable measure of the nursing home's ability to rehabilitate patients. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. However, according to the information this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Lastly, we assessed the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 6.9 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

Nurse Quality

To complement its strong performance in other areas, we awarded this nursing home a grade of B for our inspections rating. Nursing scores are mostly tied to the nursing home's level of nurse staffing. This particular nursing home provided 0.6 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This facility performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a nursing home has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can typically be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

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Facility Inspections

This nursing home also received favorable government inspections in recent years. In fact, we gave them one of our better grades in that area, with a B. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in calculating these inspection ratings. One key factor is deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of deficiencies is arguably more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some of these end up being relatively minor. Fortunately, although this nursing home had some minor dings on its inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means that CMS did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. We should note that deficiency-free inspections are uncommon in this industry.

Long-term Care Quality

The next category we graded was long-term care. This nursing home was awarded a strong long-term care rating in our assessment, with a grade of C. Even though this isn't nearly as elite as a few of its other scores, this remains an acceptable grade in that category. In the area of long-term care, we weigh the quantity of care offered by a facility, as opposed to more medically-intensive services. On top of considering the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. Fortunately, this nursing home provided the vaccine to 98.870056 percent of its residents, which is an above average statistic. This nursing home keeps its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

Heritage Health-Bloomington Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

In Heritage Health-Bloomington, 8.94% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This figure is a measure of the percent of long-term stay patients which suffered from pressure ulcers . We bake this statistic into our nursing grades.

Minimizes Serious Falls

In Heritage Health-Bloomington, 3.47% of Patients had Serious Falls

This indicates the percent of patients that suffered from a major fall. Falls resulting in serious injury are considered by many experts to be a barometer of nursing care at a nursing home. Falls are routinely caused by lower quality nursing care.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

In Heritage Health-Bloomington, 2.6% of Patients had UTIs

This indicates the percentage of residents who suffered from a urinary tract infection. UTI's are routinely the result of facilities with worst hygiene practices. Better hygiene protocols reduces the number likelihood of residents sustaining infections. We want to point out that this datapoint is affected by by the fact that nursing homes have varying reporting standards for infections.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

In Heritage Health-Bloomington, 18.4% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This tells you the percentage of long-term residents that are prescribed antipsychotic drugs. Excessive reliance on these medications may indicate that a nursing home is using these medications to subdue residents in situations where such drugs are not medically indicated. However, some nursing homes may need to rely more on these medications due to having more patients with Alzheimer's or other dementias.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

In Heritage Health-Bloomington, 19.11% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term residents that are administered antianxiety medication. These drugs are generally prescribed to patients experiencing depression or anxiety.

Managing Depression Among Residents

In Heritage Health-Bloomington, 29.8% of Patients

This is the percentage of residents who are exhibiting depressive symptoms.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

In Heritage Health-Bloomington, 87.49% of Patients

This tells you the percentage of patients that were administered the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be standard at this point.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

In Heritage Health-Bloomington, 14.23% Percentage of Patients

Measures the percentage of long-term residents that required increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. Activities of daily living include activities such as getting dressed and taking a bath. Many in the industry argue that this is a reliable measure of a resident's well-being.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

In Heritage Health-Bloomington, 19.34% Percentage of Residents

This indicates the percentage of patients that were able to retain mobility over time. Optimizing mobility is usually a good sign for residents' health.

Hospitalizations

In Heritage Health-Bloomington, 1.51 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days

This indicates the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of patient care.

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

In Heritage Health-Bloomington, 19.34 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized

This is the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term patient care. There is usually a correlation between reduced hospitalizations and the quality of rehabilitation services.

Short-term Care: ER Visits

In Heritage Health-Bloomington, 11.45 Percentage of Patients

This indicates the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term care. There is a correlation between fewer emergency room visits and the overall quality of care.

Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement

In Heritage Health-Bloomington, 71.39% Percentage of Resident

This metric measures the percent of short-term stay residents who saw functional improvements.

Scores for Bloomington, IL

Overall Rating has a grade of B-plus
Nurse Rating has a grade of A-minus
Long-term Care Rating has a grade of B
Short-term Care Rating has a grade of A-minus
Inspection Rating has a grade of B-plus

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Nearby Dialysis

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