Heritage Health Care Center

While we graded this facility incredibly poorly overall, it received a fairly respectable inspection report this year. As a result, it received a decent grade in that category with a score of C. Inspection scores weigh a host of factors included in a facility's inspection reports. One key criteria we rely on is the number and severity of deficiencies. This facility was hit with 7 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were in any of the categories labeled G through L. This means inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies to present an imminent threat to resident safety or health. Unfortunately, we also need to draw your attention to the fact that this facility received significant government fines in recent years.

One of the other reasons we rated this nursing home so highly is that it received a very impressive nursing grade. In that area, we gave this nursing home an F. Our nursing score analyzes many factors, but the most important consideration is the quantity of nurse hours spent with patients. This nursing home averaged only 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in calculating our nursing scores. This place performed well in terms of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers.

This nursing home wound up receiving a an abysmal score in our long-term care category. It was given a lowly F in this area. Facilities that do not fare well in this category typically are not as well-staffed and are lagging in a few of the areas of routine medical care we assessed. Once we looked at the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination data. Frankly, we were a bit alarmed this nursing home vaccinated 67.0573 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which is quite a few points lower than the national average. Surprisingly, this place actually fared well at keeping its residents out of the hospital. It had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. This was its best score in this category.

Turning to the fourth category, this facility really did not perform well in this area either. Due to a very poor grade of F in short-term care, this is really as terrible as it gets. Our short-term care grade is typically employed to judge a facility's performance with rehabilitation. To provide highly rated rehabilitation services, facilities generally must have higher levels of highly skilled nursing. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other highly trained professionals. With a grade this poor for this category, we were not stunned to find this place was well below average in the two key staffing metrics we looked at. In fact, it supplied substantially fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per patient than most other nursing homes. Lastly, we assessed the percentage of patients who who were able to eventually return home from this nursing home. This facility didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 3.8 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.