Heritage Health Care Center

While this place's overall grade was terrible, it actually performed well in the category of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a B+ for that area, which is one of our better scores. Inspection scores account for a host of factors found on a nursing home's inspection reports. One of the most important criteria we weigh heavily is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. You should avoid places with a list of severe deficiencies flagged. Although this place had some deficiencies on its inspection report, none were serious based on CMS' deficiency scale. A couple minor deficiencies are not the end of the world.

This nursing home really excelled in our nursing category, where it earned an D. Nursing ratings are primarily based on a facility's level of nurse staffing. This place provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident each day. This number is significantly below average. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in computing our nursing grades. This facility performed well when it comes to minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. Many consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

Moving on to the area of short-term care, this nursing home was given a grade of just D in that area. Our short-term care grade is commonly employed to grade a facility's rehabilitation services To offer high-end rehabilitation services, facilities generally must offer better levels of skilled nursing. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other types of therapists. Considering its weak rating in this area, we weren't shocked to discover this place offered significantly fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per patient than most other facilities. Lastly, we assessed the number of residents that ultimately were able to return home from this facility. This nursing home didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home. This figure was well off the national average.

Turning to the last category, this nursing home didn't fare well in this area either. With a very poor grade of F in long-term care, this is just about as as uninspiring as it gets. Facilities that receive this type of score in long-term care likely don't provide the type of consistent around the clock care that some other facilities provide. On top of considering the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. We discovered that this facility vaccinated a relatively low 83.435585 percent of its patients, which is quite a bit lower than we expected. To our surprise, this nursing home was actually decent at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. This is its best feature in this category.