Heritage Health Care Center is a small facility in Chanute, Kansas. This facility was awarded an overall grade of B, which is favorable grade. Based on our ratings, you could do much worse than this place. The best aspect of this nursing home's impressive report card was its inspection rating. We discuss inspections in the next section
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Heritage Health Care Center
- Nursing Home
- Home Health Agency
- Adult Day Care
Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Reese
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- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- Has Family Council
- For profit - Corporation
- Offers Hospice
- Offers Post-Acute Care
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Medication Management
- Speech Therapy
- Palliative Care
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Physical Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Recreational Therapy
- Pain Management
- Aquatic Therapy
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Facility Inspections
In addition to being a quality facility overall, this place also excelled in our inspections category, where it earned a grade of A. Few nursing homes fared better in this area. Inspection ratings are tied to items found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that receive favorable grades in this category have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these facilities generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. Unfortunately, this facility received a category L deficiency, which is not what we expected based on its inspection score. These are the worst type of deficiencies. This category of deficiency indicates CMS found a widespread deficiency putting resident health or safety in imminent jeopardy. Any serious deficiency is a major concern. In spite of this major red flag, other aspects of this facility's inspection report gave us some hope.
Short-term Care Quality
This facility also received a favorable short-term care score. Indeed, we gave it an above average score of B in this area. Our short-term care grades are based in part on a facility's quantity of skilled skilled healthcare professionals. This includes a wide spectrum of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, in addition to other variations of therapy. It doesn't appear that this nursing home provided information on registered nurse or physical therapist staffing. The final measure we looked at in this category is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return home. We discovered that 6.4 percent of this facility's patients returned home.
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Long-term Care Quality
Turning to our third area, this facility also received a score of B for its long-term care rating. This is a well above average grade in this category. For patients looking for a permanent place to live rather than skilled nursing, long-term care is a very important category. On top of looking at the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home provided the vaccine to 89.09091 percent of its residents, which is a bit lower than we were hoping for. While its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we had hoped, at least this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0.03 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.
Nurse Quality
The last area we scored was nursing. We awarded this nursing home a C in this area. We scrutinized the licensure of nurses working for the nursing home, as well as the quantity of time those nurses spent with residents, in determining our rating in this area. This particular nursing home provided just 0.4 hours of nursing care per patient each day. This figure is significantly below the national average. Finally, we look at quality-based metrics, such as the percentage of patients who sustained pressure ulcers and major falls. These data points are measures of the quality of nursing care.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Heritage Health Care Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Heritage Health Care Center, 6.06% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This tells you the percent of patients who have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are damage to the skin due to remaining in the same position for an excessive period of time.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Heritage Health Care Center, 6.67% of Patients had Serious Falls
This is the percent of patients that have had a major fall. Falls resulting in severe injuries are considered by many experts to be a measure of the quality of nursing care at a nursing home. Falls resulting in injury are often caused by poor nursing care.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Heritage Health Care Center, 9.68% of Patients had UTIs
This indicates the percentage of patients that suffered from a urinary tract infection. Urinary tract infections are considered to be an indicator of the quality of nursing care . UTI's are often associated with worse hygiene protocols. However, this metric could also be misleading for some nursing homes due to different reporting standards for infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Heritage Health Care Center, 4.86% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This indicates the percentage of residents who were given antipsychotic drugs. Antipsychotic drugs are administered to residents for a variety of medical conditions, such as dementia. Unfortunately, in some situations, increased usage of these drugs may suggest a nursing home is using these medications to control patient behavior.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Heritage Health Care Center, 23.65% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This indicates the percentage of residents who were given antianxiety drugs. These medications are commonly used to treat patients suffering from anxiety and depression.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Heritage Health Care Center, 21.19% of Patients
This tells you the percent of residents showing symptoms of depression. Increased levels of depression could reveal worse patient care.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Heritage Health Care Center, 93.47% of Patients
This is a measure of the percentage of long-term patients that were vaccinated against pneumonia and flu.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Heritage Health Care Center, 26.39% of Patients
This metric measures the percent of long-term stay residents who required additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as getting dressed and continence.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Heritage Health Care Center, 22.22% of Residents
Measures the percentage of long-term stay residents who remained mobile levels. Many in the industry would argue that the ability to move around is important for patients health.
Hospitalizations
In Heritage Health Care Center, 0.03 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This metric tracks the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of patient care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Heritage Health Care Center, 22.22% of Residents Rehospitalized
This metric is a measure of the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term resident care.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Heritage Health Care Center, 17.15% of Patients
Measures the number of emergency room visits per 1,000 days of short-term patient care. Avoiding emergency medical situations is one way to gauge short-term care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Heritage Health Care Center, 88.71% of Resident
This tells you the percent of short-term patients who saw functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. Higher levels of performance with ADL's typically correlates with superior rehabilitation services.
Nearby Hospitals
- Neosho Memorial Regional Medical CenterCritical Access Hospitals 0.38 miles away629 South Plummer Chanute Kansas 66720Government - Local(620) 431-4000
- Allen County Regional HospitalCritical Access Hospitals 19.28 miles away3066 North Kentucky Street Iola Kansas 66749Government - State(620) 365-1021
Nearby Dialysis
- Renal Care Group - Chanute0.41 miles away703 S Plummer Chanute Kansas 66720Dialysis Stations: 12 (620) 431-1239