Heritage Health Care Center

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Updated Sep 1, 2022 by Nick Lata

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1630 W 2nd Street,
Chanute KS 66720

(785) 566-4501

69.01% estimated occupancy ¹

Heritage Health Care Center is a small facility in Chanute, Kansas. This proved to be a grade A facility, which is a phenomenal grade. Based on our ratings, you can not go wrong with this facility. As you can find below, this place also performed well in our category scores. It would be hard to find any major flaws in this facility's profile.

Quick Details

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

Registered Staff Hours

Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2021)

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Facility Inspections

In addition to receiving a strong overall score, this nursing home also received excellent health inspections recently. We awarded it one of our best scores in that area, with a grade of A. 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.

Nurse Quality

One of the other reasons we rated this nursing home so highly is that it earned a very impressive nursing score. This proved to be its second best category grade. In that category, we gave this nursing home an A. Nursing scores are tied to quality and quantity of nursing care. This particular nursing home provided 0.4 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 place has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can often be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

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Short-term Care Quality

Turning the page to our third category, we gave this facility a score of A- for its short-term care grade. This is a very impressive score. In forming our short-term care ratings, we analyze the facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. Our objective is to create a measure for sizing up the rehabilitation services of various facilities. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not every nursing home employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, based on the data they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Lastly, we assessed the percentage of residents who ultimately were able to return home from this facility. We found that 6 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

Long-term Care Quality

The last area we graded was long-term care, where this nursing home received a B+. This completed an elite report card. Very few nursing homes earned a B+ or better in in each area we assessed. Nursing homes that do well in this category typically are well-staffed and offer extensive hands on care to patients. Once we looked at the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination statistics. This facility vaccinated 100 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which is far higher than most nursing homes. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations 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 Care Center Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

In Heritage Health Care Center, 7.05% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This measures the percentage of long-term patients who suffer from pressure ulcers. We find that pressure ulcers are a reliable indicator of the quality of nursing care a nursing home provides.

Minimizes Serious Falls

In Heritage Health Care Center, 5.14% of Patients had Serious Falls

This figure is a measure of the percent of long-term residents who suffered falls resulting in serious injury. Falls can arise for a variety of reasons, but high rates of major falls may be an indicator of lower levels of patient supervision.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

In Heritage Health Care Center, 3.56% of Patients had UTIs

This indicates the percentage of residents that sustained a urinary tract infection. Urinary tract infections are often caused by nursing homes with worse hygiene protocols. More frequent bathing can minimize the number likelihood of residents sustaining infections. Note that this statistic is sometimes skewed by the fact that nursing homes have incongruent reporting standards for infections.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

In Heritage Health Care Center, 17.24% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This tells you the percent of residents who were given antipsychotic drugs. While antipsychotic medications may be helpful for many residents, it is important to make sure these medications are being used appropriately. In limited cases, high levels of antipsychotic drug use may suggest a nursing home is using these medications to control patient behavior.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

In Heritage Health Care Center, 22.38% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This is the percent of residents who were given antianxiety drugs. Antianxiety medications are prescribed to patients experiencing anxiety or depression.

Managing Depression Among Residents

In Heritage Health Care Center, 5.98% of Patients

This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term care patients who are demonstrating depressive symptoms. Some experts believe that this is a reliable measure of patient quality of care.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

In Heritage Health Care Center, 91.04% of Patients

This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term care patients who were administered the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be fatal for nursing home patients, making these types of vaccines important for resident well-being.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

In Heritage Health Care Center, 16.84% Percentage of Patients

This datapoint is a measure of the percent of long-term stay patients that needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as dressing and eating.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

In Heritage Health Care Center, 19.61% Percentage of Residents

This tells you the percentage of residents who were able to retain mobility over time. Optimizing mobility is often a great sign for residents' health.

Hospitalizations

In Heritage Health Care Center, 1.67 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 Care Center, 19.61 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized

This metric measures the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term resident care. Avoiding the hospital during rehabilitation is important to restoring the physical well-being of residents.

Short-term Care: ER Visits

In Heritage Health Care Center, 10.57 Percentage of Patients

This metric tracks the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.

Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement

In Heritage Health Care Center, 74.57% Percentage of Resident

This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of short-term care residents that experienced functional improvements.

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