Heritage Health Services is a senior living facility located in Port Washington, Wisconsin. The city has 12,880 people. This turns out to be a middle of the road facility, with an overall grade of B-. Based on our assessment, this nursing home ought to meet the needs of many people. One of the better aspects of this facility's profile is its impressive short-term care rating, which you can find in the next paragraph.
Heritage Health Services
- Nursing Home
Updated Sep 1, 2022 by Nick Lata
Quick Details
- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Corporation
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Transportation
- Dialysis Transportation
- Medical Transportation
- Speech Therapy
- IV Antibiotic Therapy
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Tracheotomy Care
- Mental Health
- Diabetes Management
- Physical Therapy
- Respiratory Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Pharmacy
- Laboratory
- X-Ray
- Recreational Therapy
- Bariatric Care
Registered Staff Hours
Short-term Care Quality
We want to draw your attention to the fact that this facility earned a far better grade for short-term care than it received overall. In fact, it received one of our highest grades in that category with a score of A. In forming these short-term care grades, we look at the facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, respiratory therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. Our goal is to devise a barometer for sizing up the rehabilitation services of different nursing homes. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not every nursing home employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The final measure we considered in this category is the percentage of patients that eventually returned home from the facility. We found that 6.9 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.
Nurse Quality
In addition, we awarded this nursing home a grade of B in our nursing category. This is one of our better grades. Nursing grades are primarily tied to the facility's nurse staffing. This particular nursing home provided 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This place performed very well in the area of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.
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Facility Inspections
This nursing home also earned a very favorable inspection score. In that area, we gave this nursing home a B. Perhaps the most critical factor we look at in computing our inspection scores is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes with higher scores in this category most likely avoided the most severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. Although this facility had a few deficiencies on its government inspection report, none of them were serious based on CMS' deficiency scale. The fact that the deficiencies were relatively minor leaves us less concerned with this inspection report.
Long-term Care Quality
The next category we graded was long-term care. Unfortunately, we gave it an abysmal F for this category, which is a rock bottom grade. This is clearly a major disappointment. For residents in need of a permanent place to live as opposed to skilled nursing, long-term care grades are an important measure. After assessing the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we next considered the facility's vaccination records. We were optimistic to learn that this nursing home vaccinated 99.145294 percent of its patients against pneumonia. Surprisingly, this facility also keeps its patients out of the hospital. It had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. Unfortunately, some of its other scores in the category were not as favorable as these.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Heritage Health Services Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Heritage Health Services, 6.93% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This indicates the percent of long-term care residents who suffered from pressure ulcers. Many experts believe that pressure ulcers are a great measure of the quality of nursing care a facility provides.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Heritage Health Services, 3.27% of Patients had Serious Falls
This tells you the percentage of long-term stay residents who sustained a fall resulting in serious injury. This is one of the statistics we use in computing nursing grades.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Heritage Health Services, 3.19% of Patients had UTIs
This indicates the percent of residents that suffered from a urinary tract infection. These infections may be linked to poor hygiene.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Heritage Health Services, 13.83% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This indicates the percent of residents prescribed antipsychotic drugs. Antipsychotic drugs are prescribed to residents for many conditions, such as cognitive disorders. Sadly, in some situations, excessive reliance on these medications may indicate a nursing home is using these medications to control patient behavior.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Heritage Health Services, 15.45% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This datapoint is a measure of the percent of long-term patients receiving antianxiety medications.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Heritage Health Services, 6.26% of Patients
This is a measure of the percent of long-term patients who are showing depressive symptoms.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Heritage Health Services, 92.96% of Patients
This indicates the percentage of patients who were given the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be standard at this point.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Heritage Health Services, 13.23% Percentage of Patients
This is the percentage of residents who needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Heritage Health Services, 20.17% Percentage of Residents
This is the percent of residents who were able to retain mobility over time. Retaining mobility can be a good sign for residents' health.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Heritage Health Services, 20.17 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
This metric tracks the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Heritage Health Services, 13.08 Percentage of Patients
This datapoint is a measure of the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term care. Avoiding medical emergencies is one way to gauge patient well-being during rehabilitation.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Heritage Health Services, 75.51% Percentage of Resident
This tells you the percentage of short-term stay patients that experienced functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. High levels of independence with activities of daily living generally correlates with higher quality rehabilitation services.
Nearby Hospitals
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- St Josephs Community Hospital of West BendAcute Care Hospitals 16.67 miles away3200 Pleasant Valley Road West Bend Wisconsin 53095Voluntary non-profit - Private(262) 334-5533
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