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Heritage Health - Walnut

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Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Lata

Historical Rating
Grade: B-plus
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Heritage Health - Walnut's website

308 South Second Street,
Walnut IL 61376

(815) 379-2131

73.22% estimated occupancy 1

Located in Walnut, Illinois, Heritage Health - Walnut is the only facility located there. This nursing home is a quality facility, with an overall grade of B+. Based on our ratings, this place has quite a bit going for it. This facility is better in some categories than others, but it didn't have any poor grades in any of the major areas discussed below. More information about these categories can be found below.

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Quick Details

  • Accepts Medicare 1
  • Accepts Medicaid 1
  • No CCRC
  • Has Resident Council
  • No Family Council
  • For profit - Corporation
  • Offers Hospice
  • Offers Respite Care
  • Offers Inpatient Rehab

Specialized Services

  • Transportation
  • Medical Transportation
  • Speech Therapy
  • Stroke Recovery
  • IV Antibiotic Therapy
  • Dentistry
  • Wound Care
  • Occupational Therapy
  • Podiatry
  • Physical Therapy
  • Nutritional Counseling
  • Pharmacy
  • Recreational Therapy
  • Optometry
  • Audiology

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Facility Inspections

Grade: A-plus

To go along with its favorable overall grade, we awarded this facility an A+ for our inspection category. Inspection grades weigh several factors, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these items by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this nursing home had some minor dings on its government inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you CMS didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Long-term Care Quality

Grade: B-plus

This nursing home is also strong in the category of long-term care, where it was given a score of B+. It outpaced most nursing homes in this category. Facilities that do well in this category tend to provide residents with more supervision and stay on top of routine healthcare services. In addition to looking at the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home provided the vaccine to 100 percent of its residents, which is an impressive figure. Pneumonia is often a life or death condition for nursing home patients so we like it when a facility doesn't take any chances. Finally, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

Nurse Quality

Grade: B

In addition, this facility also received favorable nursing grades this year. In fact, we awarded them one of our better scores in that area, with a grade of B. Nursing ratings are tied to quality and quantity of nursing care. This nursing home averages 0.3 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 facility has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can typically be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

Short-term Care Quality

Grade: B-minus

The next area we graded is short-term care. We gave this nursing home a solid score in this area, with a grade of B-. While this wasn't as high as several of this nursing home's other scores, it is still not a major area of concern. In determining these short-term care scores, we look at the facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, respiratory therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. Our objective is to devise a measure for comparing the rehabilitation services of various facilities. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not every facility employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last datapoint we assessed in this area is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the facility and return home. We discovered that just 4.6 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home, which is actually below average.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

FDCB-BB+A-AA+Oct 18Dec 23

Heritage Health - Walnut Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

Grade: B-plus

In Heritage Health - Walnut, 6.67% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This tells you the percent of residents that sustained a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are considered by many experts to be a measure of nursing care . Pressure ulcers, also referred to as bed sores, are routinely the result of patients staying in one position for too long.

Minimizes Serious Falls

Grade: B-plus

In Heritage Health - Walnut, 2.61% of Patients had Serious Falls

This statistic measures the percentage of long-term stay patients which suffered a fall leading to major injury. This is one of the statistics we use in calculating our nursing ratings.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

Grade: D

In Heritage Health - Walnut, 4.86% of Patients had UTIs

This tells you the percent of patients that suffered from a urinary tract infection. UTI's are routinely the result of facilities with lower levels of hygiene. Better hygiene protocols limits the percentage of residents in a nursing home who suffer from UTI's. We want to point out that this datapoint is affected by by the fact that nursing homes have incongruent reporting standards for UTI's.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

Grade: A-minus

In Heritage Health - Walnut, 9.15% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This is the percentage of residents given antipsychotic drugs. While antipsychotic medications may be helpful for many residents, it is important to make sure these medications are being used only where medically required. In some cases, high levels of antipsychotic drug use may indicate a facility is using these drugs to control patient behavior.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

Grade: B

In Heritage Health - Walnut, 18.11% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This tells you the percentage of patients given antianxiety medications. These drugs are typically given to patients suffering from depression and anxiety.

Managing Depression Among Residents

Grade: C

In Heritage Health - Walnut, 12% of Patients

This is the percent of patients showing symptoms of depression. Higher levels of depression could be an indicator a less hospitable environment.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

Grade: A

In Heritage Health - Walnut, 100% of Patients

This datapoint is a measure of the percent of long-term residents who were vaccinated against pneumonia and flu.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

Grade: A-minus

In Heritage Health - Walnut, 9.45% of Patients

This is the percentage of patients that needed additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of dependence on staff for assistance with activities of daily living may be a sign of decline of a resident's medical condition.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

Grade: B-plus

In Heritage Health - Walnut, 17.72% of Residents

This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term stay patients that were able to retain mobility. Some experts would argue that mobility is critical to patients physical and mental health.

Hospitalizations

Grade: A

In Heritage Health - Walnut, 0.01 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days

This tells you the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of patient care. There is typically a correlation between having fewer hospitalizations and the quality of nursing home care.

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

Grade: B-minus

In Heritage Health - Walnut, 17.72% of Residents Rehospitalized

This is a measure of the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term resident care.

Short-term Care: ER Visits

Grade: B

In Heritage Health - Walnut, 12.25% of Patients

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

Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement

Grade: B-plus

In Heritage Health - Walnut, 81.85% of Resident

Measures the percent of short-term patients who saw functional improvements.

Nearby Hospitals

  • Perry Memorial HospitalCritical Access Hospitals 14.78 miles away530 Park Avenue East Princeton Illinois 61356Government - Local(815) 875-2811
  • Cgh Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 17.86 miles away100 East Lefevre Road Sterling Illinois 61081Government - Local(815) 625-0400

Nearby Dialysis

  • Davita - Whiteside Dialysis17.81 miles away4406 East Lincoln Way Sterling Illinois 61081CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 16 (815) 535-0447

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Footnotes:

  1. https://www.medicare.gov/nursinghomecompare/profile.html#ID=146063