Heritage Healthcare Center at Tallahassee is a large nursing home located in Tallahassee, Florida. Featuring an overall score of D, this is a relatively poor facility. Keep in mind that Tallahassee received a city grade of B, so should consider other options in the city as well. If you aren't deterred by this place's profile, feel free to continue reading to find out about its category scores. Inspection grades are discussed in the next paragraph.
Heritage Healthcare Center at Tallahassee
- Nursing Home
Updated Sep 1, 2022 by Nick Reese
Quick Details
- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- Is CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Corporation
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Medication Management
- Home Making
- Speech Therapy
- Occupational Therapy
- Physical Therapy
Registered Staff Hours
Facility Inspections
Although we did not rate this nursing home favorably overall, we want to draw your attention to its nearly flawless government inspections in recent years. We awarded them an impressive grade of A- in this category. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in determining our inspection grades. One key factor is deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of these deficiencies is usually more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some of these can be quite minor. This particular nursing home received 6 deficiencies on its inspection report. Overall, this is still a solid inspection report, but we'd always recommend looking into any deficiencies you find troubling.
Long-term Care Quality
Turning to the area of long-term care, this nursing home was given a grade of just D in this area. Unfortunately, this ended up being one of its better grades. In a long-term care environment, the nursing home's primary goal is to maintain residents' quality of life and keep them safe. After assessing the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we next considered the facility's vaccination record. We were optimistic to find that this nursing home vaccinated 99.40358 percent of its patients against pneumonia. To our surprise, this nursing home was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. It had only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. Sadly, some of its other scores in this category weren't as favorable as these.
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Nurse Quality
We were surprised to find that this nursing home also excelled in the category of nursing. We awarded it an impressive grade of D for that category, which is one of our highest scores. The nursing category is based on several datapoints, many of which are associated with nursing hours. This place averaged only 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident daily. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in computing our nursing ratings. This facility performed well in the area of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers.
Short-term Care Quality
Turning to our final area, this facility really didn't fare very well in this category either. Due to a poor grade of F in short-term care, this is just about as bad as it gets. Our short-term care ratings are based on a facility's quantity of highly-skilled skilled healthcare professionals. This means a wide spectrum of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, in addition to other forms of therapy. Based on its score in this category, we weren't surprised to find that this nursing home was well below average in terms of its number of registered nurse and physical therapy hours provided to its patients based on the figures we assessed. Honestly, this was what we expected here. Lastly, we assessed the percentage of residents that ultimately returned home from this nursing home. This facility didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 4.6 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Heritage Healthcare Center at Tallahassee Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Heritage Healthcare Center at Tallahassee, 9.08% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This indicates the percentage of residents that have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are considered to be an indicator of nursing care . Pressure ulcers, also called bed sores, are routinely caused by patients staying in one position for too long.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Heritage Healthcare Center at Tallahassee, 2.82% of Patients had Serious Falls
This figure gauges the percentage of long-term care patients who have sustained a fall resulting in serious injury. Falls can happen for a variety of reasons, but high rates of falls resulting in injuries may be a sign of poor nursing care.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Heritage Healthcare Center at Tallahassee, 1.81% of Patients had UTIs
This indicates the percentage of patients who suffered from a urinary tract infection. UTI's are considered by many experts to be a measure of nursing care . UTI's are routinely the result of poor nursing care. However, this datapoint could also be misleading for certain nursing homes due to inconsistent reporting standards for infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Heritage Healthcare Center at Tallahassee, 10.64% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This indicates the percent of patients given antipsychotic medications. These medications are sometimes used for a variety of conditions, including Alzheimer's or other dementias.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Heritage Healthcare Center at Tallahassee, 21.27% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This indicates the percentage of patients who were given antianxiety drugs. Antianxiety medications are prescribed to patients experiencing depression or anxiety.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Heritage Healthcare Center at Tallahassee, 2.33% of Patients
This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term care residents demonstrating signs of depression. Many in the industry believe this is a reasonable measure of quality of care.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Heritage Healthcare Center at Tallahassee, 94.94% of Patients
This datapoint measures the percentage of long-term stay patients who have received the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be very dangerous for nursing home patients, making these types of vaccines critical to patient safety.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Heritage Healthcare Center at Tallahassee, 13.07% Percentage of Patients
This is the percentage of residents that needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of needing for assistance with activities of daily living may indicate the erosion of a patient's well-being.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Heritage Healthcare Center at Tallahassee, 16.78% Percentage of Residents
This indicates the percent of residents who retained mobility levels over time. Optimizing mobility is often a good sign for residents' well-being.
Hospitalizations
In Heritage Healthcare Center at Tallahassee, 1.76 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This metric measures the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of patient care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Heritage Healthcare Center at Tallahassee, 16.78 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
This datapoint measures the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term patient care. Avoiding the hospital during rehabilitation is important to restoring the health of residents.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Heritage Healthcare Center at Tallahassee, 9.16 Percentage of Patients
This indicates the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term care. There is typically a correlation between fewer emergency room visits and the overall quality of care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Heritage Healthcare Center at Tallahassee, 78.49% Percentage of Resident
This metric measures the percent of short-term care patients that saw functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. Many argue that this is a reasonable measure of a facility's rehabilitation performance.
Scores for Tallahassee, FL
- Overall Rating has a grade of B
- Nurse Rating has a grade of B-plus
- Long-term Care Rating has a grade of B
- Short-term Care Rating has a grade of B
- Inspection Rating has a grade of A-minus
Looking for more options? Tallahassee, Florida has 7 other nursing homes
Nearby Hospitals
- Capital Regional Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 0.22 miles away2626 Capital Medical Blvd Tallahassee Florida 32308Proprietary(850) 656-5000
- Tallahassee Memorial HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 2.39 miles away1300 Miccosukee Rd Tallahassee Florida 32308Voluntary non-profit - Private(850) 431-5380
Nearby Dialysis
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- Tallahassee South Dialysis5.11 miles away2410 S Adams St Tallahassee Florida 32301CMS Rating: 2 stars Dialysis Stations: 20 (850) 224-8757
- West Tallahassee Dialysis8.71 miles away5857 W Tennessee St Tallahassee Florida 32304CMS Rating: 2 stars Dialysis Stations: 24 (850) 350-0002