Heritage Home of Florence

Heritage Home of Florence is in Florence, South Carolina. The city has 88,459 people. With an A overall grade, we rated this facility in the top 20 percent of all nursing homes in the nation. Based on our analysis, you can't go wrong with this place. Headlining this facility's exemplary profile is its long-term care rating, which is addressed in the next paragraph.

In addition to receiving a great overall grade, this facility also received an A+ long-term care grade. Facilities that do well in this category tend to be well-staffed and offer extensive hands on care to residents. One of the datapoints we considered on top of this nursing home's quality nursing hours was vaccines. This facility administered the pneumonia vaccine to 99.77273 percent of its residents. Vaccines are a great way to avoid unnecessary hospitalizations for seniors. The last datapoint we assessed is the facility's hospitalization rate. We found that this facility had 2.28 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days.

The next category we looked at was inspections, where this facility also received an A+ grade. This is simply as good as it gets in this critical category. Perhaps the most important factor we look at in calculating our inspection scores is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Facilities with higher grades in this area typically avoided the most severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. This nursing home received 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe. This tells you that the government inspectors didn't deem any of these deficiencies to be an imminent threat to resident health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This facility also excelled in the area of nursing, where it received a grade of A. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. Our nursing rating assesses the nursing home's level of nurse staffing. We factor in both the levels of licensure of those nurses and the quantity of hours spent with patients. With 4.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day, this nursing home surpassed the overwhelming majority of facilities. Finally, this facility also excelled in several of the quality measures we assessed. With less than five percent of its residents suffering from pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any nursing home the nation in this category.

Moving on to the last category, this facility was given an extremely favorable short-term care grade. While this is not quite as dominant as several of its other category grades, this is nevertheless one of the more favorable scores we offer. Our short-term care grades are presumably most important for patients requiring a nursing home for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally utilizes higher levels of highly-skilled nursing services. This means not only nursing, but also physical and respiratory therapy, as well as other forms of therapy. Fortunately, this nursing home offers both physical therapists and registered nurses. Not all facilities offer both. Lastly, we considered the number of residents who returned home from this facility. This place performed respectably in this area with 46.5 percent of its patients returning home.