Heritage House at Paris Rehab & Nursing

Heritage House at Paris Rehab & Nursing is an average-sized nursing home located in Paris, Texas. We gave this facility an overall grade of D. A grade of this caliber typically indicates some concerning datapoints. If you are not satisfied with this facility's rather poor overall grade, you will be pleased to know there are four other nursing homes in Paris. If you aren't deterred by this nursing home's report card, you can continue reading to learn more about its category grades. Inspection reports are discussed in the next section.

While we were not high on this place overall, we awarded it a B+ for our inspections rating. This score is much more impressive than the place's overall score. Our inspection grades are tied to many pieces of information found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Deficiencies are an important item to look for on these inspections. You should especially avoid facilities with severe deficiencies associated with endangerment of patients. While this nursing home had some minor dings on its government inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means that CMS did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. A few minor deficiencies are not necessarily the end of the world.

The second highest area we awarded this nursing home in any category came in the area of short-term care, where we gave it a grade of B-. In determining our short-term care ratings, we scrutinize the nursing home's levels of highly skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other types of therapists. This category is typically a useful measure of a nursing home's rehabilitation services. We were extremely impressed to find that this facility offers its residents substantially more physical therapist hours than most other nursing homes. The final measure we assessed in this category is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. It was respectable in this metric with 45.3 percent of its residents returning home.

The third area we graded was long-term care. In that area, we gave this nursing home a grade of C. In calculating our long-term care ratings, we size up the personal care offered to the facility's residents. In addition to assessing the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. Fortunately, this nursing home gave the vaccine to 100 percent of its patients, which is a very respectable figure. Lastly, we looked at the facility's number of hospitalizations. Here we found that this facility had 2.38 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. Unfortunately, this figure was less impressive than its other scores in the long-term care area.

The next area we rated is nursing. This facility received a very poor grade of F in that area. We scrutinized the skill-level of nurses employed by the nursing home, in addition to the quantity of time the nurses were with residents, in computing our score in this area. This place averaged a meager 3.1 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis. This figure is far below the national average. On top of being below average in nursing hours per resident, this facility also had poor scores in the quality-based measures we looked at in computing our nursing ratings. We looked at the percent of residents sustaining major falls and pressure ulcers. This nursing home was at about 150 percent of the national average in both of these data points. This is a bad sign when you consider that many falls and bed sores are preventable with better nursing care. These statistics pulled down this facility's nursing grade quite a bit.