Heritage House Nursing and Rehabilitation

To go along with its strong overall performance, we awarded this nursing home an A for our inspections rating. Inspection grades take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these factors by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this nursing home had a few minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G through L. This means the inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Remember that deficiency-free inspections are uncommon in the industry.

This nursing home also received a strong nursing score. In fact, we awarded it an above average grade of B in this area. Our nursing score is primarily associated with a facility's nurse staffing. This facility provided 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This facility performed very well in the area of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

This nursing home received an impressive short-term care score as well. We awarded it one of our higher scores in that category with a grade of B. Our short-term care ratings are meaningful for individuals needing rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally mandates more highly-skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes a wide scope of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other types of therapy. Unfortunately, it does not look like this facility provided data regarding its registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. The last item we assessed in this area is the number of residents who were able to leave the facility and return home. We discovered that 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.

Moving on to our next area, this nursing home was given a highly favorable long-term care score. This facility didn't turn out to have any real weak links. Long-term care ratings in this range generally require both around the clock care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine healthcare services. In addition to assessing the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility provided the vaccine to 93.125 percent of its residents. This is a bit less than we anticipated but still a respectable figure. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had only 0.03 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.