Heritage House Rehabilitation & Health Care Center is an average-sized facility located in Connersville, Indiana. It looks like this is a very respectable nursing home. We awarded it an overall grade of B, which is a very solid grade. As far as we can see, this nursing home is a solid choice for most people. This facility's strong report card was highlighted by its inspection grade, which is addressed in the next paragraph.
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Heritage House Rehabilitation & Health Care Center
- Nursing Home
- Memory Care
Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Reese
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- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Corporation
- Secure Memory Care
- Offers Hospice
- Offers Post-Acute Care
- Offers Respite Care
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
- Offers Outpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Home Making
- Speech Therapy
- Stroke Recovery
- Palliative Care
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Cardiac Therapy
- Physical Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Pharmacy
- Pain Management
- Orthopedic Rehabilitation
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Facility Inspections
To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A for our inspections rating. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in computing our inspection grades. One of those factors is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of deficiencies is arguably more important than the number of deficiencies, as some of these are relatively insignificant. While this place had some deficiencies on its government inspection report, none were severe based on CMS' deficiency scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
Long-term Care Quality
Contributing to this facility's list of achievements, it also received a top-shelf long-term care grade. We awarded them a dominant grade of A in this area. When nursing homes receive this type of score in long-term care it is usually a good sign for resident care and suggests that the place is well-staffed with nurses and aids. After considering the amount of care provided by nurses, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination records. This nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is very impressive. Pneumonia tragically can be a deadly ailment for nursing home patients so we prefer when a facility does not take any chances. Lastly, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.
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Short-term Care Quality
The third category we graded is short-term care. In that category, we gave this facility a D. This is nowhere near as high as some of its other category grades. Candidly, this is not the type of grade we were hoping for. Our short-term care scores are based in part on the nursing home's quantity of skilled nursing services. This includes a wide scope of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other types of therapy. Unfortunately, we found that this nursing home provided fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most other facilities. The final statistic we considered in this category is the number of patients who ultimately returned home from the facility. This facility struggled quite a bit in this area as well, with just 4.8 percent of its residents returning home. This was well below the national average.
Nurse Quality
The last area we analyzed is nursing. Unfortunately, we gave it a lowly F in this category, which is an abysmal grade. We wouldn't simply dismiss a facility as a result of a single bad score though. Nursing grades are based largely on nurse staffing levels. This nursing home offered only 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident daily. Although this facility's nursing hours were below average, it surprised us in some of the qualitative data points in this category. In particular, we were pleased to find that its residents are experiencing fewer pressure ulcers than most nursing homes.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Heritage House Rehabilitation & Health Care Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Heritage House Rehabilitation & Health Care Center, 7.18% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This is the percent of residents that have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are skin damage caused by staying in one position for too long.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Heritage House Rehabilitation & Health Care Center, 4.27% of Patients had Serious Falls
This figure gauges the percentage of long-term residents that have sustained falls which caused major injury. We use this statistic in computing nursing grades.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Heritage House Rehabilitation & Health Care Center, 0% of Patients had UTIs
This datapoint measures the percent of long-term stay patients which have had a urinary tract infection. UTI's may be an indicator of a facility with lower levels of hygiene. However, this statistic could be skewed for certain facilities due to inconsistent reporting standards for infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Heritage House Rehabilitation & Health Care Center, 6.35% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This figure is a measure of the percent of long-term care residents receiving antipsychotic medications. While antipsychotic medications serve an important medical purpose, it is important to confirm these drugs are being used only where medically required. In some situations, excessive reliance on these medications may suggest that a nursing home is using these drugs to subdue residents.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Heritage House Rehabilitation & Health Care Center, 26.35% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This is the percent of residents who were prescribed antianxiety drugs. Antianxiety drugs are administered to residents suffering from depression or anxiety.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Heritage House Rehabilitation & Health Care Center, 20.68% of Patients
This datapoint measures the percentage of long-term stay patients who are exhibiting depressive symptoms.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Heritage House Rehabilitation & Health Care Center, 99.71% of Patients
This indicates the percentage of residents who were administered the flu and pneumonia vaccines. High vaccination rates should be standard at this point.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Heritage House Rehabilitation & Health Care Center, 10.49% of Patients
This tells you the percentage of patients who required additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. High levels of dependence on staff for assistance with ADL's could indicate erosion of a resident's medical condition.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Heritage House Rehabilitation & Health Care Center, 5.36% of Residents
This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay patients that remained mobile levels. Many in the industry believe that mobility is vital to residents' mental and physical health.
Hospitalizations
In Heritage House Rehabilitation & Health Care Center, 0.02 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This is the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of care. There is generally a correlation between having fewer hospitalizations and the overall quality of long-term care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Heritage House Rehabilitation & Health Care Center, 5.36% of Residents Rehospitalized
This indicates the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term care.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Heritage House Rehabilitation & Health Care Center, 20.46% of Patients
This metric tracks the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term patient care. Avoiding emergency medical situations is one way to assess the well-being of patients during rehabilitation.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Heritage House Rehabilitation & Health Care Center, 82.04% of Resident
This is a measure of the percentage of short-term care patients who experienced functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. Some would argue that this is a reasonable measure of a facility's rehabilitation services.
Scores for Connersville, IN
- Overall Rating has a grade of B-minus
- Nurse Rating has a grade of D
- Long-term Care Rating has a grade of B-minus
- Short-term Care Rating has a grade of C
- Inspection Rating has a grade of A-minus
Looking for more options? Connersville, Indiana has 3 other nursing homes
Nearby Hospitals
- Fayette Regional Health SystemAcute Care Hospitals 1.95 miles away1941 Virginia Ave Connersville Indiana 47331Proprietary(765) 825-5131
- Richmond State HospitalPsychiatric 16.51 miles away498 Nw 18th St Richmond Indiana 47374Proprietary(765) 966-0511
- Rush Memorial HospitalCritical Access Hospitals 18.26 miles away1300 N Main St Rushville Indiana 46173Government - Local(765) 932-7513
- Reid HealthAcute Care Hospitals 19.29 miles away1100 Reid Pkwy Richmond Indiana 47374Voluntary non-profit - Private(765) 983-3000
Nearby Dialysis
- Fmc - Connersville4.86 miles away6049 Industrial Avenue, North Connersville Indiana 47331Dialysis Stations: 12 (765) 827-1225
- Fmc - Richmond17.96 miles away940 Chester Blvd. Richmond Indiana 47374CMS Rating: 2 stars Dialysis Stations: 24 (765) 962-5611
- Davita-Whitewater Valley Dialysis19.42 miles away2302 Chester Blvd, Suite B Richmond Indiana 47374Dialysis Stations: 12 (765) 935-5128