Heritage House Rehabilitation & Health Care Center
281 S County Road 200 East, Connersville IN 47331 · (765) 825-2148 · 94.38% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Sara Levinsohn
Heritage House Rehabilitation & Health Care Center is an average-sized government-owned nursing home located in Connersville, Indiana. We gave it an overall grade of B-, which is a middle of the road rating. This grade is right in line with the city grade in Connersville. One of the best aspects of this nursing home's profile is its exemplary inspection score, which is addressed in the next paragraph.
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Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 98 Beds
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
While this nursing home's overall grade was not bad, it really fared well in the category of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A+ for that category, which is one of our highest scores. Perhaps the most critical factor we consider in computing our inspection ratings is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a nursing home's inspection reports. Nursing homes with better scores in this area typically avoided the most severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. This nursing home was assessed 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none of the deficiencies were considered to be major deficiencies. This means that the inspectors did not consider any of these deficiencies to cause an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
Long-term Care Quality
This facility also performed favorably in the area of long-term care, where we gave it a score of A-. Not many facilities fared better in this category. When nursing homes receive a score in this range in long-term care it typically means it has plenty of staff and is a quality place to reside on a permanent basis. Once we assessed the amount of nursing care, we then looked at the facility's vaccination data. This facility vaccinated 97.16089 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is very impressive. Pneumonia sadly can be a life or death condition for nursing home residents so we strongly prefer when a facility does not take any chances. Lastly, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. With just 1.44 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this facility has fewer hospitalizations than many nursing homes.
Short-term Care Quality
The third category we assessed is short-term care, where this facility was awarded a grade of C in this category. Short-term care ratings are meaningful for prospective residents requiring rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally mandates higher levels of highly-skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes a vast spectrum of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other types of therapy. Fortunately, this nursing home offers both physical therapists and registered nurses. Not all facilities offer both. Finally, we assessed the percentage of patients that were able to return home from this nursing home and discovered this was this facility's strongest datapoint within this category. It performed well in this metric with 59.5 percent of its patients returning home. Most facilities are below 50 percent in this metric.
Nurse Quality
The next category we looked at was nursing. Unfortunately, we gave it an abysmal F for this area, which is a bottom of the barrel score. This is certainly a major concern. We assessed the licensure of nurses at the nursing home, in addition to the quantity of hours those nurses worked with residents, in calculating our grade in this area. This nursing home provides 3.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day, which is slightly below the national average. In addition to its weak nursing hours, this nursing home earned poor marks in several of the quality-based metrics we looked at in determining our nursing scores. We found that more of this nursing home's residents suffered falls leading to major injury. We believe that many falls could be prevented with better nursing care. This metric contributed to this facility receiving a terrible nursing grade.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Heritage House Rehabilitation & Health Care Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This is the percentage of residents who suffered from a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers, also referred to as bed sores, are routinely caused by residents not being moved frequently enough. Better nursing care can limit the number of pressure ulcers sustained by residents in a nursing home.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This indicates the percentage of residents that have had a fall which caused serious injury.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This is the percent of residents that have had a urinary tract infection. UTI's are considered by many experts to be a measure of the quality of nursing care . UTI's are often linked to a facility with lower levels of hygiene. However, this datapoint could be misleading for some nursing homes due to varying reporting standards for infections.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This metric is an indication of the percentage of long-term patients who are administered antipsychotic drugs. Increased usage of these drugs may suggest a nursing home is using these drugs to control patient behavior in situations where such medications are not medically indicated. Nevertheless, some nursing homes need to rely on these drugs due to having more residents suffering from cognitive disorders.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This indicates the percentage of patients who were given antianxiety medications. Antianxiety medications are administered to patients experiencing anxiety or depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This tells you the percentage of patients who are showing signs of depression. High levels of depression could reveal a less hospitable environment.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay patients who were administered the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be deadly for seniors, making these vaccines vital to patient safety.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This datapoint measures the percentage of long-term care patients that required additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. Activities of daily living include activities such as getting dressed and taking a bath.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This indicates the percentage of patients that remained mobile levels over time. Optimizing mobility is usually a great sign for residents' health.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This tells you the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of patient care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
Measures the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term resident care. Avoiding rehospitalizations during rehabilitation is critical to restoring the health of residents.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This datapoint is a measure of the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term patient care. Staying out of the emergency room is one way to measure patient care during rehabilitation.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of short-term stay residents that saw functional improvements.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better