Heritage Inn Health and Rehabilitation

On top of receiving a strong overall grade, this nursing home fared even better in our inspections category which is based on the nursing home's recent government inspection reports. In fact, we awarded it an A+ for this area, which is one of our highest scores. Inspection ratings weigh several factors, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can find more information about each of these items by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This facility was hit with 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe. This indicates that the inspectors did not consider any of these deficiencies to cause an immediate threat to resident safety or health. We should point out that deficiency-free inspection reports are rare in this industry.

One of the other reasons we rated this facility so highly is that it earned a very impressive nursing score. In that category, we awarded this nursing home an B. Our nursing rating is based on many components, however, the most important consideration is the level of nurse hours per patient per week. This particular nursing home provided 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This facility performed very well in the area of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

The third category we looked at is long-term care. In that area, we gave this facility a decent grade of B-. Our long-term care grade assesses a nursing home's personal care instead of the highly skilled nursing or medical services that are critical to a skilled nursing facility. One of the statistics we considered in addition to nurse's aid hours is vaccines. Thankfully, this facility administered the pneumonia vaccination to 97.25275 percent of its patients. Lastly, this place was also able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

The final area we looked at is short-term care. This nursing home was awarded a B- in this area. Our short-term care grade is commonly employed to score a nursing home's performance with rehabilitation. In order to provide highly rated rehabilitation services, facilities generally need to have higher levels of skilled nursing services. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other licensed professionals. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. However, based on the data this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we looked at the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 4.5 percent of this facility's patients returned home. At most nursing homes, closer to half of their residents are able to return home so this figure is below average.