Heritage Lakeside is a facility in Rice Lake, Wisconsin, a city with a population of 15,512 people. Featuring an overall grade of F, we consider this to be a bottom of the barrel nursing home. If you are not happy with this facility's poor overall grade, you may find your options to be limited in Rice Lake. The city has just one other nursing home. If you aren't deterred by this facility's report card, you can continue reading to find out about its category scores. Inspection grades are discussed in the next paragraph.
Heritage Lakeside
- Nursing Home
Updated Sep 1, 2022 by Nick Lata
Quick Details
- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Partnership
- Offers Hospice
- Offers Respite Care
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
- Offers Outpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Home Making
- Stroke Recovery
- Recreational Therapy
- Pain Management
- Lymphedema Care
Registered Staff Hours
Facility Inspections
While we gave this place a poor overall score, we awarded it a B+ for our inspections rating. This is due to the nursing home receiving a quality government inspection report this year. Our inspection ratings are tied to items found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Deficiencies are an important item to look for on these inspections. Most importantly, you should avoid facilities that have severe deficiencies associated with risks to resident well being. This place was hit with 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe deficiencies. This indicates that CMS did not deem any of these deficiencies to pose an immediate risk to resident safety or health. A couple minor deficiencies aren't the end of the world.
Nurse Quality
One of the other reasons we rated this facility so highly is that it received a very impressive nursing grade. Nursing proved to be its second best category grade. In that area, we awarded this facility an C. Our nursing grade weighs a variety of datapoints. The most important one is the amount of time nurses spent with residents. This nursing home averages just 0.2 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low figure. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this facility actually fared better in some of the quality measures we assessed. It performed well when it comes to avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls.
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Short-term Care Quality
Another issue was the F this facility received in the area of short-term care. In determining our short-term care scores, we scrutinize a facility's levels of skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other types of therapists. This category is more often than not a useful measure of the nursing home's rehabilitation. Not surprisingly, we found that this nursing home provides far less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than the average facility. Lastly, we looked at the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that just 4.3 percent of this facility's residents returned home.
Long-term Care Quality
Turning to the final category, this facility didn't fare well in this category either. With a very poor grade of F in long-term care, this is about as bad as it gets. In a long-term care setting, the nursing home's primary objective is to keep patients as healthy and safe as possible. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate patients. After assessing the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we next considered the facility's vaccination statistics. This facility vaccinated 96.268654 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which is higher than most nursing homes. Surprisingly, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. With only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this facility had fewer hospitalizations than the majority of nursing homes. Sadly, a few of its other scores in this category weren't as favorable as these.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Heritage Lakeside Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Heritage Lakeside, 6.93% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This metric indicates the percentage of long-term care patients that suffered from new or worsened pressure ulcers or bed sores. We use this statistic in calculating both nursing and long-term care grades.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Heritage Lakeside, 3.27% of Patients had Serious Falls
This statistic measures the percent of long-term care patients that have sustained a fall which resulted in serious injury. Falls can happen for a variety of reasons, but high rates of falls resulting in injuries could be a sign of lower quality nursing care.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Heritage Lakeside, 3.19% of Patients had UTIs
This statistic is an indication of the percentage of long-term residents who had urinary tract infections. UTI's may be an indication of worse hygiene protocols. Nevertheless, this statistic could also be misleading for some facilities due to different reporting standards for UTI's.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Heritage Lakeside, 13.83% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This metric is an indication of the percentage of long-term care patients which were prescribed antipsychotic medication. Increased usage of these drugs may mean that a facility is using these medications to control patient behavior in scenarios where such medications aren't medically indicated. However, some nursing homes may need to rely more on these drugs due to having more patients suffering from dementia.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Heritage Lakeside, 15.45% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This tells you the percentage of long-term stay residents receiving antianxiety drugs.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Heritage Lakeside, 6.26% of Patients
This indicates the percentage of patients who are showing depressive symptoms.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Heritage Lakeside, 92.96% of Patients
This tells you the percent of patients that were given the pneumonia and flu vaccines. High vaccination rates should be demanded by residents.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Heritage Lakeside, 13.23% Percentage of Patients
This is a measure of the percent of long-term stay patients who needed increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. Activities of daily living include activities such as dressing and taking a bath.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Heritage Lakeside, 20.17% Percentage of Residents
This is the percent of patients that retained mobility levels over time. Optimizing mobility is often a great sign for residents' well-being.
Hospitalizations
In Heritage Lakeside, 1.28 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This indicates the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of patient care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Heritage Lakeside, 20.17 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
This datapoint is a measure of the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Heritage Lakeside, 13.08 Percentage of Patients
This tells you the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Heritage Lakeside, 75.51% Percentage of Resident
This datapoint is a measure of the percent of short-term care patients that saw functional improvements.
Nearby Hospitals
- Marshfield Medical Center - Rice LakeAcute Care Hospitals 1.31 miles away1700 West Stout Street Rice Lake Wisconsin 54868Voluntary non-profit - Private(715) 234-1515
- Mayo Clinic Health System-NorthlandCritical Access Hospitals 9.48 miles away1222 E Woodland Ave Barron Wisconsin 54812Voluntary non-profit - Private(715) 537-3186
- Cumberland Memorial HospitalCritical Access Hospitals 14.41 miles away1110 7th Avenue Cumberland Wisconsin 54829Voluntary non-profit - Other(715) 822-7500
- Indianhead Medical Center Shell LakeCritical Access Hospitals 18.4 miles away113 4th Ave Shell Lake Wisconsin 54871Proprietary(715) 468-7833
Nearby Dialysis
- Marshfield Medical Center Rice Lake Dialysis1.38 miles away1700 W Stout St Rice Lake Wisconsin 54868CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 16 (715) 236-6159
- Mayo Dialysis - Barron9.53 miles away1222 Woodland Ave Barron Wisconsin 54812Dialysis Stations: 6 (715) 537-1345