Heritage Manor Stratmore Nursing & Rehabilitation Center

This facility received a solid overall grade as described above, but we really wanted to point out its nearly flawless health inspections in recent years. We gave them an impressive grade of A in this category. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in determining our inspection ratings. One of those factors is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of the deficiencies is arguably more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some are relatively insignificant. Fortunately, although this place had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you that the inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A couple minor deficiencies should not lead you to cross a nursing home off your list.

This facility also received an impressive long-term care grade. Indeed, we gave them a grade of B+ in this area, which is one of our better. Nursing homes that receive this kind of score in long-term care typically provide consistent 24/7 care to make sure patients are kept in good health. One of the statistics we considered on top of nurse's aid hours is vaccines. This facility provided the pneumonia vaccination to 99.53271 percent of its residents. Vaccination is a proven method to minimize unnecessary deaths and hospitalizations for the aged 65 and up population. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

This nursing home also earned a strong nursing score. In fact, we gave it a F in this area. Our nursing grade is mostly associated with the facility's level of nurse staffing. This facility provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in computing our nursing grades. This facility fared well in terms of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. Many consider these metrics to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

This facility's weakest area was short-term care, which is the final area we looked at. It received an F in this area. Despite multiple decent scores in other categories, this score is nevertheless alarming so we would like to to make sure you are aware. Short-term care grades are based in part on the facility's quantity of skilled highly skilled professionals. This means a broad scope of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. As you might expect, we discovered that this place offers significantly less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than the average facility. The final datapoint we looked at in this category is the percentage of residents who ultimately were able to return home from the nursing home. This nursing home struggled quite a bit in this area as well, with just 3.8 percent of its patients returning home. This was well below average.