Heritage Manor of Ville Platte is a large nursing home located in Ville Platte, Louisiana. This nursing home turns out to be a decent facility, with an overall grade of C. Based on our assessment, this place ought to be a solid choice for quite a few people. One of the highlights of this nursing home's profile is its impressive inspection reports, which you can find in the next paragraph.
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Heritage Manor of Ville Platte
- Nursing Home
- Memory Care
Updated Apr 1, 2023 by Nick Lata
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- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- Has Family Council
- For profit - Limited Liability company
- Secure Memory Care
- Offers Hospice
- Offers Post-Acute Care
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Medication Management
- Home Making
- Transportation
- Speech Therapy
- Stroke Recovery
- IV Antibiotic Therapy
- Palliative Care
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Cardiac Therapy
- Mental Health
- Diabetes Management
- Physical Therapy
- Respiratory Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Recreational Therapy
- Pain Management
- Orthopedic Rehabilitation
- Aquatic Therapy
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Facility Inspections
We want to draw your attention to the fact that this nursing home outperformed its overall score in the category of inspections. In fact, it received a nearly flawless government inspection report this year. As a result, we gave it one of our best scores in that area with an A-. Inspection ratings account for several factors found on a facility's inspection report. One of the most important criteria we look at is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Nursing homes with better grades in this area typically have very few of these severe deficiencies. We were not able to locate information about this nursing home's deficiencies. We would like to have more information about this facility. Without having complete deficiency related data, it ended up being a challenge to grade this nursing home in this category.
Long-term Care Quality
Additionally, we gave this facility a grade of B+ in our long-term care category. This is one of our better grades. Facilities that receive this type of grade in this category typically provide consistent around the clock care to make sure patients are well cared for. On top of looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility gave the vaccine to 90.32258 percent of its residents. This is a few points less than we expected but still a decent percentage. Although its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we like to see, we were pleased to find facility was able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.
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Nurse Quality
One of this facility's better category grades was in the area of nursing care. In that area, we gave this facility a grade of C. The nursing score includes quite a few factors, many of which are based on quantities of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a lower figure than we were hoping for. Lastly, while this nursing home got dinged a bit for its nursing hours per resident, it actually excelled in a few of our quality metrics. With less than five percent of its residents suffering from pressure ulcers, it fared very well in this area.
Short-term Care Quality
This facility's worst area is short-term care, which is the last area we scored. Unfortunately, we gave it a lowly F for this category. Despite some respectable grades in other categories, this score is nevertheless of a concern so we would like to to draw your attention to it. In crafting these short-term care scores, we quantify the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. Our goal is to devise a tool for sizing up the rehabilitation services of various facilities. As you might expect, we discovered that this place offers substantially less registered nurse and physical therapist hours per patient than the typical facility. Finally, we considered the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. This definitely wasn't a strength for this nursing home. We found that just 2.9 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home. At most facilities, about half of their patients are able to return home so this is well below average.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Heritage Manor of Ville Platte Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Heritage Manor of Ville Platte, 10% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This tells you the percentage of residents who have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are skin damage due to remaining in one position for too long.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Heritage Manor of Ville Platte, 3.48% of Patients had Serious Falls
This figure is an indication of the percent of long-term patients who sustained falls which caused serious injury. This is one of the statistics we use in calculating our nursing ratings.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Heritage Manor of Ville Platte, 2.69% of Patients had UTIs
This tells you the percentage of patients who have had a urinary tract infection. These infections may be linked to insufficient hygiene.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Heritage Manor of Ville Platte, 16.23% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This figure gauges the percentage of long-term residents receiving antipsychotic medications. While antipsychotic medications serve an important medical purpose, it is important to confirm these drugs are being used appropriately. In limited situations, excessive reliance on these medications may indicate that a nursing home is using these drugs to control patient behavior.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Heritage Manor of Ville Platte, 22.29% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This datapoint indicates the percentage of long-term care residents taking antianxiety medications.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Heritage Manor of Ville Platte, 1.51% of Patients
This tells you the percent of patients who are demonstrating symptoms of depression.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Heritage Manor of Ville Platte, 85.51% of Patients
This datapoint measures the percent of long-term residents who were administered the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be very dangerous for nursing home patients, making these types of vaccines critical to patient health.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Heritage Manor of Ville Platte, 19.03% Percentage of Patients
This metric measures the percent of long-term care patients who needed increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as moving around and using the bathroom.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Heritage Manor of Ville Platte, 13.75% Percentage of Residents
This metric tracks the percent of long-term care residents that maintained mobility.
Hospitalizations
In Heritage Manor of Ville Platte, 2.4 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This datapoint measures the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of patient care. Minimizing hospitalizations is key to maintaining the physical health of residents.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Heritage Manor of Ville Platte, 13.75 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
This is the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term care. There is a correlation between staying out of the hospital and the quality of rehabilitation services.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Heritage Manor of Ville Platte, 13.45 Percentage 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.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Heritage Manor of Ville Platte, 67.8% Percentage of Resident
This is the percentage of short-term patients who experienced functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living.
Nearby Hospitals
- Mercy Regional Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 2.64 miles away800 E Main Ville Platte Louisiana 70586Proprietary(337) 363-5684
- Savoy Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 7.71 miles away801 Poinciana Avenue Mamou Louisiana 70554Voluntary non-profit - Other(337) 468-5261
- Opelousas General Health SystemAcute Care Hospitals 17.38 miles away539 East Prudhomme Street Opelousas Louisiana 70570Government - Hospital District or Authority(337) 948-3011
- Bunkie General HospitalCritical Access Hospitals 19.19 miles away427 Evergreen Street Bunkie Louisiana 71322Government - Hospital District or Authority(318) 346-6681
Nearby Dialysis
- Fmcna - Ville Platte2.86 miles away616 Jack Miller Rd Ville Platte Louisiana 70586Dialysis Stations: 12 (337) 363-1275
- Fmcna - Dialysis Services-Mamou7.75 miles away801 Poinciana Ave Mamou Louisiana 70554Dialysis Stations: 7 (337) 468-2245
- Fmcna - Eunice14.96 miles away1101 Nile St Eunice Louisiana 70535Dialysis Stations: 12 (337) 550-6585
- Dci - Opelousas17.35 miles away927 E Prudhomme St Opelousas Louisiana 70570CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 24 (337) 594-8535
- Fmcna - Opelousas17.77 miles away528 E Vine St Opelousas Louisiana 70570Dialysis Stations: 22 (337) 948-1550
- Fmcna - Bunkie19.17 miles away102 Standard St Bunkie Louisiana 71322Dialysis Stations: 20 (318) 346-6348