Heritage Nursing and Rehabilitation Community

We gave this nursing home one of our better scores in short-term care, where it received a grade of A. This is much better than its overall score, which was decent but not in the elite range. In calculating these short-term care ratings, we analyze the facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. The objective is to create a tool for sizing up the rehabilitation services of different facilities. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not every nursing home employs these skilled professionals. However, according to the data this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Finally, we looked at the number of patients who eventually returned home from this facility. We found that 7.1 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.

This facility actually received a solid inspection report this year as well, with few major dings from the applicable government inspectors. As a result, it received one of our better grades in that category with a B-. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in calculating our inspection scores. One key factor is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of the deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some of these end up being relatively minor. This place was assessed 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none were considered to be severe deficiencies. This indicates that CMS didn't consider any of these deficiencies an imminent risk to resident safety or health. A few minor deficiencies shouldn't lead you to cross a nursing home off your list.

The next highest grade we gave this nursing home in any area came in the category of nursing, where we gave it a grade of B-. We looked at the skill-level of nurses working for the nursing home, as well as the quantity of time those nurses were with patients, in computing our rating in this category. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this facility actually excelled in some of the quality-based metrics we looked at. In fact, it scored well in the area of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers.

This nursing home's worst area was long-term care, which is the last area we looked at. Unfortunately, we gave it an F for this area. In spite of several respectable grades in other categories, this score is still disappointing so we wanted to make sure you are aware. When facilities receive a score in this range in long-term care it typically means the nursing home did not perform well in our measures relating to patient care. After considering the amount of nursing care, we then looked at the facility's vaccination records. This nursing home vaccinated 91.818184 percent of its patients against pneumonia. To our surprise, this facility was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this nursing home had fewer hospitalizations than the majority of nursing homes. This was its best feature in this category.