Heritage Park Care and Rehabilitation Center

Heritage Park Care and Rehabilitation Center is a facility located in Bradenton, Florida, a city with a population of 216,518 people. With an overall rating of A, this is clearly a first-rate nursing home. Indeed, we were so impressed with this nursing home that we rated it ahead of most of the facilities in Bradenton, which has a strong selection of facilities. As you can find below, this facility also performed just fine in our category ratings. It would be hard to poke holes in this facility's profile.

One of the many reasons this turned out to be a quality nursing home is that it received an A+ inspection grade. This is simply as good as it gets in this critical category. Arguably the most critical factor we consider in determining our inspection scores is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Places with higher scores in this area typically avoided the most severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. While this nursing home had some minor dings on its inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means the government inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This facility also received an A+ for its long-term care score. Long-term care ratings in this range generally require both around the clock care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine healthcare services. After assessing the impressive nursing hours provided by this facility, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination records. This nursing home vaccinated 99.591835 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is significantly higher than the vast majority of nursing homes. The last datapoint we assessed was the facility's hospitalization rate. We found that this facility had 2.1 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days.

This facility also was given a strong short-term care grade. Indeed, we gave it an above average score of B+ in this category. Short-term care grades are based on the facility's quantity of highly-skilled skilled healthcare professionals. This includes a broad scope of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, not to mention other forms of therapy. This nursing home boosted its score in this category by offering more physical therapy hours to its residents than the average facility. The last datapoint we looked at in this area is the number of residents who were able to return home. This place was better than average in this metric with 49.5 percent of its patients returning home.

The final area we graded is nursing. We awarded this nursing home one of our higher grades in this category, with a B. Although this wasn't as strong as many of its other scores, it is nevertheless a fine score. Our nursing grade consists of a handful of subcategories, but the paramount consideration is the quantity of nurse hours spent with patients. This place provides an impressive 4.1 hours of nursing care per patient daily. This is among the highest totals in the nation. Lastly, this facility was also above average in each of the major quality measures we looked at in this category. It performed well when it comes to minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers.