Heritage Place

On top of receiving a strong overall score, this place also earned top notch inspections in recent years. We awarded it one of our best grades in that category, with a grade of A. Our inspection grades are based on several items found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that excel in this category tend to have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these facilities generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. This particular nursing home received 7 deficiencies on its inspection report. Overall, this is still a good inspection report, but we'd always recommend looking into any deficiencies you find troubling.

Another quality feature for this facility is that it was given an above average short-term care score. Indeed, this wound up being its second best category score. In this category, we awarded this nursing home a B. In computing these short-term care grades, we analyze the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. Our purpose is to create a scale for comparing the rehabilitation services of different nursing homes. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the information this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last measure we looked at in this category is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that 5.3 percent of this nursing home's patients were able to return home.

This facility's next best category grade came in the area of nursing. In that category, we gave this nursing home a grade of B-. This wasn't quite on par with some of its other category grades mentioned above. Our nursing score considers a number of factors. The most important variable is the number of hours nurses spend with patients. This place provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident daily. This is a lower figure than we were hoping for. Finally, nursing scores also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. Despite not having the highest total nursing hours, this nursing home actually performed admirably in the metric of preventing major falls. This is often a good indicator that a facility has sufficient quality controls in place. Some falls could be avoided if a facility provides enough nurses to assist its residents.

The final category we rated is long-term care. This facility was awarded a grade of C in the area. If you are seeking services other than short-term rehabilitation, you should take a close look at long-term care grades. Once we assessed the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we then looked at the facility's vaccination statistics. We were optimistic to discover that this facility vaccinated 95.28796 percent of its patients against pneumonia. This facility also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.