Heritage Rehabilitation Center is in Torrance, California. Sporting an overall grade of B, this facility is a fine option. This grade is right in line with the city grade in Torrance. The best aspect of this facility's impressive report card is its nursing grade. We discuss nursing in the next paragraph
Heritage Rehabilitation Center
- Nursing Home
- Assisted Living
- Memory Care
Updated Sep 1, 2022 by Nick Reese
Quick Details
- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- Is CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- Has Family Council
- For profit - Corporation
- Secure Memory Care
- Offers Hospice
- Offers Post-Acute Care
- Offers Respite Care
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Medication Management
- Home Making
- Transportation
- Dialysis Transportation
- Medical Transportation
- Speech Therapy
- Stroke Recovery
- IV Antibiotic Therapy
- Palliative Care
- Dentistry
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Cardiac Therapy
- Podiatry
- Mental Health
- Diabetes Management
- Physical Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Pain Management
- Optometry
- Audiology
- Colostomy Care
- Orthopedic Rehabilitation
- Catheter Care
Registered Staff Hours
Nurse Quality
In addition to earning a strong overall grade, this nursing home performed well in our nursing category. We gave it an A- for that category, which is one of our highest scores. The nursing rating consists of several subcategories, but the most important consideration is the quantity of nurse hours spent with patients. This particular nursing home provided 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This place performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a place has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can many times be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.
Short-term Care Quality
Another strong feature for this nursing home is that it received a very positive short-term care score. In fact, this ended up being its second best category grade. In that area, we awarded this nursing home a grade of B. With our short-term care assessment, we strive to craft a valuable measure for rehabilitation services. In doing so, we look at the nursing home's scope of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not every nursing home employs these types of nurses. However, based on the information this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of residents who returned home from this nursing home. We found that 5.1 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.
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Facility Inspections
In addition, this facility received a very good government inspection report this year as well. It earned one of our better scores in that area with a B. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in computing these inspection ratings. One key factor is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of deficiencies is usually more important than the number of deficiencies, as some are quite minor. This particular nursing home received 5 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.
Long-term Care Quality
Switching gears to the last category, this facility was awarded a grade of B- for long-term care, which is generally an acceptable rating. In our long-term care assessment, we weigh the volume of care provided by a facility, along with some quality metrics. On top of assessing the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. Thankfully, this nursing home gave the vaccine to 100 percent of its patients, which is a very solid datapoint. Lastly, this facility was also able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Heritage Rehabilitation Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Heritage Rehabilitation Center, 7.45% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This tells you the percentage of patients that sustained a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are considered to be a barometer of the quality of nursing care . Pressure ulcers, which are also called bed sores, are routinely caused by patients staying in one position for too long.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Heritage Rehabilitation Center, 1.7% of Patients had Serious Falls
This indicates the percentage of residents that sustained a fall leading to serious injury.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Heritage Rehabilitation Center, 1.24% of Patients had UTIs
This indicates the percentage of residents who sustained a urinary tract infection. UTI's are considered to be an indicator of nursing care at a nursing home. UTI's are often the result of a facility with lower levels of hygiene. Nevertheless, this datapoint can be skewed for some nursing homes due to varying reporting standards for these infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Heritage Rehabilitation Center, 10.1% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This statistic indicates the percentage of long-term stay patients taking antipsychotic drugs. While antipsychotic medications serve an important medical purpose, it is important to make sure these drugs are being used appropriately. In some situations, excessive reliance on these medications may mean that a nursing home is using these medications to subdue residents.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Heritage Rehabilitation Center, 13.85% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This is the percentage of residents who were prescribed antianxiety medications. Antianxiety drugs are administered to residents suffering from depression or anxiety.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Heritage Rehabilitation Center, 4.64% of Patients
This tells you the percent of residents showing depressive symptoms.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Heritage Rehabilitation Center, 95.44% of Patients
This datapoint measures the percentage of long-term care patients that have received the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be fatal for nursing home residents, making these vaccines critical to patient safety.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Heritage Rehabilitation Center, 7.92% Percentage of Patients
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term residents that required additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as taking medications and using the bathroom. Many in the industry believe that this is a reliable measure of a patient's well-being.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Heritage Rehabilitation Center, 12.45% Percentage of Residents
This datapoint measures the percentage of long-term stay residents who remained mobile levels.
Hospitalizations
In Heritage Rehabilitation Center, 1.61 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This tells you the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of patient care. There is generally a correlation between keeping patients out of the hospital and the quality of long-term care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Heritage Rehabilitation Center, 12.45 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
This is the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term patient care. There is a correlation between staying out of the hospital and a nursing homes short-term rehabilitation performance.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Heritage Rehabilitation Center, 9.83 Percentage of Patients
Measures the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Heritage Rehabilitation Center, 79.79% Percentage of Resident
This tells you the percent of short-term patients who saw functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living.
Scores for Torrance, CA
- Overall Rating has a grade of B
- Nurse Rating has a grade of B-plus
- Long-term Care Rating has a grade of B
- Short-term Care Rating has a grade of B
- Inspection Rating has a grade of B-plus
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