The Heritage

This nursing home earned a solid overall grade as described above, but we really wanted to point out its excellent government inspection reports in recent years. We awarded them an A- in this category. Inspection grades weigh several factors found on a nursing home's inspection report. One key criteria we consider is the number and severity of deficiencies. Places with better scores in this area typically have very few severe deficiencies. While this nursing home had a few deficiencies on its inspection report, none were major deficiencies based on CMS' scale. A few minor deficiencies shouldn't lead you to cross a nursing home off your list.

This nursing home also was awarded an impressive short-term care score. Indeed, we gave it a B in that area, which happens to be one of our more favorable scores. With our short-term care score, we seek to craft a valuable gauge for rehabilitation. In doing so, we analyze the facility's offerings of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as respiratory therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the data they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The last statistic we assessed in this area is the number of residents who who were able to eventually return home from the nursing home. We found that 5.4 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.

This facility's second lowest score was long-term care, where it received a grade of just D in that area. This is a relatively poor score. In a long-term care setting, the primary goal is to maintain residents' quality of life and keep them safe. After considering the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination statistics. This facility vaccinated 95.89041 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is better than the average nursing home. Surprisingly, this place was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. It had just 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. Unfortunately, a few of its other scores in this category were not as favorable as these.

The last category we rated was nursing, was this facility's worst area. We gave this nursing home a D in that category. Nursing scores are largely associated with the nursing home's nurse staffing. With just 0.2 hours of nursing care per resident daily, this nursing home's nurse staffing levels were significantly below average. To pair with its below average total nursing hours per patient, this place had bad scores in several of the quality-based metrics we looked at in computing our nursing scores. For starters, we looked at the percentage of patients having falls which led to serious injury. This place was at more than 150 percent of the national average in this statistic. This is concerning in light of the fact that so many falls could be prevented with better nursing care. This ended up sealing the facility's fate of earning a poor nursing grade.