Heritage Health Peru

1301 21st Street
Peru, IL 61354
(815) 223-4901

Heritage Health Peru is a large facility with 127 beds. The location offers long- and short-term skilled nursing, hospice care, respite care, and a variety of therapies including respiratory, occupational, physical, speech, and restore-to-home.

Medicare awards Heritage Health Peru an overall rating of Above Average thanks to good ratings in the three categories Medicare uses to assess nursing home facilities. For these categories, Heritage Health Peru earned an Above Average health inspection rating, Above Average staffing rating, and Average quality measures rating. These ratings can help you compare the quality of care provided at this facility against that of other facilities you might be considering.

In addition to the ratings, Levin & Perconti encourages families to read the health inspection reports published by Medicare. These can reveal particular weaknesses of facilities and give you yet more information to compare between different nursing homes. Here are the deficiencies found at Heritage Health Peru most recently:

2/16/2018 Failure to provide appropriate care for a resident to maintain and/or improve range of motion (ROM), limited ROM and/or mobility, unless a decline is for a medical reason. The facility failed to ensure that supportive devices were in place for contractures for one resident. The resident’s care plan states that the resident was to have rolled washcloths for contracted hands and elbows. The resident was observed on three different days without these and staff members were confused as to how often the resident was to have these supports.

2/16/2018 Failure to ensure drugs and biologicals used in the facility are labeled in accordance with currently accepted professional principles; and all drugs and biologicals must be stored in locked compartments, separately locked, compartments for controlled drugs. The facility failed to date and label a resident’s insulin pen according to facility policy. It did not have the resident’s name or date opened on it.

2/16/2018 Failure to provide and implement an infection prevention and control program. Staff failed to prevent a resident’s soiled bed bad from having contact with clean bed linens and failed to change gloves during the resident’s wound care. While changing an incontinent resident, a CNA pulled the resident’s bed linens over the resident and the resident’s soiled bed pad. After the resident and bed pad were changed, the same bed linens were placed and left on the resident again, despite touching the soiled bed pad. A nurse also failed to remove soiled gloves after treating a wound for this resident and before touching the resident’s bed, putting supplies away, and adjusting the resident’s bed. Both infractions are against facility infection control policies.