Heritage Skilled Nursing and Therapy

Working at Heritage Skilled Nursing and Therapy

Heritage Skilled Nursing and Therapy is a 100-bed nursing home in Tecumseh, Oklahoma. Over the 12-month period CMS measures, 71.4% of its registered nurses stopped working here. Across the 140 Oklahoma nursing homes CMS reports, the average is 51.8%, so RN turnover here is higher than at 77% of nursing homes in the state.

Staffing tells the same kind of story. Residents here receive about 18 minutes of RN time per day, against 21 minutes across Oklahoma. That is less RN coverage than most Oklahoma nursing homes. CMS gives Heritage Skilled Nursing and Therapy a staffing rating of 1 out of 5.

Turnover for the whole nursing team, which counts RNs, LPNs and nurse aides, is 62% here compared with 56.9% statewide.

What this means if you apply here

• Higher RN turnover means you may be training alongside newer colleagues. Ask what the facility is doing to keep its nurses.
• RN hours per resident run below the state average, so ask how assignments are built on your shift.

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