Heritage Healthcare

    3401 Soldiers Home Rd, West Lafayette, IN 47906
    • Assisted Living
    • Memory Care
    • Skilled Nursing

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    Amenities

    Healthcare services

    • Activities of daily living assistance
    • Assistance with bathing
    • Assistance with dressing
    • Assistance with transfers
    • Medication management

    Healthcare staffing

    • 24-hour call system
    • 24-hour supervision

    Meals and dining

    • Diabetes diet
    • Meal preparation and service
    • Special dietary restrictions

    Room

    • Air-conditioning
    • Cable
    • Fully furnished
    • Housekeeping and linen services
    • Kitchenettes
    • Private bathrooms
    • Telephone
    • Wifi

    Transportation

    • Community operated transportation
    • Transportation arrangement

    Common areas

    • Beauty salon
    • Computer center
    • Dining room
    • Fitness room
    • Gaming room
    • Garden
    • Outdoor space
    • Small library
    • Wellness center

    Community services

    • Concierge services
    • Fitness programs
    • Move-in coordination

    Activities

    • Community-sponsored activities
    • Planned day trips
    • Resident-run activities
    • Scheduled daily activities

    Reviews

    3.95·(40)

    Overall rating

    1. 5
    2. 4
    3. 3
    4. 2
    5. 1
    • Care

      2.3
    • Staff

      3.8
    • Meals

      2.7
    • Amenities

      3.5
    • Value

      1.0

    Pros

    • Skilled rehabilitation and therapy services
    • Thorough physical and occupational therapy with documented progress
    • Engaging activities and special-event programming
    • Compassionate and attentive frontline nursing and CNA staff
    • Supportive admissions and intake process
    • Private therapy rooms with direct entrance
    • Home-like atmosphere and apartment-style room options
    • Clean common areas with a pleasant odor
    • Recognized individual staff members providing exceptional assistance
    • Clear focus on discharge-to-home outcomes
    • Accessible and friendly administrative staff
    • Active resident engagement and social opportunities

    Cons

    • Inconsistent medication-administration and tracking
    • Gaps in clinical responsiveness and timely nursing attention
    • Incontinence-care and hygiene practice deficiencies
    • Irregular bathing and linen-change processes
    • Variable personal-care and grooming standards
    • Weak discharge planning and post-discharge coordination
    • Inconsistent infection-control and catheter management
    • Staffing shortages and frequent double-shift burden
    • Variable dining quality and meal-service continuity
    • Inadequate documentation and family communication processes
    • Facility maintenance and localized odor concerns
    • Incidents raising concerns about staff conduct and professionalism
    • Property-management lapses leading to lost or misplaced belongings
    • Administrative disorganization affecting care continuity

    Summary of reviews

    Heritage Healthcare elicits strongly mixed impressions. A substantial number of reviewers praise the facility’s rehabilitation and therapy offerings: therapy teams are described as skilled, thorough, and outcomes-focused, with private therapy rooms and detailed progress records. Admissions and many frontline staff receive positive comments for friendliness and helpfulness, and the community offers active programming and special events that residents and families appreciate. For those whose experiences were positive, the facility felt home-like, clean in common areas, and effective at achieving discharge-to-home goals.

    However, several recurring clinical and operational concerns emerge alongside the positive feedback. Reviewers describe inconsistent medication administration and tracking, with a few reports of medication-related adverse events that families found serious. There are also repeated accounts of delays in nursing response and gaps in timely clinical attention. Infection-control and catheter management deficiencies, along with uneven personal-care practices (including grooming and bathing schedules), appear as ongoing operational weaknesses rather than isolated preferences.

    Sanitation and incontinence-care issues are a frequent source of family dissatisfaction: reviewers cite irregular bathing, inconsistent linen changes, and localized odor concerns in some rooms or areas. These issues often intersect with perceptions of understaffing and double-shifted employees; multiple comments suggest staffing shortages contribute to delayed care and inconsistent hygiene routines. Compromised continuity of care is also reflected in missed appointments, uneven documentation, and weak discharge planning or follow-up coordination for equipment and post-discharge services.

    Staff culture is described as variable. Many families single out individual caregivers, admissions personnel, and therapy staff for praise; named staff are remembered for providing exceptional assistance. At the same time, other reviewers report concerning incidents affecting professional conduct, including inappropriate behavior by individual aides, alleged intoxication, and property-management lapses such as lost personal items. These incidents appear intermittent but significant and point to gaps in supervision, screening, or internal reporting processes.

    Dining and amenities draw mixed ratings: some reviewers found the food appealing and the move-in process seamless, while others criticized meal quality and consistency. Facility condition comments are similarly mixed — common areas are often described as clean and pleasant, yet some reviews note building maintenance issues, small or shared rooms, and odorous rooms. Activities programming is consistently a strength, with organized events, themed days, and opportunities that support resident engagement.

    Management and communication are recurring themes in negative feedback. Families report administrative disorganization, poor communication about clinical issues (including medication and infection concerns), and inadequate discharge instructions or equipment provisioning. Some reviewers perceived financial motivations affecting care decisions. Given the range of experiences described, prospective residents and families should verify current staffing ratios, ask about medication-administration protocols, review infection-control and incontinence-care procedures, and request written discharge plans and contact pathways for escalation. Visiting the unit at different times of day and speaking directly with therapy, nursing leadership, and recent family references can help assess whether the facility’s strengths align with an individual resident’s clinical and personal needs.

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    Medicare Ratings

    3·/ 5
    • Overall

    • Health Inspection

    • Staffing

    • Quality Measures

    Ratings from the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (Care Compare). View on Medicare.gov

    Location

    Heritage Healthcare is located at 3401 Soldiers Home Rd, West Lafayette, IN, 47906.

    About Heritage Healthcare

    Heritage Healthcare sits in Indiana, where Life Care Centers of America owns and manages it as a government county facility, and Lafayette Medical Investors Limited Partnership has had a hand in running things since September 2018, with other organizations involved after that. The place can care for up to 127 residents in certified beds, though the census usually counts about 78. Residents live in private or semiprivate rooms, many with private bathrooms, and enjoy landscaped yards, several courtyards, and a homelike setting with safety features such as 24-hour security and fire systems to help folks feel secure. There's a library to read in, a beauty salon and barber shop, and rooms with TV and telephone connections, along with cable and complimentary wireless Internet, and there's a big focus on nutritious, tasty meals planned by certified dietitians. Folks can attend religious services, enjoy fine dining, bring pet visitors, use bus transportation to get around, and take part in daily activities led by a certified activity director.

    Residents have access to many levels of care, including 24-hour skilled nursing, long-term care, memory care for those with dementia, assisted living that helps with daily tasks, and independent living for active seniors who want fewer chores. There's also home care available if someone wishes to stay at home but needs a bit of help. Those needing recovery after a hospital stay can move into post-hospitalization suites, use inpatient or outpatient rehab, and rely on therapies like physical, occupational, speech, anodyne, intravenous, oxygen, and suction treatments. Social services, case management, medication oversight, wound and diabetes care, and fall and infection prevention programs are all part of the support, as are specific services for discharge planning and community re-entry.

    Housekeeping and laundry are provided, and folks can stay connected with family through flat-screen TVs, flexible visiting hours, and family or resident councils. The community puts effort into social, mental, and emotional activities, and has won awards for friendly staff and lively programming. Skilled nurses and on-site doctors make individualized care plans, using modern rehab equipment and therapies to help residents regain or maintain as much independence as possible. There's a record of community awards-like Best of Senior Living and All Star distinctions for kindness, support, and engagement. Heritage Healthcare, however, does have 25 deficiencies from inspection reports, including issues with infection control and one related to a resident's right to refuse transfers (F0560), and management is responsible for protecting residents from abuse, neglect, and exploitation. Heritage Healthcare offers a wide range of care options and tries to create a safe, caring, and welcoming environment, but it's also important to know about its inspection history and current efforts to address those specific areas needing improvement.

    People often ask...

    Heritage Healthcare offers assisted living, memory care, and skilled nursing.

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    The full address for this community is 3401 Soldiers Home Rd, West Lafayette, IN 47906.

    No, Heritage Healthcare does not offer respite care. Respite care in assisted living communities provides temporary, short-term relief for primary caregivers by offering professional care for their loved ones. It allows individuals to stay in an assisted living community for a limited time, giving caregivers a break while ensuring residents receive necessary support and assistance with daily activities.

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