Heritage Health Services

    1119 N Wisconsin St #1209, Port Washington, WI, 53074
    2.1 · 30 reviews
    • Assisted living
    • Memory care
    • Skilled nursing
    AnonymousLoved one of resident
    1.0

    Chronically understaffed, neglectful nursing home

    I placed a loved one here and it was awful. The place is chronically understaffed and mismanaged - call lights ignored for hours, residents left in the same position 12+ hours, missed/incorrect meds and delayed pain meds, no showers for days, lost laundry, filthy rooms and strong urine/feces odors, wandering residents, theft and safety breaches. Management was rude and unresponsive even after promises to investigate; police involvement was needed. A few nurses and CNAs were compassionate and went above and beyond, but overall the neglect, poor care, infections/UTIs, weight loss and safety issues make this place not recommendable. One star.

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    Amenities

    Healthcare services

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

    Healthcare staffing

    • 12-16 hour nursing
    • 24-hour call system
    • 24-hour supervision

    Meals and dining

    • Diabetes diet
    • Meal preparation and service
    • Restaurant-style dining
    • Special dietary restrictions

    Room

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

    Transportation

    • Community operated transportation
    • Transportation arrangement
    • Transportation arrangement (non-medical)

    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

    2.10 · 30 reviews

    Overall rating

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

      2.0
    • Staff

      2.5
    • Meals

      2.3
    • Amenities

      2.0
    • Value

      1.0

    Pros

    • Some excellent, compassionate nurses and CNAs
    • Dedicated, helpful and friendly frontline staff
    • Effective rehab therapy for mobility and swallowing
    • Responsive nurses and on-site doctor in some cases
    • 24/7 skilled nursing and rehab services available
    • Successful short-term discharges back to home/apartment
    • Some staff go above and beyond for residents
    • Timely medication administration reported by some families
    • Cheerful moments and positive interactions noted
    • Occasional strong meal reviews

    Cons

    • Widespread reports of neglect and poor quality of care
    • Understaffing and high staff turnover
    • Medication errors and delayed or missed medications
    • Failure to reposition patients for long periods (12+ hours)
    • Inadequate catheter care and poor infection control
    • Serious cleanliness issues (feces on toilets, urine odor)
    • No or inconsistent showers and poor personal hygiene care
    • Dark, dreary, outdated and small/tiny rooms
    • Theft of residents' personal items by staff
    • Physical roughness or abuse by caregivers and CNAs
    • Management unresponsive or dismissive of complaints
    • Poor memory care and residents wandering into other rooms
    • Laundry and personal belongings getting lost
    • Delayed pain management and missed critical medications (e.g., blood thinner)
    • Reports of deaths occurring shortly after admission
    • Pest, smoking, and discarded cigarette concerns on premises
    • Poor or inconsistent therapeutic interactions (yelling, rude staff)
    • Inadequate staffing leading to unattended residents and call lights unanswered
    • Hiring concerns (employees with prior convictions)
    • Poor communication with families and blaming families for issues
    • Isolation of patients due to lack of activities and signage/wayfinding
    • Investigation promised but follow-through questioned or absent
    • Specific serious outcomes reported (weight loss, toe amputation, UTIs, pneumonia)

    Summary review

    Overall sentiment in these reviews is mixed but leans strongly negative, with a consistent pattern of serious quality and safety concerns tempered by isolated positive experiences. Across many submissions, families and residents report neglectful care, understaffing, and management failures that led to missed or delayed medical interventions, poor hygiene, and, in some cases, severe health consequences. At the same time, multiple reviewers explicitly praised individual nurses, CNAs, therapists, and a few clinicians who were compassionate, effective, and in some instances helped patients return home. This produces a polarized picture: pockets of competent, caring staff operating within what reviewers describe as a systemically flawed facility.

    Care quality is the dominant theme in negative reviews. Recurrent issues include missed or delayed medications, improper catheter care, failure to reposition immobile residents for extended periods (reports of 12+ hours), and inconsistent wound or hygiene management. These problems are linked by reviewers to infections (UTIs, pneumonia), weight loss, and in at least one report, a toe amputation that families attribute to neglect. Some reviewers alleged deaths shortly after admission; others described very short stays where basic needs were not met. Medication handling concerns appear multiple times — both errors and CNAs administering pills improperly were mentioned — amplifying safety worries.

    Staffing and staff behavior are another major area of concern. Many reviews mention chronic understaffing and high turnover, which reviewers tie to residents being left unattended, unanswered call lights, inconsistent showering and laundry service, and lack of monitoring. While several accounts singled out "amazing" or "excellent" nurses, there are also multiple allegations of rude or abusive staff behavior, rough handling of residents, caregivers acting beyond their scope, and even theft by caregivers. Police involvement was described in at least one theft/abuse case. Families also raised hiring concerns (alleged employment of staff with prior stealing convictions) and reported that management was often unresponsive to complaints or slow to act on investigations.

    Facility conditions and amenities drew frequent criticism. Reviewers described small, crowded rooms cluttered with wheelchairs and medical equipment; dark, dreary, outdated interiors; strong urine or fecal odors; pests; and discarded cigarette butts on the grounds. Several reviews said residents went many days without showers or basic personal care, and that laundry was lost. Memory care specific issues were reported: lack of signage/wayfinding, inadequate activities, patients wandering into others' rooms, and generally unsafe conditions for cognitively impaired residents.

    Rehabilitation and clinical services are a notable positive in some reviews: multiple families reported effective rehab therapy, particularly for mobility and swallowing, and said therapists were timely and helped achieve successful discharges. A subset of reviewers also praised timely medicines and compassionate clinical attention. Dining and activities responses were mixed: a few reviewers said meals were great, while others called the food awful and criticized the lack of stimulation or activities for residents.

    Management and administrative responsiveness is a recurring complaint. Reviewers described administrators as unresponsive, dismissive, or slow to follow up; investigations were promised but follow-through was questioned. Conversely, some families felt supported by staff and management when care was prompt. This inconsistency suggests that the facility may have variability in leadership performance across shifts or units.

    Notable patterns and specific incidents that stand out across reviews include: caregiver theft and police reports; allegations of physical roughness and abuse by CNAs; prolonged failure to respond to call lights; visible fecal contamination and persistent odors; reports of missed critical medications (including blood thinners) and delayed pain control; and instances where residents deteriorated rapidly after admission. These incidents, paired with repeated mentions of understaffing, paint a picture of systemic vulnerabilities in safety and quality control rather than isolated staff failings.

    In summary, the reviews reflect a facility with meaningful strengths at the individual caregiver and therapy level but pervasive organizational and environmental problems that compromise resident safety and quality of life. Families considering this facility should weigh the possibility of excellent one-on-one care from certain staff members against recurring reports of neglect, cleanliness failures, medication and safety breaches, and inconsistent management responsiveness. For current residents and family members, documented patterns suggest a need for persistent oversight, clear communication with facility leadership, and rapid escalation to external authorities when safety concerns or abuse are suspected.

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    About Heritage Health Services

    Heritage Health Services is a senior living community that covers many care needs, which makes it easier as people age and require different help, and you'll find things there like independent living for older folks who can do most things for themselves, assisted living when they need help with daily tasks and meals, and memory care if memory loss is a problem, including 24-hour support and programs for Alzheimer's and dementia. Heritage Health Services also has skilled nursing care for seniors who need nursing help around the clock, so they handle rehabilitation, wound care, medication, and more, and there's also physical, speech, and occupational therapy, brain injury rehab, and help for folks with serious and long-term health needs, plus the staff includes a social worker and access to psychiatric consultations and discharge planning. They support all kinds of patients, even those needing home health and hospice either for a short time or longer term, and their assisted living options let people get help but still keep their independence, and you'll see activity programs, dining services, group outings, and transportation for doctor visits, and for people who want something smaller, there are board and care homes right in neighborhoods for just a few residents at a time. Heritage Health Services is equipped with on-site lab testing, X-rays, EKGs, a pharmacy, emergency kits, an automatic defibrillator, and helps with dialysis, plus features like IV fluids, antibiotics, nebulizer treatments, glucose monitoring, daily weight checks, and bladder ultrasounds, and they monitor infections with special procedures and isolation when needed. They handle swallowing studies, wound care, PICC lines, and incentive spirometry, and for safety and comfort, amenities are meant to make life easier, and there's a van for group outings or trips to medical appointments. Heritage Health Services runs programs and campaigns for community health, and their programs and units use specific names like Heritage Health Services; they even highlight plasma donation services and give information about plasma therapies, plasma protein treatments, and they offer compensation for donors and share donor stories and plasma therapy patient stories during events like International Plasma Awareness Week, and any facility's certification status for programs like IQPP is easy to find on location maps. Heritage Health Services is designed for seniors who want to live somewhere with care types that adapt as needs change, and it's a place with different services all in one spot, focused on making sure older adults have the health, safety, and comfort they need.

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