Nursing home
Heritage Care Center
909 17Th Street, Fairbury, NE 68352 · Map
Non profit - Corporation · Part of Vetter Senior Living (22 facilities) · 100 certified beds
Heritage Care Center is a Medicare-certified nursing home in Fairbury, Nebraska. CMS rates it 3 out of 5 stars overall (3/5 for staffing, 3/5 for health inspections). Nurse staffing is 3.19 hours per resident per day, below the Nebraska average of 4.17. Its most recent inspection on Jun 17, 2025 cited 5 deficiencies.
CMS quality ratings
Ratings from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), updated monthly. 5 stars is the highest quality.
How Heritage Care Center compares
This facility vs. the Nebraska and national averages, from CMS data. For staffing, higher is generally better; for turnover and deficiencies, lower is better.
| Metric | This facility | Nebraska avg | National avg | Compared with the state |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total nurse staffing (hrs/resident/day) | 3.19 | 4.17 | 3.89 | below avg |
| RN staffing (hrs/resident/day) | 0.53 | 0.71 | 0.68 | below avg |
| Aide staffing (hrs/resident/day) | 1.61 | 2.76 | 2.34 | below avg |
| Nursing staff turnover | 54.5% | 49.3% | 46.4% | above avg |
| Deficiencies cited, last inspection | 5.0 | 6.7 | 9.5 | below avg |
Staffing
Hours per resident per day as reported to CMS. Higher numbers indicate more direct care time.
Staff turnover
Lower turnover typically indicates better working conditions and continuity of care. National average for nursing staff is 46.4%.
Recent health inspection
CMS inspects nursing facilities regularly. Deficiencies are categorized by severity.
- Every deficiency from the August 5, 2025 inspection was corrected by August 29, 2025
What inspectors found at Heritage Care Center
Specific deficiencies cited in recent CMS health inspections, most recent first. Severity follows the CMS scope/severity scale. Source: CMS Care Compare.
- Potential for harm
Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to prevent accidents.
Quality of Life and Care Deficiencies · Aug 5, 2025 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Keep all essential equipment working safely.
Environmental Deficiencies · Jun 17, 2025 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Procure food from sources approved or considered satisfactory and store, prepare, distribute and serve food in accordance with professional standards.
Nutrition and Dietary Deficiencies · Jun 17, 2025 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Ensure that residents are free from significant medication errors.
Pharmacy Service Deficiencies · Jun 17, 2025 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Ensure medication error rates are not 5 percent or greater.
Pharmacy Service Deficiencies · Jun 17, 2025 · Full report (PDF)
Show all 11 deficiencies
- Potential for harm
Immediately tell the resident, the resident's doctor, and a family member of situations (injury/decline/room, etc.) that affect the resident.
Resident Rights Deficiencies · Feb 19, 2025 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Ensure each resident’s drug regimen must be free from unnecessary drugs.
Pharmacy Service Deficiencies · Feb 19, 2025 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program.
Infection Control Deficiencies · May 2, 2024 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Provide specialized rehabilitative services by qualified personnel, when ordered for a resident by a doctor.
Quality of Life and Care Deficiencies · May 2, 2024 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Protect each resident from the wrongful use of the resident's belongings or money.
Freedom from Abuse, Neglect, and Exploitation Deficiencies · Jun 16, 2023 - Potential for harm
Immediately tell the resident, the resident's doctor, and a family member of situations (injury/decline/room, etc.) that affect the resident.
Resident Rights Deficiencies · Jun 16, 2023
Read the full inspection reports on Medicare.gov Each inspection there has a “Read the full report” link with the inspectors’ written findings.
About this facility
- Address
- 909 17Th Street
Fairbury, NE 68352 - CMS certification #
- 285262
- Ownership
- Non profit - Corporation
- Certified beds
- 100
- Avg residents/day
- 46.8
- Provider type
- Medicare and Medicaid
- First certified
- 2004-07-01
- Chain
- Vetter Senior Living (22 facilities)
- Setting
- Rural
Part of Vetter Senior Living
Vetter Senior Living operates 22 nursing facilities across the United States. View all Vetter Senior Living facilities →
Not SLA enrolled. This facility hasn’t enrolled in resident survey verification. Learn about enrollment →
Location and nearby
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Other public records
- Website says Works with hospice, transportation
Full public records, with dates and sources
Care and services
From the community’s website
What Heritage Care Center says about itself, quoted from its own site. We have not checked these claims against licensing records. Ask about each one on a tour.
- Offers hospice care on site or works with hospice providers.
We offer private and semi-private rooms, hospice services, rehabilitation services, activities, resident transportation, and a beauty/barber shop with a full-time cosmetologist.
(page, checked Oct 12, 2026) - Provides transportation.
We offer private and semi-private rooms, hospice services, rehabilitation services, activities, resident transportation, and a beauty/barber shop with a full-time cosmetologist.
(page, checked Oct 12, 2026) - Apartment types named: private room, semi-private room.
We offer private and semi-private rooms, hospice services, rehabilitation services, activities, resident transportation, and a beauty/barber shop with a full-time cosmetologist.
(page, checked Oct 12, 2026)
Location and nearby care
- Nearest hospital with an emergency room
- Jefferson Community Health & Life, Fairbury. 0.4 miles away, straight line.
- Nearest Medicare nursing home
- Jefferson Community Health & Life Gardenside, Fairbury. 0.4 miles away, straight line.
- Nearest home health agency office
- Jefferson Community Health & Life Home Health, Fairbury. 0.4 miles away, straight line. Agencies travel to clients, so ask which ones serve this address.
- Nearest pharmacy
- Globe Rexall Pharmacy. 1.1 miles away, straight line. From OpenStreetMap, which does not list every pharmacy, so one may be closer.
- Area
- USDA classes ZIP code 68352 as small town (small town core).
- Hospice
- 5 Medicare hospices tell CMS they serve ZIP code 68352.
Cottonwood Hospice, LLC, office in Beatrice, 24.5 miles away, straight line (CMS family survey rating 5 of 5 stars) - Nearest geriatric medicine practice
- Unmc Physicians, Omaha. 90.6 miles away, straight line. 1 geriatric medicine doctor listed there.
Distances are straight lines from the community, not driving distance. Hospitals, home health, dialysis, hospice and doctors come from CMS provider data (CMS, hospital list updated Jul 22, 2026). Star ratings are CMS’s own.
Emergency and natural hazard risk
Public hazard maps for this location. Ask the community about its emergency plan, its generator and where residents would go in an evacuation.
- Flood zone
- Outside the high and moderate risk flood areas on FEMA's flood map (Zone X, minimal flood hazard, or not studied). (FEMA flood map)
- Wildfire risk to homes
- In Fairbury, NE, risk to homes is greater than 75% of communities in Nebraska and 74% of communities nationwide. USDA rates the whole town or city, not this address. (USDA Forest Service, Wildfire Risk to Communities, April 2026)
- FEMA National Risk Index
- Overall: relatively moderate. By hazard: inland flooding relatively moderate, wildfire relatively moderate, tornado very high, heat wave relatively moderate, earthquake very low. These are FEMA’s ratings for the census tract, compared with tracts nationwide. (FEMA, December 2025)
A flood zone describes the map at this point, not the building's elevation. In an emergency, follow the local emergency management agency.
What we checked
Every public source we searched for this community. “Nothing on record” means we found no record that matched it. A record can be missed when a name or address differs.
| Source | Data as of | What we found |
|---|---|---|
| U.S. Department of Labor wage and hour cases | Oct 15, 2026 | Nothing on record |
| OSHA workplace safety inspections since 2016 | Oct 15, 2026 | Nothing on record |
| FEMA flood map | See above | |
| USDA wildfire risk | Apr 15, 2026 | See above |
| FEMA National Risk Index | See above | |
| CMS hospitals, home health, dialysis, hospice and doctors; OpenStreetMap pharmacies | See above | |
| HUD Multifamily Properties - Assisted | Jul 6, 2026 | Nothing on record |
| State Veterans Homes (NASVH directory) | Sep 20, 2026 | Nothing on record |
| CMS Hospice - General Information | Aug 19, 2026 | Nothing on record |
| CMS Home Health Care Agencies | May 27, 2026 | Nothing on record |
| The community’s own website | See above |
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Frequently asked questions
Is Heritage Care Center a good nursing home?
CMS gives Heritage Care Center an overall rating of 3 out of 5 stars, including 3/5 for staffing and 3/5 for health inspections. These ratings come from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and are updated monthly.
How is Heritage Care Center staffed?
Heritage Care Center reports 3.19 total nurse hours per resident per day, compared with the Nebraska average of 4.17.
Has Heritage Care Center had inspection problems?
Its most recent CMS inspection cited 5 deficiencies.
How many beds does Heritage Care Center have?
Heritage Care Center is certified for 100 beds.