Albertville Nursing Home
750 Alabama Highway 75 North, Albertville AL 35950 · (256) 878-1398 · 97.1% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Sara Levinsohn
With an address in Albertville, Alabama, Albertville Nursing Home is the lone nursing home located in the city. Featuring an overall score of A+, this nursing home is ranked among the highest-graded nursing homes we found. In fact, we ranked this facility in the top ten percentile of all facilities in the United States. Headlining this facility's remarkable report card is its long-term care score, which we will address in the next section.
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Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 159 Beds
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For profit - Corporation
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Long-term Care Quality
We also found that this nursing home excelled in our long-term care rating. We gave them an A+ in this area. Nursing homes that do well in this category typically provide residents with more supervision and stay on top of routine medical care. In addition to looking at the elite level of care provided by aids and other staff at this facility, we also were pleased by the nursing home's record for vaccinations. For example, this facility administered the pneumonia vaccine to 97.9716 percent of its patients, which is an impressive figure. The last statistic we assessed was the facility's hospitalization rate. We found that this facility had 4.19 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. While this admittedly wasn't as impressive as most of its other scores in this area, this figure may be skewed for some nursing homes based on the preexisting medical conditions of residents.
Facility Inspections
This facility also earned an A+ inspection score, making it one of the rare places to receive multiple A+'s in our categories. This score is based on the nursing home's recent inspection reports. Our inspection ratings are based on several items located in the a nursing home's government inspections. Facilities that excel in this area tend to have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. While this facility had some deficiencies on its report, none of them were severe based on CMS' scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
Short-term Care Quality
Building on its remarkable profile, this facility also was awarded a superb short-term care score, with a grade of A. Our short-term care grade is typically employed to assess a nursing home's rehabilitation services To provide high-end rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally must feature higher levels of skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other types of therapists. This nursing home employs both physical therapists and registered nurses. Not all facilities employ these skilled professionals. Lastly, we assessed the percentage of residents who were able to return home from this nursing home. This place fared as well as just about any nursing home in the nation in this area with 63.6 percent of its patients returning home. Most facilities are below 50 percent in this statistic.
Nurse Quality
In the last area, this facility also received an impressive nursing rating, with an A-. This rounded out a very favorable report card. Our nursing grade assesses the nursing home's nurse staffing levels. We look at both the levels of training of those nurses as well as the number of hours spent with patients. This nursing home provided 5 hours of nursing care per resident daily, which was among the better figures we found. Lastly, this nursing home also performed well in several of the quality-based metrics we assessed. In terms of the percentage of its residents suffering from pressure ulcers, this facility performed better than the national average.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Albertville Nursing Home Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This statistic is an indication of the percent of long-term stay patients which suffer from new or worsened pressure ulcers. We have found that pressure ulcers are a reliable measure of the quality of nursing care a nursing home provides.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This tells you the percent of residents who suffered from a fall which resulted in severe injury.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This indicates the percent of long-term care residents who have experienced urinary tract infections. Although more infections could reflect poorly on a nursing home's hygiene protocols, it can be difficult to compare different facilities due to facilities having inconsistent reporting standards.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term patients taking antipsychotic drugs. While antipsychotic medications serve an important medical purpose, it is important to confirm these medications are being used appropriately. In limited situations, excessive reliance on these medications may suggest that a facility is using these drugs to subdue residents.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This is the percent of patients who were given antianxiety drugs. These medications are generally prescribed to patients suffering from anxiety or depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term care residents demonstrating symptoms of depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This tells you the percent of patients who received the pneumonia and flu vaccines. High vaccination rates should be the norm at this point.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This indicates the percentage of patients that needed additional assistance with activities of daily living over time.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This datapoint measures the percentage of long-term stay residents that remained mobile levels.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This is the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of patient care. There is typically a correlation between avoiding hospitalizations and the quality of nursing home care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This is the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This datapoint measures the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This is a measure of the percent of short-term residents that saw functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. Many in the industry believe that this is a reasonable measure of a facility's rehabilitation services.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better