Aliceville Manor Nursing Home

In addition to performing well overall, this facility also earned nearly flawless government inspections. Consequently, it earned one of our highest grades in that category with an A+. Our inspection grades are based on several datapoints located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that excel in this category tend to have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these places should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. Fortunately, although this nursing home had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are labeled as categories G through L. This means that the government inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Among the reasons we rated this nursing home so well is that it received a very impressive long-term care score. Indeed, long-term care ended up being its second most favorable category score. In that area, we gave this facility a grade of A-. If you are looking for anything other than short-term rehabilitation, you should take a close look at each nursing home's long-term care ratings. On top of assessing the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home administered the vaccine to 76.047905 percent of its patients. This is slightly less than we anticipated but still a decent figure. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

This nursing home's next most favorable area ended up being its short-term care grade, where it was awarded a grade of B-. Our short-term care grades are considered to be more critical for people needing rehabilitation from their nursing home. Rehabilitation typically utilizes more highly-skilled nursing. Skilled nursing means not just nursing, but also physical and occupational therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this facility employs registered nurses. Not every nursing home employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last measure we looked at in this category is the percentage of residents that were able to return home from the facility. We found that just 5.2 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home. Unfortunately, this was below average.

The final area we graded is nursing. We gave this facility a solid score in that area, with a grade of B-. Even though this isn't as high as some of this nursing home's other grades, it is nevertheless nothing to be ashamed of. There are quite a few data points within this category. Most of these criteria relate to the quantity of nurse staffing. This place averages 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident daily, which is a very low figure. Finally, we look at quality-based statistics, such as the percentage of residents who suffered pressure ulcers and major falls. Sometimes these statistics are measures of the quality of nursing care.