Aliceville Manor Nursing Home

In addition to performing well overall, this nursing home also received nearly flawless government inspections. As a result, it earned one of our best scores in that area with an A+. Arguably the most critical factor we look at in determining our inspection grades is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a nursing home's inspection reports. Nursing homes with better grades in this category most likely avoided the more severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. While this nursing home had some minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means that CMS did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

One of the other reasons we graded this facility so highly is that it earned a very impressive nursing grade. This turned out to be its second best category grade. In that area, we gave this facility an A. Nursing scores are tied to quantity of nursing care available. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home performed very well in terms of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

The third category we assessed was long-term care. Contributing to its top-shelf resume, this nursing home also excelled in that area. In fact, we gave it a grade of of A- for the category. For patients looking for a permanent residence rather than skilled nursing, long-term care is an important category. After considering the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we then looked at the facility's vaccination statistics. This nursing home vaccinated 64.74359 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which is somewhat less than we were hoping for but still a respectable figure. While its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we had hoped, we were pleased to find facility was able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

In our final area, this nursing home also was awarded an excellent short-term care rating, with an A-. This finished off a very impressive profile. In computing our short-term care grades, we size up the facility's levels of skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other licensed professionals. This grade is often a useful assessment of the nursing home's rehabilitation. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, according to the information this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Lastly, we assessed the percentage of patients that were able to return home from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.