Anniston Health and Rehab Services

To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home an A+ for inspections. Our inspection grades are tied to many items found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that score well in this area have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these facilities should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. Although this facility had some deficiencies on its government inspection report, none of them were severe based on CMS' deficiency scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Adding to its top-shelf assessment, this nursing home also was given a dominant long-term care score, with a score of A. Long-term care ratings of this caliber generally require both around the clock care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine healthcare services. In addition to considering the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility gave the vaccine to 99.53488 percent of its patients. Vaccines are vital to keeping patients out of the hospital. Lastly, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0.03 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

This nursing home also was awarded a top-shelf short-term care score. Indeed, this is this facility's third most impressive category score. In that area, we gave this facility a score of A. Our short-term care ratings are crucial for prospective residents requiring rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually utilizes more skilled nursing services. This includes a broad range of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this facility employs registered nurses. Not every facility employs these skilled professionals. However, according to the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last measure we assessed in this category is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We found that 5.6 percent of this nursing home's residents were able to return home.

In our last category, this nursing home also was awarded a very strong nursing rating, with a grade of A-. This finished off a very impressive report card. Our nursing score looks at the nursing home's nurse staffing levels. We look at both the levels of licensure of those nurses and the quantity of hours spent with residents. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This nursing home performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a place has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can often be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.