Blue Ridge Healthcare Selma
11 Bell Road, Selma AL 36701 · (334) 874-7425 · 66.33% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Lata
With an address in Selma, Alabama, Blue Ridge Healthcare Selma is one of just a few nursing homes in this city. This is a fine nursing home. We gave it an overall grade of B, which is a very solid score. Based on our assessment, this nursing home looks like a solid choice for most people. The best part of this facility's strong profile is its inspection score. Inspection reports are discussed in the next section
Additional Details:
Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 172 Beds
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For profit - Partnership
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
This facility received a strong overall score as described above, but we especially wanted to emphasize its excellent government inspections in recent years. We gave them an A+ in this area. Inspection ratings are tied to items located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that excel in this category tend to have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. Although this facility had a few deficiencies on its government inspection report, none were severe based on CMS' scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
Long-term Care Quality
This nursing home performed well in our long-term care category. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A- for that category, which is one of our best grades. When facilities receive this type of grade in this category it is usually a good sign for resident care and indicates that the nursing home is well-staffed with nurses aids. On top of assessing the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility provided the vaccine to 99.77064 percent of its residents. Vaccines are vital to keeping residents out of the hospital. This facility also keeps its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had just 1.42 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days.
Nurse Quality
Turning to the category of nursing care, this facility didn't perform quite as well in this area as some of the categories discussed above. Nevertheless, a grade of B- in this category is by no means a bad score. Nursing ratings are based in large part on quality and quantity of nursing care. This facility averages 2.9 hours of nursing care per resident each day, which is a very low figure. Lastly, nursing scores also factor in quality-based metrics, such as avoiding major falls. Despite not having the most impressive total nursing hours, this place actually performed admirably in the area of preventing major falls. This is often an indicator that a place has sufficient quality controls in place. Many falls can be avoided if a nursing home supplies enough nurses to assist its residents.
Short-term Care Quality
The next area we analyzed is short-term care, turned out to be this facility's least impressive category. We awarded this facility a grade of D in that category. This was one of the couple of weak links of a quality profile. In forming these short-term care grades, we quantify the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, respiratory therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. The objective is to create a measure for sizing up the rehabilitation services of different nursing homes. Unfortunately, this nursing home was below average in terms of its quantity of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its residents based on the measures we assessed. The last datapoint we considered in this area is the percentage of patients that who were able to eventually return home from the facility. This nursing home struggled quite a bit in this area as well, with just 42.6 percent of its patients returning home. This was well below average.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Blue Ridge Healthcare Selma Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This statistic gauges the percentage of long-term care patients who suffer from pressure ulcers . We bake this statistic into our nursing grades.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This metric gauges the percent of long-term stay residents that have sustained a fall which caused major injury. We use this statistic in calculating our nursing grades.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term care residents who suffered from UTI's. Although a higher rate infections may reflect poorly on a nursing home's nursing care, it is problematic to compare different nursing homes due to differing reporting standards.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This is the percentage of patients who were given antipsychotic drugs. Antipsychotic drugs are administered to residents for a variety of medical conditions, such as dementia. Tragically, in some cases, increased usage of these drugs may mean that a facility is using these medications to control patient behavior.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This indicates the percent of residents prescribed antianxiety medications. Antianxiety drugs are prescribed to patients suffering from depression and anxiety.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
Measures the percentage of long-term stay residents who are exhibiting signs of depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This is a measure of the percentage of long-term care residents that received the flu and pneumonia vaccines.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This indicates the percent of patients that required more assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of needing for assistance with ADL's may indicate erosion of a resident's medical condition.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This datapoint measures the percent of long-term stay patients that maintained mobility. Many in the industry argue that mobility is critical to residents' well-being.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This is the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of care. There is generally a correlation between reduced hospitalizations and the overall quality of nursing home care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This tells you the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term patient care. There is a correlation between keeping patients out of the hospital and a nursing homes short-term rehabilitation performance.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This is the number of emergency room visits per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This indicates the percent of short-term residents who saw functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. Higher levels of autonomy with activities of daily living typically correlates with successful rehabilitation services.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better