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Brown Nursing Home

  • Nursing Home
  • Independent Living
  • Assisted Living
  • Memory Care

Updated Sep 1, 2022 by Nick Lata

Historical Rating
Grade: A-minus
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Brown Nursing Home's website

2334 Washington Street,
Alexander City AL 35010

(256) 329-9061

86.02% estimated occupancy 1

Brown Nursing Home is one of a mere two facilities in Alexander City, Alabama. This facility appears to be ranked among the better facilities we looked at. A score in this range requires first-rate marks across the board. In fact, we ranked this facility in the top third of all facilities in the nation. This nursing home's impressive profile was highlighted by its inspection reports, which we will address in the next paragraph.

Quick Details

  • Accepts Medicare 1
  • Accepts Medicaid 1
  • No CCRC
  • Has Resident Council
  • No Family Council
  • For profit - Corporation
  • Secure Memory Care 
  • Offers Inpatient Rehab

Specialized Services

  • Personal Care
  • Medication Management
  • Home Making
  • Speech Therapy
  • Stroke Recovery
  • IV Antibiotic Therapy
  • Palliative Care
  • Wound Care
  • Occupational Therapy
  • Cardiac Therapy
  • Physical Therapy
  • Respiratory Therapy
  • Nutritional Counseling
  • Pharmacy
  • Recreational Therapy

Registered Staff Hours

Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2021)
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Facility Inspections

Grade: A-plus

One of the many reasons this turned out to be a great nursing home is that it received an A+ in our inspections category. This is as good as it gets in this critical category. Our inspection ratings are tied to items located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that receive favorable grades in this area typically have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these places should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. This facility received 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered to be major deficiencies. This indicates that CMS did not consider any of these deficiencies to cause an immediate risk to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Long-term Care Quality

Grade: A-minus

This nursing home also was awarded a very impressive long-term care score. This actually ended up being this facility's second most impressive category grade. In that category, this facility received a grade of A-. Nursing homes that receive this type of grade in long-term care typically provide consistent around the clock care to ensure patients are kept in good health. After considering the amount of care provided by nurses, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination records. This nursing home vaccinated 99.58159 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is an impressive figure. Pneumonia is often a deadly illness for nursing home residents so we like it when a facility does not take any chances. Lastly, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

Short-term Care Quality

Grade: B-plus

The third category we looked at was short-term care. This nursing home was awarded an above average short-term care grade, with a grade of B+ in the area. Short-term care grades are generally used to judge a facility's performance with rehabilitation In order to offer highly scored rehabilitation services, facilities generally must have better levels of skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other highly trained professionals. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all nursing homes employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, according to the data they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Finally, we assessed the percentage of residents that were able to return home from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

Nurse Quality

Grade: B

The next area we looked at was nursing. We gave this facility one of our better grades in this area, with a grade of B. Although this is not on par with several of this nursing home's other grades, it is still a perfectly acceptable grade. We looked at the qualifications of nurses at the nursing home, as well as the quantity of hours those nurses spent with residents, in calculating our grade in this area. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics 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.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

FDCB-BB+A-AA+Oct 18Sep 22

Brown Nursing Home Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

Grade: D

In Brown Nursing Home, 9.23% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This is the percentage of patients that have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are considered by many in the nursing home industry to be an indicator of the quality of nursing care . Pressure ulcers, which are also referred to as bed sores, are often the result of residents not being moved frequently enough.

Minimizes Serious Falls

Grade: D

In Brown Nursing Home, 3.48% of Patients had Serious Falls

This is an indication of the percentage of long-term stay residents that have had falls leading to serious injury. We use this statistic in calculating nursing grades.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

Grade: C

In Brown Nursing Home, 3.13% of Patients had UTIs

This indicates the percent of patients that suffered from a urinary tract infection. UTI's are routinely the result of poor nursing care. Additional nurse staffing can reduce the number likelihood of residents sustaining infections. Note that this datapoint is sometimes skewed by the fact that nursing homes have varying reporting standards for infections.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

Grade: C

In Brown Nursing Home, 19.45% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This tells you the percentage of residents who were prescribed antipsychotic medications. These medications may be used to treat several conditions, including cognitive disorders.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

Grade: D

In Brown Nursing Home, 23.11% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This metric tells you the percent of long-term patients receiving antianxiety drugs.

Managing Depression Among Residents

Grade: A+

In Brown Nursing Home, 1.27% of Patients

This indicates the percentage of residents who are showing signs of depression.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

Grade: A

In Brown Nursing Home, 92.58% of Patients

This is the percentage of patients who have received the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be standard at this point.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

Grade: A-minus

In Brown Nursing Home, 12.92% Percentage of Patients

This tells you the percent of patients who needed increased assistance with activities of daily living over time.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

Grade: A-minus

In Brown Nursing Home, 15.91% Percentage of Residents

This metric tracks the percent of long-term care residents who were able to retain mobility. Many would argue that mobility is important for patients mental and physical health.

Hospitalizations

Grade: B

In Brown Nursing Home, 1.62 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days

This metric measures the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of patient care. Avoiding the hospital is key to preserving the physical health of residents.

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

Grade: C

In Brown Nursing Home, 15.91 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized

This indicates the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term care.

Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement

Grade: B

In Brown Nursing Home, 73.73% Percentage of Resident

This is the percent of short-term care patients that saw functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living.

Nearby Hospitals

  • Russell Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 1.59 miles away3316 Highway 280 Alexander City Alabama 35010Voluntary non-profit - Private(256) 329-7100
  • Lake Martin Community HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 16.45 miles away201 Mariarden Road Dadeville Alabama 36853Proprietary(256) 825-7821

Nearby Dialysis

  • Fmc Alexander City2.97 miles away3368 Hwy 280 Bypass Suite G-1 Alexander City Alabama 35010Dialysis Stations: 23 (256) 329-0638
  • Fmc Dadeville14.93 miles away52 Waterworks Rd Dadeville Alabama 36853Dialysis Stations: 15 (256) 825-2740