Coosa Valley Health and Rehab is a facility located in Gadsden, Alabama, a city with a total of 67,082 people. Sporting an overall rating of B, this is a fine facility. You could certainly do much worse than this nursing home. This place's impressive profile was highlighted by its inspection reports, which is addressed in the next section.
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Coosa Valley Health and Rehab
- Nursing Home
Updated Apr 1, 2023 by Nick Reese
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- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Corporation
Specialized Services
- Speech Therapy
- Occupational Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
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Facility Inspections
One of the reasons this ended up being a strong nursing home is that it earned an impressive inspection grade. In fact, inspections turned out to be its best category. In that category, we gave it an A-. Perhaps the most significant factor we consider in calculating our inspection scores is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities with better scores in this area most likely dodged the most severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. Fortunately, although this nursing home had some minor dings on its inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G through L. This means that the government inspectors 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.
Long-term Care Quality
Additionally, this nursing home also received favorable long-term care grades in our assessment. Indeed, we gave it one of our better scores in that category, with a grade of B+. When nursing homes receive a grade in this range in long-term care it typically means it's well-staffed and is a quality place to reside on a permanent basis. Once we assessed the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination data. This facility vaccinated 99.58678 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which is much higher than the vast majority of nursing homes. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.03 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.
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Nurse Quality
This facility received a very good nursing grade this year as well. It received one of our better scores in that category with a grade of B. Nursing ratings are based largely on quantity of nursing care available. This facility provided 0.3 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 facility has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can generally be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.
Short-term Care Quality
The next category we looked at was short-term care. In that category, we gave this facility a B-. In crafting these short-term care scores, we assess the facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. Our goal is to create a scale for sizing up the rehabilitation services of nursing homes. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the data this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The last metric we looked at in this category is the number of residents who were able to return home from the facility. We found that just 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Coosa Valley Health and Rehab Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Coosa Valley Health and Rehab, 9.43% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This statistic measures the percentage of long-term care residents that developed new or worsened pressure ulcers or bed sores. We factor in this statistic in computing our nursing grades.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Coosa Valley Health and Rehab, 3.42% of Patients had Serious Falls
This is a measure of the percent of long-term residents that had falls resulting in severe injury. This is one of the statistics we use in computing our nursing scores.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Coosa Valley Health and Rehab, 3.36% of Patients had UTIs
This is the percent of patients who suffered from a urinary tract infection. UTI's are often linked to facilities with lower levels of hygiene. Closer supervision can reduce the number of UTI's sustained by residents in a nursing home. Note that this metric is affected by by the fact that nursing homes have different reporting standards for urinary tract infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Coosa Valley Health and Rehab, 19.38% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This indicates the percentage of patients who were given antipsychotic medications. Antipsychotic medications are given to patients for a variety of conditions, including Alzheimer's or other dementias. Sadly, in limited situations, excessive reliance on these medications may indicate that a nursing home is using these medications to subdue residents.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Coosa Valley Health and Rehab, 23.22% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This measures the percent of long-term care residents who are prescribed antianxiety medication. These medications are given to residents experiencing anxiety or depression.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Coosa Valley Health and Rehab, 1.24% of Patients
This indicates the percent of residents demonstrating depressive symptoms. Higher levels of depression may be an indicator worse patient care.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Coosa Valley Health and Rehab, 91.17% of Patients
This is the percentage of patients who were given the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be standard at this point.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Coosa Valley Health and Rehab, 13.58% Percentage of Patients
This tells you the percent of patients who required additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. High levels of dependence on staff for assistance with activities of daily living may indicate the erosion of a resident's health.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Coosa Valley Health and Rehab, 14.98% Percentage of Residents
This is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay patients who retained mobility levels.
Hospitalizations
In Coosa Valley Health and Rehab, 1.81 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This indicates the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of patient care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Coosa Valley Health and Rehab, 14.98 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
This metric is a measure of the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term patient care. Avoiding rehospitalizations during rehabilitation is important to restoring the physical well-being of patients.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Coosa Valley Health and Rehab, 10.28 Percentage of Patients
This indicates the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term care. There is typically a correlation between staying out of the emergency room and the overall quality of short-term care.
Nearby Hospitals
- Gadsden Regional Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 4.55 miles away1007 Goodyear Avenue Gadsden Alabama 35903Proprietary(256) 494-4000
- Riverview Regional Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 5.75 miles away600 South Third Street Gadsden Alabama 35901Proprietary(256) 543-5200
Nearby Dialysis
- Rtc-Southeast, Lp4.5 miles away300 Medical Center Drive Suite 100 Gadsden Alabama 35903Dialysis Stations: 10 (256) 492-4970
- Fresenius Kidney Care Gadsden Acq, LLC4.76 miles away800 Goodyear Avenue Gadsden Alabama 35903CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 22 (256) 456-1242
- Fresenius Medical Care Coosa River, LLC5.77 miles away708 S 4th St Gadsden Alabama 35901Dialysis Stations: 10 (256) 439-5948
- Gadsden Dialysis5.82 miles away409 South First Street Gadsden Alabama 35901Dialysis Stations: 24 (256) 547-2457
- Rainbow City Dialysis7.1 miles away2800 Rainbow Drive Rainbow City Alabama 35906Dialysis Stations: 16 (256) 413-3245
- Fresenius Kidney Care Attalla, LLC10.4 miles away801 Gilbert Ferry Rd Se Attalla Alabama 35954Dialysis Stations: 10 (256) 691-0766
- Rai Jacksonville14.43 miles away331 Henry Rd, s.w. Jacksonville Alabama 36265Dialysis Stations: 16 (256) 435-3161
- Cherokee Community Dialysis, LLC19.22 miles away485 Northwood Drive Centre Alabama 35960Dialysis Stations: 9 (256) 266-1471