Cypress Cove Care Center

Cypress Cove Care Center is the only facility we found in Muscle Shoals, Alabama. It looks like this nursing home is ranked among the highest-rated nursing homes we found. Receiving an A+ in our rating system requires superb performance across the board. In fact, this nursing home has the prestigious distinction of being one of the top 25 nursing homes in Alabama. If you look below, you will see this facility's category grades, which look to be just as impressive as its overall grade.

On top of being a strong facility overall, it also received A+ government inspections in recent years. Its inspections were virtually perfect. Inspection ratings are based on items found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that score well in this category typically have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these facilities should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. Fortunately, although this place had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you the inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This facility also excelled in the area of nursing, where it received a grade of A. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. Our nursing rating is based on numerous factors. The most important one is the number of hours nurses spent with patients. This facility provided 3.3 hours of nursing care per patient per day. Roughly one-fourth of those hours were provided by registered nurses, which are among the most skilled levels of nurses. This is an impressive percentage of skilled nursing care. We weight these hours performed by skilled nurses more in determining our nursing scores. 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 avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

Contributing to its remarkable resume, this nursing home also received an excellent short-term care score, with a score of A. Our short-term care grades are likely most meaningful for patients requiring rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation usually requires additional highly-skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes not merely nursing services, but also physical and occupational therapy, as well as other types of therapy. When we assessed this facility's nursing hours, we found it offered substantially more care from registered nurses than most nursing homes. The final measure we looked at in this category is the number of residents who were able to leave the facility and return home. This place performed as well as just about any nursing home in Alabama in this area with 58.8 percent of its residents returning home. For most facilities, less than half of their short-stay residents are able to return home.

The last area we rated is long-term care, where this nursing home received an A. This wrapped up a first-rate report card. Few facilities earned an A- or better in every single category. Nursing homes that receive this kind of score in this category tend to provide consistent 24/7 care to ensure patients are well cared for. One of the statistics we considered after nursing hours was vaccinations. This nursing home administered the pneumonia vaccine to 98.02372 percent of its patients. Vaccination is a reliable method to minimize negative health outcomes for the senior population. The last datapoint we assessed was the nursing home's hospitalization rate. We found that this facility had 1.74 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is close to average in this area.