Diversicare of Winfield

We also wanted to emphasize that this nursing home has received near flawless health inspections in recent years. We awarded them an impressive grade of A+ in this category. Arguably the most important factor we consider in calculating our inspection scores is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's inspection reports. Places with better grades in this category most likely avoided the most severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. This place received 6 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe. This tells you that the inspectors didn't deem any of these deficiencies an imminent risk to resident safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Contributing to this nursing home's list of strengths, it also was awarded a top-shelf long-term care grade. We gave them a dominant strong of A- in this category. For prospective patients looking for a permanent place to live as opposed to rehabilitation, long-term care is a very important category. Once we concluded our assessment of the quantity of care provided by nurses, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination record. This facility vaccinated 91.556725 percent of its patients for pneumonia. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

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. There are a variety of factors included in this category. Many of these subcategories relate to the quantity and quality of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality measures and this nursing home excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any nursing home Alabama in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can generally be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as having a system of turning patients even once per day.

The last area we assessed is short-term care, which was a weak link for this nursing home. We awarded this nursing home a grade of D for the area of short-term care, making this its worst category grade. We would still suggest that you consider all of a facility's category grades. Short-term care scores are critical for people requiring rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically mandates additional skilled nursing. This includes a broad scope of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other types of therapy. Unfortunately, we found that this nursing home provided fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most other facilities. The last metric we considered in this area is the percentage of residents who eventually returned home from the facility. This facility struggled quite a bit in this area as well, with just 4.4 percent of its residents returning home.