East Alabama Medical Center Skilled Nursing Facili is in Opelika, Alabama. This city has a total of 39,075 people. Sporting an overall rating of A+, this nursing home is one of the best nursing homes we found. In fact, this facility has the distinction of being one of the three best nursing homes in Alabama. This facility also received strong grades in each of the major categories. More information about these categories can be found below.
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East Alabama Medical Center Skilled Nursing Facili
- Nursing Home
Updated Apr 1, 2023 by Nick Lata
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- Accepts Medicare 1
- No Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- No Resident Council
- No Family Council
- Non profit - Other
- Offers Post-Acute Care
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
- Offers Outpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Speech Therapy
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Cardiac Therapy
- Mental Health
- Physical Therapy
- Respiratory Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Pharmacy
- Laboratory
- X-Ray
- Recreational Therapy
- Pain Management
- Optometry
- Oncology Care
- Orthopedic Rehabilitation
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Registered Staff Hours
Facility Inspections
In addition to faring well overall, this facility also received nearly flawless government inspections. As a result, it received one of our best scores in that area with an A+. Inspection ratings weigh several factors, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these factors by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Fortunately, although this facility had some minor dings on its inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means that the government inspectors didn't consider 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.
Short-term Care Quality
We also wanted to direct your attention to the fact that this facility performed well in our short-term care rating. We gave them an impressive grade of A+ in this category. In computing these short-term care ratings, we look at the facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. The goal is to formulate a scale for comparing the rehabilitation services of various nursing homes. Fortunately, it looks like this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not all nursing homes employs these skilled professionals. However, according to the data this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we looked at the number of patients who were able to return home from this facility. We found that 6.8 percent of this nursing home's residents were able to return home.
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Nurse Quality
To complement its strong performance in other areas, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for our inspections rating. The nursing grade weighs a handful of components, however, the main one is the level of nurse hours spent with patients. This nursing home provides 0.8 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This facility performed very well in terms of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.
Long-term Care Quality
In the last area, this facility also received a very strong long-term care rating, with a grade of A. This topped off a very impressive profile. For long-term care residents, the nursing home's primary objective is to keep patients healthy and safe. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate residents. One of the statistics we considered on top of nursing hours is vaccinations. Unfortunately, it does not appear that this nursing home submitted data regarding vaccinations. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
East Alabama Medical Center Skilled Nursing Facili Quality Metrics
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In East Alabama Medical Center Skilled Nursing Facili, 10.28 Percentage of Patients
This is the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term care. There is usually a correlation between staying out of the emergency room and the quality of nursing home care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In East Alabama Medical Center Skilled Nursing Facili, 76.71% Percentage of Resident
This indicates the percent of short-term patients that experienced functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. High levels of independence with activities of daily living typically correlates with superior rehabilitation.
Nearby Hospitals
- East Alabama Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 0 miles away2000 Pepperell Parkway Opelika Alabama 36801Government - Hospital District or Authority(334) 749-3411
Nearby Dialysis
- Opelika Dialysis Center0.58 miles away2340 Pepperell Pkwy Opelika Alabama 36801Dialysis Stations: 10 (334) 745-6883
- Fmc Opelika0.69 miles away2609 Village Professional Dr Ste 2 Opelika Alabama 36801CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 31 (334) 749-5085
- Fmc Auburn6.45 miles away211 E University Dr Auburn Alabama 36832CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 20 (334) 501-8890
- Fmc Chambers16.92 miles away802 Hospital Street Lafayette Alabama 36862Dialysis Stations: 10 (334) 864-9914
- Fmc Langdale19.02 miles away8 Medical Park Valley Alabama 36854CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 19 (334) 756-4192