Eastview Rehabilitation & Healthcare Center
7755 Fourth Avenue South, Birmingham AL 35206 · (205) 833-0146 · 90% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Sara Levinsohn
Eastview Rehabilitation & Healthcare Center is located in Birmingham, Alabama. The city provides a variety of available nursing homes. Featuring an overall rating of B+, this nursing home should work for most prospective residents. We were pleased to find out that this matched the average grade of nursing homes in Birmingham, which is one of the better cities in Alabama to find a nursing home. The best part of this facility's strong profile is its inspection grade. We discuss inspections in the next paragraph
Additional Details:
Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 92 Beds
CCRC :
For profit - Individual
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Family Council:
Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
In addition to being a first rate facility overall, this facility also performed well in our inspections category, where it earned an A+. Very few nursing homes fared this well in this category. Inspection grades account for several factors included in a nursing home's inspection report. One of the most important criteria we rely on is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Nursing homes with better grades in this category usually have very few of these severe deficiencies. This nursing home was hit with 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none were considered to be major deficiencies. This means that the inspectors didn't consider any of these deficiencies to create an immediate risk to resident health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
Long-term Care Quality
Among this facility's other achievements is its top-shelf long-term care grade. It received one of our more impressive grades in that area, with a grade of A-. Facilities that do well in this category typically provide residents with more supervision and stay on top of routine medical care. After considering the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination record. This nursing home vaccinated 98.006645 percent of its patients against pneumonia. Vaccines are critical to keeping residents healthy. This nursing home was also able to keep its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 1.46 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days.
Nurse Quality
Another one of this facility's impressive category grades came in the area of nursing care. We awarded them one of our better scores in that area, with a grade of B+. In calculating a nursing home's nursing rating, we look at the number of hours nurses are caring for residents and the skill levels of those nurses. This particular facility provided 3.9 hours of nursing care per patient per day, which was above average. Finally, this place also performed well in several of the quality-based metrics we assessed. By way of illustration, in terms of the number of its patients sustaining falls leading to serious injury, this place performed as well as any facility in the nation. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a nursing home has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can typically be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.
Short-term Care Quality
The last category we graded was nursing, ended up being this nursing home's worst area. We awarded this nursing home a grade of D in that category. This really is one of the few weak points of a strong profile. Our short-term care ratings are probably most meaningful for patients requiring rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation generally utilizes more skilled nursing. This includes not merely nursing services, but also physical and occupational therapy, as well as other types of therapy. Unfortunately, we discovered that this nursing home provides less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most facilities. Lastly, we considered the percentage of patients who ultimately were able to return home from this nursing home. This nursing home didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 25 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home. This figure was quite a bit off the national average.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Eastview Rehabilitation & Healthcare Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This figure indicates the percentage of long-term stay patients that have new or worsened pressure ulcers . We consider this statistic when determining our nursing grades.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This indicates the percentage of residents that suffered from a fall resulting in severe injury.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This indicates the percent of patients that sustained a urinary tract infection. These infections may be associated with poorer hygiene.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay residents who were given antipsychotic drugs. Excessive reliance on these medications may mean a facility is using these drugs to subdue residents in situations where such medications aren't medically indicated. However, some nursing homes need to rely on these drugs due to an increased number of patients suffering from dementia.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This is the percent of patients who were prescribed antianxiety medications. Antianxiety drugs are given to patients suffering from anxiety or depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This is a measure of the percentage of long-term care patients who are exhibiting signs of depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This tells you the percent of residents who received the pneumonia and flu vaccines. High vaccination rates should be demanded by residents.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This is the percent of patients that required more assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of needing for assistance with ADL's may be a sign of the erosion of a resident's medical condition.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term stay residents that retained mobility levels.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
Measures the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of patient care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
Measures the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term resident care.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This is a measure of the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
Measures the percent of short-term residents that experienced functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. Many believe this is a reasonable measure of a facility's rehabilitation performance.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better