Fairview at Redstone Village is a small facility in Huntsville, Alabama. Sporting an overall rating of A, this nursing home is one of the top nursing homes we assessed. We could not find many negative things to say about this facility. Its scores are just impeccable. Scroll down to find this facility's category grades, which also impressed us. You really can't do much better than a straight A profile.
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Fairview at Redstone Village
- Nursing Home
- Independent Living
- Assisted Living
- Memory Care
Updated Apr 1, 2023 by Nick Lata
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- Accepts Medicare 1
- No Medicaid 1
- Is CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Individual
- Secure Memory Care
- Offers Hospice
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Medication Management
- Home Making
- Transportation
- Medical Transportation
- Speech Therapy
- Stroke Recovery
- Amputee Recovery
- Occupational Therapy
- Physical Therapy
- Respiratory Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Recreational Therapy
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Registered Staff Hours
Facility Inspections
In addition to faring well overall, this nursing home earned a nearly flawless inspection report. Consequently, it earned one of our best scores in that area with an A+. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in determining our inspection grades. One of those factors is deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of the deficiencies is usually more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some are quite insignificant. This place received 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe deficiencies. This tells you that the inspectors didn't deem any of these deficiencies to create an immediate threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
Long-term Care Quality
This nursing home also was awarded a very strong long-term care score. Indeed, this ended up being this facility's second most impressive category score. In that area, we awarded this facility a score of A. When facilities receive this type of score in this category it is typically a good sign for patient care and suggests that the nursing home is well-staffed with nurses and aids. On top of assessing the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home gave the vaccine to 100 percent of its patients, which is far higher than the majority of nursing homes. Lastly, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.
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Short-term Care Quality
Turning the page to our next category, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A- for its short-term care grade. This is a very impressive rating. Our short-term care grade is often employed to judge a nursing home's rehabilitation services In order to provide quality rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally need to offer higher levels of skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other types of therapists. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. However, based on the data they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Lastly, we considered the percentage of patients that were able to return home from this nursing home. We found that 5.3 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.
Nurse Quality
In the final category, this nursing home also received an excellent nursing grade, with an A-. This finished off a rare straight A report card. Our nursing rating assesses quite a few subcategories, however, the paramount one is the level of nurse hours per patient per week. This particular nursing home provided 0.5 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 place has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can typically be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Fairview at Redstone Village Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Fairview at Redstone Village, 9.43% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This is the percentage of residents that suffered from a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are damage to the skin resulting from staying in one position for an excessive period of time.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Fairview at Redstone Village, 3.42% of Patients had Serious Falls
This datapoint is a measure of the percent of long-term residents who have suffered a fall resulting in serious injury. We use this statistic in calculating nursing grades.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Fairview at Redstone Village, 3.36% of Patients had UTIs
This is the percentage of patients that sustained a urinary tract infection. These infections may be linked to inadequate hygiene.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Fairview at Redstone Village, 19.38% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This metric is an indication of the percent of long-term stay patients receiving antipsychotic drugs. While antipsychotic drugs play an important role in caring for many residents, it is important to make sure these medications are being used only where medically required. In limited situations, excessive reliance on these medications may suggest that a nursing home is using these drugs to control patient behavior.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Fairview at Redstone Village, 23.22% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This is the percent of patients who were prescribed antianxiety medications. Antianxiety drugs are prescribed to patients experiencing anxiety and depression.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Fairview at Redstone Village, 1.24% of Patients
This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay residents demonstrating signs of depression.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Fairview at Redstone Village, 91.17% of Patients
This datapoint is a measure of the percent of long-term care patients who were vaccinated against pneumonia and flu.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Fairview at Redstone Village, 13.58% Percentage of Patients
Measures the percentage of long-term care patients that needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as dressing and bathing. Many believe this is a reasonable measure of a patient's well-being.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Fairview at Redstone Village, 14.98% Percentage of Residents
This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay residents that retained mobility levels. Many would argue that the ability to move around is critical to residents' physical and mental health.
Hospitalizations
In Fairview at Redstone Village, 1.81 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This tells you the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of patient care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Fairview at Redstone Village, 14.98 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
This is the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term care.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Fairview at Redstone Village, 10.28 Percentage of Patients
This indicates the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Fairview at Redstone Village, 76.71% Percentage of Resident
This is the percentage of short-term care residents that experienced functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. High levels of autonomy with activities of daily living generally correlates with better rehabilitation.
Scores for Huntsville, AL
- Overall Rating has a grade of B
- Nurse Rating has a grade of B-plus
- Long-term Care Rating has a grade of B-plus
- Short-term Care Rating has a grade of B
- Inspection Rating has a grade of B-plus
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