Folsom Center for Rehabilitation and Healthcare is located in Cullman, Alabama. This city has 41,993 people. Featuring an overall score of A+, this facility is among the top facilities we looked at. We were not surprised to discover that this turned out to be the top nursing home in the city. If you scroll down, you will see this place's category scores, which appear to be equally strong as its overall score.
Folsom Center for Rehabilitation and Healthcare
- Nursing Home
Updated Sep 1, 2022 by Nick Reese
Grade: A-plus
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- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- Has Family Council
- For profit - Corporation
- Offers Hospice
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Transportation
- Speech Therapy
- IV Antibiotic Therapy
- Dentistry
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Podiatry
- Physical Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Pharmacy
- Laboratory
- Recreational Therapy
- Pain Management
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Facility Inspections
Grade: A-plus
One of the many reasons this turned out to be a quality nursing home is that it received an A+ inspection grade. This is simply as good as it gets in this critical category. Arguably the most important factor we consider in determining our inspection ratings is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Places with better scores in this category most likely avoided the most severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. This facility was hit with 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered to be major deficiencies. This indicates that the inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
Nurse Quality
Grade: A
Adding to its strong resume, this facility also received an excellent nursing score, with a grade of A. There are numerous criteria included in this area. Many of the datapoints relate to the quantity and quality of nurse staffing. This facility provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality measures and this facility excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any place 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 by employing a system of moving residents more often.
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Short-term Care Quality
Grade: A
Contributing to its remarkable assessment, this facility also received a superb short-term care score, with a score of A. In calculating our short-term care scores, we assess a facility's levels of highly skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other highly trained professionals. This score is often a meaningful measure of the facility's rehabilitation. Fortunately, it looks like this facility employs registered nurses. Not every facility employs these types of nurses. However, based on the data they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Finally, we looked at the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 6.1 percent of this facility's residents returned home.
Long-term Care Quality
Grade: A
In the final category we assessed, this facility was given an impressive grade grade of A in our long-term care category. With this score, the nursing home completed a straight A profile. Facilities that excel in this category tend to be well-staffed and offer extensive hands on care to patients. Once we concluded our assessment of the amount of care provided by nurses, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination statistics. This facility vaccinated 100 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which is very impressive. Pneumonia is often a life threatening condition for nursing home residents so we prefer when a nursing home doesn't roll the dice on this issue. Lastly, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Folsom Center for Rehabilitation and Healthcare Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
Grade: A-minus
In Folsom Center for Rehabilitation and Healthcare, 9.23% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This is the percent of patients who have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers, which are also known as bed sores, are routinely caused by residents not being moved frequently enough. Better nursing protocols can reduce the percentage of residents in a nursing home who sustain pressure ulcers.
Minimizes Serious Falls
Grade: A-minus
In Folsom Center for Rehabilitation and Healthcare, 3.48% of Patients had Serious Falls
This figure is an indication of the percent of long-term care residents that have sustained a fall resulting in severe injury. This is one of the statistics we use in calculating nursing grades.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
Grade: D
In Folsom Center for Rehabilitation and Healthcare, 3.13% of Patients had UTIs
This indicates the percent of residents that suffered from a urinary tract infection. Urinary tract infections are often caused by poor nursing care. Additional nurse staffing reduces the number of UTI's sustained by residents in a nursing home. Note that this statistic is affected by by the fact that nursing homes have varying reporting standards for infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
Grade: B
In Folsom Center for Rehabilitation and Healthcare, 19.45% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This tells you the percent of residents who were given antipsychotic medications. These medications are used to treat a variety of medical conditions, such as dementia.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
Grade: D
In Folsom Center for Rehabilitation and Healthcare, 23.11% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This datapoint indicates the percentage of long-term care residents taking antianxiety medications.
Managing Depression Among Residents
Grade: B-minus
In Folsom Center for Rehabilitation and Healthcare, 1.27% of Patients
This indicates the percent of patients demonstrating depressive symptoms. Increased rates of depression may be an indicator lower quality care.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
Grade: B
In Folsom Center for Rehabilitation and Healthcare, 92.58% of Patients
Measures the percent of long-term care residents who have received the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be deadly for nursing home patients, making these types of vaccines critical to patient well-being.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
Grade: B-minus
In Folsom Center for Rehabilitation and Healthcare, 12.92% Percentage of Patients
This is a measure of the percent of long-term residents that needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time. Activities of daily living include activities such as moving around and eating. Some experts believe this is a measure of a resident's well-being.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
Grade: D
In Folsom Center for Rehabilitation and Healthcare, 15.91% Percentage of Residents
Measures the percent of long-term care residents who remained mobile levels. Many in the industry argue that mobility is important for patients physical and mental health.
Hospitalizations
Grade: A-minus
In Folsom Center for Rehabilitation and Healthcare, 1.62 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This is the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of patient care. There is typically a correlation between reduced hospitalizations and the quality of care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
Grade: A
In Folsom Center for Rehabilitation and Healthcare, 15.91 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
This indicates the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term care.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
Grade: A-minus
In Folsom Center for Rehabilitation and Healthcare, 11.46 Percentage of Patients
This tells you the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
Grade: F
In Folsom Center for Rehabilitation and Healthcare, 73.73% Percentage of Resident
This tells you the percentage of short-term care patients that saw functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. Higher levels of performance with ADL's typically correlates with better rehabilitation.
Nearby Hospitals
- Cullman Regional Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 2.35 miles away1912 Alabama Highway 157 Cullman Alabama 35058Government - Hospital District or Authority(256) 737-2000
Nearby Dialysis
- Dci Cullman1.12 miles away1734 Eva Road Ne Cullman Alabama 35055CMS Rating: 5 stars Dialysis Stations: 16 (256) 734-3055
- Renal Treatment Centers Southeast Lp1.85 miles away1830 Lee Ave Sw Suite B-D Cullman Alabama 35055Dialysis Stations: 10 (256) 736-9276
- Dialysis Clinic, Inc.2.48 miles away208 Broadway Dr Sw Cullman Alabama 35055Dialysis Stations: 10 (256) 737-8222
- Bio-Medical Applications of Alabama, Inc.6.56 miles away1850 Parkland Dr Ne Cullman Alabama 35058Dialysis Stations: 10 (256) 736-1051
