Galleria Woods Skilled Nursing Facility is a small facility in Birmingham, Alabama. With an A overall grade, we ranked this nursing home in the top fifth of all facilities in the country. We simply can't say enough good things about this nursing home. As you can see below, this place performed equally well in our category scores. In fact, we gave it straight A's!
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Galleria Woods Skilled Nursing Facility
- Nursing Home
- Independent Living
- Assisted Living
Updated Nov 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 - Corporation
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Medication Management
- Home Making
- Transportation
- Medical Transportation
- Speech Therapy
- Stroke Recovery
- Occupational Therapy
- Cardiac Therapy
- Physical Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Recreational Therapy
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Facility Inspections
One of the reasons this ended up being a great nursing home is it received an impressive inspection grade. In fact, inspections turned out to be its best category. In that area, we gave this facility an A. Our inspection scores are based on several datapoints located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that excel in this category have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these facilities generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. While this place had a few deficiencies on its report, none of them were severe based on CMS' scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
Short-term Care Quality
Contributing to its impressive profile, this facility also excelled in our short-term care category. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A in the category. In the category of short-term care, we strive to assess measures of a nursing home's rehabilitation services. We look at a facility's skilled nursing services, such as the ones performed by registered nurses and physical and occupational therapists. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these types of nurses. However, according to the data this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Lastly, we assessed the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 5.7 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.
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Long-term Care Quality
This facility also was given a strong long-term care grade. This actually ended up being this nursing home's third strongest category score. In that area, we awarded this facility a grade of A-. When facilities receive a score in this range in this category it typically means it's well-staffed and is a quality place to live on a permanent basis. In addition to looking at the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility gave the vaccine to 98.92473 percent of its patients, which is what we like to see. Pneumonia is too frequently a dangerous condition for nursing home patients so we strongly prefer when a facility doesn't leave this to chance. Lastly, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.
Nurse Quality
The final category we scored was nursing, where this facility was given an A-. This completed a very strong report card. Only a select few facilities earned an A- or better in all four categories. Nursing ratings are based largely on levels of nurse staffing. This particular nursing home provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also looked at certain nursing quality measures in computing our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We view these areas as reliable measures of the quality of nursing care being provided, since better care tends to reduce these problems.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Galleria Woods Skilled Nursing Facility Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Galleria Woods Skilled Nursing Facility, 14.06% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This indicates the percentage of residents that suffered from a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are considered to be an indicator of nursing care at a nursing home. Pressure ulcers, which are also called bed sores, are routinely caused by patients staying in one position for too long.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Galleria Woods Skilled Nursing Facility, 3.23% of Patients had Serious Falls
This figure indicates the percentage of long-term stay residents who have had a fall resulting in serious injury. This is one of the statistics we use in determining nursing ratings.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Galleria Woods Skilled Nursing Facility, 2.22% of Patients had UTIs
This indicates the percentage of residents who sustained a urinary tract infection. These infections are linked to inadequate hygiene.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Galleria Woods Skilled Nursing Facility, 23.66% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This tells you the percent of residents prescribed antipsychotic drugs. While antipsychotic drugs may be vital to many patients, it is important to ensure these drugs are being used only where medically required. In limited situations, increased usage of these drugs may indicate that a facility is using these medications to subdue residents.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Galleria Woods Skilled Nursing Facility, 14.04% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This datapoint indicates the percentage of long-term stay patients receiving antianxiety drugs.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Galleria Woods Skilled Nursing Facility, 4.49% of Patients
This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term residents who are showing symptoms of depression. Some believe that this is a reasonable measure of resident quality of care.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Galleria Woods Skilled Nursing Facility, 99.46% of Patients
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term residents who were vaccinated against pneumonia and flu.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Galleria Woods Skilled Nursing Facility, 10.53% of Patients
This datapoint is a measure of the percent of long-term stay patients that required increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. Activities of daily living include activities such as taking medications and using the bathroom. Some would argue that this is a reasonable measure of a resident's well-being.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Galleria Woods Skilled Nursing Facility, 12.1% of Residents
This is a measure of the percent of long-term residents who retained mobility levels.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Galleria Woods Skilled Nursing Facility, 12.1% of Residents Rehospitalized
This datapoint is a measure of the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term patient care. Keeping residents out of the hospital during rehabilitation is critical to restoring the health of residents.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Galleria Woods Skilled Nursing Facility, 10.29% of Patients
This metric is a measure of the number of emergency room visits per 1,000 days of short-term care. Avoiding emergency medical situations is one way to measure short-term care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Galleria Woods Skilled Nursing Facility, 92.5% of Resident
This tells you the percentage of short-term stay residents that saw functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living.
Scores for Birmingham, AL
- Overall Rating has a grade of B-plus
- Nurse Rating has a grade of B
- 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 A
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