Hendrix Health and Rehabilitation

Nursing Home

Updated Sep 1, 2022 by Nick Reese

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Hendrix Health and Rehabilitation's website

1000 Highway 33,
Double Springs AL 35553

(205) 489-2136

97.27% estimated occupancy ¹

Hendrix Health and Rehabilitation is a facility in Double Springs, Alabama. The city has 4,680 people. This nursing home was awarded an A- overall, which is one of our better scores. We were so impressed with this nursing home that we ranked it in the top third of all nursing homes in the country. The best aspect of this facility's strong profile was its inspection rating. Inspection grades are discussed in the next section

Quick Details

Accepts Medicare ¹
Accepts Medicaid ¹
No CCRC
Has Resident Council
No Family Council
For profit - Corporation
Offers Post-Acute Care
Offers Inpatient Rehab

Specialized Services

Personal Care
Home Making
Speech Therapy
Stroke Recovery
Amputee Recovery
IV Antibiotic Therapy
Palliative Care
Wound Care
Occupational Therapy
Cardiac Therapy
Physical Therapy
Respiratory Therapy
Nutritional Counseling
Pharmacy
Pain Management
Audiology
Orthopedic Rehabilitation

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Facility Inspections

To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for our inspections rating. These inspection scores take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can find more information about each of these factors by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this place had some deficiencies on its report, none were serious based on CMS' deficiency scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Nurse Quality

This nursing home also received a very impressive nursing grade. In fact, this turned out to be its second best category grade. In that area, we awarded this facility a grade of A-. Nursing scores are mostly based on the facility's level of nurse staffing. This facility provided 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality-based metrics and this nursing home 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 often be avoided by providing better nursing care, such as by having a system of turning patients more frequently.

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Long-term Care Quality

Adding to its high-end profile, this nursing home also was given a superb long-term care grade, with a grade of A-. Facilities that do well in this category typically provide residents with closer supervision and stay on top of routine medical care. In addition to looking at the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility provided the vaccine to 99.45355 percent of its patients, which is an impressive figure. Pneumonia is often a deadly condition for nursing home patients so we like it when a facility does not leave this to chance. Finally, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

Short-term Care Quality

The final category we graded is short-term care, where this facility was given a C. Although this proved to be its poorest category score, this is nevertheless not a major area of concern. In calculating our short-term care grades, we analyze a nursing home's levels of highly skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other highly skilled individuals. This score is frequently a useful measure of a facility's rehabilitation services. It does not look like this nursing home submitted information about its staffing of registered nurses or physical therapists. The final measure we looked at in this area is the percentage of residents who eventually returned home from the facility. We found that just 3.7 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

Hendrix Health and Rehabilitation Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

In Hendrix Health and Rehabilitation, 9.23% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This indicates the percent of residents who sustained a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are damage to the skin resulting from remaining in the same position for too long.

Minimizes Serious Falls

In Hendrix Health and Rehabilitation, 3.48% of Patients had Serious Falls

This statistic measures the percentage of long-term patients who experienced a fall leading to serious injury. We use this statistic in determining nursing ratings.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

In Hendrix Health and Rehabilitation, 3.13% of Patients had UTIs

This indicates the percentage of residents who have had a urinary tract infection. These infections are sometimes associated with insufficient hygiene.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

In Hendrix Health and Rehabilitation, 19.45% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This indicates the percent of residents prescribed antipsychotic drugs. Antipsychotic drugs are administered to residents for many medical conditions, such as Alzheimer's or other dementias. Unfortunately, in some situations, high levels of antipsychotic drug use may mean a nursing home is using these medications to control patient behavior.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

In Hendrix Health and Rehabilitation, 23.11% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This is the percentage of patients who were prescribed antianxiety medications. Antianxiety medications are given to residents suffering from depression and anxiety.

Managing Depression Among Residents

In Hendrix Health and Rehabilitation, 1.27% of Patients

This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term stay residents showing symptoms of depression. Some believe that this is a measure of resident quality of life.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

In Hendrix Health and Rehabilitation, 92.58% of Patients

This indicates the percent of patients that were administered the pneumonia and flu vaccines. High vaccination rates should be demanded by residents.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

In Hendrix Health and Rehabilitation, 12.92% Percentage of Patients

This datapoint measures the percent of long-term stay residents who required more assistance with activities of daily living over time. Activities of daily living include activities such as taking medications and bathing.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

In Hendrix Health and Rehabilitation, 15.91% Percentage of Residents

This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term patients that remained mobile levels. Many argue that mobility is critical to patients mental and physical health.

Hospitalizations

In Hendrix Health and Rehabilitation, 1.62 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days

This is the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of care.

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

In Hendrix Health and Rehabilitation, 15.91 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized

This metric tracks the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term resident care.

Short-term Care: ER Visits

In Hendrix Health and Rehabilitation, 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 patient care.

Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement

In Hendrix Health and Rehabilitation, 73.73% Percentage of Resident

This is the percentage of short-term stay residents who experienced functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living.

Nearby Hospitals

Lakeland Community HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 11.75 miles away42024 Highway 195 E Haleyville Alabama 35565Voluntary non-profit - Church(205) 485-7117