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
Hendrix Health and Rehabilitation
- Nursing Home
Updated Sep 1, 2022 by Nick Reese
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
Registered Staff Hours
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