Meadowview Nursing Center

Meadowview Nursing Center is a small nursing home located in Pell City, Alabama. We gave this facility an overall grade of B. A grade in this range requires quality marks in most areas. You can certainly do much worse than this place. We were also pleased to find that this nursing home didn't have any poor grades in any of the major categories. Additional information about these categories is available below.

In addition to receiving a strong overall score, this nursing home performed even better in the area of inspections which is associated with the facility's recent inspections. We awarded it an A+ for that area, which is one of our highest grades. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in computing these inspection scores. One of those factors is deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of these deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the quantity of deficiencies, as some are relatively insignificant. Although this place had a few deficiencies on its government inspection report, none of them were serious based on CMS' scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Among the reasons we rated this facility so favorably is that it received a dominant long-term care grade. In fact, long-term care turned out to be its second most favorable category score. In that category, we gave this facility a score of A. If you are looking for anything other than short-term rehabilitation, you should take a close look at long-term care ratings. This nursing home's vaccination records weren't as favorable as its nursing hours. This facility administered the pneumonia vaccine to just 67.00508 percent of its patients. We'd like to see some improvement herein this statistic in the future. Although its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we had hoped, at least this place was able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

Turning to the category of nursing care, this facility didn't perform quite as well in this area as some of the categories discussed above. Nevertheless, a grade of B- in this category is by no means a bad score. The nursing rating weighs many factors, most of which are tied to nursing hours. According to CMS records, this place averaged 4 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. Keep in mind that when we compute our nursing scores, we apply more weight to hours performed by nurses with a higher level of skill. Lastly, our nursing grades also factor in some quality-focused statistics. Specifically, we look at the percent of residents who sustained pressure ulcers and major falls. We look at these metrics as predictive indicators of the quality of nursing care, since better care tends to reduce these problems.

Our final area is short-term care, in which we awarded this nursing home a C in this area. In our short-term care grade, we attempt to create a valuable barometer for rehabilitation. In this process, we assess the facility's levels of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as respiratory therapy. This nursing home employs both physical therapists and registered nurses. Not all facilities employ these skilled professionals. The final datapoint we looked at in this category is the number of residents who returned home from the facility. We found that it fared respectably with 47.1 percent of its residents returning home.