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Merry Wood Lodge Care and Rehabilitation Center

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Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Reese

Historical Rating
Grade: B
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P O Box 130,
Elmore AL 36025

(334) 567-8484

77.98% estimated occupancy 1

Merry Wood Lodge Care and Rehabilitation Center is located in Elmore, Alabama. This city has 5,729 people. We gave this nursing home an overall grade of B. A grade of this caliber requires solid scores in most areas. You could definitely do much worse than this place. The best aspect of this facility's impressive profile was its inspection reports. Inspection grades are discussed in the next section

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Quick Details

  • Accepts Medicare 1
  • Accepts Medicaid 1
  • No CCRC
  • Has Resident Council
  • No Family Council
  • For profit - Corporation
  • Offers Hospice
  • Offers Respite Care
  • Offers Inpatient Rehab

Specialized Services

  • Personal Care
  • Medication Management
  • Home Making
  • Speech Therapy
  • IV Antibiotic Therapy
  • Palliative Care
  • Wound Care
  • Occupational Therapy
  • Podiatry
  • Physical Therapy
  • Nutritional Counseling
  • X-Ray
  • Recreational Therapy
  • Pain Management
  • Colostomy Care
  • Orthopedic Rehabilitation

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Facility Inspections

Grade: A-plus

One of the reasons this turned out to be a strong facility is that it received an impressive inspection grade. In fact, inspections turned out to be its best category. In this area, we gave it an A+. These inspection grades weigh several factors, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these issues by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This place received 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were considered to be major deficiencies. This tells you that the government inspectors didn't deem any of these deficiencies to pose an immediate risk to resident safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Long-term Care Quality

Grade: B-plus

Contributing to its profile, this facility also earned a grade of B+ for its long-term care rating. This is an above average grade in this area. Long-term care scores in this range generally require both around the clock care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine healthcare services. After considering the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we next considered the facility's vaccination data. This nursing home vaccinated 88.7608 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is a bit less than we anticipated but still a reasonably acceptable figure. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

Nurse Quality

Grade: B-minus

Next, we looked at the nursing category where we awarded this nursing home a grade of B-. This facility didn't perform quite as well in this category as it did in some other categories. Nevertheless, this is still a respectable score. In calculating a nursing home's nursing score, we consider the amount of time nurses are caring for residents and the skill levels of those nurses. This place provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Finally, our nursing ratings also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. Despite not having the highest total nursing hours per resident, this place performed admirably in the area of preventing major falls. This is usually a good indicator that a facility has quality controls in place. Some falls could be avoided if a nursing home provides enough nurses aids to assist its patients.

Short-term Care Quality

Grade: D

The next category we looked at was short-term care, turned out to be this nursing home's weakest area. We awarded this nursing home a grade of D in that category. This was one of the couple of weak points on a very solid profile. In the area of short-term care, we attempt to qualify measures of a facility's rehabilitation services. We assess a nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as the ones performed by registered nurses and physical and occupational therapists. It looks like this facility was subpar in terms of its quantity of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its patients based on the measures we considered. Finally, we considered the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that just 4 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

FDCB-BB+A-AA+Oct 18Dec 23

Merry Wood Lodge Care and Rehabilitation Center Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

Grade: B

In Merry Wood Lodge Care and Rehabilitation Center, 6.97% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This indicates the percentage of residents who sustained a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are considered to be a measure of the quality of nursing care . Pressure ulcers, which are also called bed sores, are often the result of residents staying in one position for too long.

Minimizes Serious Falls

Grade: B-minus

In Merry Wood Lodge Care and Rehabilitation Center, 3.75% of Patients had Serious Falls

This figure is a measure of the percentage of long-term care patients that sustained falls which resulted in major injury. We use this statistic in calculating nursing ratings.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

Grade: B-plus

In Merry Wood Lodge Care and Rehabilitation Center, 1.2% of Patients had UTIs

This is the percent of patients who sustained a urinary tract infection. Urinary tract infections are considered by many in the nursing home industry to be a barometer of the quality of nursing care at a nursing home. UTI's are often the result of a facility with worst hygiene practices. Nevertheless, this metric could be misleading for some facilities due to inconsistent reporting standards for infections.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

Grade: B-minus

In Merry Wood Lodge Care and Rehabilitation Center, 17.19% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This statistic indicates the percentage of long-term residents which were administered antipsychotic medication. Excessive reliance on these medications may mean that a facility is using these medications to subdue residents in scenarios where such drugs aren't medically indicated. However, some facilities may need to rely more on these medications due to an increased number of residents with Alzheimer's or other dementias.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

Grade: B

In Merry Wood Lodge Care and Rehabilitation Center, 18.62% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term stay residents which are given antianxiety drugs. These drugs are generally used to treat patients experiencing anxiety and depression.

Managing Depression Among Residents

Grade: A+

In Merry Wood Lodge Care and Rehabilitation Center, 0% of Patients

Measures the percentage of long-term patients who are demonstrating symptoms of depression. Some argue that this is a reasonable measure of patient quality of life.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

Grade: B-minus

In Merry Wood Lodge Care and Rehabilitation Center, 94.38% of Patients

This tells you the percent of patients that were administered the flu and pneumonia vaccines. High vaccination rates should be the norm at this point.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

Grade: B-minus

In Merry Wood Lodge Care and Rehabilitation Center, 15.67% of Patients

This tells you the percentage of patients that required more assistance with activities of daily living over time. High levels of dependence on staff for assistance with ADL's may be a sign of erosion of a patient's medical condition.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

Grade: A

In Merry Wood Lodge Care and Rehabilitation Center, 26.37% of Residents

This is the percent of patients who retained mobility levels over time. Retaining mobility can be a good sign for residents' well-being.

Hospitalizations

Grade: A

In Merry Wood Lodge Care and Rehabilitation Center, 0.01 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days

This metric is a measure of the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of patient care.

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

Grade: D

In Merry Wood Lodge Care and Rehabilitation Center, 26.37% of Residents Rehospitalized

Measures the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.

Short-term Care: ER Visits

Grade: A-plus

In Merry Wood Lodge Care and Rehabilitation Center, 3.4% of Patients

This metric is a measure of the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term care. Staying out of the emergency room is one way to assess patient well-being during rehabilitation.

Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement

Grade: B-plus

In Merry Wood Lodge Care and Rehabilitation Center, 80.49% of Resident

This metric measures the percentage of short-term care residents who experienced functional improvements.

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Footnotes:

  1. https://www.medicare.gov/nursinghomecompare/profile.html#ID=015019