Regency Health Care and Rehabilitation Center is in Huntsville, Alabama, a city with a total of 190,178 people. This nursing home turns out to be an A+ rated facility, which is the very best grade. We flat out can't say enough favorable things about this facility. Keep reading to see this facility's category ratings, which also impressed us. You just can't do much better than a straight A profile.
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Regency Health Care and Rehabilitation Center
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- Memory Care
Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Lata
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- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Corporation
- Offers Hospice
- Offers Post-Acute Care
- Offers Respite Care
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Medication Management
- Home Making
- Speech Therapy
- Stroke Recovery
- Amputee Recovery
- IV Antibiotic Therapy
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Cardiac Therapy
- Podiatry
- Mental Health
- Diabetes Management
- Physical Therapy
- Respiratory Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Recreational Therapy
- Pain Management
- Orthopedic Rehabilitation
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Long-term Care Quality
We also found that this facility excelled in long-term care. We awarded them an impressive grade of A+ in this category. Long-term care grades in this range generally require both 24/7 care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine medical care. After considering the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination statistics. This facility vaccinated 88.42105 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which happens to be slightly below what we expected but still a respectable percentage. Although its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we like to see, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0.03 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.
Facility Inspections
This facility has also received near flawless health inspections in recent years. We awarded them an impressive grade of A+ in this category. These inspection grades weigh several factors, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can find more information about each of these factors by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Unfortunately, it doesn't appear that we have deficiency data for this facility. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
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Short-term Care Quality
Turning the page to our third area, this nursing home received a strong short-term care grade. In fact, we gave it a grade of A in this area. Our short-term care scores are critical for patients seeking rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically utilizes higher levels of highly-skilled nursing. Skilled nursing means a vast range of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. We weren't able to find registered nurse or physical therapy staffing data for this facility. The final item we considered in this category is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We found that 6.8 percent of this facility's residents returned home.
Nurse Quality
Moving on to our last category, this facility also performed admirably in our nursing category. In fact, we awarded it an A- in this category. This rounded out truly elite report card. The nursing score considers a host of factors. The most important variable is the number of hours nurses spent with residents. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality measures and this facility excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any place the nation in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can often be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as having a protocol of turning patients more frequently.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Regency Health Care and Rehabilitation Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Regency Health Care and Rehabilitation Center, 5% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This is the percent of residents who suffered from a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are skin damage due to remaining in the same position for an excessive period of time.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Regency Health Care and Rehabilitation Center, 4.21% of Patients had Serious Falls
This is the percent of patients that sustained a major fall. Falls resulting in severe injuries are considered by many in the nursing home industry to be an indicator of nursing care at a nursing home. Major falls which result in injury are routinely caused by lower levels of patient supervision.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Regency Health Care and Rehabilitation Center, 3.93% of Patients had UTIs
This tells you the percent of residents that suffered from a urinary tract infection. Urinary tract infections are often linked to facilities with lower levels of hygiene. Better nursing care can reduce the number likelihood of residents sustaining infections. We want to point out that this metric is affected by by the fact that facilities have varying reporting standards for infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Regency Health Care and Rehabilitation Center, 16.32% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This indicates the percent of residents prescribed antipsychotic drugs. While antipsychotic drugs may be helpful for many patients, it is important to make sure these drugs are being used only where medically required. In some situations, excessive reliance on these medications may suggest that a facility is using these drugs to control patient behavior.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Regency Health Care and Rehabilitation Center, 16.67% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This tells you the percentage of long-term care residents taking antianxiety medications.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Regency Health Care and Rehabilitation Center, 0% of Patients
This indicates the percent of residents who are showing depressive symptoms.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Regency Health Care and Rehabilitation Center, 89.67% of Patients
This indicates the percent of patients who were administered the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be standard at this point.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Regency Health Care and Rehabilitation Center, 4.79% of Patients
This is the percent of patients who required more assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of dependence on staff for assistance with ADL's may be a sign of erosion of a patient's health.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Regency Health Care and Rehabilitation Center, 11.38% of Residents
This metric tracks the percentage of long-term residents who maintained mobility.
Hospitalizations
In Regency Health Care and Rehabilitation Center, 0.03 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This tells you the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of patient care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Regency Health Care and Rehabilitation Center, 11.38% of Residents Rehospitalized
This is the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term patient care. There is generally a correlation between staying out of the hospital and a nursing home's quality of short-term rehabilitation.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Regency Health Care and Rehabilitation Center, 15.66% of Patients
This metric is a measure of the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Regency Health Care and Rehabilitation Center, 86.35% of Resident
This metric is a measure of the percentage of short-term care patients who experienced functional improvements.
Scores for Huntsville, AL
- Overall Rating has a grade of B-plus
- Nurse Rating has a grade of B-plus
- Long-term Care Rating has a grade of B-plus
- Short-term Care Rating has a grade of B-plus
- Inspection Rating has a grade of A-minus
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Nearby Dialysis
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