Russellville Health Care

With an address in Russellville, Alabama, Russellville Health Care is the sole nursing home we were able to find in the city. This turns out to be an A+ facility, which is our very best grade. In fact, we ranked this nursing home in the top ten percent of all nursing homes in the United States. If you look further down this page, you will see this nursing home's category scores, which are also impressive.

To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for its nursing grade. We scrutinized the qualifications of nurses employed by the facility, as well as the quantity of time those nurses spent with residents, in computing our grade in this category. This particular nursing home provided 4.9 hours of nursing care per resident per day, which was among the higher figures we found. Finally, this nursing home was also above average in each of the major quality-based metrics we assessed in this category. It performed well in terms of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls.

Adding to an already impressive profile, this facility also received virtually flawless health inspections in recent years. As a result, we awarded it an A+ inspection grade. Perhaps the most significant factor we consider in determining our inspection scores is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a facility's inspection reports. Places with better grades in this area typically dodged the more severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This nursing home also received a high-end long-term care grade. This actually turned out to be this nursing home's third strongest category score. In that area, we awarded this facility a score of A. Nursing homes that do well in long-term care typically are well-staffed and provide extensive hands on care to residents. One of the criteria we considered after this facility's impressive nursing hours was vaccines. This nursing home administered the pneumonia vaccination to 98.89503 percent of its patients. Vaccines are a great way to avoid unnecessary deaths for seniors. Finally, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0.93 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

Moving on to the final area, this nursing home was awarded a strong short-term care score. We gave it a grade of B+ in this category, finishing off one of our more favorable profiles. Short-term care ratings are based in part on the nursing home's quantity of highly-skilled highly skilled professionals. This means a broad range of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, not to mention other variations of therapy. This nursing home elevated its grade in this category by offering more care from registered nurses to its residents than the average facility. Finally, we looked at the percentage of patients that ultimately were able to return home from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.