Sylacauga Health and Rehab Services

Sylacauga Health and Rehab Services is a nursing home located in Sylacauga, Alabama, a city with a total of 26,104 people. This nursing home was awarded an overall grade of B, which is a quality grade. You can definitely do much worse than this place. Fortunately, this place didn't have any poor grades in any of the four major categories. Additional information about these categories can be found below.

One of the reasons this turned out to be a quality nursing home is that it earned a very impressive inspection grade. Inspections is its best category grade. In that area, we awarded it an A+. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in computing our inspection grades. One of those factors is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of the deficiencies is arguably more important than the number of deficiencies, as some are quite insignificant. Fortunately, although this facility had a few minor dings on its inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones labeled as categories G through L. This means CMS didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. The fact that none of the deficiencies were severe made us feel better about this inspection report.

This facility was awarded strong scores in the area of long-term care as well. Consequently, we awarded it one of our most superb grades in that area with a area of A-. Nursing homes that receive this kind of score in this category tend to provide consistent 24/7 care to ensure residents are well cared for. After looking at the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination data. This nursing home vaccinated 95.43726 percent of its residents against pneumonia. Vaccines are critical to keeping patients out of the hospital. Finally, we looked at the facility's number of hospitalizations. We found that this nursing home had 4.21 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. While this admittedly wasn't as strong as some of its other scores in this area, this number can be skewed for some facilities due to some of the preexisting medical conditions of patients.

In addition, this facility also received favorable nursing grades this year. In fact, we awarded them one of our better scores in that area, with a grade of B. Our nursing grade includes many components, however, the primary one is the quantity of nurse hours spent with patients. This facility provided 3.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at certain nursing quality-based metrics in computing our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We view these metrics as good indicators of the caliber of nursing care offered, since better care tends to reduce these problems.

The final area we graded was short-term care. We awarded this facility a C in that category. Our short-term care grade is often used to judge a nursing home's performance with rehabilitation. To offer good rehabilitation services, facilities generally must provide better levels of highly skilled nursing. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other highly skilled individuals. We were pleased to find that this nursing home employs both registered nurses and physical therapists. The same can't be said for all nursing homes. The last statistic we assessed in this area is the number of patients who who were able to eventually return home from the facility. We found that just 43.4 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.