With an address in Pell City, Alabama, Village at Cook Springs Skilled Nursing Facility is one of only three available nursing homes in this area. Sporting an overall grade of C, this is a decent nursing home. This place has some things working in its favor. You should also take a look at this nursing home's category grades below. We discuss long-term care in the next section.
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Village at Cook Springs Skilled Nursing Facility
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Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Lata
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- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- Is CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- Non profit - Corporation
- Secure Memory Care
- Offers Hospice
- Offers Post-Acute Care
- Offers Respite Care
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Medication Management
- Home Making
- Speech Therapy
- Dentistry
- Occupational Therapy
- Podiatry
- Physical Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Pharmacy
- Laboratory
- X-Ray
- Recreational Therapy
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Long-term Care Quality
We want point out that this facility's long-term care grade exceeded its overall score. This nursing home earned a grade of B in this area. Nursing homes that excel in this category typically provide residents with more supervision and stay on top of routine medical care. After considering the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination data. This facility vaccinated 96.052635 percent of its patients for pneumonia. Vaccines are critical to keeping patients healthy. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.
Facility Inspections
This nursing home actually received a solid inspection report this year as well, with few major dings from the applicable government inspectors. As a result, it earned one of our better grades in that category with a B-. We were surprised this nursing home received multiple category grades of this caliber. These inspection scores take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can find more information about each of these issues by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This particular nursing home received 6 deficiencies on its inspection report. Overall, this is still a solid inspection report, but we'd always recommend looking into any deficiencies you find troubling.
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Nurse Quality
This facility's next best category was its nursing grade, where it received a grade of B-. Our nursing rating focuses on the facility's level of nurse staffing. We weigh both the levels of training of those nurses as well as the number of hours spent with residents. This nursing home provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident daily. This figure is far below average. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this facility excelled in some of the quality-based metrics we looked at. It performed well when it comes to minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. Many consider these areas to be reliable indicators of the quality of nursing care. In some cases, the quality of nursing care is as important as the quantity of hours of care offered.
Short-term Care Quality
The next area we analyzed is short-term care. We awarded this nursing home a grade of B- in that area. Our short-term care grade is commonly employed to score a facility's performance with rehabilitation. To offer quality rehabilitation services, facilities generally must provide better levels of highly skilled nursing services. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other types of therapists. In this place's case, we were surprised to learn that it actually provides less registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than the average facility. The final measure we considered in this category is the percentage of residents who eventually returned home from the facility. We found that just 4.8 percent of this facility's patients returned home. Unfortunately, this was below average.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Village at Cook Springs Skilled Nursing Facility Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Village at Cook Springs Skilled Nursing Facility, 8.78% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This datapoint measures the percent of long-term residents which suffered from pressure ulcers. Many experts believe that pressure ulcers are a solid indicator of quality of care.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Village at Cook Springs Skilled Nursing Facility, 6.32% of Patients had Serious Falls
This is the percent of residents who sustained a major fall. Falls leading to major injury are considered by many experts to be a measure of nursing care at a nursing home. Falls are often the result of lower quality nursing care.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Village at Cook Springs Skilled Nursing Facility, 4.04% of Patients had UTIs
This statistic is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay residents which have sustained a UTI. UTI's may be a sign of a facility with worst hygiene practices. However, this statistic could be skewed for certain nursing homes due to inconsistent reporting standards for these infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Village at Cook Springs Skilled Nursing Facility, 20.6% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This metric gauges the percent of long-term stay patients receiving antipsychotic drugs. While antipsychotic medications serve an important medical purpose, it is important to make sure these medications are being used only where medically required. In some situations, increased usage of these drugs may mean that a nursing home is using these medications to control patient behavior.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Village at Cook Springs Skilled Nursing Facility, 23.21% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This datapoint gauges the percentage of long-term patients that are given antianxiety medication. These medications are typically given to patients suffering from anxiety or depression.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Village at Cook Springs Skilled Nursing Facility, 0% of Patients
This is the percent of patients who are demonstrating depressive symptoms.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Village at Cook Springs Skilled Nursing Facility, 97.05% of Patients
This is a measure of the percentage of long-term residents who received the flu and pneumonia vaccines.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Village at Cook Springs Skilled Nursing Facility, 10.32% of Patients
This metric measures the percent of long-term stay residents that needed increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as taking medications and eating.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Village at Cook Springs Skilled Nursing Facility, 9.69% of Residents
This indicates the percentage of residents who remained mobile levels over time. Preserving mobility is usually a good sign for residents' health.
Hospitalizations
In Village at Cook Springs Skilled Nursing Facility, 0.02 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This metric is a measure of the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of patient care. Staying out of the hospital is critical to the physical health of nursing home residents.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Village at Cook Springs Skilled Nursing Facility, 9.69% of Residents Rehospitalized
This tells you the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term care. There is a correlation between reduced hospitalizations and a nursing homes short-term rehabilitation performance.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Village at Cook Springs Skilled Nursing Facility, 7.69% of Patients
This is the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Village at Cook Springs Skilled Nursing Facility, 78.25% of Resident
This is a measure of the percent of short-term stay patients who experienced functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. Many in the industry believe that this is a reliable measure of rehabilitation services.
Nearby Hospitals
- St Vincent's St ClairAcute Care Hospitals 5.6 miles away7063 Veterans Parkway Pell City Alabama 35125Voluntary non-profit - Private(205) 338-3301
- St Vincent's EastAcute Care Hospitals 15.41 miles away50 Medical Park East Drive Birmingham Alabama 35235Voluntary non-profit - Private(205) 838-3122
Nearby Dialysis
- Dci Pell City4.71 miles away62 Cogswell Drive Pell City Alabama 35125Dialysis Stations: 15 (205) 884-4240
- Nna of Alabama, Inc5.99 miles away7067 Veterans Pkwy Suite 120 Pell City Alabama 35125Dialysis Stations: 13 (205) 338-4515
- Leeds Dialysis7.72 miles away1650 Maxey Drive Leeds Alabama 35094Dialysis Stations: 10 (205) 699-5383
- Renal Treatment Centers Southeast, Lp12.27 miles away218 Main Street Suite 114 & 118 Trussville Alabama 35173Dialysis Stations: 16 (205) 655-0871
- Renal Treatment Centers Southeast Lp13.17 miles away40 Purple Heart Blvd Springville Alabama 35146Dialysis Stations: 10 (205) 467-6811
- Fresenius Medical Care Trussville, LLC13.71 miles away3671 Roosevelt Blvd Birmingham Alabama 35235Dialysis Stations: 20 (205) 655-0961
- Birmingham East Dialysis16.3 miles away1105 East Park Drive Birmingham Alabama 35235CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 20 (205) 833-6003
- Davita Center Point Dialysis16.8 miles away2337 1st St Ne Birmingham Alabama 35215Dialysis Stations: 16 (205) 520-1108