Village at Cook Springs Skilled Nursing Facility
415 Cook Springs, Pell City AL 35125 · (205) 338-2221 · 80.89% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Reese
Village at Cook Springs Skilled Nursing Facility is a large non-profit facility in Pell City, Alabama. We awarded this facility an overall grade of D. A grade in this range typically suggests a few red flags. If you are not satisfied with this facility's low overall grade, you may find you have slim pickings in Pell City. The city has just two other nursing homes. The best thing we can really say about this facility is that it did not receive any F's in in any of the major categories. More information about these categories can be found below.
Additional Details:
Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 168 Beds
CCRC :
Non profit - Corporation
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Family Council:
Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Nurse Quality
While we were not high on this facility overall, we gave it a B- for our nursing rating. This is more respectable than the facility's overall grade. In determining our nursing ratings, we look at both staffing levels and the skill levels of those nurses. This place provides an impressive 4 hours of nursing care per patient each day. Lastly, we also assessed several nursing quality measures and this place excelled in some of these metrics. With less than five percent of its patients suffering from pressure ulcers, it fared well in this subcategory.
Short-term Care Quality
This nursing home's next best area was its short-term care score, where it was given a grade of B-. In calculating these short-term care ratings, we assess the facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, respiratory therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. Our goal is to create a barometer for sizing up the rehabilitation services of nursing homes. 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 datapoint we considered in this category is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. It performed much better in this metric. In fact, we found it was above average in this metric with 51.5 percent of its patients returning home.
Long-term Care Quality
The third highest category we awarded this facility in any category came in the area of long-term care, where we awarded it a grade of B-. Our long-term care grades are based in part on a nursing home's amount of care. This means a broad scope of personal care services, ranging from assistance with activities of daily living to routine medical services. This facility's vaccination records weren't as favorable a few of the other datapoints in this category, such as its number of nursing hours per resident. It administered the pneumonia vaccine to just 65.97745 percent of its residents. We'd like to see some improvement in this area in the future. Unfortunately, this place's hospitalization rate was worse than we hoped. Here we found that this facility had 2.18 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. Although this figure is somewhat concerning, this number may be skewed for some facilities due to the medical complexity of residents
Facility Inspections
In the last category of inspections, this ended up being this facility's weakest link. Inspection scores are based on a facility's recent government inspections. We gave this nursing home just a D in this category, which is a very weak grade. Our inspection ratings account for a host of factors found on a nursing home's inspection reports. Generally, you should be most cautious when considering a nursing home with severe deficiencies on its inspection reports. Tragically, this facility had multiple category J through L deficiencies. This indicates widespread deficiencies placing patient safety or health in immediate jeopardy. These deficiencies are very damaging to a facility's inspection rating. In addition to having severe deficiencies, this nursing home was cited by CMS for possible abuse or neglect. This is generally a really bad sign. We would never recommend this facility.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Village at Cook Springs Skilled Nursing Facility Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This datapoint tells you the percent of long-term stay residents that are suffering from pressure ulcers. We find that pressure ulcers are a great barometer of the quality of nursing care a nursing home provides.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This indicates the percentage of patients who have had a fall resulting in serious injury.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This is a measure of the percent of long-term residents who have had urinary tract infections. While a higher rate of these infections could reflect poorly on a nursing home's cleanliness, it can be problematic to compare between nursing homes due to nursing homes having inconsistent reporting standards.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This metric gauges the percent of long-term patients which were administered antipsychotic medication. Increased usage of these drugs may mean a facility is using these drugs to subdue residents in situations where such medications aren't medically required. However, some facilities may need to rely more on these drugs due to an increased number of residents with Alzheimer's or other dementias.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This tells you the percentage of residents who were prescribed antianxiety medications. Antianxiety medications are administered to patients experiencing depression and anxiety.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This tells you the percent of patients showing signs of depression. High rates of depression could reveal a lower level of care.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This is the percent of patients that were administered the flu and pneumonia vaccines. High vaccination rates should be demanded by residents.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This datapoint measures the percent of long-term residents who required increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. Activities of daily living include activities such as moving around and taking a bath. Some believe that this is a reliable measure of a resident's well-being.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This tells you the percentage of patients that maintained mobility over time. Optimizing mobility can be a great sign for residents' well-being.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This is a measure of the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of patient care. Avoiding the hospital is important to maintaining the physical well-being of nursing home patients.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This tells you the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term care.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This metric tracks the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This indicates the percentage of short-term residents who saw functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better