With an address in Huntsville, Alabama, Willowbrooke Center Skilled Care Center at Magnolia Trace is one of seven nursing homes in the area. We gave this facility an A- overall grade, ranking it in the top 25 percent of all nursing homes in the United States. We could not find many negative things to say about this place. Its ratings are as good as they get. As you will see below, this place also performed just fine in our category scores. It is hard to poke holes in this nursing home's profile.
Willowbrooke Center Skilled Care Center at Magnolia Trace
Updated May 1, 2022 by Nick Reese
One Crown Circle,
Huntsville AL 35802
46.44% estimated occupancy 1
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Facility Inspections
On top of performing well overall, this nursing home also earned a nearly flawless inspection report. As a result, it earned one of our highest scores in that category with a grade of A+. Our inspection ratings weigh a host of factors included in a facility's inspection reports. One of the most important criteria we look at is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Places with higher scores in this area tend to have very few severe deficiencies. Although this place had some deficiencies on its report, none were severe based on CMS' scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
Short-term Care Quality
Adding to its high-end profile, this facility also was awarded a superb short-term care score, with a score of A. Our short-term care grade is generally employed to judge a nursing home's performance with rehabilitation. In order to offer good rehabilitation services, facilities generally must have better levels of skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other licensed professionals. This nursing home provides more services with physical therapists and registered nurses than most nursing homes we looked at. This is usually a favorable sign. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that it outperformed the vast majority of facilities with 61.3 percent of its residents returning home. This is a significantly higher rate than most facilities.
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Long-term Care Quality
Turning to our next area, this facility also received a grade of B+ for its long-term care rating. This is an above average grade in this category. Facilities that do well in this category tend to be well-staffed and offer extensive hands on care to residents. One of the factors we considered on top of nursing hours is vaccines. This nursing home provided the pneumonia vaccine to 98.4127 percent of its patients. This is a reliable method to minimize unnecessary deaths for the nursing home population. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.
Nurse Quality
The final area we scored was nursing, where this nursing home received a B. Believe it or not, this was this facility's worst area. A nursing home could be doing a lot worse when their weakest grade still is superior to most facilities. Our nursing score analyzes the facility's level of nurse staffing. We weigh both the levels of skill of those nurses and the number of hours spent with patients. This nursing home averages 2.9 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also assessed certain nursing quality-based metrics in computing our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We look at these statistics as reliable indicators of the quality of nursing care provided, since better care tends to reduce these problems.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Willowbrooke Center Skilled Care Center at Magnolia Trace Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Willowbrooke Center Skilled Care Center at Magnolia Trace, 9.21% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This figure gauges the percent of long-term care residents who are suffering from pressure ulcers or bed sores. We bake this statistic into both nursing and long-term care grades.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Willowbrooke Center Skilled Care Center at Magnolia Trace, 3.5% of Patients had Serious Falls
This is the percentage of residents that sustained a fall resulting in severe injury.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Willowbrooke Center Skilled Care Center at Magnolia Trace, 3.27% of Patients had UTIs
This is the percent of patients that suffered from a urinary tract infection. Urinary tract infections are considered by many experts to be a barometer of the quality of nursing care at a nursing home. UTI's are often linked to poor nursing care. Nevertheless, this statistic could be skewed for certain facilities due to inconsistent reporting standards for UTI's.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Willowbrooke Center Skilled Care Center at Magnolia Trace, 19.34% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This tells you the percent of residents prescribed antipsychotic drugs. Antipsychotic drugs are given to patients for a variety of medical conditions, including cognitive disorders. Sadly, in some situations, increased usage of these drugs may suggest a facility is using these medications to control patient behavior.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Willowbrooke Center Skilled Care Center at Magnolia Trace, 23.21% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This tells you the percentage of patients who were prescribed antianxiety drugs. Antianxiety medications are given to patients experiencing depression and anxiety.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Willowbrooke Center Skilled Care Center at Magnolia Trace, 1.38% of Patients
This is the percentage of residents who are showing symptoms of depression.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Willowbrooke Center Skilled Care Center at Magnolia Trace, 91.71% of Patients
This indicates the percentage of residents that received the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be the norm at this point.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Willowbrooke Center Skilled Care Center at Magnolia Trace, 13.51% Percentage of Patients
This datapoint measures the percentage of long-term residents who required additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. Activities of daily living include activities such as moving around and taking a bath. Many argue this is a reasonable measure of a resident's well-being.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Willowbrooke Center Skilled Care Center at Magnolia Trace, 18.39% Percentage of Residents
This is the percent of patients who remained mobile levels over time. Retaining mobility is usually a good sign for residents' well-being.
Hospitalizations
In Willowbrooke Center Skilled Care Center at Magnolia Trace, 1.46 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This is a measure of the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of patient care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Willowbrooke Center Skilled Care Center at Magnolia Trace, 18.39 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
This is a measure of the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term patient care. Minimizing rehospitalizations during rehabilitation is important to restoring the health of patients.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Willowbrooke Center Skilled Care Center at Magnolia Trace, 11.47 Percentage of Patients
This is the number of emergency room visits per 1,000 days of short-term patient care. There is usually a correlation between staying out of the emergency room and the quality of nursing home care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Willowbrooke Center Skilled Care Center at Magnolia Trace, 72.41% Percentage of Resident
This indicates the percent of short-term residents who experienced functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. High levels of performance with ADL's often correlates with better rehabilitation.
Scores for Huntsville, AL
- Overall Rating has a grade of B-plus
- Nurse Rating has a grade of B
- 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-plus
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Nearby Hospitals
- Huntsville HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 3.77 miles away101 Sivley Rd Huntsville Alabama 35801Government - Hospital District or Authority(256) 265-1000
Nearby Dialysis
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