Outstanding Alabama nursing homes were recognized today at a national health care quality event in New Orleans, Louisiana.
The 60 skilled nursing care centers were selected Quality Achievers by the American Health Care Association (AHCA). The recognition took place at an awards luncheon at the AHCA’s third annual National Quality Summit.
The centers recognized met or exceeded four or more of the eight goals set forth by the AHCA’s Quality Initiative:
- Decrease turnover rates among nursing staff by 15% from 2015 or achieve/maintain at or less than 40%
- Adopt Core-Q customer satisfaction questionnaire and measure and upload data to LTC Trend Tracker
- Reduce the number of unintended health care outcomes
- Safely reduce the number of hospital readmissions within 30 days during a skilled nursing center stay by a total of 30% from December 2011 or achieve and maintain a low rate of 10%
- Improve discharge back to the community by 10% from December 2014 or achieve and maintain a high rate of at least 70%
- Improve functional outcomes by 10% from December 2015 or maintain an average rate of improvement of 75%
- Safely reduce the off-label use of antipsychotics in long-stay nursing center residents by a total of 30% from December 2011
- Safely reduce hospitalizations among long-stay residents by 15% from December 2014 or achieve/maintain a low rate of 10% or less
Staff of Burns Nursing & Rehab in Russellville receive the Quality Achiever certificate.
Alabama nursing homes recognized for achieving four or more of the goals are:
- Arbor Woods Health & Rehab Center, Reform
- Arlington Rehab & HealthCare Center, Birmingham
- Ashland Place Health & Rehab, Mobile
- Athens Health & Rehab, Athens
- Bibb Medical Center Nursing Home, Centreville
- Birmingham Nursing & Rehab Center East, Birmingham
- Birmingham Nursing & Rehab Center, Birmingham
- Brookshire Healthcare Center, Huntsville
- Brown Nursing Home, Alexander City
- Burns Nursing & Rehab, Russellville
- Camden Nursing Facility, Camden
- Civic Center Health & Rehab, Birmingham
- Cloverdale Rehab & Nursing Center, Scottsboro
- Colonial Haven Care & Rehab Center, Greensboro
- Crossville Health and Rehab, Crossville
- Crowne Health Care of Citronelle, Citronelle
- Crowne Health Care of Mobile, Mobile
- Diversicare of Lanett, Lanett
- Diversicare of Oneonta, Oneonta
- EAMC Lanier Nursing Home, Valley
- Englewood Health Care Center, Monroeville
- Enterprise Health & Rehab Center, Enterprise
- Falkville Healthcare Center & Rehab, Falkville
- Florence Nursing & Rehab Center, Florence
- Galleria Woods, Birmingham
- Glen Haven Health & Rehab, Northport
- Gulf Coast Health & Rehab, Mobile
- Hartford Health Care, Hartford
- Highlands Health & Rehab, Scottsboro
- Hillview Terrace Rehab Select, Montgomery
- Jacksonville Health & Rehab, Jacksonville
- Legacy Health & Rehab of Pleasant Grove, Pleasant Grove
- Lineville Health & Rehab, Lineville
- Magnolia Ridge, Gardendale
- Marshall Manor Nursing Home, Guntersville
- Mitchell-Hollingsworth Nursing & Rehab, Florence
- Monroe Manor Health & Rehab Center, Monroeville
- NHC HealthCare of Anniston, Anniston
- North Hill Nursing & Rehab Center, Birmingham
- Northside Health Care, Gadsden
- Oak Knoll Health & Rehab, Birmingham
- Oak Trace Care & Rehab Center, Bessemer
- Opp Health & Rehab, Opp
- Orchard Rehab & HealthCare Center, Hayneville
- Palm Gardens Health & Rehab, Mobile
- Park Manor Health & Rehab, Northport
- Ridgewood Health Services, Jasper
- Roanoke Rehab & HealthCare Center, Roanoke
- Senior Rehab & Recovery at Limestone Health Facility, Athens
- South Health & Rehab, Birmingham
- Springhill Senior Residence, Mobile
- Sumter Health & Rehab, York
- Sylacauga Health & Rehab, Sylacauga
- Terrace Manor Nursing & Rehab Center, Russellville
- Valley View Health & Rehab, Madison
- Warren Manor Health & Rehab, Selma
- Wesley Place on Honeysuckle, Dothan
- Wetumpka Health & Rehab, Wetumpka
- Willow Trace Nursing Center, Butler
- Windsor House, Huntsville
Of the nursing homes listed, 39 met four of the goals, 15 met five of the goals and six met six of the goals.
Also, the American Health Care Association today at the National Quality Summit announced new goals as part of its multi-year initiative to further improve quality in long-term and post-acute care. The Association challenged skilled nursing care centers to meet measurable targets in four areas by March 2021. The nationwide effort builds on the progress achieved by the profession over the last six years.
“Our members are the driving force behind the significant quality advancements our profession continues to make,” said AHCA/NCAL President and CEO Mark Parkinson. “The next phase of the Quality Initiative sets the bar even higher. The goals we have established will improve the lives of the patients, residents and families we serve.”
The three-year goals for skilled nursing centers are aligned with top priorities for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and federal mandates that link financial outcomes to quality performance. They are:
- Safely reduce long-stay and short-stay hospitalizations by improving 10 percent—or maintain a rate of 10 percent or less;
- Improve functional outcomes (self-care and mobility) by 15 percent;
- Improve long-stay and short-stay satisfaction by 10 percent—or achieve a rate of 90 percent or greater; and
- Safely reduce the off-label use of antipsychotics by 10 percent—or maintain a rate of 8 percent or less in long-stay residents, and maintain a rate of 1 percent or less in short-stay residents.
Since the launch of the Quality Initiative in 2012, AHCA member skilled nursing care centers have achieved reductions in the use of antipsychotics and in re-hospitalizations. Specifically, 57 percent of member skilled nursing care centers safely reduced the off-label use of antipsychotic medications by 30 percent in the third quarter of 2017. For hospital readmissions, skilled nursing members have safely prevented more than 142,000 individuals from returning to the hospital — a 12 percent reduction since 2011.
Click here for more information about the AHCA Quality Initiative.
