Halloween 2013 was all treats and no tricks for residents of Walker Rehabilitation Center in Carbon Hill. Nursing home staff partnered with 13 of the facility's vendors and suppliers to plan a community wide Fall and Halloween Festival. The festival included several games such as go fish, bean bag toss, shooting gallery and bowling for [...]
Thanks to a generous donation from CB&S Bank, Burns Nursing & Rehab is the newest member of Senior Crimestoppers. Nursing home residents and staff joined leaders from CB&S Bank and officials from the Senior Housing Crime Prevention Foundation to make the announcement today. As part of Senior Crimestoppers, each resident of Burns Nursing & Rehab [...]
Cottage of the Shoals recently earned a deficiency free health survey! Cheryl Baker is the Administrator, and Micki Newton is the Director of Nursing. The 103-bed facility is located in Tuscumbia. Federal law requires the State of Alabama to perform annual inspections of each nursing home - called a health survey. Surveyors from the Alabama [...]
Mobile-based Ball HealthCare Services, Inc. recently recognized three of its nursing homes for achievements in providing quality care. Orchard Quality Initiative Recognition Orchard Rehabilitation & HealthCare Center in Hayneville was recognized for earning the Tier Two recognition level as part of the American Health Care Association’s Quality Initiative Recognition Program. The facility was recognized for [...]
Cullman Long Term Care & Rehab Center recently earned a deficiency free health survey! Federal law requires the State of Alabama to perform annual inspections of each nursing home - called a health survey. Surveyors from the Alabama Department of Public Health's Division of Health Care Facilities spend several days on-site reviewing all aspects of [...]
The Activity & Social Services Auxiliary of the Alabama Nursing Home Association (ANHA) today elected officers to lead the group in 2014. The election was held at the auxiliary's annual meeting in Birmingham. Pictured from left to right are the new officers: Vice-President, Katie Morgan, Dadeville Healthcare Center, Dadeville President, Endya Gibbs, Cherry Hill Rehab [...]
Westside Terrace Health & Rehab First recently commemorated 20 years of service to the city of Dothan and Houston County. Residents, staff and community leaders attended a special ceremony that celebrated the facility's past accomplishments and highlighted its goals for the future. A reception was held in the Westside Terrace courtyard after the ceremony. The [...]
Alabama nursing homes continue to rank ahead of the national average in a key measure of quality care according to a recent analysis of Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) data by the American Health Care Association. As of July 2013, 61.7% of Alabama nursing homes were ranked 4- or 5-star in the CMS [...]
Twenty Alabama nursing homes received the 2012-2013 Excellence in Action from My InnerView by National Research Corporation. This honor recognizes long term care and senior living organizations that achieve the highest levels of satisfaction excellence, as demonstrated by overall resident or employee satisfaction scores that fall within the top 10 percent of the My InnerView [...]
The Alabama Nursing Home Association expresses deepest sympathy to the family of Dr. A. Jerry Swindall. Dr. Swindall passed away on September 30. He was 82 years old. He was a former nursing home owner, physician in Dadeville and is considered a pioneer in the nursing home field. During his life, he developed, owned and [...]
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