Elba Nursing and Rehab

    987 Drayton Ave, Elba, AL 36323
    • Assisted Living
    • Memory Care
    • Skilled Nursing
    3.8ยท28 reviews

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    Amenities

    Healthcare services

    • Activities of daily living assistance
    • Assistance with bathing
    • Assistance with dressing
    • Assistance with transfers
    • Medication management
    • Mental wellness program

    Healthcare staffing

    • 12-16 hour nursing
    • 24-hour call system
    • 24-hour supervision

    Meals and dining

    • Diabetes diet
    • Meal preparation and service
    • Restaurant-style dining
    • Special dietary restrictions

    Room

    • Air-conditioning
    • Cable
    • Fully furnished
    • Housekeeping and linen services
    • Kitchenettes
    • Private bathrooms
    • Telephone
    • Wifi

    Transportation

    • Community operated transportation
    • Transportation arrangement
    • Transportation arrangement (non-medical)

    Common areas

    • Beauty salon
    • Computer center
    • Dining room
    • Fitness room
    • Gaming room
    • Garden
    • Outdoor space
    • Small library
    • Wellness center

    Community services

    • Concierge services
    • Fitness programs
    • Move-in coordination

    Activities

    • Community-sponsored activities
    • Planned day trips
    • Resident-run activities
    • Scheduled daily activities

    Reviews

    3.79ยท(28)

    Overall rating

    1. 5
    2. 4
    3. 3
    4. 2
    5. 1
    • Care

      3.5
    • Staff

      3.5
    • Meals

      1.0
    • Amenities

      3.8
    • Value

      3.8

    Pros

    • Insurance accepted
    • Flexible visitation options including masked in-person, window, and video calls
    • Responsive nursing communication and family updates
    • Compassionate and attentive nursing and CNA staff
    • Supportive therapy and rehabilitation services
    • Welcoming front-desk and admissions staff
    • Staff who go above and beyond for residents
    • Clean, well-maintained environment with neutral odors
    • Family-like, homey atmosphere
    • Accessible administration and open communication
    • Photo and update sharing with families

    Cons

    • Understaffing and high resident-to-staff ratios
    • Inconsistent personal-care routines (bathing, grooming, linen management)
    • Incontinence-care delays and room sanitation concerns
    • Inadequate feeding assistance and food-allergy handling
    • Gaps in clinical monitoring and progress reporting
    • Privacy and technology-management lapses during video calls
    • Inconsistent admissions communication and follow-up
    • Staff conduct and communication tone
    • Staff turnover and administrative instability
    • Rigid infection-control practices impacting access and continuity
    • Regulatory investigations substantiating care concerns

    Summary of reviews

    Reviewers describe a facility with distinctly mixed experiences. Many families praised individual staff members โ€” nurses, CNAs, therapists, and some admissions personnel โ€” for compassionate, attentive care, clear communication, and efforts to make the environment feel home-like. The facility offers flexible visitation options (masked in-person visits, window visits, and FaceTime/video calls), accepts insurance, and provides therapy and rehabilitation services that several families found helpful. Multiple accounts highlight a welcoming front desk, staff who go beyond basic duties, and an overall clean building without strong odors.

    Counterbalancing those positive accounts are substantive operational concerns. Reviewers described inconsistent personal-care practices including missed bathing and grooming, linen-management lapses, and delays in incontinence-related care. Meal-service issues were noted, with examples of inadequate feeding assistance and problematic handling of dietary allergies. Several families also raised concerns about the accuracy and timeliness of clinical monitoring and progress reporting to families.

    Staffing and management patterns appear to contribute to variability in care. Understaffing and a high resident-to-staff ratio were commonly cited as factors that limit responsiveness and continuity of care. Associated issues include staff turnover, intermittent administrative instability, and uneven admissions follow-up. Some families described negative interactions with reception or admissions personnel and inconsistent callbacks. There are also concerns about staff conduct and communication tone in a subset of interactions, and privacy lapses during video calls were reported.

    More serious are accounts that culminated in regulatory attention; reviewers indicated that state-level investigations identified care-related concerns. Additionally, infection-control policies implemented during outbreak periods were described by some families as restrictive in ways that affected access to residents and continuity of family-provided care. Prospective residents and families should weigh both the facility strengths โ€” compassionate individual caregivers, therapy services, and flexible visitation options โ€” and the facility-level weaknesses โ€” notably staffing, hygiene/process consistency, dining and allergy-management gaps, communication inconsistencies, and documented regulatory findings. When considering admission, visiting in person, asking for current staffing ratios, reviewing recent inspection results, and clarifying policies for allergy management, personal-care routines, and family communication may help set expectations and identify whether this facility matches the residentโ€™s needs.

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    Medicare Ratings

    1ยท/ 5
    • Overall

    • Health Inspection

    • Staffing

    • Quality Measures

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    Location

    Elba Nursing and Rehab is located at 987 Drayton Ave, Elba, AL, 36323.

    About Elba Nursing and Rehab

    Elba Nursing and Rehab sits in Elba, Alabama, and offers both long-term care and rehabilitation in a setting with small town charm, and when you walk in, you'll notice the caring staff and the quiet feeling of a place that's always watching out for its residents, whether they're there for a little while to recover or for a longer stay. Residents can get skilled nursing, pain management, wound care, IV therapy, and even pharmacy services, so you don't have to worry about facing medical issues alone because there are registered nurses and nurse practitioners on duty around the clock. People recovering from surgery or illness can do their therapy with state-of-the-art equipment and with physical, occupational, and speech therapy available six days a week, folks don't lose momentum, which is important for getting better.

    The place has amenities for comfort and privacy, like private suites and special entrances so residents and families can come and go quietly, plus there's cable, WiFi, and you can even bring your own TV. The Transitional Care Center helps folks with post-hospital recovery, so those who need short-term care are taken care of, and there's a dedicated shower for this unit, making it easier to manage recovery needs. Elba Nursing and Rehab is certified for Medicare and Medicaid, giving families more options when it comes to paying for care. There's also an outdoor courtyard and an enclosed space just for memory care, which lets residents enjoy time outside, and inside, there are cognitive activities matched to each person's needs.

    For those facing Alzheimer's or Dementia, Elba Nursing and Rehab has a new 20-bed all-female Memories Unit that's kept secure for peace of mind, and staff offer memory enhancement training and dementia care, while always tailoring activities and support to individual needs. The care team tries to pay attention to emotional and spiritual needs in addition to physical health, so folks feel supported all around. If you want to learn more or need up-to-date details, the facility keeps a website, and while there isn't a lot of general information out there, what stands out is how much attention they give to making sure everybody's got the care, privacy, and support they need from professionals who are always there.

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