Goodwater Healthcare Center

Goodwater Healthcare Center sits in Goodwater, Alabama, a little ways from Alexander City, and has been part of Coosa County life since 1966, running as a state-licensed, Medicare and Medicaid certified nursing home with a capacity for 72 residents, and even though it's not the biggest building around it does offer both long-term and short-term nursing care, assisted living, independent living, memory care, home care, adult day services, and hospice, with available services stretching to everything from basic wound care and specialized dementia care to inpatient rehab, respite care, and therapy services for speech, occupational, physical, recreational, and podiatry problems, along with home-making help and medical transport for those who need extra hands getting to appointments or running errands, and has a clinic with primary care doctors and other specialized medical departments, and because it's been managed by Prime Management, LLC, part of Prime Health Care Enterprises, since 2003, you'll see signs of solid management and reliability throughout, and though it's got a strong stream of high inspection scores and recent near-flawless inspection reports with an A+ grade, along with a 5-star rating from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, and a 9 out of 10 average resident rating, making it one of the most highly rated in the state and the highest rated in the city, it does have a record of some noted deficiencies, especially around timely resident assessments, quality control, and some safety checks, even though staff seem to keep on top of bed rail safety and informed consent, and there's steady family involvement with a solid Family Council instead of a Resident Council, and when it comes to staff, nursing hours per resident every day reach 5.44, quite a bit above the state average, though the nurse turnover rate of 47.5% is basically on par with other Alabama homes and you'll see the full spectrum of staff, from RNs and LPNs to CNAs and therapists, working alongside doctors to keep care on schedule, and with amenities meant for comfort plus technology like an online pharmacy, options for rooms range from studio to companion layouts, and families pay through Medicare, Medicaid, private pay, or long-term care insurance, with the whole operation running under protocols designed for both holistic and personal care, and, for those considering the place, it helps to know that it usually lands in the top fifth of nursing homes nationwide, is a member of the Alabama Nursing Home Association, and does its best to provide for people's care needs even with the few issues that have come up along the way.