Goodwater Healthcare Center

    16 Jones Hill Rd, Goodwater, AL 35072
    • Assisted Living
    • Memory Care
    • Skilled Nursing

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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

    4.54·(13)

    Overall rating

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

      4.3
    • Staff

      4.7
    • Meals

      4.5
    • Amenities

      3.0
    • Value

      4.5

    Pros

    • Attentive, positive resident care
    • Warm, helpful staff and family-like interactions
    • Clean resident room and common area
    • Bird-viewing aviary and shared seating with a television
    • Positive family satisfaction with care

    Cons

    • Inconsistent attention to individualized dietary needs
    • Limited flexibility in family visitor access
    • Dated finishes in a resident room

    Summary of reviews

    Feedback about Goodwater Healthcare Center is predominantly positive. Families describe attentive care and staff who are warm, helpful, and welcoming. One family member said staff communicated well during visits, while other comments praised the care received and expressed overall satisfaction. The available reviews are brief, and one resident had been at the facility for only a week when the detailed review was written, so they provide a limited view of care over time.

    Dining feedback is limited. One family member raised a concern about staff awareness of a diabetic resident’s dietary needs after a high-sugar dessert was provided, while also suggesting it may have been an oversight. This points to a need for reliable attention to individualized dietary requirements, but the reviews do not establish a broader pattern or provide information about meal quality and variety.

    The activity and shared-space details are modest but positive: residents have access to a common area with a television, seating, and a small enclosed aviary where they can view birds. The detailed review described the room and common area as clean, though the resident’s room was considered somewhat dated. There is no further information about organized activities or facility amenities.

    The main family-access concern involves building entry: one relative said other family members had access codes while they needed to knock or ring for entry, and felt the arrangement limited their ability to visit. The same reviewer said communication with staff during visits was satisfactory. Overall, the comments suggest a caring staff environment and clean shared spaces, alongside a specific concern about visitor-access procedures and a reminder to maintain attention to individualized dietary needs. There is not enough feedback to assess broader management practices.

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    Medicare Ratings

    5·/ 5
    • Overall

    • Health Inspection

    • Staffing

    • Quality Measures

    Ratings from the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (Care Compare). View on Medicare.gov

    Location

    Goodwater Healthcare Center is located at 16 Jones Hill Rd, Goodwater, AL, 35072.

    About 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.

    People often ask...

    Goodwater Healthcare Center offers assisted living, memory care, and skilled nursing.

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    The full address for this community is 16 Jones Hill Rd, Goodwater, AL 35072.

    No, Goodwater Healthcare Center does not offer respite care. Respite care in assisted living communities provides temporary, short-term relief for primary caregivers by offering professional care for their loved ones. It allows individuals to stay in an assisted living community for a limited time, giving caregivers a break while ensuring residents receive necessary support and assistance with daily activities.

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