Cleburne County Nursing Home

    122 Brockford Rd, Heflin, AL 36264
    • Assisted Living
    • Memory Care
    • Skilled Nursing

    Family feels safe, staff helpful

    I love this place - my family feels safe, the staff are friendly and helpful, the facility is clean, and residents seem genuinely happy; overall, very good.

    Loved one of resident
    Jul 2026

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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

    4.06·(16)

    Overall rating

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

      1.0
    • Staff

      3.0
    • Meals

      4.1
    • Amenities

      4.1
    • Value

      4.1

    Pros

    • friendly staff
    • helpful staff
    • clean facility
    • residents appear happy
    • residents/families express love for the place
    • perceived safety for families

    Cons

    • lies or dishonesty by nurses
    • management favoritism
    • CNA sleeping on shift
    • use of racial slurs
    • discriminatory firing
    • stressful work environment
    • lack of accountability

    Summary of reviews

    Overall impression: The reviews present a mixed but sharply divided picture of Cleburne County Nursing Home. On the positive side, multiple comments emphasize friendly and helpful staff, a clean facility, and residents who appear content — with family members expressing love for the place and a sense that it is safe for families. On the negative side, reviewers raise serious concerns about staff behavior, management practices, workplace culture, and accountability. The negative reports are substantial in nature (including allegations of dishonesty, sleeping on duty, racial slurs, and discriminatory firings), and they contrast strongly with the otherwise positive day-to-day impressions reported by some residents and families.

    Care quality and resident experience: Many reviewers indicate that residents are happy and that families feel safe leaving loved ones at the facility. That suggests that much of the direct resident care and day-to-day resident experience is perceived as acceptable or better by some observers. However, allegations such as nurses lying and CNAs sleeping on shift are directly relevant to the quality and safety of care. Even if these incidents are isolated or sporadic, they present real risks to resident well-being and contradict the reassuring comments about resident happiness. The reviews therefore suggest a facility where visible aspects of care can be good, but where some unseen or intermittent behaviors may undermine consistency of care.

    Staff and workplace environment: There is a clear split in staff-related feedback. On one hand, staff are described as friendly and helpful, which aligns with positive resident interactions and contributes to a sense of safety and satisfaction. On the other hand, multiple serious concerns point to a troubled workplace culture: management favoritism, discriminatory firing, racial slurs, a stressful work environment, and lack of accountability. These items indicate systemic human-resources and leadership issues rather than only isolated personnel problems. If staff feel management is biased or that misconduct goes unaddressed, morale and retention will likely suffer and that can ultimately affect resident care.

    Management, accountability, and culture: The reviews repeatedly call out management behavior — favoritism, discriminatory firings, and inadequate accountability — which is a central theme. These criticisms suggest that supervisory and administrative systems for incident reporting, discipline, and equitable treatment are perceived as weak or inconsistent. The presence of racial slurs and alleged discriminatory terminations raises particularly serious concerns about the facility’s culture and compliance with workplace and civil rights norms. Such allegations merit prompt, transparent investigation and remediation to protect residents, staff, and the organization’s legal/regulatory standing.

    Facilities, safety, and non-clinical environment: The facility’s physical environment is consistently described as clean, and family members express that they feel the place is safe for relatives. Cleanliness and a perception of safety are important positive signals, especially in long-term care settings. However, physical cleanliness alone does not negate operational or cultural problems; the reviews suggest that while the environment may be well maintained, staff conduct and management practices need attention.

    Dining, activities, and other services: Review content provided does not mention dining quality, activities programming, therapy services, or specific clinical outcomes beyond the behavioral/management issues noted. Because these areas are not referenced, no definitive conclusions can be drawn from these reviews about the breadth or quality of recreational, nutritional, or rehabilitative offerings.

    Notable patterns and implications: The most concerning patterns are allegations of dishonesty by clinical staff, staff sleeping while on duty, racial slurs, discriminatory firings, and perceived favoritism and lack of accountability. These are not merely service complaints; they point to safety, legal, ethical, and quality-of-care risks. At the same time, repeated mentions of friendly/helpful staff, resident satisfaction, cleanliness, and family trust indicate strengths the facility can build on. The combination of praise for frontline interactions and serious allegations about management and misconduct suggests a facility with competent caregivers who may be undermined by leadership and cultural problems.

    Concluding assessment: The sentiment across reviews is mixed — tangible positives in staff demeanor, cleanliness, and resident satisfaction are shadowed by very serious allegations about workplace culture and safety-related behaviors. For consumers (residents and families), the favorable comments about friendliness, cleanliness, and safety are encouraging but should be balanced against the potential risks signaled by the negative reports. For facility leadership, these reviews indicate urgent priorities: investigate and address claims of misconduct and discrimination, strengthen supervisory oversight and accountability mechanisms, and restore trust through transparent corrective actions so that the positive aspects (clean facility, helpful staff, resident happiness) are sustained and protected.

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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

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    Cleburne County Nursing Home is located at 122 Brockford Rd, Heflin, AL, 36264.

    About Cleburne County Nursing Home

    Cleburne County Nursing Home sits on Brockford Road in Heflin, Alabama, where the facility takes care of up to 82 seniors with skilled nursing services and therapy after surgery or illness, and it's been keeping itself pretty full with an average occupancy rate of about 93 percent, so out of those 82 beds, around 76 are usually filled by residents both for short-term stays and long-term care needs. The home accepts Medicare and Medicaid, and it's owned by the local government, which means it's nonprofit and not part of a big chain, but it does have staff on hand for medical care and day-to-day help, with nurses there for 12 to 16 hours daily and a 24-hour call system for emergencies. Nurses and caregivers help with bathing, dressing, transferring, and medication and will even manage more complex care like wound treatment, pain management, recovery from strokes, dialysis, or therapy, with things like balance training and short-wave diathermy included for folks needing rehabilitation. The rooms come with a private bathroom, kitchenette, cable TV, Wi-Fi, a telephone, air conditioning, and the building's fully sprinklered for safety.

    Residents can keep busy with daily activities and programs, some run by the residents themselves, along with access to community spaces like a movie theater, arts room, fitness room, a beauty salon, a spa/wellness room, garden, outdoor walking paths, and a library, with regular movie nights and scheduled outings or religious gatherings, so it's easy to stay involved if that's wanted. The dining room serves meals all day long, restaurant-style, with a professional chef and special diets covered, even for folks with food allergies or diabetes, and the support doesn't stop with meals since housekeeping, laundry-including dry cleaning-and transportation all come included, plus there's guest parking.

    Cleburne County Nursing Home also gives tours to potential residents and their families, with several ways to ask about pricing or availability, and they try to keep lines open for families with communication tools and activity logs, plus you can keep up with updates through platforms like Facebook, Instagram, Threads, and digital tools connected to Meta since they've built up their online communication a bit. The facility's got a high vaccination rate for residents against both pneumonia and flu, and everyone's covered by a full sprinkler system for added fire safety. The home doesn't belong to any special program or big survey process, and it's not part of any big chain or hospital, so everything's run at a county level, with focus on medical care, therapy, activities, and resident support, keeping things simple and practical for those who need short-term rehabilitation or longer stays.

    People often ask...

    Cleburne County Nursing Home offers assisted living, memory care, and skilled nursing.

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    The full address for this community is 122 Brockford Rd, Heflin, AL 36264.

    No, Cleburne County Nursing Home 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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