705 Gandy Street Ne, Russellville, AL 35653 · Franklin County · (256) 332-3773
50 certified beds, about 45 residents a day · For profit - Limited Liability company · Medicare and Medicaid since 1967
CMS Care Compare ratings, data as of September 1, 2026 · CCN 015071 · See it on Medicare.gov · Compare with other homes
At its most recent standard inspection, on September 21, 2022, inspectors cited 2 health deficiencies (the Alabama average is 4, the national average 9.2).
None of its 4 health citations since July 2018 was rated as actual harm or immediate jeopardy.
CMS lists no fines against this home in the last three years.
Nurses and nurse aides worked 3.87 hours per resident per day, against 3.88 across Alabama and 3.86 nationally. Registered nurses accounted for 0.92 of those hours.
60.4% of nursing staff left within the year CMS measured (Alabama average 46.9%).
CMS links it to Arabella Healthcare Management, an affiliated group of 12 nursing homes.
Federal rules call for a standard inspection at least every 15 months, plus a visit whenever a complaint is filed. Each mark below is one citation, colored by how serious inspectors rated it. How to read a citation.
Under each citation, the quoted text is the inspector's own summary from the federal statement of deficiencies (CMS form 2567), word for word apart from a privacy scrub; CMS removes residents' and staff names before it publishes the text. The full notes are on Medicare.gov.
CMS rates every citation by how much harm it caused (rows) and how many residents it touched (columns). The count in each box is this home's, across all 4 health citations on file.
Inspectors wroteBased on record review, interviews, a review of a facility policy titled MDS (Minimum Data Set) 3.0 Completion, the facility failed to ensure timely transmissions of MDS assessments to Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) for Resident Identifiers (RI) #1, RI #2, RI #3, RI #5, and RI #133. This affected five of 16 residents for whom MDS assessments were reviewed.
Inspectors wroteBased on observations, interviews, medical record reviews and review of a facility policy titled, Standard Precautions Infection Control, the facility failed to ensure staff performed hand hygiene and wore gloves before contact with blood and before contact with items potentially contaminated with blood. On 9/20/22 Employee Identifier (EI) #6, Environmental Services (ES) staff, was observed to clean blood from Resident Identifier (RI) #12's left lower leg with a Kleenex and not wearing gloves. Also on 9/20/22, EI #5, a Registered Nurse (RN), was observed cleaning a glucometer used to obtain RI #14's fingerstick blood sugar (FSBS) without wearing gloves or performing hand hygiene before continuing care tasks and administering injections. [...]
Inspectors wroteBased on observation, interviews, and review of a facility policy titled Safety During Food Storage, the facility failed to ensure that Employee Identifier (EI) #1, a dietary aide, discarded the following food items by the expiration/use by date: 1. one Chicken Salad in a plastic container that had an open date of 8/10/2019 and a Use By Date of 8/16/2019, and 2. one Peanut Butter and Jelly mixture in a plastic bowl that had a made date of 8/15/2019 and a Use By Date of 8/17/2019. This had the potential to affect 37 of 45 residents in the facility that received meals from the kitchen. Findings Include: A review of a facility policy titled Safety During Food Storage, with no date, revealed: . II. Policy The following policy should be used regarding safety during food storage. III. Procedure . 2. The date the item was prepared shall count as Day 1. . 4. [...]
Inspectors wroteBased on observations, interviews, medical record review and review of facility policies titled, Hand Washing and Standard Precautions Infection Control, the facility failed to ensure a Registered Nurse: 1. did not pull Resident Identifier (RI) #45's privacy curtain with her bare hand and then apply gloves without washing hands, and did not move RI #45's overbed table while wearing gloves and then wear those same gloves to administer RI #45's insulin injection; and 2. did not place clean gloves on an unclean surface without a barrier for use in administering RI #22's eye drops. Further, the nurse did not wash hands or change gloves after RI #22 handed her a medication cup and water cup, prior to administering RI #22's nasal spray. This affected RI #45 and RI #22, two of four residents observed during medication pass observations and one of two nurses observed. Findings Included: [...]
4 fire safety citations on file: 3 on September 21, 2022, 1 on August 19, 2019.
CMS lists no fines or payment denials against this home in the last three years. The national average is 0.9 fines per home.
Hours of care per resident per day, from the payroll records every home sends CMS. Higher means more staff time with each resident.
| Measure | This home | Alabama | United States |
|---|---|---|---|
| All nursing staff (RN, LPN and aides) | 3.87 | 3.88 | 3.86 |
| Registered nurses | 0.92 | 0.65 | 0.69 |
| All nursing staff on weekends | 3.31 | 3.26 | 3.42 |
| Nurse aides | 2.45 | ||
| Licensed practical nurses | 0.49 | ||
| Nursing staff turnover (share who left in a year) | 60.4% | 46.9% | 45.8% |
| Registered nurse turnover | 25.0% | 39.5% | 42.9% |
| Administrators who left | 0 |
CMS expects 3.41 hours a day for residents as sick as this home's (its case-mix figure). The staffing star compares the two.
Every nursing home sends CMS its staff hours for each day (the Payroll Based Journal). Here they are added up by quarter. The latest quarter is the one behind the figures above. In January to March 2026, nursing staff hours per resident were 4.09 on weekdays and 3.31 on weekends, 19% lower on weekends (nationally, weekends ran 15% lower). Contract or agency staff worked 0.0% of nursing hours, against 5.3% nationally. Total nursing hours per resident went from 4.00 in April to June 2025 to 3.87 in January to March 2026.
| Quarter | All nursing staff | Registered nurses | Weekdays | Weekends | Contract staff share | Days with no RN hours | Residents a day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan to Mar 2026 | 3.87 | 0.92 | 4.09 | 3.31 | 0.0% | 0 of 90 | 45 |
| Oct to Dec 2025 | 4.07 | 0.92 | 4.38 | 3.30 | 0.0% | 0 of 92 | 46 |
| Jul to Sep 2025 | 3.57 | 0.84 | 3.82 | 2.96 | 0.0% | 0 of 92 | 46 |
| Apr to Jun 2025 | 4.00 | 0.91 | 4.36 | 3.11 | 0.0% | 0 of 91 | 46 |
| United States, Jan to Mar 2026 | 3.75 | 0.62 | 3.92 | 3.33 | 5.3% | 0.5% of days | |
| Alabama, Jan to Mar 2026 | 3.88 | 0.63 | 4.13 | 3.27 | 0.9% | 0.2% of days |
Hours per resident per day: staff hours in the quarter divided by resident days (the daily census CMS derives from resident assessments). Registered nurses include the director of nursing and RNs with administrative duties; aides include nurse aides in training and medication aides, as in CMS's own staffing measure. How these are calculated.
Staff pay reports
No staff pay figure for this home has passed review yet. A figure appears only after at least 5 reports from at least 3 different people, sent over at least 60 days, have passed review. If you work here, your report helps start one.
| Job | Median | Middle half | Employed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alabama, all employers | |||
| CNAs (nursing assistants) | $16.41 | $14.45 to $17.49 | 25,250 |
| LPNs and LVNs | $27.42 | $23.15 to $29.71 | 11,580 |
| Registered nurses | $37.06 | $30.53 to $40.09 | 54,340 |
| United States, nursing care facilities | |||
| CNAs (nursing assistants) | $20.67 | $17.91 to $22.55 | 534,270 |
| LPNs and LVNs | $33.86 | $30.05 to $37.40 | 188,210 |
| Registered nurses | $41.11 | $37.85 to $47.68 | 142,270 |
Hourly wages; the middle half runs from the 25th to the 75th percentile. Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025. BLS has no separate estimate for medication aides. These are survey estimates for whole occupations, not figures for any one home.
The measures CMS uses for the quality star. Lower is better for every one of them.
| Measure | This home | Alabama | US |
|---|---|---|---|
| Percentage of long-stay residents whose need for help with daily activities has increased Long Stay residents, 2025Q2-2026Q1 | 11.5 | 12.0 | 13.9 |
| Percentage of long-stay residents with a catheter inserted and left in their bladder Long Stay residents, 2025Q2-2026Q1 | 1.6 | 0.9 | 0.8 |
| Percentage of long-stay residents with a urinary tract infection Long Stay residents, 2025Q2-2026Q1 | 4.2 | 2.4 | 1.6 |
| Percentage of long-stay residents experiencing one or more falls with major injury Long Stay residents, 2025Q2-2026Q1 | 6.0 | 3.3 | 3.2 |
| Percentage of short-stay residents who newly received an antipsychotic medication Short Stay residents, 2025Q2-2026Q1 | 2.3 | 2.0 | 1.6 |
| Percentage of long-stay residents whose ability to walk independently worsened Long Stay residents, 2025Q2-2026Q1 | 26.7 | 12.1 | 14.1 |
| Percentage of long-stay residents with pressure ulcers Long Stay residents, 2025Q2-2026Q1 | 8.1 | 5.4 | 4.6 |
| Percentage of long-stay residents who received an antipsychotic medication Long Stay residents, 2025Q2-2026Q1 | 18.1 | 21.2 | 15.4 |
| Percentage of short-stay residents who were rehospitalized after a nursing home admission Short Stay residents, 20250101-20251231 | 31.0 | 24.8 | 23.8 |
| Percentage of short-stay residents who had an outpatient emergency department visit Short Stay residents, 20250101-20251231 | 13.7 | 11.3 | 12.0 |
| Number of hospitalizations per 1000 long-stay resident days Long Stay residents, 20250101-20251231 | 3.6 | 2.0 | 1.9 |
| Number of outpatient emergency department visits per 1000 long-stay resident days Long Stay residents, 20250101-20251231 | 1.4 | 1.7 | 1.8 |
For a stay to recover after a hospital visit, these are the results CMS publishes for Everstead Health and Rehabilitation Center's Medicare short-stay residents. On returning residents home or to the community, CMS rates it no different from the national rate (46.5% of residents, after adjusting for how sick they were). How to read these, and what Medicare pays for.
46.5% this home
No different from the national rate
US median of homes 51.5% · Alabama: 41 better, 10 worse
Rate of successful return to home or community from a SNF (risk-standardized discharge to community rate). Higher is better. October 2022 to September 2024. 65 eligible stays.
9.8% this home
No different from the national rate
US median of homes 10.7% · Alabama: 1 better, 3 worse
Rate of potentially preventable hospital readmissions 30 days after discharge from a SNF (risk-standardized rate). Lower is better. October 2022 to September 2024. 82 eligible stays.
6.8% this home
No different from the national rate
US median of homes 7.1% · Alabama: 0 better, 1 worse
Percentage of infections residents got during their SNF stay that resulted in hospitalization (risk-standardized rate). Lower is better. October 2023 to September 2024. 58 eligible stays.
54.8% this home
Median of homes: Alabama50.0% · US 56.6%
Percentage of residents who are at or above an expected ability to care for themselves and move around at discharge. Higher is better. October 2024 to September 2025. 42 residents counted.
5.1% this home
Median of homes: Alabama0.0% · US 0.0%
Percentage of SNF residents who experience one or more falls with major injury during their SNF stay. Lower is better. October 2024 to September 2025. 78 residents counted.
3.3% this home
Median of homes: Alabama2.1% · US 1.7%
Percentage of residents with pressure ulcers or pressure injuries that are new or worsened (adjusted rate). Lower is better. October 2024 to September 2025. 78 residents counted.
Not reported
CMS note: The number of residents or resident stays is too small to report. Call the facility to discuss this quality measure.
Median of homes: Alabama100.0% · US 98.7%
Percentage of residents where the SNF provided a current medication list to the resident, family, and/or caregiver at final discharge. Higher is better. October 2024 to September 2025. 12 residents counted.
Source: CMS Skilled Nursing Facility Quality Reporting Program - Provider Data, released 2026-09-30. Better, no different and worse are CMS's own comparisons with the national rate, after adjusting for how sick residents were. Medians of homes and the state counts are worked out by us from the same file.
Legal business name: ARABELLA HEALTH AND WELLNESS OF RUSSELLVILLE LLC. CMS links this home to Arabella Healthcare Management, a group of 12 nursing homes averaging 2.3 stars overall.
| Name | Role | Type | Share | Since |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arabella Health and Wellness of Phenix City LLC | 5% or greater mortgage interest | Organization | 10/01/2022 | |
| Hertzel, Chaim | Corporate officer | Individual | 10/01/2022 | |
| Arabella Healthcare Management LLC | Operational/managerial control | Organization | 10/01/2022 | |
| Gaspar, Enrico | Operational/managerial control | Individual | 03/25/2024 | |
| Hertzel, Chaim | Operational/managerial control | Individual | 10/01/2022 | |
| Walls, Richard | Operational/managerial control | Individual | 05/15/2023 | |
| Fein, Miriam | Individual is an owner, partner or trustee of any ADP of the SNF | Individual | 03/18/2025 | |
| Zlotowitz, Eliyahu | Individual is an owner, partner or trustee of any ADP of the SNF | Individual | 03/18/2025 | |
| Arabella Health and Wellness of Phenix City LLC | Adp of the SNF | Organization | 10/01/2022 | |
| Arabella Healthcare Management LLC | Adp of the SNF | Organization | 03/18/2025 | |
| Arco Kano Irrv Tr | Adp of the SNF | Organization | 03/04/2024 | |
| Gnh Irrv Tr | Adp of the SNF | Organization | 03/04/2024 | |
| Hwood Partners LLC | Adp of the SNF | Organization | 03/04/2024 | |
| Gaspar, Enrico | Adp of the SNF | Individual | 03/25/2024 | |
| Hertzel, Chaim | Adp of the SNF | Individual | 10/01/2022 | |
| Walls, Richard | Adp of the SNF | Individual | 05/15/2023 |
As listed in the CMS ownership file, which names owners with a 5% or greater stake and the people and companies with operational or managerial control.
Chosen from this home's own inspection record.
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