Every Medicare-certified nursing home in Alabama, graded on inspections, staffing, turnover
and enforcement history.
6 homes in the state sit in the federal Special Focus programme.
Falkville Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center is a 116-bed for-profit home in Morgan County, and the inspection record is the part that should give you pause. CMS has cited 33 deficiencies on its current record, 14 of them at the harm or jeopardy level and 7 tied to abuse, enough that the agency has placed the home in its Special Focus Facility program, which is reserved for the worst performers in the country. Two fines total $146,615. Staffing sits slightly under the national average at 3.79 hours per resident day, but the bigger issue is consistency: weekends run about 13% thinner than weekdays, and turnover is 55.2% against a national 45.8%. A September 2025 inspection is recent, but recent isn't the same as clean.
Cumberland Health and Rehab is a 100-bed nonprofit home in Bridgeport, and its numbers pull in two directions. The care side looks strong on paper: a 5/5 staffing star rating, a 5/5 quality measure rating, and turnover at 35.6%, well below the national average of 45.8%. But the inspection record is where the story turns. Eighteen deficiencies, six of them serious enough to cause harm or jeopardy, one tied to abuse, plus a $238,745 fine and a spot in CMS's Special Focus Facility program. Total nurse staffing sits slightly under the national average, and weekends run about 12% thinner than weekdays. That last inspection was June 2024, so the record is current.
Knollwood Healthcare runs 71 certified beds in Mobile under for-profit limited liability ownership, and the numbers behind its record are hard to read any other way. Nurse staffing sits at 3.42 hours per resident day against a national average of 3.86, and weekends drop roughly 17% below the home's own weekday level, so the thinnest coverage lands when families visit most. Staff turnover of 74.2% means most of the people caring for residents this year likely won't be there next year. Forty-six deficiencies are on the current record, twelve at harm or jeopardy level and ten abuse-related, with four CMS fines totaling $318,070. CMS has placed it in the Special Focus Facility program, its last inspection was September 11, 2025, and you should ask pointed questions before considering it.
Walker Rehabilitation Center is a for-profit home in Carbon Hill with 59 certified beds, and the numbers behind its record are worth walking through. Federal inspectors have cited 18 deficiencies, seven of them involving actual harm or jeopardy to residents and four tied to abuse, with a single fine reaching $235,127. Staff turnover sits at 68.8% against a national average of 45.8%, meaning most of the people caring for residents this year likely won't be there next year. Nurse staffing runs slightly under the national average and drops about 22% on weekends. CMS has placed this home in its Special Focus Facility program, which is reserved for the country's most persistently troubled nursing homes, and its most recent inspection was November 30, 2024.