Fort Payne, Alabama · CCN 015156 · Phone: 2568455990 · 123 beds · Ownership: For Profit - Corporation
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Crowne Health Care Of Ft Payne is a Medicare- and Medicaid-certified skilled nursing facility in Fort Payne, Alabama, operating under CMS Certification Number (CCN) 015156. 123-bed facility. For Profit - Corporation. Part of the Crowne Health Care chain. The facility is required to comply with the Requirements for Long-Term Care Facilities at 42 CFR Part 483.
Crowne Health Care Of Ft Payne has held its Medicare/Medicaid certification for approximately 49 years (certification date on file: 1977-01-01). Long-tenured facilities (15+ years) often have established F-tag remediation playbooks and a deeper standard-survey trail; newly-certified facilities (under 3 years) are subject to a different initial survey cadence under 42 CFR 488.308.
Local market context (De Kalb County): Crowne Health Care Of Ft Payne operates in De Kalb County alongside 2 other Medicare-certified SNFs in our Alabama cohort sample. Multi-facility counties create direct cohort comparison pressure — hospital discharge planners typically run side-by-side Care Compare lookups before placement decisions.
CMS publishes Five-Star ratings for nursing homes monthly, drawn from the most recent three years of standard surveys, complaint surveys, and Minimum Data Set (MDS) submissions.
Long-Stay Quality Measure rating: ★☆☆☆☆ (1 of 5). Long-stay measures cover residents in the facility 100+ days and include indicators like residents experiencing one or more falls with major injury, residents whose ability to move independently worsened, and residents with a urinary tract infection.
Short-Stay Quality Measure rating: ★★☆☆☆ (2 of 5). Short-stay measures cover post-acute residents discharged within 100 days and include rehospitalization within 30 days, successful return to community, and improvement in function.
Differentiating long-stay from short-stay QMs matters for placement decisions — a facility with strong short-stay QMs may still underperform on long-stay metrics, and vice versa.
Inspection overdue: CMS Provider Data flags Crowne Health Care Of Ft Payne as having an overdue standard health inspection. SNFs must receive a standard survey at most every 15 months on average and never more than 16 months from the last (42 CFR 488.308). Backlogged inspections can result from state agency staffing shortages but do not exempt the facility from the substantive compliance requirements during the gap.
Recent health deficiencies cited at last standard survey: 2. National average for facilities of this size is approximately 8 deficiencies per cycle. Crowne Health Care Of Ft Payne has no CMS fines in its most recent reporting cycle. Last documented standard health survey: 2019-11-14. CMS conducts standard surveys at most every 15 months for SNFs, with substandard-quality findings triggering more frequent revisits.
CMS health survey weighted score: 6. The weighted score multiplies deficiency severity (A-L) by scope (isolated, pattern, widespread); higher weighted scores translate directly into the Health Inspection star rating tier breakpoints CMS publishes monthly.
Crowne Health Care Of Ft Payne already meets the cadre-specific minimums scheduled to take effect on the May 2029 timeline under 89 FR 40876 (RN 0.879 HPRD vs the 0.55 floor; nurse-aide 2.546 HPRD vs the 2.45 floor). The constraint going forward is sustaining these levels under turnover pressure.
Total nurse staffing: 4.211 hours per resident day (HPRD), which is 0.73 hours above the 3.48 total HPRD floor that the CMS Minimum Staffing Standards rule (89 FR 40876, May 2024) phases in for rural-facility facilities by May 2029.
Staffing mix: RN 0.879 HPRD, LPN 0.787 HPRD, CNA 2.546 HPRD. The same CMS final rule also phases in cadre-specific minimums of 0.55 RN HPRD and 2.45 nurse aide HPRD on the 2029 timeline; RN-specific shortfalls have historically been the most common single-facility staffing deficiency at standard surveys.
Weekend RN staffing: 0.313 HPRD. Weekend RN coverage is a separately reported CMS measure; facilities with low weekend RN HPRD frequently see resident-acuity-driven adverse events spike on the weekend shift.
Total nurse staff turnover: 31.7% annualized — moderate.
RN-specific turnover: 16.7% annualized. RN turnover above 50% is the single strongest correlate with QM rating decline in CMS's own internal analyses.
Crowne Health Care Of Ft Payne is operated as part of Crowne Health Care, a chain operating 18 Medicare-certified facilities (CMS chain identifier 174). Chain-operated facilities tend to share corporate compliance staff, standard operating procedures, and survey-prep resources — but also share enforcement exposure when CMS designates a chain-wide issue under the system-wide quality assurance framework.
Provider type designation: Medicare And Medicaid.
The facility is classified by CMS as rural (outside metropolitan statistical areas). Rural SNFs face different challenges — referral pipeline depth, RN availability, ambulance distance for transfers — and CMS applies certain modifiers to the staffing minimums under hardship exemption pathways for rural facilities.
Peer comparisons use a same-state cohort of 200 Medicare-certified SNFs, pulled live from CMS Provider Data. The cohort excludes terminated and surrendered certifications.
FileFlo's compliance indicator for Crowne Health Care Of Ft Payne is 71/100 (Minor Gaps). The score is derived from publicly published health-deficiency counts, weighted survey scores, infection-control citations, fines, and staffing hours per resident day. It is not a CMS rating. The full survey-readiness audit (covering F-tags from the most recently cited deficiencies, infection control, staffing minimums, MDS accuracy) is at /tools/cms-survey-readiness-score.
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