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Kirkwood By the River

A Medicare-certified nursing home in Birmingham, AL, rated 3 of 5 stars by CMS.

3605 Ratliff Road
Birmingham, AL 35210

(205) 956-2184

Ownership: Non profit - Corporation

What Medicare publishes

3 of 5

CMS overall rating

Health inspection rating
4 of 5
Staffing rating
1 of 5
Quality measure rating
2 of 5
Certified beds
61
Average residents per day
54.2
Total nursing staff turnover
36%
The nursing home's annual turnover rate among nursing staff, including RNs, LPNs and nurse aides.
Registered nurse turnover
33%
Most recent standard health inspection
October 7, 2021
Health deficiencies, most recent inspection
1
Number of fines
0
How many fines this nursing home received; CMS's penalties data covers fines and payment denials from the last three years.
Total fines
$0
The total amount of those fines in dollars, over the same three-year penalties window.
Payment denials
0
Total penalties
0
Changed ownership in the last 12 months
No

Source: CMS Care Compare, Nursing Home Provider Information, file dated September 30, 2026. Blank measures are ones CMS did not publish for this nursing home.

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Where this data comes from

Ratings and quality measures on this page come from CMS Care Compare, Nursing Home Provider Information. They are Medicare's assessments, not ours. We report the federal figures as published, with the file's own date, and we do not compute a score of our own or rank one facility against another.

CMS suppresses some measures for small facilities, so a blank is missing data rather than a poor result. Ratings are refreshed each quarter from the source file. Confirm anything that matters directly with the facility before you act on it.

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