There are 6 nursing homes located in Fort Smith, Arkansas, providing for a population of 90,141 people. We gave this city a respectable city grade of B- based on the quality of its nursing homes. This is just about average by national standards, which is nothing to be ashamed of. This city was better in some categories than others, but it didn't have terrible grades in any of our major categories discussed below. Additional information about its category grades can be found in the next section.
While its overall score was fairly ordinary, we awarded this city's nursing homes an A- for our inspections rating. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in calculating these inspection scores. One of those factors is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of deficiencies is arguably more important than the number of deficiencies, as some of these are quite insignificant. Fort Smith also fared well in the area of health long-term care with a B+. In our final two categories, we gave the city a C for its nursing grade and a C in short-term care.