Arkansas State Veterans Home at North Little Rock
2401 John Ashley Drive, North Little Rock AR 72114 · (501) 683-2382 · 95% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Reese
Located in North Little Rock, Arkansas, Arkansas State Veterans Home at North Little Rock is one of five nursing homes in this city. We awarded this nursing home an overall grade of C. A grade in this range requires some solid marks. This place seems to have some things working in its favor. The best part of this place's report card is is its nursing grade. We discuss nursing in the next paragraph.
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Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 96 Beds
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Nurse Quality
The main thing salvaging this nursing home's profile is its elite nursing score. In fact, we gave this facility a grade of A- in that category. We looked at the qualifications of nurses at the nursing home, in addition to the number of hours those nurses were with residents, in computing our score in this category. This nursing home offers high levels of nursing care, with an average of 5 hours per patient each day. This is more nursing care than most nursing homes provide. Lastly, we also factored a few quality measures into our nursing scores. This nursing home was on the weaker side in two of the major datapoints we assess, with below average figures for minimizing its patients' pressure ulcers and major falls. These areas are generally reliable indicators of the quality of nursing care offered.
Short-term Care Quality
Another one of this nursing home's higher category scores was in the area of short-term care. In that area, we gave this nursing home a grade of B+. Short-term care grades are often used to gauge a facility's rehabilitation services. To have good rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally need to have better levels of highly skilled nursing. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other types of therapists. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not every nursing home employs these types of nurses. However, based on the data this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The final statistic we considered in this area is the number of patients who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We discovered that 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.
Long-term Care Quality
This facility received its next highest category grade in the category of long-term care. We gave this facility a C in this category, which is a respectable grade. Our long-term care grade focuses on a nursing home's personal care rather than the highly skilled therapy or healthcare services that are critical to a rehabilitation facility. While we determined this nursing home has a favorable volume of nursing hours provided by nurses aids and other nursing staff, we found its vaccine statistics to be somewhat below average. This facility gave the pneumonia vaccine to just 35.060974 percent of its patients. This is one statistic we would like to see this nursing home bring up. Nevertheless, this place keeps its residents out of the hospital. It had only 1.37 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days.
Facility Inspections
Moving on the final category of inspections, this nursing home did not fare well. It received an F in our inspection category. This dragged this facility's overall grade down as we heavily weight this category. You should pay special attention to any deficiencies on a facility's inspection reports when it receives this poor of an inspection score. We recommend you pay close attention to the level of severity of those deficiencies. This nursing home was hit with 4 deficiencies on its inspection report. The only positive thing we can say is that none of these deficiencies were in the categories that indicate they caused a risk to resident safety or health. Lastly, we also would like to point out that this nursing home received significant government fines recently exceeding $50,000. This usually signifies that inspectors grew tired after several years of bad health inspections.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Arkansas State Veterans Home at North Little Rock Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This datapoint gauges the percent of long-term care residents who suffer from pressure ulcers. We find that pressure ulcers are a great indicator of nursing care quality.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This indicates the percentage of patients who sustained a major fall. Falls leading to severe injuries are considered to be a measure of the quality of nursing care . Major falls resulting in injury are often the result of poor nursing care.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This indicates the percent of residents who have had a urinary tract infection. Urinary tract infections are often linked to poor nursing care. Closer supervision can reduce the number likelihood of residents sustaining infections. Keep in mind that this statistic is sometimes skewed by the fact that facilities have varying reporting standards for UTI's.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This tells you the percent of patients given antipsychotic drugs. Antipsychotic medications are given to residents for a variety of conditions, including Alzheimer's or other dementias. Unfortunately, in limited cases, increased usage of these drugs may mean that a facility is using these medications to control patient behavior.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This statistic tells you the percent of long-term patients taking antianxiety drugs.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This indicates the percent of residents exhibiting symptoms of depression. High levels of depression could be an indicator lower quality care.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This is the percentage of patients who were administered the pneumonia and flu vaccines. High vaccination rates should be the norm at this point.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This tells you the percent of residents that needed additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of needing for assistance with ADL's could be a sign of erosion of a patient's health.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This indicates the percentage of residents who remained mobile levels over time. Preserving mobility can be a great sign for residents' health.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This indicates the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of patient care. There is generally a correlation between avoiding hospitalizations and the quality of nursing home care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This metric tracks the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term patient care. Keeping residents out of the hospital during rehabilitation is key to restoring the physical abilities of patients.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better