Baptist Health Medical Center-Little Rock

One of the many reasons this turned out to be a quality nursing home is that it received an A+ inspection grade. This is simply as good as it gets in this critical category. Arguably the most significant factor we consider in computing our inspection ratings is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes with higher scores in this area typically avoided the more severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. Amazingly, this was one of the few nursing homes in the country that had no deficiencies whatsoever on its inspection report. This is very impressive. You really can't do much better than a deficiency-free inspection report.

This nursing home fared well in the area of short-term care. Indeed, we gave it a grade of A for that category, which is one of our most impressive grades. In the category of short-term care, we seek to evaluate measures of a nursing home's rehabilitation. We analyze the facility's skilled nursing services, such as the ones performed by registered nurses and various therapists. Unfortunately, it does not appear that this facility provided information about its staffing of registered nurses or physical therapists. Finally, we looked at the percentage of residents that returned home from this nursing home. We found that 6.8 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

Another strong feature for this facility is that it received an impressive nursing grade. In that area, we awarded this facility a grade of B+. The nursing grade includes many factors. The most important factor is the amount of time nurses spent with residents. This facility provided 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This facility performed very well in the area of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

The final area we rated was nursing, turned out to be this facility's weakest category. We gave this facility a grade of D in that area. This really is one of just a couple of dings on a quality profile. Nursing homes that do not fare well in long-term care often do not provide as much nursing care and also may be struggling in some of the areas of routine healthcare services we looked at. One of the data points we considered on top of nursing hours is vaccinations. Unfortunately, it does not appear that this nursing home submitted information on its vaccination levels. Surprisingly, this nursing home actually fared well at keeping its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had just 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. This is its best score in this category.