Bear Creek Healthcare is the lone nursing home we identified in De Queen, Arkansas. This proved to be a quality facility, with an overall grade of B. You can definitely do much worse than this facility. This facility's strong profile was highlighted by its inspection score, which you can find in the next section.
Bear Creek Healthcare
- Nursing Home
Updated Sep 1, 2022 by Nick Reese
Quick Details
- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Limited Liability company
Specialized Services
- Speech Therapy
- Occupational Therapy
Registered Staff Hours
Facility Inspections
In addition to earning a strong overall score, this nursing home fared even better in our inspections category which is based on the nursing home's recent government inspection reports. We gave it a grade of A- for this category, which is one of our best grades. Our inspection ratings are tied to several pieces of information located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that excel in this area have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. Fortunately, although this place had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you the inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. The fact that none of the deficiencies were severe leaves us less concerned with this inspection report.
Long-term Care Quality
This facility also was awarded a strong long-term care score. Indeed, we gave it an above average grade of B+ in this category. Nursing homes that receive this kind of score in long-term care tend to provide consistent around the clock care to make sure patients are kept in good health. One of the statistics we considered in addition to nursing hours was vaccines. This facility provided the pneumonia vaccine to 100 percent of its residents. Vaccination is a proven method to minimize unnecessary hospitalizations for the nursing home population. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. It had only 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.
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Nurse Quality
Adding to its profile, this facility also earned a grade of B for its nursing rating. This is a well above average score in this category. Our nursing category assesses quite a few components, most of which are based on levels of nurse staffing. This facility provided 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This facility performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a place has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can frequently be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.
Short-term Care Quality
The final category we scored was short-term care. For this category, we gave this nursing home a C. Our short-term care ratings are based in part on the nursing home's quantity of skilled skilled healthcare professionals. This includes a wide scope of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, in addition to other types of therapy. We were not able to locate information about this nursing home's registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. The final metric we looked at in this area is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return home. We discovered that just 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home, which is below average.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Bear Creek Healthcare Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Bear Creek Healthcare, 8.16% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This datapoint indicates the percent of long-term patients who have new or worsened pressure ulcers. We find that pressure ulcers are an indicator of nursing care quality.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Bear Creek Healthcare, 4% of Patients had Serious Falls
This figure tells you the percent of long-term patients that experienced a fall which resulted in severe injury. We use this statistic in computing our nursing grades.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Bear Creek Healthcare, 2.3% of Patients had UTIs
This is the percent of residents that suffered from a urinary tract infection. UTI's are routinely associated with nursing homes with worse hygiene protocols. More frequent bathing can reduce the number of UTI's sustained by residents in a nursing home. We want to point out that this metric is sometimes skewed by the fact that nursing homes have varying reporting standards for urinary tract infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Bear Creek Healthcare, 12.13% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This indicates the percentage of patients who were prescribed antipsychotic medications. While antipsychotic medications may be helpful for many patients, it is important to ensure these medications are being used appropriately. In some situations, excessive reliance on these medications may suggest that a facility is using these drugs to control patient behavior.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Bear Creek Healthcare, 21.55% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This indicates the percent of residents who were prescribed antianxiety medications. Antianxiety drugs are given to residents suffering from depression or anxiety.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Bear Creek Healthcare, 2.07% of Patients
Measures the percentage of long-term care patients showing signs of depression. Many in the industry believe that this is a measure of patient quality of care.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Bear Creek Healthcare, 95.87% of Patients
This metric measures the percentage of long-term patients who were vaccinated against pneumonia and flu.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Bear Creek Healthcare, 11.98% Percentage of Patients
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term patients who needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as taking medications and continence.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Bear Creek Healthcare, 12.63% Percentage of Residents
This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay patients that remained mobile levels. Some believe that the ability to move around is critical to residents' health.
Hospitalizations
In Bear Creek Healthcare, 1.81 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This datapoint is a measure of the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of patient care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Bear Creek Healthcare, 12.63 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Measures the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Bear Creek Healthcare, 12.62 Percentage of Patients
This is a measure of the number of emergency room visits per 1,000 days of short-term care. Staying out of the emergency room is one way to assess short-term care.