Belvedere Nursing and Rehabilitation Center
2600 Park Ave, Hot Springs AR 71901 · (501) 321-4276 · 63.54% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Reese
Belvedere Nursing and Rehabilitation Center is an average-sized nursing home located in Hot Springs, Arkansas. This nursing home was given a strong overall grade of B, making it ranked among the three highest graded facilities in the city. You could definitely do much worse than this facility. Fortunately, this nursing home didn't have any poor grades in any of the major categories. Additional information about these categories is available below.
Additional Details:
Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 110 Beds
CCRC :
For profit - Limited Liability company
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Family Council:
Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Long-term Care Quality
To pair with its strong overall grade, we gave this facility a grade of A+ for our long-term care rating. Long-term care ratings in this range generally require both around the clock care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine medical care. One of the factors we considered in addition to this nursing home's quality nursing hours was vaccines. This facility administered the pneumonia vaccine to 98.8764 percent of its patients. Vaccines are a great way to avoid unnecessary deaths and hospitalizations for the elderly. Finally, we looked at its number of hospitalizations. Although it had 2.59 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, its risk adjusted metric was middle of the road since it had more complex patients.
Facility Inspections
In addition, this nursing home earned excellent health inspections in recent years. We gave them one of our better scores in that area, with a grade of A. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in calculating our inspection grades. One of those factors is deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of these deficiencies is usually more meaningful than the quantity of deficiencies, as some of these can be quite insignificant. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
Nurse Quality
This facility's next best category was its nursing grade, where it received a grade of B-. While this didn't quite match its scores in some of the categories discussed above, this is still a decent score. We analyzed the skill-level of nurses employed by the facility, in addition to the quantity of hours those nurses spent with patients, in computing our grade in this area. This nursing home offers extremely high levels of nursing care, averaging 4.2 hours per patient daily. This is well above average. Lastly, we also factored some quality measures into our nursing grades. Specifically, we looked at the percent of residents who sustained pressure ulcers and major falls. We view these datapoints as reliable indicators of the quality of nursing care, since better care tends to reduce these problems.
Short-term Care Quality
Switching gears to the fourth area, this nursing home was given a C for short-term care, which we consider to be a respectable score. In calculating our short-term care grades, we look at a nursing home's levels of highly skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other licensed professionals. This area is frequently a fair assessment of a nursing home's rehabilitation services. We were pleased to find that this nursing home employs both registered nurses and physical therapists. The same can't be said for all nursing homes. The final statistic we considered in this category is the number of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that just 36.4 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home, which is actually below average.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Belvedere Nursing and Rehabilitation Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This metric is an indication of the percentage of long-term care patients who have new or worsened pressure ulcers . We use this statistic in calculating both nursing and long-term care grades.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This indicates the percentage of patients that suffered from a major fall. Falls leading to serious injuries are considered by many experts to be a measure of the quality of nursing care at a nursing home. Falls are often the result of poor nursing care.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This is the percent of residents who suffered from a urinary tract infection. These infections are linked to poorer hygiene.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This is a measure of the percentage of long-term patients receiving antipsychotic drugs. While antipsychotic drugs play an important role in caring for many residents, it is important to make sure these medications are being used only where medically required. In limited cases, high levels of antipsychotic drug use may mean a facility is using these drugs to subdue residents.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This figure is an indication of the percentage of long-term care patients that were given antianxiety drugs. These drugs are generally prescribed to patients suffering from depression and anxiety.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This datapoint measures the percentage of long-term care patients exhibiting symptoms of depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This indicates the percent of patients that received the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be the norm at this point.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This is the percent of patients that needed increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of dependence on staff for assistance with activities of daily living may be a sign of decline of a resident's health.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This is a measure of the percent of long-term stay patients that remained mobile levels.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
Measures the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of patient care. Avoiding hospitalizations is critical to maintaining the physical health of nursing home residents.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
Measures the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term care.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This indicates the number of emergency room visits per 1,000 days of short-term care. There is typically a correlation between keeping patients out of the emergency room and the overall quality of nursing home care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This indicates the percentage of short-term residents that saw functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better