Conway Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center

Conway Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center is an average-sized non-profit nursing home in Conway, Arkansas. This nursing home turns out to be a middle of the pack facility, with an overall grade of C. Based on our assessment, this nursing home likely wouldn't be a bad choice. One of the best aspects of this facility's profile is its exemplary inspection grade, which we will address in the next paragraph.

The main reason this nursing home received a decent overall score is its impeccable health inspections in recent years. We awarded them one of our higher grades in that area, with an A. This is a much better grade than the facility's overall grade, which was decent but not in the elite range. These inspection grades weigh several factors, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these factors by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. We were not able to track down deficiency counts for this nursing home. We would like to have more data for this nursing home. Without having access to the deficiency related data, it was difficult to really grade it in the inspections category.

One of this facility's better category grades came in the category of short-term care. This wound up being its second most respectable category. In that category, we gave this facility a grade of C. In the area of short-term care, we seek to qualify indicators of a facility's rehabilitation. We look at a nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as the ones performed by registered nurses and physical, occupational and other therapists. Fortunately, this nursing home offers both physical therapists and registered nurses. Not all facilities offer both. Lastly, we considered the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that it performed decently in this area, with 48.9 percent of its residents returning home.

This nursing home's next best category ended up being long-term care. In that category, we awarded this facility a grade of C. In the area of long-term care, we focus more on the quantity of services provided by a facility, as opposed to more healthcare-oriented services. Even though we determined this facility had an impressive volume of nursing care provided by nurses and other nursing staff, we found its vaccine statistics to be somewhat slightly lower than we anticipated. This nursing home administered the pneumonia vaccine to just 84.166664 percent of its residents. This is one statistic we would really like to see this facility improve on. On a more positive note, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0.28 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

Turning to the next area, we awarded this nursing home a grade of D in our nursing category. This is the facility's least impressive category score. There are many criteria within this area. Most of the criteria are tied to staffing levels. According to CMS records, this facility averaged 3.9 hours of nursing care per patient per day. This was actually above the national average. Keep in mind, however, that when we compute our nursing ratings, we apply more weight to hours performed by nurses with a higher level of skill. Despite performing well in terms of nursing hours, this place was a bit less impressive in some of the quality-based measures we looked at in determining our nursing grades. We looked at the percent of residents sustaining pressure ulcers and found that this nursing home was at roughly 150 percent of the national average in this statistic. This is likely a bad sign when you consider that many bed sores are believed to be preventable with better nursing care. Unfortunately, this statistic pulled down this nursing home's nursing grade substantially.