Covington Court Health and Rehabilitation Center
4500 Old Greenwood Rd, Fort Smith AR 72903 · (479) 646-5700 · 89.71% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Lata
Covington Court Health and Rehabilitation Center is a large nursing home located in Fort Smith, Arkansas. We gave this facility an overall grade of C. A score in this range requires some respectable marks. Based on our assessment, there are definitely much worse nursing homes out there. We were also pleased to discover that this facility was consistent in each of the major categories we assessed. More information about its category grades can be found below.
Additional Details:
Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 140 Beds
CCRC :
For profit - Limited Liability company
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Family Council:
Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Short-term Care Quality
This nursing home's short-term care rating is notably more impressive than its overall score. Due to a strong performance in this category, it received one of our better scores in that category with a B+. Short-term care scores are critical for people seeking rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally requires additional highly-skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes a vast scope of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. One of this nursing home's strengths is physical therapy hours. We found that it offers more hours with physical therapists to its residents than most facilities. Finally, we looked at the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that it outperformed the majority of facilities in the country in this area with 55.9 percent of its patients able to return home.
Facility Inspections
This nursing home's inspection grade also was better than its overall score. Due to a quality inspection report this year, it earned one of our better scores in that area with a B. Inspection scores weigh several factors, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can find more information about each of these items by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this nursing home had a few minor dings on its report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those found in categories G through L. This means the government inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A couple minor deficiencies shouldn't lead you to cross a nursing home off your list.
Long-term Care Quality
The third most favorable category we gave this facility in any area came in the area of long-term care, where we awarded it a grade of C. For residents in need of a permanent residence rather than skilled nursing, long-term care is a very important category. In addition to considering the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility administered the vaccine to 98.907104 percent of its patients, which is more than most nursing homes. Unfortunately, this nursing home's hospitalization rate was not quite as favorable. We found that this place had 2.73 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days.
Nurse Quality
The next area we looked at was nursing. This facility received a C for the area. There are quite a few factors included in this area. Many of these factors reflect nurse staffing. This nursing home offers extremely high levels of nursing care, averaging 4.2 hours per resident per day. This is well above average. Finally, we also factored a few quality measures into our nursing scores. This nursing home fared poorly in two of the areas we focus on, with below average marks for minimizing its patients' pressure ulcers and major falls. These areas are often pretty good indicators of the quality of nursing care provided.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Covington Court Health and Rehabilitation Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This tells you the percent of patients who have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers, also known as bed sores, are often the result of residents not being moved frequently enough. Better nursing care can limit the percentage of residents in a nursing home who sustain pressure ulcers.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This datapoint gauges the percent of long-term residents which sustained falls leading to severe injury. Falls can happen for a variety of reasons, but high rates of major falls could be an indicator of lower levels of patient supervision.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term patients who had a urinary tract infection. Although more of these infections could reflect poorly on a nursing home's nursing care, it can be difficult to compare between facilities due to differing reporting standards.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This tells you the percentage of patients given antipsychotic drugs. While antipsychotic medications may be vital to many patients, it is important to ensure these drugs are being used appropriately. In limited cases, excessive reliance on these medications may suggest that a nursing home is using these drugs to subdue residents.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This is the percent of residents who were prescribed antianxiety medications. These drugs are used to treat patients suffering from anxiety or depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This is the percentage of patients who are exhibiting signs of depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This is the percentage of patients that received the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be the norm at this point.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term patients who needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as dressing and bathing.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This datapoint is a measure of the percent of long-term care patients who were able to retain mobility. Many in the industry believe that the ability to move around is critical to residents' health.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This is a measure of the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of patient care. Keeping residents out of the hospital is important to maintaining the physical health of residents.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This datapoint measures the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term resident care. Keeping residents out of the hospital during rehabilitation is important to restoring the health of residents.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
Measures the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This metric is a measure of the percentage of short-term stay residents who saw functional improvements.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better