Davis Life Care Center
6810 South Hazel, Pine Bluff AR 71603 · (870) 541-0342 · 44.57% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Reese
Davis Life Care Center is located in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, a city with a total of 51,670 people. This is a well below average nursing home, with an overall grade of D. Unfortunately, this grade was right in line with the city grade in Pine Bluff, which is also very poor. If you aren't deterred by this facility's report card, feel free to continue reading to learn more about its category grades. We discuss nursing in the next paragraph.
Additional Details:
Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 177 Beds
CCRC :
Non profit - Corporation
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Family Council:
Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Nurse Quality
Although we were not high on this facility overall, we gave it an A- for our nursing rating. This grade is much better than the facility's overall grade. We looked at the qualifications of nurses at the nursing home, in addition to the number of hours the nurses were with residents, in determining our score in this category. This nursing home offers high levels of nursing care, averaging 4 hours per patient on a daily basis. This is more nursing care than most nursing homes provide. Finally, this nursing home appears to be above average in several of the major quality measures we assessed in this category. It fared well in terms of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers.
Long-term Care Quality
This facility's second best area turned out to be its long-term care score, where it was awarded a B-. Our long-term care grade assesses a nursing home's personal care instead of the skilled nursing or healthcare services that are critical to a skilled nursing facility. Although we determined this nursing home had an impressive quantity of nursing hours provided by aids and other nursing staff, we found its vaccination rate to be somewhat slightly lower than we anticipated. This facility administered the pneumonia vaccine to just 88.98809 percent of its residents. This is one figure we'd really like to see this nursing home improve. The last datapoint we looked at was the nursing home's hospitalization rate. We found that this place had a relatively high 3.23 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. Neither its vaccination record nor its hospitalization rate were strengths for this place in this category.
Facility Inspections
This nursing home received slightly below average inspections in recent years. We awarded them a grade of C in this category. Our inspection ratings are based on several pieces of information found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Deficiencies are an important thing to look for on these reports. Severe deficiencies indicate a risk to the well being of residents. To our surprise, this nursing home had a category J through K deficiency, which are some of the worst deficiencies. This often indicates CMS identified a deficiency which placed resident health or safety in immediate danger. Finally, we do need to point out that this place has received some government fines recently. We were relieved to find that these fines were on the lower end of the spectrum. Nevertheless, this still is not what we hoped to see.
Short-term Care Quality
The last category we scored is short-term care, which was this nursing home's worst area. We gave this facility a grade of D in that area. Short-term care grades are based in part on the nursing home's quantity of skilled nursing services. This means a vast spectrum of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, in addition to other types of therapy. Considering its score in this category, we were not surprised to learn that this facility is well below average in terms of the number of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its patients based on the metrics we looked at. Finally, we assessed the percentage of patients that who were able to eventually return home from this nursing home. This nursing home didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 14.3 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Davis Life Care Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This is the percent of residents who have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers, also called bed sores, are routinely caused by patients staying in one position for too long. Better nursing protocols limits the number of pressure ulcers sustained by residents in a nursing home.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This is an indication of the percentage of long-term stay patients which have had a fall resulting in severe injury. Falls can arise for a variety of reasons, but excessive numbers of falls may be a sign of poor nursing care.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This tells you the percentage of patients that suffered from a urinary tract infection. These infections are sometimes associated with insufficient hygiene.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This tells you the percentage of residents who were prescribed antipsychotic drugs. Antipsychotic medications are given to residents for many conditions, including cognitive disorders. Tragically, in limited situations, excessive reliance on these medications may mean that a nursing home is using these medications to control patient behavior.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This is an indication of the percentage of long-term residents taking antianxiety medications.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This metric measures the percent of long-term stay residents who are exhibiting depressive symptoms. Some experts argue that this is a measure of quality of life.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
Measures the percentage of long-term patients that were administered the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be deadly for nursing home patients, making these vaccines vital to patient safety.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This tells you the percent of residents that needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of dependence on staff for assistance with activities of daily living could be a sign of the erosion of a resident's well-being.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This tells you the percent of patients who were able to retain mobility over time. Retaining mobility is usually a good sign for residents' well-being.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This is the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This datapoint measures the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term care. Avoiding the hospital during rehabilitation is key to restoring the health of patients.
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 patient care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This tells you the percent of short-term care residents that saw functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. High levels of autonomy with ADL's usually correlates with higher quality rehabilitation services.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better