Located in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, Davis Life Care Center is one of four available nursing homes in this city. This facility received an F, which is just about as bad as it gets in our grading scheme. Pine Bluff received a city grade of C, so there are some other options in the city worth looking at. More information on this nursing home's category grades may be found below. Its best category was nursing, which is addressed in the next paragraph.
Davis Life Care Center
- Nursing Home
Updated Jun 1, 2022 by Nick Lata
Quick Details
- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- Has Family Council
- Non profit - Corporation
Specialized Services
- Speech Therapy
Registered Staff Hours
Nurse Quality
Although we gave this nursing home an abysmal overall grade, we gave it a B- for our nursing rating. We weighed the levels of nurses employed by the nursing home, as well as the quantity of hours the nurses worked with patients, in calculating our rating in this category. This facility provides only 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient daily. This is a somewhat concerning figure which is well below average. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this nursing home fared better in some of the quality measures we assessed. In fact, it performed well when it comes to avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers.
Facility Inspections
Interestingly, this facility's terrible overall score can't really be attributed to its inspection reports. We gave it a grade of C for inspections. We would argue that one of the most critical factors in assessing an inspection report is deficiencies. We especially focus on the severity of those deficiencies. To our surprise, this nursing home was assessed a category J through K deficiency, which are some of the worst deficiencies. This often indicates that the government inspectors uncovered a deficiency which places patient safety or health in immediate danger. Unfortunately, we also need to draw your attention to the fact that this facility received significant government fines in recent years.
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Short-term Care Quality
As it turns out, this nursing home only earned a D for its short-term care rating, which is well below average in this category. Our short-term care grades are based on a nursing home's quantity of highly-skilled highly skilled professionals. This includes a broad range of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, not to mention other variations of therapy. Not surprisingly, we found that this nursing home provides far less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than the average facility. Lastly, we assessed the number of residents who ultimately returned home from this facility. This facility didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 3.8 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home. This figure was quite a bit off the national average.
Long-term Care Quality
The final category we graded is long-term care. We gave it a lowly F in this area, which is a bottom of the barrel score. Facilities that do not fare well in long-term care typically are not as well-staffed and are lagging in a few of the areas of routine medical care we assessed. After considering the volume of nursing care, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination data. Candidly, we were a bit worried that this facility vaccinated a relatively low 18.783068 percent of its patients against pneumonia. To our surprise, this nursing home was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this facility had fewer hospitalizations than the majority of nursing homes. This was its best score in this category.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Davis Life Care Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Davis Life Care Center, 8.46% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term patients that suffer from new or worsened pressure ulcers . We bake this statistic into our nursing grades.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Davis Life Care Center, 3.98% of Patients had Serious Falls
This datapoint indicates the percentage of long-term care patients that suffered a fall resulting in major injury. This is one of the statistics we use in calculating nursing grades.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Davis Life Care Center, 2.34% of Patients had UTIs
This tells you the percentage of patients who sustained a urinary tract infection. These infections are sometimes associated with insufficient hygiene.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Davis Life Care Center, 12.35% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This figure gauges the percentage of long-term care patients taking antipsychotic drugs. While antipsychotic drugs play an important role in caring for many residents, it is important to ensure these medications are being used appropriately. In limited cases, increased usage of these drugs may mean that a nursing home is using these medications to subdue residents.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Davis Life Care Center, 21.53% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This tells you the percent of residents prescribed antianxiety drugs. Antianxiety drugs are prescribed to patients suffering from depression and anxiety.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Davis Life Care Center, 2.09% of Patients
This tells you the percentage of patients demonstrating symptoms of depression.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Davis Life Care Center, 95.41% of Patients
This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term patients that have received the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be very dangerous for nursing home patients, making these types of vaccines vital to patient safety.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Davis Life Care Center, 12.37% Percentage of Patients
This indicates the percent of residents who needed additional assistance with activities of daily living over time.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Davis Life Care Center, 14.1% Percentage of Residents
This datapoint measures the percent of long-term stay patients that retained mobility levels. Many would argue that the ability to move around is critical to patients health.
Hospitalizations
In Davis Life Care Center, 1.79 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This indicates the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of patient care. There is generally a correlation between avoiding hospitalizations and the quality of care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Davis Life Care Center, 14.1 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
This is a measure of the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term care. Avoiding the hospital during rehabilitation is important to restoring the physical abilities of residents.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Davis Life Care Center, 12.92 Percentage of Patients
This is a measure of the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term patient care. Avoiding emergency medical situations is one way to measure the well-being of patients during rehabilitation.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Davis Life Care Center, 77.59% Percentage of Resident
This datapoint is a measure of the percent of short-term care residents that saw functional improvements.
Scores for Pine Bluff, AR
- Overall Rating has a grade of C
- Nurse Rating has a grade of B-minus
- Long-term Care Rating has a grade of B-minus
- Short-term Care Rating has a grade of D
- Inspection Rating has a grade of B
Looking for more options? Pine Bluff, Arkansas has 3 other nursing homes
Nearby Hospitals
- Jefferson Regional Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 2.35 miles away1600 West 40th Avenue Pine Bluff Arkansas 71603Voluntary non-profit - Private(870) 541-7100
Nearby Dialysis
- Us Renal Care - Pine Bluff3.22 miles away2800 W 28th St Pine Bluff Arkansas 71603CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 24 (870) 534-7400
- Fmcna - Pine Bluff5 miles away2910 Market St Pine Bluff Arkansas 71601CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 26 (870) 536-8050