Diamond Cove

Diamond Cove is an average-sized nursing home in Horseshoe Bend, Arkansas. Featuring an overall grade of C, this looks like a solid nursing home. You could certainly do worse than this facility. One of the highlights of this facility's report card is its strong nursing grade, which we will address in the next section.

This nursing home's nursing grade is more impressive than its overall grade. Due to a strong performance in this area, it received one of our better scores in nursing with a B+. In calculating our nursing scores, we look at both staffing levels and the levels of licensure of those nurses. This nursing home provides 4.7 hours of nursing care per patient per day. This is better than what is offered by most facilities. Lastly, we also factored a few quality-based metrics into our nursing ratings. This facility was relatively weak in several of the metrics we assess, with below average percentages for minimizing its patients' pressure ulcers and major falls. These areas are usually good indicators of the quality of nursing care offered.

We also awarded this facility an impressive score in short-term care. This facility received a grade of B in this category, which is one of our more favorable grades. Our short-term care grades are crucial for people in need of rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually mandates additional skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes a wide spectrum 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 number of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 35.6 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

This nursing home's third most favorable area is its long-term care grade, where it received a grade of B-. Our long-term care grade is generally used to gauge a nursing home's performance as a traditional convalescent home, as opposed to focusing more on the skilled nursing services offered by a skilled nursing facility. After assessing the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination records. We were optimistic to learn that this facility vaccinated 100 percent of its residents for pneumonia. The last datapoint we assessed was its hospitalization rate. Here we found that this nursing home had 4.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. Although this figure is somewhat concerning, this statistic may be skewed for some facilities due to the preexisting medical conditions of patients.

The last category we looked at was inspections. This ended up being this facility's worst grade. We gave it a D in this category. Since this data is collected by government inspectors, we weight it heavily in our assessment. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in determining these inspection grades. One key factor is deficiencies. We suggest you scrutinize the level of severity of those deficiencies. This particular nursing home had 2 deficiencies by government inspectors. The only favorable thing we found is that none of its deficiencies were in the categories that indicate they posed a risk to resident safety or health. Finally, this facility also received 3 substantiated complaints in recent years. This is yet another bad sign.