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Fianna Hills Nursing and Rehabilitation Center

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Updated Apr 1, 2023 by Nick Lata

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8411 South 28th Street,
Fort Smith AR 72908

(479) 648-9600

90% estimated occupancy ¹

Fianna Hills Nursing and Rehabilitation Center is a senior living facility located in Fort Smith, Arkansas. This city has 90,141 people. This is a decent nursing home with a B- overall grade. This grade is right in line with the city grade in Fort Smith. You could definitely do worse than this facility. More information on this facility's category grades is available below. Its best category was long-term care, which is addressed in the next section.

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Quick Details

Accepts Medicare ¹
Accepts Medicaid ¹
Is CCRC
Has Resident Council
No Family Council
For profit - Limited Liability company
Offers Hospice
Offers Respite Care
Offers Inpatient Rehab

Specialized Services

Personal Care
Medication Management
Home Making
Transportation
Dialysis Transportation
Medical Transportation
Speech Therapy
IV Antibiotic Therapy
Dentistry
Wound Care
Occupational Therapy
Podiatry
Mental Health
Diabetes Management
Physical Therapy
Nutritional Counseling
Laboratory
X-Ray
Recreational Therapy
Pain Management
Optometry
Audiology
Colostomy Care
Catheter Care
Total Parenteral Nutrition

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Registered Staff Hours

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Long-term Care Quality

We want to point out that this place received a much better grade for long-term care than it did overall. In fact, we gave it one of our best grades in that category with an A. When facilities receive this kind of grade in long-term care it is usually a good sign for patient care and indicates that the facility is well-staffed with nurses aids. In addition to looking at the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility administered the vaccine to 98.14815 percent of its residents. Vaccines are critical to keeping residents healthy. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. It had only 0.03 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

Facility Inspections

We also want to emphasize this facility's nearly flawless inspections in recent years. We awarded them an impressive grade of A- in this area. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in determining our inspection grades. One of those factors is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of deficiencies is usually more meaningful than the quantity of deficiencies, as some can be relatively insignificant. This place was assessed 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none were considered to be severe deficiencies. This means that the government inspectors did not consider any of these deficiencies an immediate risk to resident health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

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Short-term Care Quality

We awarded this facility just a D for our short-term care grade. This is well below average in this category. In determining these short-term care grades, we quantify the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. Our goal is to devise a barometer for sizing up the rehabilitation services of different nursing homes. It looks like this facility was below average in terms of its quantity of registered nurse and physical therapy hours offered to its residents based on the metrics we assessed. The last datapoint we considered in this category is the percentage of patients that ultimately were able to return home from the nursing home. This facility struggled quite a bit in this area as well, with just 5 percent of its residents returning home. Unfortunately, this was well below average.

Nurse Quality

The last category we assessed was nursing. Sadly, it received an F for this area, which is an abysmal score. This is clearly a significant disappointment. Our nursing category analyzes quite a few subcategories, most of which are based on levels of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in calculating our nursing ratings. This nursing home performed well when it comes to avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these metrics to be indicators of the quality of nursing care.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

Fianna Hills Nursing and Rehabilitation Center Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

In Fianna Hills Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, 8.4% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This tells you the percentage of patients that suffered from a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are considered by many experts to be a measure of the quality of nursing care at a nursing home. Pressure ulcers, also referred to as bed sores, are often the result of patients not being moved frequently enough.

Minimizes Serious Falls

In Fianna Hills Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, 4.03% of Patients had Serious Falls

This is the percent of patients who have had a major fall. Falls resulting in major injury are routinely the result of lower levels of patient supervision. Additional nurse staffing can minimize the percentage of residents in a nursing home who sustain major falls.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

In Fianna Hills Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, 2.26% of Patients had UTIs

This metric is an indication of the percentage of long-term stay residents who have had urinary tract infections. UTI's may be an indicator of lower quality nursing care. However, this statistic can also be skewed for certain nursing homes due to inconsistent reporting standards for urinary tract infections.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

In Fianna Hills Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, 12.36% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This tells you the percent of residents given antipsychotic drugs. While antipsychotic medications may be vital to many patients, it is important to make sure these medications are being used appropriately. In limited situations, high levels of antipsychotic drug use may suggest that a nursing home is using these medications to control patient behavior.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

In Fianna Hills Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, 21.54% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This datapoint gauges the percentage of long-term care patients receiving antianxiety medications.

Managing Depression Among Residents

In Fianna Hills Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, 2.24% of Patients

This indicates the percent of residents who are exhibiting symptoms of depression.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

In Fianna Hills Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, 95.33% of Patients

This tells you the percentage of patients that were given the pneumonia and flu vaccines. High vaccination rates should be demanded by residents.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

In Fianna Hills Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, 12.13% Percentage of Patients

This indicates the percent of patients that required more assistance with activities of daily living over time. High levels of dependence on staff for assistance with ADL's could indicate decline of a patient's medical condition.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

In Fianna Hills Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, 10.57% Percentage of Residents

This metric measures the percentage of long-term care patients who remained mobile levels. Many in the industry believe that the ability to move around is important for residents' physical and mental well-being.

Hospitalizations

In Fianna Hills Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, 1.97 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days

This is the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of care.

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

In Fianna Hills Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, 10.57 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized

This datapoint measures the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.

Short-term Care: ER Visits

In Fianna Hills Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, 13.36 Percentage of Patients

This tells you the number of emergency room visits per 1,000 days of short-term care.

Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement

In Fianna Hills Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, 78.15% Percentage of Resident

This tells you the percentage of short-term patients who saw functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living.

Scores for Fort Smith, AR

Overall Rating has a grade of B-minus
Nurse Rating has a grade of C
Long-term Care Rating has a grade of A-minus
Short-term Care Rating has a grade of D
Inspection Rating has a grade of B-plus

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Nearby Hospitals

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