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Fort Smith Health and Rehabilitation Center

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Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Lata

Historical Rating
Grade: C
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5301 Wheeler Avenue,
Fort Smith AR 72901

(479) 646-3454

95.47% estimated occupancy 1

Fort Smith Health and Rehabilitation Center is an average-sized nursing home located in Fort Smith, Arkansas. This facility an acceptable overall rating of C, making it ranked among the top three facilities in the city. You could certainly do worse than this facility. You should also take a look at this facility's category grades below. We discuss long-term care in the next paragraph.

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Quick Details

  • Accepts Medicare 1
  • Accepts Medicaid 1
  • No CCRC
  • Has Resident Council
  • Has Family Council
  • For profit - Limited Liability company

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Long-term Care Quality

Grade: B-plus

We would like to point out that this facility's long-term care rating exceeded its overall grade. This facility earned a B+ in this category. For long-term care residents, the facility's primary objective is to maintain residents' quality of life and keep them safe. On top of assessing the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home gave the vaccine to 91.784035 percent of its residents, which is a bit less than we expected. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

Facility Inspections

Grade: B-plus

Inspections is another category where this facility excelled. We awarded this facility a grade of B+ for our inspections category. This score is far more impressive than its overall grade. Arguably the most important factor we consider in calculating our inspection ratings is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places with higher scores in this category most likely avoided the more severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. Fortunately, although this facility had some minor dings on its report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G through L. This means that CMS did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A couple of minor deficiencies shouldn't lead you to cross a nursing home off your list.

Short-term Care Quality

Grade: D

This facility's second worse category is short-term care, where it received a grade of just D in that category. This is a relatively poor grade. Short-term care grades are vital for individuals needing rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually requires more highly-skilled nursing. This means a wide spectrum of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. Considering its poor score in this area, we were not stunned to learn that this facility provides significantly fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per patient than most facilities. Finally, we assessed the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that just 0 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

Nurse Quality

Grade: D

The next area we assessed was nursing, which turned out to be this facility's worst category. We awarded this nursing home a grade of D in that area. Nursing ratings are based largely on levels of nurse staffing. This place offered a meager 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident daily. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. Finally, we also looked at some quality measures in computing our nursing scores. This facility was above average in two of the data points we considered, with good scores for avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. These statistics are generally reliable indicators of the quality of nursing care offered.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

FDCB-BB+A-AA+Oct 18Dec 23

Fort Smith Health and Rehabilitation Center Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

Grade: B-plus

In Fort Smith Health and Rehabilitation Center, 5.78% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This gauges the percentage of long-term residents that suffered from pressure ulcers . We use this statistic in calculating our nursing grades.

Minimizes Serious Falls

Grade: B

In Fort Smith Health and Rehabilitation Center, 3.05% of Patients had Serious Falls

This datapoint indicates the percentage of long-term patients that experienced falls resulting in major injury. Falls can happen for a variety of reasons, but high rates of major falls may be an indication of poor nursing care.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

Grade: A+

In Fort Smith Health and Rehabilitation Center, 0% of Patients had UTIs

This statistic gauges the percent of long-term care patients who have suffered from a urinary tract infection. Although more infections could reflect poorly on a facility's nursing care, it is difficult to compare different facilities due to reporting standards.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

Grade: F

In Fort Smith Health and Rehabilitation Center, 34.41% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This figure tells you the percent of long-term patients taking antipsychotic medications. While antipsychotic drugs play an important role in caring for many residents, it is important to ensure these medications are being used appropriately. In some cases, excessive reliance on these medications may indicate that a facility is using these medications to control patient behavior.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

Grade: F

In Fort Smith Health and Rehabilitation Center, 36.48% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This is the percent of patients prescribed antianxiety medications. These medications are commonly given to patients experiencing depression or anxiety.

Managing Depression Among Residents

Grade: C

In Fort Smith Health and Rehabilitation Center, 8.57% of Patients

Measures the percent of long-term care residents who are exhibiting depressive symptoms. Some experts believe that this is a reasonable measure of quality of care.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

Grade: B-minus

In Fort Smith Health and Rehabilitation Center, 95.03% of Patients

This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term residents who received the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be deadly for nursing home patients, making these vaccines critical to patient well-being.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

Grade: A-plus

In Fort Smith Health and Rehabilitation Center, 5.85% of Patients

This indicates the percentage of patients who needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of needing for assistance with ADL's could be a sign of decline of a resident's well-being.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

Grade: F

In Fort Smith Health and Rehabilitation Center, 4.37% of Residents

This metric tracks the percentage of long-term stay residents that remained mobile levels. Some experts argue that the ability to move around is vital to residents' health.

Hospitalizations

Grade: D

In Fort Smith Health and Rehabilitation Center, 0.03 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days

This indicates the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of care.

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

Grade: A-plus

In Fort Smith Health and Rehabilitation Center, 4.37% of Residents Rehospitalized

This datapoint is a measure of the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term resident care. Minimizing rehospitalizations during rehabilitation is critical to restoring the physical abilities of residents.

Short-term Care: ER Visits

Grade: B-minus

In Fort Smith Health and Rehabilitation Center, 13.64% of Patients

This datapoint measures the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term patient care.

Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement

Grade: A-plus

In Fort Smith Health and Rehabilitation Center, 100% of Resident

This metric measures the percent of short-term care residents that saw functional improvements.

Scores for Fort Smith, AR

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

Looking for more options? Fort Smith, Arkansas has 5 other nursing homes

Nearby Hospitals

  • Baptist Health - Fort SmithAcute Care Hospitals 2.8 miles away1001 Towson Avenue Fort Smith Arkansas 72901Proprietary(479) 441-4000
  • Mercy Hospital Fort SmithAcute Care Hospitals 4.42 miles away7301 Rogers Ave Fort Smith Arkansas 72903Voluntary non-profit - Private(479) 314-6000
  • Sparks Medical Center - Van BurenAcute Care Hospitals 8.51 miles away211 Crawford Memorial Drive Van Buren Arkansas 72956Proprietary(479) 474-3401

Nearby Dialysis

  • Ft Smith Regional Dialysis Ctr2.6 miles away2201 Brooken Hill Dr Fort Smith Arkansas 72908CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 55 (479) 755-6700

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Footnotes:

  1. https://www.medicare.gov/nursinghomecompare/profile.html#ID=045345