Hirest Home

Updated May 1, 2022 by Nick Reese

Historical Rating

1111 Maplewood Rd,
Harrison AR 72601

89.41% estimated occupancy ¹

Hirest Home is an average-sized non-profit nursing home in Harrison, Arkansas. This is an A rated facility. This nursing home was given one of the most impressive ratings that we offer. A grade in this range requires top-notch scores across the board. We simply can't say enough good things about this facility. This nursing home was also given strong grades in all of the major categories. More information about these categories can be found below.

Quick Details

Accepts Medicare ¹
Accepts Medicaid ¹
No
Has Resident Council
No Family Council
Non profit - Corporation

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Facility Inspections

In addition to being a great overall grade, this facility also received A+ health inspections in recent years. Its inspections were virtually flawless. Our inspection scores are tied to items located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that excel in this category have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Long-term Care Quality

This facility also was given an A+ long-term care grade, rendering it one of the few nursing homes to be given multiple A+ category grades. When facilities receive a grade in this range in this category it generally means it has plenty of staff and is an overall good place to reside on a permanent basis. One of the statistics we considered after this facility's impressive nursing hours was vaccines. This facility provided the pneumonia vaccine to 100 percent of its residents. Vaccines are a great way to avoid unnecessary deaths and hospitalizations for the elderly. Finally, we looked at the nursing home's number of hospitalizations. Here we found that this nursing home had 2.37 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days.

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Short-term Care Quality

Moving on our third category, we awarded this facility a grade of A for its short-term care grade. This is a dominant rating. In the area of short-term care, we strive to assess measures of a facility's rehabilitation. We assess the facility's skilled nursing services, such as the ones performed by registered nurses and physical and occupational therapists. One of this nursing home's strengths is registered nurse hours. We found that it offers more care from registered nurses to its residents than most facilities. The final metric we assessed in this category is the number of patients that ultimately were able to return home from the facility. This place fared as well as just about any facility in Arkansas with 67.3 percent of its patients returning home.

Nurse Quality

Switching gears to our final category, this nursing home was awarded a highly favorable nursing rating. In fact, we awarded it a B+ in that area, completing one of our finer profiles. We looked at the licensure of nurses working for the nursing home, in addition to the number of hours those nurses were with residents, in computing our rating in this category. This particular nursing home provided 5.1 hours of nursing care per resident per day, which was among the highest totals we found. Finally, we also looked at nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing scores. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We look at these areas as predictive measures of the quality of nursing care offered, since better care tends to reduce these problems.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

Hirest Home Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

In Hirest Home, 8.47% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This datapoint is a measure of the percent of long-term care patients who suffer from pressure ulcers or bed sores. We bake this statistic into both nursing and long-term care grades.

Minimizes Serious Falls

In Hirest Home, 3.93% of Patients had Serious Falls

This datapoint gauges the percent of long-term patients that have had falls which resulted in serious injury. Falls can happen for a variety of reasons, but excessive numbers of falls may be an indicator of poor nursing care.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

In Hirest Home, 2.32% of Patients had UTIs

This indicates the percentage of patients who suffered from a urinary tract infection. These infections are sometimes linked to poorer hygiene.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

In Hirest Home, 12.01% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This tells you the percentage of residents who were given antipsychotic medications. Antipsychotic medications are prescribed to patients for many medical conditions, including dementia. Tragically, in some situations, high levels of antipsychotic drug use may indicate a nursing home is using these medications to control patient behavior.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

In Hirest Home, 21.41% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This tells you the percent of residents who were prescribed antianxiety medications. These drugs are given to residents suffering from anxiety and depression.

Managing Depression Among Residents

In Hirest Home, 2% of Patients

This is the percent of residents showing depressive symptoms. Increased levels of depression could reveal a lower level of care.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

In Hirest Home, 95.84% of Patients

This is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay residents who were vaccinated against pneumonia and flu.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

In Hirest Home, 12.45% Percentage of Patients

This is the percentage of residents that needed additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. High levels of needing for assistance with ADL's could indicate the erosion of a patient's medical condition.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

In Hirest Home, 14.17% Percentage of Residents

This metric measures the percent of long-term care residents that remained mobile levels. Many believe that mobility is important for patients mental and physical health.

Hospitalizations

In Hirest Home, 1.78 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days

This is the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of care. There is typically a correlation between staying out of the hospital and the overall quality of care.

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

In Hirest Home, 14.17 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized

This indicates the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term patient care.

Short-term Care: ER Visits

In Hirest Home, 12.98 Percentage of Patients

This indicates the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term patient care. There is typically a correlation between having fewer emergency room visits and the quality of nursing home care.

Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement

In Hirest Home, 77.49% Percentage of Resident

This indicates the percentage of short-term care residents who experienced functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. High levels of performance with activities of daily living generally correlates with superior rehabilitation.

Nearby Hospitals

North Arkansas Regional Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 0.41 miles away620 North Main Street Harrison Arkansas 72601Voluntary non-profit - Other(870) 414-4000