Hirest Home
1111 Maplewood Rd, Harrison AR 72601 · (870) 741-5001 · 96.4% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Reese
With an address in Harrison, Arkansas, Hirest Home is one of just a few nursing homes in this city. It looks like this nursing home is ranked among the most impressive facilities we assessed. In fact, it was given our absolute highest score. We were so impressed with this facility that we ranked it in the top ten percent of all nursing homes in the nation. As you will see below, this nursing home performed just as well in our category scores. We gave it a straight A report card!
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Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 103 Beds
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Non profit - Corporation
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Long-term Care Quality
We also found that this facility excelled in our long-term care rating. We awarded them an impressive grade of A+ in this category. Facilities that do well in long-term care tend to provide residents with better supervision and stay on top of routine medical care. On top of considering the well above average volume of care provided by aids and other staff at this facility, we also were pleased by the facility's vaccination data. This nursing home gave the pneumonia vaccine to 97.63313 percent of its residents, which is an impressive figure. The last statistic we assessed is the facility's hospitalization rate. We found that this place had 3.77 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. While this admittedly wasn't as strong as most of its other scores in this area, this number can be skewed for some nursing homes based on some of the medical complexity of residents.
Facility Inspections
In addition, this nursing home also received a nearly flawless inspection report. As a result, it earned one of our highest grades in that category with an A. Our inspection grades are tied to several items located in the a nursing home's government inspections. Places that score well in this area typically have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes generally do 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.
Short-term Care Quality
Turning the page to our next area, this facility was awarded a top-shelf short-term care score. In fact, it received a grade of A in this category. Short-term care grades are typically used to measure a facility's performance with rehabilitation In order to provide quality rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally must offer better levels of skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other highly skilled individuals. Fortunately, this nursing home offers both physical therapists and registered nurses. Not all facilities offer both. The last measure we assessed in this category is the number of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. This place performed as well as just about any nursing home in Arkansas in this area with 66.2 percent of its residents returning home. At most facilities, fewer than half of their short-term residents are able to return home.
Nurse Quality
Turning to the last area, this nursing home received a highly favorable nursing grade. We gave it an A- in this area, giving this facility straight A's. Our nursing grade weighs a handful of subcategories, however, the most important one is the number of nurse hours spent with patients. With 4.9 hours of nursing care per patient daily, this nursing home surpassed the overwhelming majority of facilities. Lastly, we also looked at nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We view these data points as reliable measures of the quality of nursing care being provided, since better care tends to reduce these problems.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Hirest Home Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This statistic gauges the percentage of long-term care patients who suffer from pressure ulcers . We bake this statistic into our nursing grades.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This metric gauges the percent of long-term stay residents that have sustained a fall which caused major injury. We use this statistic in calculating our nursing grades.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term care residents who suffered from UTI's. Although a higher rate infections may reflect poorly on a nursing home's nursing care, it is problematic to compare different nursing homes due to differing reporting standards.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This is the percentage of patients who were given antipsychotic drugs. Antipsychotic drugs are administered to residents for a variety of medical conditions, such as dementia. Tragically, in some cases, increased usage of these drugs may mean that a facility is using these medications to control patient behavior.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This indicates the percent of residents prescribed antianxiety medications. Antianxiety drugs are prescribed to patients suffering from depression and anxiety.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
Measures the percentage of long-term stay residents who are exhibiting signs of depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This is a measure of the percentage of long-term care residents that received the flu and pneumonia vaccines.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This indicates the percent of patients that required more assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of needing for assistance with ADL's may indicate erosion of a resident's medical condition.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This datapoint measures the percent of long-term stay patients that maintained mobility. Many in the industry argue that mobility is critical to residents' well-being.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This is the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of care. There is generally a correlation between reduced hospitalizations and the overall quality of nursing home care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This tells you the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term patient care. There is a correlation between keeping patients out of the hospital and a nursing homes short-term rehabilitation performance.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This is the number of emergency room visits per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This indicates the percent of short-term residents who saw functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. Higher levels of autonomy with activities of daily living typically correlates with successful rehabilitation services.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better