Jefferson Regional Medical Center is in Pine Bluff, Arkansas. This city has 51,670 people. This facility was given an overall score of B+. In fact, this turned out to be the highest graded facility in Pine Bluff. We also wanted to point out that this place is based in a hospital. Typically, this means that more intensive medical services are available. This nursing home was stronger in some categories than others, but it did not have any weak links in any of our major categories. More information about these categories can be found below.
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Jefferson Regional Medical Center
- Nursing Home
Updated Nov 1, 2018 by Nick Reese
1600 West 40th Avenue,
Pine Bluff AR 71603
Note: Data for Jefferson Regional Medical Center has not been updated recently. This page shows historical performance which may not be representitive of current service levels.
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- Accepts Medicare 1
- No Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- Non profit - Corporation
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Short-term Care Quality
To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A for our short-term care grade. Our short-term care scores are important for residents in need of rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually requires more skilled nursing. This means a wide range of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other types of therapy. We were not able to find registered nurse or physical therapy staffing data for this facility. The final measure we considered in this category is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We found that 7.6 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.
Nurse Quality
Adding to its impressive resume, this nursing home also excelled in our nursing category. We gave it an B+ for that category. Our nursing score is largely associated with the nursing home's nurse staffing. This facility provided 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home performed very well in the area of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.
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Long-term Care Quality
Turning to our next category, this nursing home also earned a score of B+ for its long-term care rating. This is an above average grade in this area. For long-term care residents, the facility's primary goal is to maintain patients' quality of life and keep them safe. After assessing the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we next considered the facility's vaccination records. Unfortunately, it doesn't appear that this facility submitted information on its vaccination levels. 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 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.
Facility Inspections
In the last category we assessed, this nursing home earned a good grade in the area of inspections as well. In fact, we awarded it a grade of B- for that category. This nursing home didn't have any major weak links. We would argue that one of the most important factors in assessing an inspection report is deficiencies. We especially look at the severity of those deficiencies. It doesn't look like we were able to find information on deficiency's for this nursing home. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Jefferson Regional Medical Center Quality Metrics
Frequency Of ER Visits
In Jefferson Regional Medical Center, 64.97 ER visits per 1,000 resident days
This indicates the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of long-term care. There is a correlation between reduced emergency room visits and the overall quality of nursing home care.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Jefferson Regional Medical Center, 4.7% of Patients
This tells you the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Jefferson Regional Medical Center, 79.31% of Resident
This datapoint is a measure of the percent of short-term stay patients that experienced functional improvements.
Nearby Hospitals
- Jefferson Regional Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 0.1 miles away1600 West 40th Avenue Pine Bluff Arkansas 71603Voluntary non-profit - Private(870) 541-7100
Nearby Dialysis
- Us Renal Care - Pine Bluff1.22 miles away2800 W 28th St Pine Bluff Arkansas 71603CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 24 (870) 534-7400
- Fmcna - Pine Bluff3.21 miles away2910 Market St Pine Bluff Arkansas 71601CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 26 (870) 536-8050