Madison Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center
2821 W Dixon Rd, Little Rock AR 72206 · (501) 888-4200 · 57.5% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Lata
Madison Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center is a large nursing home located in Little Rock, Arkansas. This nursing home was given an F, which is really a bottom of the barrel score in our grading scheme. If you aren't happy with this facility's overall grade, you should be able to find a better option in Little Rock. The city has at least 10 other nursing homes. We wouldn't blame you if you're ready to stop reading and find another nursing home. However, if you want to learn more about this place's category grades, nursing grades are discussed in the next paragraph.
Additional Details:
Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 140 Beds
CCRC :
For profit - Limited Liability company
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Nurse Quality
We really could not find anything favorable to say about this nursing home. It received just a just D in the area of nursing. Unfortunately, this ended up being its best grade. The nursing rating consists of quite a few datapoints, however, the most important one is the number of nurse hours per patient per week. This facility averages 3.2 hours of nursing care per resident each day, which is below average. To pair with its low totals in the area of nursing hours per patient, this place also didn't perform as well in the quality-based measures we looked at in determining our nursing scores. We looked at the percentage of patients experiencing pressure ulcers and major falls. This place had more falls and pressure ulcers than the average facility.
Short-term Care Quality
Moving on to the area of short-term care, this facility was awarded a grade of just D in that category. Unfortunately, this proved to be its second best grade. Short-term care grades are commonly employed to score a nursing home's performance with rehabilitation. In order to have highly scored rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally need to have higher levels of skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other types of therapists. Given its weak score in this category, we were not stunned to discover that this place offered significantly fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per patient than most other facilities. The final metric we assessed in this category is the percentage of patients that eventually returned home from the facility. This nursing home struggled quite a bit in this area as well, with just 26.5 percent of its residents returning home.
Long-term Care Quality
Unfortunately, this facility's next highest score was long-term care. Nevertheless, with a grade of D in this area, it still fared relatively poorly. In a long-term care environment, the primary goal is to maintain patients' quality of life and keep them safe. In addition to looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home administered the vaccine to 100 percent of its patients, which is higher than the vast majority of nursing homes. To our surprise, this nursing home also keeps its patients out of the hospital. It had just 1.62 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. Unfortunately, some of its other scores in this category weren't as favorable as these.
Facility Inspections
This nursing home did not receive a favorable inspection grade. We gave it just a just D in this category. Inspection grades relate to a facility's inspection reports. We weight poor inspection scores heavily in our assessment. Since the inspection reports are completed by independent inspectors, we consider this data to be reliable. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in computing our inspection ratings. One critical factor is deficiencies. We suggest you pay close attention to the severity of those deficiencies. This facility was hit with 8 deficiencies by government inspectors. The only favorable thing we can say is that none of the deficiencies were in the categories that indicate they caused a risk to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility also received 13 substantiated complaints in recent years. This is yet another bad sign.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Madison Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This tells you the percent of patients who have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers, which are also referred to as bed sores, are often the result of patients staying in one position for too long. Better nursing care can reduce the number of pressure ulcers sustained by residents in a nursing home.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term residents that sustained a fall leading to severe injury. This is one of the statistics we use in calculating our nursing ratings.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This indicates the percentage of patients that suffered from a urinary tract infection. These infections are associated with insufficient hygiene.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This is the percent of patients given antipsychotic drugs. These drugs may be used to treat a variety of conditions, such as dementia.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This is a measure of the percentage of long-term residents taking antianxiety medications.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
Measures the percent of long-term care patients who are showing signs of depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This metric measures the percent of long-term care patients who have received the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be very dangerous for nursing home residents, making these types of vaccines important for resident well-being.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This tells you the percentage of residents who required increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. High levels of needing for assistance with ADL's may be a sign of the deterioration of a patient's health.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This indicates the percent of residents that were able to retain mobility over time. Retaining mobility can be a good sign for residents' health.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This indicates the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of care. There is a correlation between staying out of the hospital and the overall quality of long-term care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
Measures the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This indicates the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term patient care. There is generally a correlation between having fewer emergency room visits and the quality of care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better