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Rich Mountain Nursing and Rehabilitation Center

Nursing Home

Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Lata

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Rich Mountain Nursing and Rehabilitation Center's website

306 Hornbeck Avenue,
Mena AR 71953

(479) 394-3511

60.36% estimated occupancy ¹

Rich Mountain Nursing and Rehabilitation Center is a large nursing home located in Mena, Arkansas. This facility was given an A- overall, which is very favorable rating. We simply can not say enough good things about this nursing home. This facility's strong report card was highlighted by its inspection rating, which we will address in the next section.

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Accepts Medicare ¹
Accepts Medicaid ¹
No CCRC
Has Resident Council
No Family Council
For profit - Limited Liability company
Offers Hospice
Offers Respite Care
Offers Inpatient Rehab

Specialized Services

Personal Care
Home Making
Transportation
Medical Transportation
Speech Therapy
Stroke Recovery
IV Antibiotic Therapy
Dentistry
Wound Care
Occupational Therapy
Podiatry
Physical Therapy
Respiratory Therapy
Nutritional Counseling
Laboratory
X-Ray
Recreational Therapy
Optometry
Orthopedic Rehabilitation

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Awards

Top Nursing Home in Arkansas Awards 2021

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Facility Inspections

With an overall grade this high, it should come as no surprise that this nursing home excelled in the area of inspections, where it received an A. Arguably the most significant factor we consider in determining our inspection grades is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's inspection reports. Places with higher scores in this area most likely avoided the most severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. This facility received 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe deficiencies. This tells you that CMS didn't consider any of the deficiencies to cause an imminent threat to resident health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Long-term Care Quality

Adding to its elite profile, this nursing home also performed well in our long-term care area. In fact, we gave it a grade of A for that area. Nursing homes that do well in this category tend to be well-staffed and offer extensive hands on care to residents. Once we assessed the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination record. This nursing home vaccinated 99.632355 percent of its patients against pneumonia. Vaccines are vital to keeping residents healthy. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

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Nurse Quality

Another one of this facility's impressive category grades came in the area of nursing care. We awarded them one of our better scores in that area, with a grade of B+. We looked at the licensure of nurses at the nursing home, in addition to the number of hours the nurses were with residents, in computing our rating in this category. This nursing home provides 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This facility performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a place has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can typically be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

Short-term Care Quality

The final category we looked at was short-term care. This facility was given a favorable short-term care rating in our assessment, with a B-. Even though this wasn't nearly as impressive as many of its other grades, this is nevertheless an acceptable rating for this area. Our short-term care grade is commonly employed to grade a nursing home's rehabilitation services. To have high-end rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally must have better levels of skilled nursing services. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other highly trained professionals. It doesn't look like this facility provided information on registered nurse or physical therapist staffing. The last datapoint we looked at in this area is the number of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that just 4.9 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home, which is actually below average.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

Rich Mountain Nursing and Rehabilitation Center Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

In Rich Mountain Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, 5.58% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This indicates the percentage of residents who sustained a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are skin damage caused by remaining in one position for an excessive period of time.

Minimizes Serious Falls

In Rich Mountain Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, 6.62% of Patients had Serious Falls

This indicates the percent of patients that suffered from a major fall. Falls leading to serious injury are considered by many in the nursing home industry to be an indicator of nursing care at a nursing home. Falls are often the result of lower levels of patient supervision.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

In Rich Mountain Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, 0% of Patients had UTIs

This figure is an indication of the percent of long-term patients who experienced urinary tract infections. While a higher rate infections may reflect poorly on a nursing home's hygiene protocols, it is problematic to compare between nursing homes due to nursing homes having inconsistent reporting standards.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

In Rich Mountain Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, 5.99% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This datapoint measures the percent of long-term patients that are given antipsychotic drugs. Excessive reliance on these medications may mean a nursing home is using these drugs to control patient behavior in scenarios where such drugs aren't medically required. Nevertheless, some nursing homes may need to rely more on these medications due to having more patients with cognitive disorders.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

In Rich Mountain Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, 20.68% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This datapoint is an indication of the percentage of long-term patients taking antianxiety medications.

Managing Depression Among Residents

In Rich Mountain Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, 0% of Patients

This metric measures the percent of long-term patients exhibiting symptoms of depression.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

In Rich Mountain Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, 98.44% of Patients

This tells you the percent of patients that received the flu and pneumonia vaccines. High vaccination rates should be standard at this point.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

In Rich Mountain Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, 8.17% of Patients

This datapoint is a measure of the percent of long-term residents that required increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. Activities of daily living include activities such as moving around and continence.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

In Rich Mountain Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, 8.9% of Residents

This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay patients who retained mobility levels. Some believe that the ability to move around is important for residents' physical and mental well-being.

Hospitalizations

In Rich Mountain Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, 0.5 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days

This tells you the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of patient care. There is a correlation between keeping patients out of the hospital and the overall quality of long-term care.

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

In Rich Mountain Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, 8.9% of Residents Rehospitalized

This metric measures the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term care. Minimizing rehospitalizations during rehabilitation is important to restoring the health of residents.

Short-term Care: ER Visits

In Rich Mountain Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, 13.09% of Patients

This datapoint is a measure of the number of emergency room visits per 1,000 days of short-term care. Avoiding medical emergencies is one way to gauge patient well-being during rehabilitation.

Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement

In Rich Mountain Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, 71.25% of Resident

This datapoint is a measure of the percent of short-term care patients that experienced functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. Some experts argue that this is a reliable measure of a facility's rehabilitation performance.