The Waters of North Little Rock

While we graded this facility incredibly poorly overall, it received a fairly respectable nursing grade this year. We gave it a grade of C in that category. In computing our nursing scores, we weigh both the number of hours nurses spend with residents and the training levels of the nurses. This place provided just 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis. This is a relatively low total compared to most other nursing homes. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this facility surprisingly excelled in some of the quality measures we assessed. In fact, it performed well when it comes to minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers.

This nursing home also didn't fare too badly in the area of short-term care. In fact, we gave it a C for that category, which turned out to be another one of its higher grades. Our short-term care scores are probably more critical for those needing rehabilitation from their nursing home. Rehabilitation typically requires more highly-skilled nursing services. This means not only nursing services, but also physical and occupational therapy, as well as other types of therapy. Unfortunately, this facility was below average in terms of its number of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its patients based on the metrics we assessed. Lastly, we considered the number of residents that eventually returned home from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was actually quite a bit below the national average.

As it turns out, this nursing home only received a grade of D for its long-term care rating, which is not one of our better scores. Facilities that do not fare well in this category typically aren't as well-staffed and are lagging in a few of the areas of routine medical care we assessed. After looking at the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination statistics. Unfortunately, it does not appear that this facility submitted information on its vaccination levels. Surprisingly, this place was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this facility has less hospitalizations than the majority of nursing homes. This is its best feature in this category.

Turning to our final category of inspections, this facility received a grade that's as bad as it gets. We weight this category more heavily than our other categories. You should pay close attention to any deficiencies on a nursing home's inspection reports when it receives this bad of an inspection score. We suggest you pay close attention to the severity of the deficiencies. This facility had a deficiency by government inspectors. We were relieved to find that it wasn't in a category that suggests that it created a threat to resident health or safety. Finally, this facility also received 38 substantiated complaints in recent years. This is yet another bad sign.