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Walnut Ridge Nursing and Rehabilitation Center

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Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Reese

Historical Rating
Grade: B
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Walnut Ridge Nursing and Rehabilitation Center's website

1500 West Main Street,
Walnut Ridge AR 72476

(870) 886-9022

69.07% estimated occupancy 1

Walnut Ridge Nursing and Rehabilitation Center is an average-sized nursing home located in Walnut Ridge, Arkansas. It looks like this is a fine nursing home. We awarded it an overall grade of B, which is a quality rating. You could certainly do much worse than this facility. This nursing home also received consistently good ratings in all four of our categories. Additional information about its category grades is available below.

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Quick Details

  • 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
  • Medication Management
  • 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

Registered Staff Hours

Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2022)
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Long-term Care Quality

Grade: A-minus

In addition to being a quality nursing home overall, this facility really excelled in long-term care, where it received an A-. Few facilities did better in this area. When nursing homes receive this type of score in this category it is a good sign for resident care and indicates that the facility is well-staffed with nurses aids. In addition to considering the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility vaccinated 98.175186 percent of its patients. Vaccines are vital to keeping residents healthy. Lastly, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

Nurse Quality

Grade: B-plus

This facility is also strong in the area of nursing, where it received a grade of B+. It outperformed most nursing homes in this category. Our nursing score is primarily tied to a nursing home's level of nurse staffing. This particular nursing home provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This facility performed very well in terms of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

Short-term Care Quality

Grade: B

This nursing home also was given a strong short-term care grade. In fact, we awarded it an above average grade of B in this area. With our short-term care grade, we try to forge a fair barometer for rehabilitation services. In doing so, we assess a facility's offerings of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as respiratory therapy. Unfortunately, we were not able to locate registered nurse or physical therapy staffing data for this facility. The final metric we considered in this area is the number of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that 0 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

Facility Inspections

Grade: B

Turning to the last category we assessed, this nursing home earned a decent grade in the area of inspections as well. In fact, we gave it a B for that category. Inspection scores take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these factors by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. 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.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

FDCB-BB+A-AA+Oct 18Dec 23

Walnut Ridge Nursing and Rehabilitation Center Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

Grade: B-minus

In Walnut Ridge Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, 8.59% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This indicates the percent of long-term patients that suffered from new or worsened pressure ulcers. We have found that pressure ulcers are an measure of a facility's nursing care quality.

Minimizes Serious Falls

Grade: B-minus

In Walnut Ridge Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, 3.65% of Patients had Serious Falls

This indicates the percent of residents who have had a fall leading to major injury.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

Grade: D

In Walnut Ridge Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, 4.81% of Patients had UTIs

This is the percentage of residents who sustained a urinary tract infection. These infections could be associated with poor hygiene.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

Grade: A-plus

In Walnut Ridge Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, 2.16% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This statistic tells you the percentage of long-term residents who are administered antipsychotic drugs. Increased usage of these drugs may indicate that a facility is using these drugs to subdue residents in scenarios where such medications aren't medically required. However, some facilities may need to rely more on these drugs due to having more patients suffering from Alzheimer's or other dementias.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

Grade: D

In Walnut Ridge Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, 31.78% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This datapoint tells you the percent of long-term patients which are administered antianxiety medication. These medications are prescribed to residents experiencing depression or anxiety.

Managing Depression Among Residents

Grade: B-minus

In Walnut Ridge Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, 5.43% of Patients

This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term patients showing signs of depression. Some experts believe this is a measure of quality of life.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

Grade: B-plus

In Walnut Ridge Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, 97.92% of Patients

This indicates the percentage of patients who received the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be the norm at this point.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

Grade: A-minus

In Walnut Ridge Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, 9.34% of Patients

This indicates the percent of patients that required more assistance with activities of daily living over time. High levels of needing for assistance with ADL's could indicate the deterioration of a patient's health.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

Grade: D

In Walnut Ridge Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, 8.41% of Residents

Measures the percentage of long-term care patients that remained mobile levels. Many argue that the ability to move around is vital to patients physical and mental well-being.

Hospitalizations

Grade: A

In Walnut Ridge Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, 0.01 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days

This tells you the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of care. There is typically a correlation between reduced hospitalizations and the quality of nursing home care.

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

Grade: A

In Walnut Ridge Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, 8.41% of Residents Rehospitalized

This metric measures the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term care.

Short-term Care: ER Visits

Grade: A

In Walnut Ridge Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, 7.2% of Patients

This indicates the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term care.

Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement

Grade: B-plus

In Walnut Ridge Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, 82.52% of Resident

This is the percent of short-term patients that experienced functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living.

Nearby Hospitals

  • Lawrence Memorial HospitalCritical Access Hospitals 0.28 miles away1309 West Main Street Walnut Ridge Arkansas 72476Government - Local(870) 886-1200
  • Five Rivers Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 14.88 miles away2801 Medical Center Drive Pocahontas Arkansas 72455Government - Local(870) 892-6000

Nearby Dialysis

  • Davita - Pocahontas14.85 miles away404 Camp Rd Pocahontas Arkansas 72455Dialysis Stations: 8 (870) 248-0138

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Footnotes:

  1. https://www.medicare.gov/nursinghomecompare/profile.html#ID=045151