Nursing Home Injury Laws: Arkansas
Number of nursing homes in Arkansas : 231 Patients living in Arkansas nursing homes: 17,822 Occupancy rates of Arkansas nursing homes: 72.8% Average number of deficiencies at each Arkansas nursing home: 12.2 Percent of Arkansas nursing homes with serious deficiencies for actual harm to patient: 32.5% Most common deficiencies at Arkansas nursing homes: Accident Environment, Quality of Care, Food Sanitation Distribution of ownership of Arkansas nursing homes: 82% for profit, 14% non profit, 4% government Most populated cities in Arkansas: Little Rock, Fort Smith, Fayetteville, Springdale, Jonesboro Staffing levels at Arkansas nursing homes (daily hours): Above average, 4.2 total staff, 1.4...
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Golden Living Sells All Its Arkansas Nursing Homes
Effective July 1, Golden Living is out of the nursing home business in Arkansas. The 14 nursing homes and independent living facilities have been sold to Capital Senior Care Ventures, a subsidiary of health-care behemoth Capital Funding Group. The sale marks a growing trend in the nursing home business of bringing mega-companies to manage and operate individual nursing homes. Frequently, the parent companies have no experience providing healthcare to seniors. In the case of Capital Senior Care, by the companies own admission, they "acquire and construct skilled nursing facilities in order to lease and ultimately sell them to high-quality...
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Nursing Home Workers Charged In Connection To Withholding Oxygen To Resident
Two nursing home workers in Arkansas are facing criminal charges, manslaughter and elder neglect, following the 2007 death of a resident. The charges stem from failing to plug an oxygen line into the wall spigot for an oxygen-dependent patient. By the time the workers came back to check-in on the patient her hands were blue and cold. Upon learning of the resident's condition, the workers told the nursing director, but failed to alert the resident's family or physician that her condition was related to a lack of oxygen. Authorities believe that withholding the circumstances surrounding the lack of oxygen...
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