April 2009 Arkansas Nursing Home Report Card: Bryant Healthcare Center
Bryant Healthcare Center is a 116 bed nursing home facility located in Bryant, Arkansas. Bryant Healthcare Center's inspection deficiency record has met or exceeded the average number of health deficiencies in Arkansas twice in the past three years. Bryant Healthcare Center received nineteen deficiencies in 2008, fifteen deficiencies in 2007, and nine deficiencies in 2006. The average number of nursing home deficiencies in Arkansas is ten. Currently, Bryant Healthcare Center is rated as a one-star nursing home according to the new system instituted by The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid, which is indicative of a well below-average facility.
While all nursing home residents deserve to be treated with respect, Bryant Healthcare Center failed its residents twice in 2008 when it failed to keep residents free from physical restraints unless medically necessary. In September 2007, state investigators determined that this facility failed its residents when it failed to hire people who have no legal history of abusing, neglecting, or mistreating residents or to report and investigate acts or reports of abuse, neglect, or mistreatment of residents. This facility was also cited in 2007 for failing to write and use policies that forbid mistreatment, neglect, and abuse of residents and theft of residents' property.
All nursing home residents deserve professional services that meet a professional standard of quality and attain the highest possible quality of life for the resident. This facility failed its residents in quality care measures in 2007, 2008, and 2009, actually harming a resident in both 2007 and 2008, according to government inspection reports. Bryant Healthcare Center failed its residents in June 2007 and May 2008 when it failed to ensure that residents entering the facility without a catheter are not given one. State inspectors also determined that Bryant Healthcare Center failed to provide proper treatment for residents with feeding tubes to prevent problems such as aspiration pneumonia, vomiting, dehydration, and nasal-pharyngeal ulcers in 2006 and 2008. The facility also failed to provide the proper treatment to prevent new bed sores or heal existing bed sores in 2007 and 2008, and actually harmed a resident in this area in June 2007. Bryant Healthcare Center also failed to ensure that residents unable to care for themselves are provided with assistance with activities of daily living in 2006, 2007, and 2008.
It is important in nursing homes that the residents are provided with properly balanced meals so ensure good health. Good health and nutrition is vital for people in all stages of life. Bryant Healthcare Center failed its residents in 2006 when it failed to offer other nutritional food to each resident who would not eat the food served.
A safe, clean, homelike environment is important for nursing home residents to thrive. Shockingly, Bryant Healthcare Center failed to ensure that the nursing home area is free of dangers that could cause accidents five times between 2007 and 2008. Inspection reports from June 2007, May 2008, and December 2008 revealed that Bryant Healthcare Center did not have a program in place to prevent the spread of infection. This facility also failed to ensure that staff members washed their hands when necessary and ensure that a working call light system was in place in each resident's room, bathroom, and bathing area.
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