Fonteum Care Compare · Arkansas · Fort Smith
Nursing homes in Fort Smith, Arkansas: 7 Medicare-certified facilities.
CMS overall star rating, staffing rating, health inspection rating, and ownership type for every Medicare-certified nursing home in Fort Smith — every column traced to the CMS Care Compare NH Provider Information dataset (4pq5-n9py).
Average CMS overall rating in Fort Smith: 2.8 / 5
How Fort Smith compares
Fort Smith vs the Arkansas state average
Overall ★ — this city
2.8
State avg 3.4 / 5
-0.6 vs state
Staffing ★ — this city
3.3
State avg 3.2 / 5
+0.1 vs state
Facilities — this city
7
221 statewide
State averages are CMS-published per-state means from the same snapshot; the city figure is the mean across the 7 rated facilities above.
Where Fort Smith sits
All 7 Medicare-certified nursing homes in Fort Smith sit in Sebastian County, Arkansas. County is the geographic unit CMS uses for staffing-desert and access analysis.
All Medicare-certified nursing homes in Fort Smith, Arkansas
Chapel Ridge Health And Rehab
4623 Rogers Ave · CCN 045364 · For profit - Limited Liability company
74 certified beds · 69 avg daily residents · 4.79 total nurse hrs/resident-day · QM 5 / 5 · Last standard survey May 8, 2025
4
Overall
4
Staffing
3 / 5
Health Insp.
Fianna Hills Nursing And Rehabilitation Center
8411 South 28th Street · CCN 045354 · For profit - Limited Liability company
102 certified beds · 94.7 avg daily residents · 4.45 total nurse hrs/resident-day · QM 3 / 5 · Last standard survey June 5, 2025
3
Overall
3
Staffing
3 / 5
Health Insp.
Covington Court Health And Rehabilitation Center
4500 Old Greenwood Rd · CCN 045363 · For profit - Limited Liability company
140 certified beds · 131 avg daily residents · 4.15 total nurse hrs/resident-day · QM 3 / 5 · Last standard survey August 1, 2024
3
Overall
4
Staffing
3 / 5
Health Insp.
Methodist Health And Rehab
7425 Euper Lane · CCN 045413 · Non profit - Corporation
145 certified beds · 125 avg daily residents · 5.07 total nurse hrs/resident-day · QM 4 / 5 · Last standard survey October 24, 2024
3
Overall
3
Staffing
3 / 5
Health Insp.
Legacy Health And Rehabilitation Center
3310 North 50th Street · CCN 045267 · For profit - Limited Liability company
115 certified beds · 107.1 avg daily residents · 3.88 total nurse hrs/resident-day · QM 2 / 5 · Last standard survey January 31, 2025
2
Overall
4
Staffing
2 / 5
Health Insp.
The Blossoms At Fort Smith Rehab & Nursing Center
5301 Wheeler Avenue · CCN 045345 · For profit - Partnership
130 certified beds · 117.7 avg daily residents · 3.19 total nurse hrs/resident-day · QM 4 / 5 · Last standard survey September 19, 2025
2
Overall
2
Staffing
2 / 5
Health Insp.
Brooken Hill Health And Rehab, Llc
9000 Hwy 71 South · CCN 045479 · For profit - Limited Liability company
125 certified beds · 94.6 avg daily residents · 6.26 total nurse hrs/resident-day · QM Not rated · Last standard survey September 17, 2024
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Overall
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Staffing
Not rated
Health Insp.
Reading the data
What these CMS ratings mean
Every star column on this page comes straight from CMS’s Five-Star Quality Rating System. Fonteum re-publishes the federal numbers without re-scoring them — the definitions below are CMS’s, not ours.
- Overall star rating
- A 1-to-5 summary CMS derives from the health-inspection, staffing, and quality-measure ratings. It is a relative ranking, not an absolute score — roughly the top fifth of facilities earn 5 stars and the bottom fifth earn 1.
- Health inspection rating
- Based on the three most recent state standard surveys plus any complaint investigations, weighted toward recency. More and more severe deficiencies lower the rating.
- Staffing rating
- Built from payroll-based (PBJ) nurse staffing hours per resident day, case-mix adjusted, including registered-nurse hours and weekend coverage.
- Quality-measure (QM) rating
- Drawn from a set of MDS- and claims-based clinical measures (e.g. pressure ulcers, falls, hospitalisation, antipsychotic use) across short- and long-stay residents.
- Special Focus Facility (SFF)
- A separate CMS program flagging facilities with a persistent pattern of serious health-inspection problems. “SFF” marks an active designation; “SFF Candidate” marks a facility on the candidate list.
Full methodology: how Fonteum sources and signs CMS nursing-home data.
Other Arkansas cities with nursing homes
Compare Fort Smith with nearby markets — facility counts from the same CMS snapshot.
Fonteum research on nursing-home quality
Star ratings vs actual resident harm
Where CMS overall stars diverge from documented harm-level deficiencies.
Nursing-home staffing deserts by county
Counties where reported nurse hours per resident day fall furthest behind.
Nursing-home ownership networks
How chain ownership concentrates across Medicare-certified facilities.
Facilities banned from new Medicare admissions
Payment-denial enforcement actions and the facilities they hit.