The 10 Worst Nursing Homes in Arkansas

  Worst Nursing Homes in Arkansas By City

Every city in Arkansas has its own set of challenges and standards when it comes to nursing home care. To help you find the information most relevant to your location, we've compiled city-specific rankings of the worst-rated nursing homes. Click on the links below to explore the detailed lists for each city.

Worst Nursing Homes in Little Rock

• The Springs of Pinnacle Mountain (147.25)
• Honor the resident's right to a safe, clean, comfortable and homelike environment, including but not limited to receiving treatment and supports for daily living safely. (2024-10-24)
• Reasonably accommodate the needs and preferences of each resident. (2024-10-24)
• Cottage Lane Health and Rehab of Little Rock (129.25)
• Properly provide smoke detection systems in areas open to corridors. (2025-01-15)
• Protect each resident from all types of abuse such as physical, mental, sexual abuse, physical punishment, and neglect by anybody. (2025-01-08)
• The Blossoms at Cumberland Rehab and Nursing Center (122)
• Protect each resident from all types of abuse such as physical, mental, sexual abuse, physical punishment, and neglect by anybody. (2025-03-05)
• Provide appropriate treatment and care according to orders, resident?s preferences and goals. (2025-02-17)
• Nursing and Rehabilitation Center at Good Shepherd (97)
• Honor the resident's right to a dignified existence, self-determination, communication, and to exercise his or her rights. (2024-11-03)
• Reasonably accommodate the needs and preferences of each resident. (2024-11-03)
• The Blossoms at Woodland Hills Rehab and Nursing Cen (90)
• Provide care and assistance to perform activities of daily living for any resident who is unable. (2025-05-02)
• Honor the resident's right to a dignified existence, self-determination, communication, and to exercise his or her rights. (2025-05-02)
• The Blossoms at Midtown Rehab and Nursing Center (85)
• Provide appropriate treatment and care according to orders, resident?s preferences and goals. (2025-03-05)
• Protect each resident from the wrongful use of the resident's belongings or money. (2024-11-21)
• Hickory Heights Health and Rehab, LLC (81)
• Honor the resident's right to a dignified existence, self-determination, communication, and to exercise his or her rights. (2024-05-31)
• Provide care and assistance to perform activities of daily living for any resident who is unable. (2024-05-31)
• The Blossoms at West Dixon Rehab and Nursing Center (78)
• Honor the resident's right to a dignified existence, self-determination, communication, and to exercise his or her rights. (2024-10-01)
• Ensure each resident receives an accurate assessment. (2024-10-01)
• The Green House Cottages of Poplar Grove (69)
• Provide appropriate treatment and care according to orders, resident?s preferences and goals. (2025-06-07)
• Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to prevent accidents. (2024-10-28)
• The Springs of Barrow (60)
• Immediately tell the resident, the resident's doctor, and a family member of situations (injury/decline/room, etc.) that affect the resident. (2025-02-08)
• Provide appropriate treatment and care according to orders, resident?s preferences and goals. (2025-02-08)

Worst Nursing Homes in Fayetteville

• Carolina Rehab Center of Cumberland (137)
• Provide appropriate treatment and care according to orders, resident?s preferences and goals. (2025-03-13)
• Ensure that residents are free from significant medication errors. (2024-11-05)
• Fayetteville Healthcare Center (135.5)
• Honor the resident's right to request, refuse, and/or discontinue treatment, to participate in or refuse to participate in experimental research, and to formulate an advance directive. (2024-09-24)
• Honor the resident's right to a safe, clean, comfortable and homelike environment, including but not limited to receiving treatment and supports for daily living safely. (2024-09-24)
• Fayetteville Health and Rehabilitation Center (104)
• Honor the resident's right to a dignified existence, self-determination, communication, and to exercise his or her rights. (2024-07-27)
• Ensure each resident receives an accurate assessment. (2024-07-27)
• Butterfield Trail Village (89.25)
• Protect each resident from the wrongful use of the resident's belongings or money. (2025-04-05)
• Ensure that nurses and nurse aides have the appropriate competencies to care for every resident in a way that maximizes each resident's well being. (2025-04-05)
• Katherine's Place at Wedington (78)
• Timely report suspected abuse, neglect, or theft and report the results of the investigation to proper authorities. (2025-05-15)
• Notify the resident or the resident?s representative in writing how long the nursing home will hold the resident?s bed in cases of transfer to a hospital or therapeutic leave. (2024-06-14)
• The Carrolton of Fayetteville (71.5)
• Have simulated fire drills held at unexpected times. (2024-08-30)
• Have an enclosure around a vertical opening shaft. (2024-08-30)
• Arkansas Veterans Home at Fayetteville (57)
• Notify each resident of certain balances and convey resident funds upon discharge, eviction, or death. (2025-04-18)
• Ensure menus must meet the nutritional needs of residents, be prepared in advance, be followed, be updated, be reviewed by dietician, and meet the needs of the resident. (2025-04-18)
• North Hills Life Care and Rehab (42)
• Keep residents' personal and medical records private and confidential. (2024-09-21)
• Provide appropriate treatment and care according to orders, resident?s preferences and goals. (2024-09-21)
• Paramount Nursing and Rehab at Fayetteville, LLC (36)
• Develop the complete care plan within 7 days of the comprehensive assessment; and prepared, reviewed, and revised by a team of health professionals. (2025-04-16)
• Ensure that special areas are constructed so that walls can resist fire for one hour or have an approved fire extinguishing system. (2024-08-30)
• Woodlands Nursing and Rehabilitation Center (34)
• Provide properly protected cooking facilities. (2024-07-27)
• Ensure that special areas are constructed so that walls can resist fire for one hour or have an approved fire extinguishing system. (2024-07-27)

Worst Nursing Homes in Fort Smith

• The Blossoms at Fort Smith Rehab and Nursing Center (117)
• Coordinate assessments with the pre-admission screening and resident review program; and referring for services as needed. (2025-04-17)
• Hire a qualified full-time social worker in a facility with more than 120 beds. (2025-04-17)
• Legacy Health and Rehabilitation Center (93.25)
• Provide pharmaceutical services to meet the needs of each resident and employ or obtain the services of a licensed pharmacist. (2025-03-02)
• Ensure menus must meet the nutritional needs of residents, be prepared in advance, be followed, be updated, be reviewed by dietician, and meet the needs of the resident. (2025-03-02)
• Covington Court Health and Rehabilitation Center (57)
• Provide appropriate treatment and care according to orders, resident?s preferences and goals. (2024-08-30)
• Provide properly protected cooking facilities. (2024-08-29)
• Methodist Health and Rehab (48)
• Honor the resident's right to request, refuse, and/or discontinue treatment, to participate in or refuse to participate in experimental research, and to formulate an advance directive. (2024-11-22)
• Honor the resident's right to a safe, clean, comfortable and homelike environment, including but not limited to receiving treatment and supports for daily living safely. (2024-11-22)
• Chapel Ridge Health and Rehab (37)
• Provide properly protected cooking facilities. (2025-06-01)
• Ensure each resident receives an accurate assessment. (2025-06-01)
• Fianna Hills Nursing and Rehabilitation Center (21)
• Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to prevent accidents. (2025-07-04)
• Ensure drugs and biologicals used in the facility are labeled in accordance with currently accepted professional principles; and all drugs and biologicals must be stored in locked compartments, separately locked, compartments for controlled drugs. (2025-07-04)

Worst Nursing Homes in Springdale

• Westwood Health and Rehab, Inc (148.75)
• Protect each resident from all types of abuse such as physical, mental, sexual abuse, physical punishment, and neglect by anybody. (2025-02-27)
• Provide timely, quality laboratory services/tests to meet the needs of residents. (2025-02-27)
• Springdale Health and Rehabilitation Center (85.75)
• Honor the resident's right to a dignified existence, self-determination, communication, and to exercise his or her rights. (2024-08-31)
• Procure food from sources approved or considered satisfactory and store, prepare, distribute and serve food in accordance with professional standards. (2024-08-31)
• The Maples at Har-Ber Meadows (47)
• Immediately tell the resident, the resident's doctor, and a family member of situations (injury/decline/room, etc.) that affect the resident. (2024-08-16)
• Honor the resident's right to and the facility must promote and facilitate resident self-determination through support of resident choice. (2024-08-16)
• Windcrest Health and Rehab Inc (44)
• Honor the resident's right to a dignified existence, self-determination, communication, and to exercise his or her rights. (2024-11-30)
• Honor the resident's right to a safe, clean, comfortable and homelike environment, including but not limited to receiving treatment and supports for daily living safely. (2024-11-30)
• Edgewood Health and Rehab (30)
• Have a registered nurse on duty 8 hours a day; and select a registered nurse to be the director of nurses on a full time basis. (2024-12-05)
• Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program. (2024-12-05)
• Shiloh Nursing and Rehab, LLC (29)
• Ensure drugs and biologicals used in the facility are labeled in accordance with currently accepted professional principles; and all drugs and biologicals must be stored in locked compartments, separately locked, compartments for controlled drugs. (2025-03-31)
• Procure food from sources approved or considered satisfactory and store, prepare, distribute and serve food in accordance with professional standards. (2025-03-31)

Worst Nursing Homes in Jonesboro

• Ridgecrest Health and Rehabilitation (158)
• Provide appropriate treatment and care according to orders, resident?s preferences and goals. (2024-11-13)
• Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to prevent accidents. (2024-11-13)
• Craighead Nursing Center (53)
• Provide appropriate treatment and care according to orders, resident?s preferences and goals. (2025-05-07)
• Procure food from sources approved or considered satisfactory and store, prepare, distribute and serve food in accordance with professional standards. (2024-08-10)
• Forest Haven Nursing and Rehab Ctr, LLC (45)
• Ensure that each resident is free from the use of physical restraints, unless needed for medical treatment. (2025-05-30)
• Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to prevent accidents. (2025-05-30)
• The Springs Jonesboro (35)
• Provide care and assistance to perform activities of daily living for any resident who is unable. (2024-12-27)
• Provide appropriate care for a resident to maintain and/or improve range of motion (ROM), limited ROM and/or mobility, unless a decline is for a medical reason. (2024-12-27)
• Wyatt Manor Nursing and Rehab Ctr, Inc (34)
• Ensure that each resident is free from the use of physical restraints, unless needed for medical treatment. (2025-02-07)
• Honor the resident's right to a safe, clean, comfortable and homelike environment, including but not limited to receiving treatment and supports for daily living safely. (2025-02-07)
• St Elizabeth's Place (30)
• Provide properly protected cooking facilities. (2025-06-13)
• Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program. (2025-06-13)
• Arrowhead Health and Rehab (26)
• Develop and implement a complete care plan that meets all the resident's needs, with timetables and actions that can be measured. (2024-02-23)
• Provide safe and appropriate respiratory care for a resident when needed. (2024-02-23)
• Jonesboro Nursing and Rehabilitation Center (13)
• Develop and implement a complete care plan that meets all the resident's needs, with timetables and actions that can be measured. (2025-05-11)
• Provide appropriate treatment and care according to orders, resident?s preferences and goals. (2025-05-11)

  Related Lists and Resources

While it's important to be aware of the lowest-rated facilities, we also provide resources to help you find the best care available. Check out our other lists to find top-rated nursing homes and facilities that excel in specific areas.

• Best Nursing Homes in Arkansas
• Analysis of Nursing Homes in Arkansas

  Making Informed Decisions

Understanding our rankings and how they are derived can empower you to make better choices for your loved ones. Remember, a low rating in one area doesn't necessarily mean a facility is entirely unsuitable; it's a starting point for further investigation.

  Tips for Evaluating Nursing Homes in Arkansas:

• Schedule visits to potential facilities
• Speak with staff and residents
• Review recent inspection reports
• Consider the specific needs of your loved one

Disclaimer: NursingHomeDatabase.com does not have a relationship, either commercial or otherwise, with any of the skilled nursing facilities referred to on this site. This is an independent resource that tries to make more and better information available to the public.

  More Resources for Families

Navigating the world of nursing home care can be overwhelming. Here are some resources to help you make the best decisions for your family:

• The Role of Family in Nursing Home Care
• Navigating Medicaid for Nursing Home Care
• How to Handle a Nursing Home Discharge
• Understanding Nursing Home Ratings and What They Mean
• Questions to Ask During a Nursing Home Visit

  How We Compile Nursing Home Ratings in Arkansas

Every month, we rank all of the skilled nursing facilities in Arkansas. These rankings are based on data provided by The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid measures ("CMS"), including the CMS 5-Star Rating System and the Health Inspection Scores. The list of the Worst Skilled Nursing Facilities in Arkansas is based on the weighted overall health inspection score which is a composite of CMS's three most recent skilled nursing home inspection scores weighted to give the most recent inspection more importance.

The CMS 5-Star Rating System rates skilled nursing facilities from one to five stars, with one star being the lowest and five stars being the highest. The rating system also rates Arkansas nursing homes across five different dimensions including overall rating, health inspection rating, quality measures rating, overall staffing rating, and RN staffing rating (RN is an acronym for Registered Nurse).

In addition to the 5-Star Rating System, CMS provides numerical metrics that summarize:

• Health Inspection Domain. The health inspection rating is based on the three most recent standard surveys for each nursing home, results from any complaint investigations during the most recent three-year period, and any repeat revisits needed to verify that required corrections have brought the facility back into compliance. CMS calculates a weighted deficiency score based on points assigned to health deficiencies identified in each active provider’s current health inspection survey and the two prior surveys (including revisits), as well as deficiency findings from the most recent three years of complaint investigations. More recent surveys are weighted more heavily than older surveys: the most recent period (cycle 1) is assigned a weighting factor of 1/2, the previous period (cycle 2) has a weighting factor of 1/3, and the second prior survey (cycle 3) has a weighting factor of 1/6. The weighted time period scores are then summed to create the survey score for each facility.
• Staffing Domain. Using multiple reporting methods, CMS calculates the amount of time that the nursing staff spends with residents. This is measured across multiple dimensions, one each for three different levels of nursing, including Registered Nurses (“RNs”), Licensed Practical Nurses (“LPNs”), and Certified Nursing Assistants (“CNAs”), plus one metric that totals all contributions. These metrics are expressed in hours per resident per day. CMS also provides state-level and national averages for the metrics to allow for additional comparisons.
• Quality Measures Domain. A set of quality measures (QMs) has been developed from MDS-based indicators to describe the quality of care provided in nursing homes. These measures address a broad range of functioning and health status in multiple care areas. The facility rating for the QM domain is based on performance on a subset of 11 (out of 18) of the QMs. Ratings for the QM domain are calculated using the three most recent quarters for which data are available. This time period specification was selected to increase the number of assessments available for calculating the QM rating, increasing the stability of estimates and reducing the number of facilities that do not have enough data to report QM ratings.
• Abuse Flag. Abuse is always a concern in skilled nursing facilities. To highlight the issue, CMS has extracted this feature as its own flag. Facilities with an actual abuse event or where the potential for abuse has been shown for the past two years are flagged. The Health Inspection Score is capped at 2-stars for nursing homes that have been flagged for abuse.

Skilled nursing facilities that are new and do not have at least two surveys completed are not rated by CMS. These facilities may have health inspection scores that can be used to evaluate the facility.

One complication in Arkansas nursing home inspections is the COVID-19 pandemic. Although inspections should be performed every 12 months, COVID has decreased this frequency. While CMS admits that only in “rare cases” do these inspections increase to 15 months, our analysis suggests that this time frame may be even longer. This report shows that the time between inspections is now just under 500 days (more than sixteen months). There are now hundreds of skilled nursing homes in the United States that have not been inspected in more than 24 months. This list shows the skilled nursing homes with the longest period since being inspected. According to the CMS data, these homes have not been inspected since 2018!