Assisted Living, Senior Care & Aging Parents in Arkansas

If you’re looking for low senior-care prices, Arkansas is a good bet. Its estimated rates rank among the lowest in the nation for home care, home health-care, assisted living and private nursing home rooms. Yet Arkansas is above the national average in some nursing home rankings. Medicare gives 19 percent of its nursing homes five stars overall. Nationwide, the average is 18 percent.

 

Approximate number of facilities:

• Nursing homes: 234
• Assisted living residences: 119*

 

Types of care available:

• Adult day care
• Home care
• Home health-care
• Continuing-care retirement communities
• Assisted living facilities
• Residential care homes
• Nursing homes

 

Estimated average prices:**

• Adult day care: $74 per day
• Home care: $16 per hour
• Home health-care: $16 per hour
• Assisted living: $2,459 per month
• Nursing home, semi-private room: $141 per day
• Nursing home, private room: $161 per day

 

State websites for seniors:

• Arkansas.gov “Seniors”
• Office of Long Term Care
• Rules and Regulations for Assisted Living Facilities Level I (2011, PDF download)
• Rules and Regulations for Assisted Living Facilities Level II (2011, PDF download)

 

Where to report elder abuse:

• In domestic/community care: 1-800-332-4443

• In nursing homes: 1-800-582-4887

 

Government financial assistance (partial list):

• Medicaid
• Senior Health Insurance Information Program
• Alzheimer’s Arkansas Family Caregiver Support Program

 

Top-10 largest cities:

•  Little Rock
•  Fort Smith
•  North Little Rock
•  Fayetteville
•  Jonesboro
•  Pine Bluff
•  Springdale
•  Conway
•  Rogers
•  Hot Springs

 

Top nursing homes, based on Medicare ratings:***

 

Arkadelphia
Courtyard Gardens Health and Rehabilitation
Twin Rivers Health and Rehabilitation

 

Ashdown
Little River Nursing Home

 

Charleston
Greenhurst Nursing Center

 

Danville
Mitchell’s Nursing Home

 

Des Arc
Des Arc Nursing and Rehabilitation Center

 

El Dorado
Hudson Memorial Nursing Home
Oak Ridge Nursing Home
Timberlane Health and Rehabilitation

 

Fayetteville
Katherine’s Place at Wedington
North Hills Life Care and Rehab

 

Flippin
Twin Lakes Nursing and Rehabilitation Center

 

Fort Smith
Chapel Ridge Health and Rehab

 

Gassville
Gassville Nursing and Rehabilitation Center

 

Greenbrier
Greenbrier Nursing and Rehabilitation Center

 

Greenwood
Pink Bud Home for the Golden Years

 

Hot Springs
Fountain Lake Health and Rehab
Garland Nursing and Rehabilitation Center
National Park Medical Center

 

Jasper
Newton County Nursing Home

 

Jonesboro
St. Elizabeth’s Place

 

Little Rock
Briarwood Nursing and Rehabilitation Center

 

Magnolia
The Green House Cottages of Wentworth Place

 

Malvern
Longmeadow Nursing Center – Malvern

 

Manila
Manila Nursing Center

 

McGehee
Southern Heritage Health and Rehabilitation

 

Melbourne
Pioneer Nursing and Rehab Center

 

Monticello
The Woods of Monticello Health and Rehabilitation

 

Mount Ida
Montgomery County Nursing Home

 

Murfreesboro
Murfreesboro Rehab and Nursing

 

Nashville
Nashville Nursing and Rehab

 

North Little Rock
Robinson Nursing and Rehabilitation Center

 

Pine Bluff
Trinity Village Medical Center

 

Rogers
Innisfree Health and Rehab
Jamestown Nursing and Rehab

 

Russellville
Legacy Heights Nursing and Rehabilitation
St. Mary’s Regional Medical Center
Stella Manor Nursing and Rehabilitation Center

 

Springdale
The Maples at Har-Ber Meadows
Windcrest Health and Rehab

 

Star City
Lincoln Heights Healthcare

 

West Memphis
Broadway Healthcare Center

Health Care and Rehabilitation Center of West Memphis

White Hall
White Hall Nursing and Rehabilitation Center

 

Wynne
River Ridge Rehabilitation and Care Center

 

*Assisted-living residence numbers are from the Department of Health and Human Services’ 2007 Residential Care and Assisted Living Compendium. According to the National Center for Assisted Living, this is the industry’s only resource for such data. Depending on the state, the number may or may not include small residential-care homes, such as adult foster care.

**Senior-care price estimates are based on the 2011 MetLife Market Survey of Long-Term Care Costs, which reports average rates,and the Genworth 2011 Cost of Care Survey, which reports median rates.

***Medicare rates nursing homes in four categories using a five-star system. These are the nursing homes with five stars in the “Overall” category. The ratings were accessed on Medicare’s Nursing Home Compare site in November or December 2011 and are subject to change. The Medicare ratings system isn’t perfect, so use additional criteria to evaluate nursing homes as well.