Fianna Hills Nursing & Rehab

    8411 S 28th St, Fort Smith, AR 72908
    • Assisted Living
    • Memory Care
    • Skilled Nursing

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    Amenities

    Healthcare services

    • Activities of daily living assistance
    • Assistance with bathing
    • Assistance with dressing
    • Assistance with transfers
    • Medication management
    • Mental wellness program

    Healthcare staffing

    • 12-16 hour nursing
    • 24-hour call system
    • 24-hour supervision

    Meals and dining

    • Diabetes diet
    • Meal preparation and service
    • Restaurant-style dining
    • Special dietary restrictions

    Room

    • Air-conditioning
    • Cable
    • Fully furnished
    • Housekeeping and linen services
    • Kitchenettes
    • Private bathrooms
    • Telephone
    • Wifi

    Transportation

    • Community operated transportation
    • Transportation arrangement
    • Transportation arrangement (non-medical)

    Common areas

    • Beauty salon
    • Computer center
    • Dining room
    • Fitness room
    • Gaming room
    • Garden
    • Outdoor space
    • Small library
    • Wellness center

    Community services

    • Concierge services
    • Fitness programs
    • Move-in coordination

    Activities

    • Community-sponsored activities
    • Planned day trips
    • Resident-run activities
    • Scheduled daily activities

    Reviews

    3.02·(41)

    Overall rating

    1. 5
    2. 4
    3. 3
    4. 2
    5. 1
    • Care

      2.4
    • Staff

      2.6
    • Meals

      2.3
    • Amenities

      1.5
    • Value

      2.0

    Pros

    • Clean, well-maintained common areas
    • Compassionate and respectful direct-care staff
    • Dedicated short-term rehabilitation services
    • Responsive social work and family communication
    • Courteous transportation and support personnel
    • Attentive housekeeping with personalized touches
    • On-site activities and entertainment programming
    • Regular family updates and inclusion in care decisions
    • Convenient location

    Cons

    • Inconsistent meal quality and food-service standards
    • Visible staffing shortages and inconsistent schedules
    • Gaps in dementia-specific care expertise
    • Inconsistent medication-administration and clinical follow-through
    • Limited leadership visibility and administrative accountability
    • Favoritism and nepotistic workplace dynamics
    • Inadequate infection-control and outbreak response practices
    • Variable cleanliness and sanitation across units
    • Delayed maintenance and repair response times
    • Unclear or inconsistent activity-direction and programming
    • Online-review credibility and transparency

    Summary of reviews

    Reviews for Fianna Hills Nursing & Rehab are strongly polarized, with families and former residents describing both positive caregiving experiences and significant operational concerns. On the positive side, many accounts highlight compassionate, respectful direct-care staff, effective short-term rehabilitation outcomes, a generally clean appearance in common areas, and a responsive social-work team that communicates with families. Housekeeping and transportation staff are specifically praised in some accounts for attentive, individualized interactions, and several families report regular updates and inclusion in care decisions.

    Care quality perceptions vary. Positive reports emphasize attentive, affectionate caregiving and successful rehab stays. Negative reports point to inconsistent clinical follow-through — including delayed medication administration, wound-care competence concerns, inconsistent bathing and incontinence-care schedules, and frequent resident relocations within the facility — which suggest gaps in routine care processes and continuity. There are also recurring remarks about limited dementia-specific expertise among some staff, indicating an area where training and protocol improvements could be beneficial.

    Staffing and workplace culture emerge as a central theme. Reviewers describe dedicated, caring CNAs and therapists alongside accounts of scheduling inconsistency, understaffing, burnout, and low pay. Several accounts characterize a workplace environment with perceived favoritism and nepotistic dynamics that affect scheduling and resident assignment. These personnel issues are tied by some families to variable care quality and uneven resident experiences.

    Dining and activities are described inconsistently. Some families report residents being well fed and entertained, while others report substandard food quality, unappealing meals, and short or absent activity leadership. The presence of on-site activities is inconsistent across accounts, and some reviewers specifically note an absence or limited visibility of an activity director.

    Facility maintenance and environment present a mixed picture: the exterior and many common areas are described as well kept, but there are reports of sanitation and cleanliness variability across units and delays in maintenance response. These operational issues include slow turnaround on repairs and inconsistent attention to unit-level housekeeping.

    Management and operational leadership are frequent points of critique. Concerns include limited administrative visibility on the units, perceptions that leadership is insulated from daily operations, cost-cutting decisions that affect frontline staffing, and problematic infection-control and outbreak-response practices during prior COVID events. Some reviews raise credibility concerns about the facility’s online reputation, which complicates the ability to form a clear overall assessment solely from public commentary.

    Notable patterns and practical implications: the facility appears to have strengths in short-term, rehab-focused care and in the dedication of many frontline staff, while exhibiting operational weaknesses that can affect long-term, high-acuity, or dementia care. Prospective residents and families should consider on-site visits, ask specific questions about staffing ratios, medication-administration protocols, dementia-care training, infection-control procedures, maintenance response times, and activity programming. Families who choose the facility may need to take an active role in oversight and communication with staff to help ensure consistency of care.

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    Medicare Ratings

    3·/ 5
    • Overall

    • Health Inspection

    • Staffing

    • Quality Measures

    Ratings from the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (Care Compare). View on Medicare.gov

    Location

    Fianna Hills Nursing & Rehab is located at 8411 S 28th St, Fort Smith, AR, 72908.

    About Fianna Hills Nursing & Rehab

    Fianna Hills Nursing & Rehab in Fort Smith, AR, mainly serves seniors who need memory care, skilled nursing, or rehabilitation, so the staff is always there around the clock, and people living here get help if they have dementia, Alzheimer's, or need convalescent and nursing services. The nursing team and caregivers help with daily needs like walking, wheelchair assistance, laundry, housekeeping, meal service, and personal care, while nurses also give medical support and care, and the facility allows long-term care insurance. People can pick between studio or one-bedroom apartments, with rooms built for safety, including features for handicapped residents and sprinkler systems, plus washers and dryers on-site. Fianna Hills focuses on giving everyone things to do, with social activities, crafts, fitness, group games, musical performances, and even educational programs, so people aren't bored and can keep their minds and bodies active. There's a dining room where chefs and meal planners make fresh, healthy meals, and residents use shared spaces like the activities room, fitness center, salon and barbershop, and even enjoy TV, internet, and guest parking. Families can find comfort knowing reviews are strong, with a 9.5 average from over 20 reviews, and the staff is known for being friendly, helpful, and joyful, working hard to keep a homelike atmosphere. Fianna Hills has regular safety checks, follows all the rules for staffing, and works closely with local senior living advisors listed through A Place for Mom. The rehab team and nursing staff provide personalized care plans, aiming to help each person be as independent as possible, and everyone gets plenty of personal attention, community support, and options to socialize and stay engaged, making Fianna Hills Nursing & Rehab a steady choice for seniors needing nursing home or memory care.

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    Fianna Hills Nursing & Rehab offers assisted living, memory care, and skilled nursing.

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