Garland Nursing & Rehab Center

    610 Carpenter Dam Rd, Hot Springs, AR, 71901
    3.4 · 5 reviews
    • Assisted living
    • Memory care
    • Skilled nursing
    AnonymousLoved one of resident
    1.0

    Assembly line care, rude staff

    In my experience over two years, care felt like an assembly line despite some progress. Staff were mean and poorly trained; they gave Ativan when it wasn't needed and even claimed to be RNs. Roommate harassment went unaddressed, clothes were never unpacked (suitcase left on the bedside), and visiting was restricted so I couldn't see my loved one.

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    Amenities

    3.40 · 5 reviews

    Overall rating

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

      3.0
    • Staff

      1.0
    • Meals

      3.4
    • Amenities

      3.4
    • Value

      3.4

    Pros

    • Noticeable resident progress over a two-year period
    • Some positive sentiment about care outcomes

    Cons

    • Ativan administered when not needed (possible chemical restraint)
    • Assembly-line, rushed care
    • Staff described as mean and poorly trained
    • Caregivers perceived as non-caring
    • Roommate harassment of residents
    • Personal clothing not unpacked or put away
    • Resident belongings left on bedside (suitcase left out)
    • No visiting hours / inability to visit loved one
    • Staff misrepresenting credentials (claimed to be RN)

    Summary review

    Overall sentiment in these reviews is mixed but leans negative, with several serious concerns about care practices, staff behavior, and resident rights alongside a limited note that some residents showed progress over a two-year period. The dominant themes are safety and dignity issues, inconsistent and transactional care, and problematic staffing or management practices that undermine trust.

    Care quality: Reviewers report a pattern of impersonal, assembly-line care—care that appears rushed and standardized rather than individualized. There is a particularly alarming claim that Ativan was administered when not needed, which caregivers cited as a form of chemical restraint. This raises concerns about inappropriate medication use, inadequate assessment of resident needs, and insufficient oversight of psychotropic prescribing. Other care deficiencies are practical but impactful: clothing not unpacked or put away and a suitcase left on a bedside table suggest lapses in basic activities-of-daily-living assistance and attention to residents’ personal belongings.

    Staff and interpersonal environment: Multiple summaries describe staff as mean, poorly trained, and non-caring. These characterizations point to issues with staff competence, attitude, and perhaps morale. There are also reports of roommate harassment, indicating problems with roommate placement, insufficient supervision, or inadequate response when interpersonal conflicts arise. An additional concern is staff misrepresenting credentials (staff claiming to be an RN), which threatens clinical accountability and resident safety.

    Facilities, belongings, and daily life: While there is no detailed commentary about the physical plant (cleanliness, rooms, bathrooms) or dining quality in these summaries, repeated mentions of personal items being neglected (clothes not put away, suitcase left out) reflect shortcomings in daily living support and unit-level organization. These are concrete, observable indicators of how well the facility assists residents with routine needs and preserves dignity.

    Visitation and management practices: The reviews include explicit statements that visitors were not allowed or that there were no visiting hours, describing an inability to visit loved ones. This is a serious concern for family access and transparency, and it can exacerbate mistrust and reduce external oversight. Taken together with reports of medication misuse and questionable credentialing, these points suggest weaknesses in management, policy enforcement, staff training, and communication with families.

    Gaps and limitations in available information: The reviews do note a positive outcome — some progress in care over a two-year period — but provide little detail about programming, activities, dining, therapy services, or clinical improvements that produced that progress. Because dining and activities were not discussed, no conclusions can be drawn about those areas from this dataset. However, the volume and severity of negative comments about staff behavior, medication use, and resident dignity are clear and should be prioritized for investigation.

    In summary, the reviews present a facility where some residents may experience genuine clinical progress over time, but that positive outcome is overshadowed by recurring and severe concerns: possible inappropriate use of sedating medication, impersonal/rushed care, unkind or untrained staff, mishandling of residents’ personal belongings, roommate harassment, restricted visitation, and potential misrepresentation of clinical credentials. These patterns point to systemic issues in staffing, supervision, resident-centered care, and policy transparency that warrant attention from facility leadership, families, and regulators.

    Location

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    About Garland Nursing & Rehab Center

    Garland Nursing & Rehab Center sits in Hot Springs National Park, Arkansas, and is a modern place built with safety in mind, with a full sprinkler system and 24/7 care available every day of the week, and the caregivers and nurses work to help people recover and stay well whether they need short-term rehab, long-term care, or help with daily life, and the place welcomes residents who need skilled nursing, memory care, independent living, or home care services with home aides who can give companionship and help without medical tasks, and the staff includes CNAs, LPNs, and RNs, with total nurse staffing hours per resident each day at 4.40 hours, and there's always a nurse around to help. Garland Nursing & Rehab Center doesn't sit inside a hospital, but it does accept both Medicare and Medicaid, gives help for families to figure out Medicare and Medicaid options or income limits, and offers research tools to compare senior care choices and costs, and if caregivers need training or certification for dementia, Alzheimer's care, or other senior home care topics, there are programs for that too.

    This place has 105 certified beds and about 94 residents, with most of the spots filled, and some private rooms let residents have their own space, and they always keep beds ready for new admissions day or night. Residents can join daily activities, use transportation for appointments, and enjoy nutritious meals planned and cooked on-site by kitchen staff, and nearby, there are 37 restaurants, 10 cafes like Shipley Do-Nuts and Starbucks, two parks, 14 pharmacies, about 35 doctors, and two places of worship for folks who want spiritual support. The Garland Nursing & Rehab Center supports both resident and family councils, which means residents and their families can share ideas or concerns, and people have a say in their care. Regular therapy services-physical, occupational, and others-are all offered on-site, and there are tailored care plans for each person to help with recovery and comfort, and the center has long been approved for Medicare and Medicaid services since June 1, 1994, and continues as a for-profit nursing home community.

    Vaccination numbers are high with 98% of long-term residents getting their pneumonia shot and 94% getting a flu shot during flu season, and no recent incidents or fines have been reported. Garland Nursing & Rehab Center keeps a close watch over health and safety, with different cycles showing some health deficiencies, for example, 6 to 15 deficiencies and scores between 52 to 116, but they work to resolve things when needed. The overall rating is 3, while staffing sits at 4, quality measures at 3, and health inspection at 2. It doesn't get special focus facility designation and doesn't operate as a continuing care retirement community. Staff here make a point to treat residents with kindness and respect, and the environment aims to be supportive, friendly, and full of ways to stay active physically, mentally, and socially. Garland Nursing & Rehab Center has been recognized for its care and engagement with awards like Best of Senior Living and Best of Senior Living All Star, which shows its efforts to make life better for the people staying there.

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