Little Rock Senior AdvisorHow do I confirm a Little Rock assisted living facility is licensed?
Check the building against the Arkansas Health Services Permit Agency's annual Bed Need Book, which lists every assisted living facility by county with its licensed Level I and Level II beds, then confirm the current license with the DHS Office of Long Term Care.
The Bed Need Book is also where former names show up, so it helps when a building has been rebranded. Our roster reproduces the six-county rows with the edition date.
Where are Arkansas nursing home inspection results published?
On CMS Care Compare, which publishes each certified nursing home's star ratings, the dates and findings of its health inspections, complaint deficiencies, staffing hours and fines; Arkansas's Office of Long Term Care performs those inspections for CMS.
CMS lists 44 certified nursing homes in the six counties; it publishes an overall rating for 44 of them, and 24 hold four or five stars (Care Compare data dated October 1, 2026).Each of our nursing home pages shows the CMS numbers with the data date and compares them with the central Arkansas median.
Can I see an assisted living facility's survey results?
Ask the facility for its most recent OLTC survey and plan of correction; Arkansas surveys each assisted living facility on an average of every 18 months, but it does not publish assisted living survey results in a bulk public dataset.
DHS does post enforcement and violation reports on its licensed-provider pages, and the long-term care ombudsman can tell you whether complaints are common. A building that hesitates to show its last survey is telling you something.
What else should we verify before choosing?
Verify the level, the bed count, whether the building runs an Alzheimer's special care unit, who the administrator is and how long they have been there, and whether ownership has changed recently.
Bring the record with you. If the state shows a recent name change, ask who manages the building now. If the facility describes memory care, ask for the written disclosure statement Arkansas requires.
Side by side
| Public records will show you | Public records will not show you | |
|---|---|---|
| Assisted living | Level and licensed beds, by county | Survey findings in bulk |
| Nursing homes | CMS stars, inspections, staffing and fines | How a home treats your parent |
| Memory care | Names that say so | Which buildings run a special care unit |
| Prices | Statewide medians | Any building's current rate |
Sources: Arkansas Office of Long Term Care assisted living rules, the Health Services Permit Agency's Bed Need Book, Arkansas DHS waiver and PACE fact sheets, CMS, CareScout and VA rate tables, each cited in the text. Our editorial standards explain how we check them.
