Editorial standards

How does Little Rock Senior Advisor source its facts?

Regulatory statements come from Arkansas's assisted living rules and DHS fact sheets; facility data from the Health Services Permit Agency's Bed Need Book and CMS; costs from CareScout's 2025 Arkansas release; population from Census Vintage 2025 estimates; VA and spousal figures from VA and CMS tables.

• Arkansas Health Services Permit Agency, Bed Need Book SFY 2027 (July 2026)
• Rules for Assisted Living Facilities (Arkansas Administrative Code, via Cornell LII)
• AHCA/NCAL 2019 State Assisted Living Regulatory Summary: Arkansas
• Arkansas DHS, Living Choices Assisted Living Waiver fact sheet
• Arkansas DHS, PACE fact sheet
• CMS directory: Arkansas Office of Long Term Care
• CareScout 2025 Cost of Care, Arkansas
• CMS Care Compare Provider Information (nursing homes)
• CMS Hospital General Information
• VA Veterans Pension rates
• CMS 2026 SSI and spousal impoverishment standards
• Consumer Voice: Arkansas ombudsman directory
• Arkansas DHS Adult Protective Services
• U.S. Census Bureau Vintage 2025 estimates

What will Little Rock Senior Advisor not publish?

Figures we cannot trace to a primary source, facility details that are not in state or CMS data, reviews, testimonials and ratings of our own.

• No Little Rock-only cost median: CareScout publishes Arkansas-wide medians only.
• No memory care median: CareScout does not survey memory care.
• No assisted living ratings: neither Arkansas nor CMS rates assisted living, and we will not make one up.
• No street addresses for assisted living: the Bed Need Book does not publish them.
• No details lifted from marketing copy or operator websites.

How often is the directory refreshed?

Whenever the fetch script runs: CMS data is pulled fresh (currently dated October 1, 2026), and the assisted living and residential care rows are re-transcribed when the Permit Agency publishes a new Bed Need Book (currently July 2026).

Every listing page shows its source and data date, and sitemap dates change only when a page's content actually changes.

How does Little Rock Senior Advisor handle CMS star ratings?

We reproduce CMS's ratings exactly, labelled as CMS's with the data date, and only for nursing homes CMS certifies.

Comparisons on facility pages, such as staffing hours above or below the regional median, are simple arithmetic on the published numbers.

How do I ask for a correction?

Email advisors@littlerocksenioradvisor.com with the page and the fix; providers may ask us to correct how their data is displayed, but changes to the data itself go through the state or CMS.

We fix errors quickly. Corrections to Arkansas rules or benefit amounts are checked against the rule or agency page first.

How are the guides on this site written?

By our care team, checked against the same primary sources as the reference pages, with each guide dated and each table sourced.

We do not publish sponsored content or guest posts, and no community pays to appear in a guide.