Vitality Living Pleasant Hills

Who can live at Vitality Living Pleasant Hills under Arkansas's Level I rules?

Vitality Living Pleasant Hills holds Arkansas's lower assisted living tier, Level I: no resident who meets nursing home level of care, no medication administration by staff, and home health for short-term nursing.

Level I suits a parent who mainly needs supervision, meals and some help with daily routines. Families should ask what the building does when a resident starts to need medication given or nursing-level care, because Level I rules do not allow it.

Where does Vitality Living Pleasant Hills rank by size in Pulaski County?

With 70 licensed beds, Vitality Living Pleasant Hills is the number 12 of 18 assisted living facilities in Pulaski County by bed count and holds about 5% of the county's 1,354 licensed assisted living beds; across the six-county metro it ranks 21 of 31.

The buildings just above and below Vitality Living Pleasant Hills by licensed beds:

Bed counts are capacity, not current occupancy; the state publishes no occupancy figure for assisted living, so ask Vitality Living Pleasant Hills how many apartments are filled today.

What does the state's record say about Vitality Living Pleasant Hills's history?

The state's record for Vitality Living Pleasant Hills notes: Formerly Brookdale Pleasant Hills and Emeritus at Pleasant Hills; converted from a residential care facility November 1, 2010; file 1486 added 13 beds.

A former name usually means a change of operator or brand. Ask who owns and manages the building today, when that changed, and how many caregivers stayed through the transition.

It began as a residential care facility and converted to assisted living, which was common in Arkansas after 2007. Ask whether every unit now meets the apartment standards or whether some older rooms remain.

The permit history shows added or approved beds. New construction can mean newer apartments, but also a building still filling its staff roster, so ask about turnover and agency staffing.

How does Pulaski County's assisted living supply compare with demand?

The Permit Agency projects that Pulaski County will need 2,306 assisted living and residential care beds by 2031; it has 1,647 licensed today, of which Vitality Living Pleasant Hills provides 70.

What hospital would a resident of Vitality Living Pleasant Hills use?

The Bed Need Book places Vitality Living Pleasant Hills in Pulaski County but does not name the town or street, so we do not estimate distances; the county seat is Little Rock.

Ask Vitality Living Pleasant Hills for its address and how it gets residents to appointments.

Does Vitality Living Pleasant Hills take Living Choices?

Not through Living Choices: that waiver works only in Level II buildings, so residents of Vitality Living Pleasant Hills pay privately, with VA pension, long-term care insurance or family help as the usual supports.

What questions fit Vitality Living Pleasant Hills specifically?

Start with the questions the record raises: ask whether Vitality Living Pleasant Hills has an Alzheimer's special care unit; if it does, Arkansas requires a written disclosure statement describing the unit's care before admission.

• At full occupancy (70 residents) Arkansas's Level I minimum is 4 direct care staff by day, 2 in the evening and 2 overnight; ask how many are actually scheduled.
• Ask who the current operator is and when it took over.
• Ask to see Vitality Living Pleasant Hills's most recent Office of Long Term Care survey and plan of correction.