Lake Forest Senior Living at Mountain Home: Staffing, Turnover, and Inspection Record
Lake Forest Senior Living at Mountain Home is a 70-bed for-profit nursing home in Mountain Home, Arkansas, part of Continuum Healthcare. In the CMS August 2026 release it reported 2.49 nurse aide hours per resident per day, 7% below the Arkansas average of 2.67.
Lake Forest Senior Living at Mountain Home
300 Good Samaritan DriveMountain Home, AR 72653
Baxter County
CMS Care Compare, August 2026 release
How many staff hours residents get
CMS reports staffing as hours per resident per day, from the payroll records each home submits. At Lake Forest Senior Living at Mountain Home, nurse aides logged 2.49 hours per resident per day, 7% below the Arkansas average. With about 50 residents a day, that works out to roughly 124 aide hours a day, or about 15 eight-hour aide shifts across day, evening, and night. On weekends, total nursing hours per resident ran 10% below the all-days figure.
| Hours per resident per day | This home | Arkansas avg | US avg |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nurse aides (CNAs) | 2.49 | 2.67 | 2.32 |
| Licensed practical nurses | 1.00 | 0.95 | 0.86 |
| Registered nurses | 0.42 | 0.41 | 0.69 |
| All nursing staff | 3.91 | 4.03 | 3.86 |
| All nursing staff, weekends | 3.51 | 3.46 | 3.42 |
CMS Care Compare, August 2026 release: reported staffing hours from Payroll-Based Journal data, and CMS state and US averages.
Staff turnover
CMS publishes no nursing staff turnover figure for Lake Forest Senior Living at Mountain Home in this release. No administrators left over the same period.
CMS note: Staffing data not submitted or not valid for calculating turnover.
Inspections and penalties
State inspectors last completed a standard health inspection on Aug 20, 2025. The most recent inspection cycle, which also counts complaint and infection-control inspections from the past 12 months, found 0 health deficiencies (Arkansas average 2.9). CMS lists no fines or payment denials for this home in the last three years.
CMS star ratings
CMS rates every nursing home from one to five stars overall and on health inspections, staffing, and quality measures. Lake Forest Senior Living at Mountain Home holds 3 of 5 overall; the Arkansas average is 3.4.
About Lake Forest Senior Living at Mountain Home
- Ownership: For profit - Limited Liability company
- Chain: Continuum Healthcare, 13 homes
- Legal name: Mountain Home SNF Opco LLC
- Medicare and Medicaid certified since: Dec 1, 1994
- Part of a continuing care retirement community
- Councils: resident council
- Area: rural
Nursing homes near Lake Forest Senior Living at Mountain Home
The closest homes by distance, with the same CMS figures. Select a column to sort.
| Hiram Shaddox Health and Rehab Mountain Home | 2.6 | 140 | 1.87 | 3.08 | 57.8% | 4 | None |
| Care Manor Nursing and Rehab Mountain Home | 3.1 | 104 | 2.44 | 3.80 | 65.1% | 5 | None |
| Gassville Therapy and Living Gassville | 8.5 | 105 | 2.36 | 3.67 | 39.6% | 4 | None |
| Twin Lakes Therapy and Living Flippin | 14.6 | 80 | 2.46 | 4.23 | 57.6% | 2 | $25,678 |
| Gainesville Nursing Gainesville | 18.2 | 99 | 1.83 | 2.63 | 48.6% | 3 | None |
| Creekside at the Springs Yellville | 19.5 | 96 | 2.05 | 3.44 | 32.7% | 3 | $15,915 |
| White River Healthcare Calico Rock · no staffing data submitted | 21.9 | 70 | — | — | — | 1 | None |
| Southfork River Therapy and Living Salem | 29.5 | 84 | 2.37 | 3.80 | 41.9% | 5 | None |
Aide hrs and all nurse hrs are staff hours per resident per day. Fines are the CMS total for the last three years. Turnover is the share of nursing staff who left over a year. All figures from CMS Care Compare.
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Source: CMS Care Compare Provider Information, State and US Averages, and Penalties files, August 2026 release. Figures are as CMS publishes them; check Medicare Care Compare for the latest. Methodology.