Lorena Vance, LNHA
Administrator
Lorena started at Belle Point as a social services assistant in 2003 and has run the building since 2016. Her door stays open, and she eats lunch in the dining room most days.
Skilled nursing & rehabilitation · Fort Smith, Arkansas
Nursing care with the lights low and the standards high.
Ninety-six beds, a therapy gym that opens at seven, and a nurse on every hall all night. Short stays and long ones, a mile from the river.
A word from Lorena
Quiet is a kind of care.
Most nursing homes are loud. Call lights ringing, televisions on in empty rooms, carts rattling down the hall at five in the morning. When we renovated in 2019, we asked residents what they wanted changed, and nearly all of them said the same thing: make it quieter. So we did. Silent call pagers for the nurses, carpeted halls, a no-TV rule in the dining room, and lights that dim on their own after nine.
None of that replaces good nursing, and we never let it. We keep a registered nurse in the building around the clock, our therapists see rehab patients six days a week, and our medical director rounds every Tuesday and Friday. The calm is just how we choose to do the hard part.
— Lorena Vance, administrator
Our team
The people at the nurses' station
Patrice Holloway, RN
Director of Nursing
Twenty-six years a nurse, nine of them in the ICU across town. Patrice built our wound program and still covers a night shift once a month so she knows what the halls feel like at 3 a.m.
Henry Nakamura, MD
Medical Director
A Fort Smith internist who rounds at Belle Point twice a week and is on call for our nurses every night.
Miguel Arredondo, DPT
Therapy Director
Miguel leads our team of physical, occupational and speech therapists. He measures his year in discharges home, and he rings the bell at the front desk for every one.
Photo tour
Inside Belle Point
Sample family reviews
From families and patients
I was in for three weeks after my knee. It was the first place in a month I actually slept through the night, and Miguel had me on the stairs by day five.
Mother has lived at Belle Point for four years. The same two aides have taken care of her almost the whole time. That kind of steadiness is rare, and we know it.
Patrice called me at seven in the morning to say Dad had a fever overnight, what they'd done and what the doctor ordered. I never had to chase anybody for information.
The social worker sat with us for an hour to sort out the Medicaid paperwork. We'd been dreading it for months. She made it a Tuesday afternoon.
My husband had a stroke and lost most of his words. The speech therapist never once rushed him. He told me he loved me on day nineteen.
What sets us apart
Where we shine
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24-hour licensed nursing
RNs and LPNs on every hall, every shift, with a quiet pager system in place of overhead call bells.
24/702
Physical therapy
Strength, balance and walking, with a practice staircase and car-transfer station.
Medicare Part A03
Three meals and an evening tray
Cooked here each day, with therapeutic diets handled by our dietitian.
IncludedNow hiring
Quieter halls, steady assignments and a boss who answers the phone.
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On Riverlawn, a mile from the river
- 3105 Riverlawn Drive
Fort Smith, AR
Visitor parking is the front lot under the oaks. The covered entrance on the left is for wheelchair drop-off. - (479) 555-0148
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Tour & office hours
- Tours, Mon – Sat9a – 6p
- Admissions, every day8a – 8p
- Families visitAny time
Rehab families are welcome in the gym during therapy. Ask the front desk for that day's schedule.
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