Disability Rights Arkansas

Timber Ridge / Neurorestorative Timber Ridge

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Location: Benton, AR

Population Served: Youth 4-12 years old

# of residents per unit: 15 Residents per room: 1-2 Capacity: 15

Contact with family (Calls and visit schedule): Families can call daily. Clients can call as long as they have been safe towards themselves and others

Restraint utilized? Yes Chemical Restraint utilized? Yes Seclusion utilized? No

Treatment Modalities:

Clinical Director – MSE, CCC-SLP

Therapists: 3 full-time therapists (1 LPE-I, 1 LAC, 1 PhD Neuropsychologist)

Treatment modalities offered: Play therapy, sand tray therapy, polyvagal, CBT, solution focused, reality therapy

# of individual therapy sessions/week: 1-2/week

# of group therapy sessions led by a licensed mental health professional/week: 1

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PRLU or OLTC

Background Check Review, Visit Compliance Report

No regs out of compliance.

PRLU or OLTC

Visit Compliance Report

  • Virtual walk thru was completed of Cabin 6, newest building on campus. Virtual walk thru was started in Americana Building but was discontinued due to technical difficulty.

PRLU or OLTC

Licensing Compliance Record

  • Viewed cabins 4 and 6 and all areas used by children with no safety concerns viewed at visit.
  • Reviewed 10 children’s records – no deficiencies noted.
  • TA: agency plans to rebuild cabins for adolescent program for the dual diagnosis program that should begin in October

PRLU or OLTC

Licensing Compliance Record

  • Viewed cabins 4 and 6 and all areas used by children with no safety concerns noted.
  • Reviewed 10 Personnel files – social media confidentiality statement missing from all. Compliance date and date corrected listed as 06/23/19 for all.

PRLU or OLTC

Licensing Compliance Record

  • Viewed Americana, Cabin 4, and Cabin 6, schools, and kitchen buildings and all areas used by children with no safety concerns cited.
  • TA: Discussed that I will need a copy of actions taken to address bed bug report. Date corrected 4/1/19.
  • Timber Ridge Plan of Correction. Bed bugs found by staff in 1 bed.

Police Report

Theft of Property

Caller advised Resident stole a van at facility at approximately 1330 hours, Staff had Resident blocked in at front gate. Resident had taken keys from Staffs locker(not locked); Resident later got out of van and returned inside the facility. Officer advised he would send the report to the Prosecutors Office to see about relocating Resident to a more secure facility. Officer also advised Staff to keep all vehicle doors locked and all keys locked up.

Police Report

Missing Person

Caller informed Officers that a Resident had left the facility at approximately 5:30 pm. Upon Officers arrival, Staff stated they had no one by the name the Caller gave, but stated a Resident at the facility had probably called and that last time she did this (2/15/19), she hid while several employees searched for her. Staff stated Resident had a brain tumor at a younger age and was very deviant. Staff and Officers located Resident walking on road in facility at approximately 7:15 pm; Resident stated she was fine and didn’t know why she was hiding.