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Morada Fort Smith

8420 Phoenix Ave, Fort Smith, AR 72903

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5.0 out of 5 stars

Beautiful Place to Live!

After touring three places in Ft. Smith, we chose Morada Ft. Smith for our love one's forever home. It's a beautiful building and well maintained. The apartments appear brand new, although they're not... that indicates that they have a great maintenance staff. Our family and loved one would give Morada a 5 in every area, except for food. Our loved one says that the food tastes bland, but she is able to order a la carte to get the meals that she likes to eat. We would give the food a 3 rating. Unbelievable value for your money!

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About the facility

Located near Massard Creek in scenic northwest Arkansas, Morada Fort Smith is a rural, multi-story independent living community offering chef-inspired meals, accommodating apartment-style homes, and superior senior living services. Situated on the Arkansas River, the historic city of Fort Smith offers a delightfully urban feel with a number of coffee shops, parks, and close proximity to art museums, national forests, and hiking trails through the Ozark Mountains.

Considerate and attentive associates offer a large variety of services, including housekeeping, linen, maintenance, scheduled transportation, and three nutritious, restaurant-style meals a day served inside the open-concept dining room. Elegant chandeliers and large skylights fill the dining room with an abundance of light, making it the perfect place to socialize with others.

Engaging activities and events are scheduled daily. Residents are free to attend a Sunday morning devotional service in the on-site chapel, stay active with a fitness class, or join their friends in the game room. Community cookouts and happy hours are planned for residents who love to socialize. Between the daily activity and full-time amenities, there is always something to keep you busy at Morada Fort Smith.

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8420 Phoenix Ave,
Fort Smith, AR 72903

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Amenities

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Healthcare Services

  • Staffing & Ancillary Services
  • Memory Care

Meals & Dining

  • Pureed Meals
  • Meals Provided
  • No Sugar
  • Professional Chef

Room Amenities

  • Cable or Satellite TV
  • Wheelchair Accessible Showers
  • Wi-Fi/high-speed internet
  • Ground Floor Units
  • Air Conditioned
  • Garden View

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On-site dining options

  • Café or Bistro
  • Private Dining Room

Transportation & parking

  • Transportation at Cost
  • Covered Parking
  • Uncovered Parking
  • Property Convenient to Public Transit

Pets

  • Pet Care Available
  • Cats Allowed
  • Dogs Allowed
  • Weight Limit (lbs)

Common areas

  • Indoor Common Areas
  • Outside Patio
  • Library
  • Barber Shop

Recreational areas

  • Billiards Lounge
  • Raised Garden Beds
  • Piano or Organ
  • Movie or Theater Room

Services

  • Housekeeping
  • Beautician

Languages spoken

  • English
  • Spanish
  • Japanese

Activities

  • Day Trips and Outings
  • Resident Band or Musicians
  • Activities On-site
  • Cards / Pinochle Club

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8.1 out of 10
Review Score69 reviewsWrite a review
Overall Experience
4.0
Cleanliness
4.1
Friendliness
4.4
Care Services
3.9
Staff
3.9
Meals & Dining
3.4
Activities
4.0
Value for Cost
3.9

A Place for Mom has scored Morada Fort Smith with 8.1 out of 10 using our proprietary review score based on 12 reviews in the last 2 years. Over all time, Morada Fort Smith has 69 reviews with an average "overall experience" of 4 out of 5.

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Anonymous

Independent Living

Family/friend

September 22, 2026

5.0 out of 5 stars
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Cleanliness
5.0
Friendliness
5.0
Value for Cost
5.0
Care Services
5.0
Activities
5.0
Staff
5.0
Meals & Dining
3.0

Beautiful Place to Live!

After touring three places in Ft. Smith, we chose Morada Ft. Smith for our love one's forever home. It's a beautiful building and well maintained. The apartments appear brand new, although they're not... that indicates that they have a great maintenance staff. Our family and loved one would give Morada a 5 in every area, except for food. Our loved one says that the food tastes bland, but she is able to order a la carte to get the meals that she likes to eat. We would give the food a 3 rating. Unbelievable value for your money!

Dawn Bartholomew

Independent Living

Toured community

May 6, 2026

5.0 out of 5 stars
Cleanliness
5.0
Friendliness
5.0
Value for Cost
5.0

It was a great facility, I am taking my Mom for a tour soon. The ladies who showed me around were very accommodating and pleasant.

SS

Independent Living

Family/friend

February 23, 2026

4.0 out of 5 stars
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Review for Morada Fort Smith

It was in a convenient area and a very nice facility. [name removed] is very happy living there

Anonymous

Independent Living

Family/friend

February 20, 2026

3.0 out of 5 stars
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Disappointed

Food quality started good and then got worse. Cleanliness of the facility was not the best. When I was unable to reach my mother by phone at night I called the front desk and no one ever answered. I had to wait until the next day to call and speak with the director. Directors changed multiple times while my mother was there. Pluses were that the staff was very friendly and they seemed to try to have fun activities for the residents, though my mother chose not to participate.

Christina F

Independent Living

Toured community

December 16, 2025

5.0 out of 5 stars
Cleanliness
4.0
Friendliness
5.0
Value for Cost
4.0
Staff
5.0

This is a excellent place for someone needing their own space with also having an exact staff there to assist you if you need it. It's location is great. The grounds are very nice. The staff is very knowledgeable.

Resident R

Independent Living

Family/friend

November 13, 2025

1.0 out of 5 stars
Cleanliness
2.0
Friendliness
3.0
Value for Cost
1.0
Care Services
1.0
Activities
1.0
Staff
1.0
Meals & Dining
1.0

Degraded last 5 years

Large recurring staff turnover over - they can not keep a chef (the current isn’t a chef but was a kitchen assistant), the food quality is poor and has no taste typically. Most staff are college or high school youngsters. The main staff has a large turnover rate - they can’t keep an activity director. There is ongoing money waste - spending unnecessarily for amenities or things that aren’t broken (eg they spent tens of thousands for a new snack bar, only to never open it and it was dismantled shortly after) or redecorating the entire 3 floors of artwork - going from warm and inviting… to cold, sterile and badly placed modern art (new art and installing costs $$$$$). The place had gone unpainted for years. It’s changed ownership hands several times, including one point they not paying their lease monies, while taking and trying to raise resident monthly fees. You will have to battle each year, severe attempts to raise rent if you stay here.

Linda

Independent Living

Family/friend

October 16, 2025

5.0 out of 5 stars
Verified Review

Satisfied

Overall experience has been good. They seem to make a real effort to accommodate residents. I would recommend to others.

Anonymous

Independent Living

Family/friend

July 8, 2025

5.0 out of 5 stars
Verified Review
Cleanliness
5.0
Friendliness
5.0
Value for Cost
5.0
Care Services
5.0
Activities
5.0
Staff
5.0
Meals & Dining
5.0

Highly recommend Morada Fort Smith

They are very professional, personable, and add to the overall quality of the facility.

Anonymous

Independent Living

Family/friend

February 13, 2025

3.0 out of 5 stars
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Cleanliness
3.0
Friendliness
3.0
Value for Cost
3.0
Care Services
3.0
Activities
3.0
Staff
3.0
Meals & Dining
3.0

Hoping for improvements

Staff is friendly but they have trouble keeping them. Reaching a staff member on the weekend has been difficult. Food is plentiful but not always consistently good - hard to keep kitchen staff. Hallway carpet is terribly old and stained and needs to be removed.

Anonymous

Independent Living

Resident/client

January 30, 2025

4.0 out of 5 stars
Verified Review
Cleanliness
4.0
Friendliness
4.0
Value for Cost
3.0
Care Services
4.0
Activities
2.0
Staff
4.0
Meals & Dining
3.0

Review for Morada Fort Smith

I was attracted to it because it was independent living - however after I moved in I found that many many residents have care providers they pay for themselves, thus making it look and feel more like an assisted living facility. I am happy here now since I have gotten use to it but I would recommend anyone who is interested in coming here spend at least one night a several meals here before they make their final decisions.

Mike B orn

Independent Living

Resident/client

January 25, 2025

1.0 out of 5 stars
Cleanliness
1.0
Friendliness
3.0
Value for Cost
1.0
Care Services
1.0
Activities
1.0
Staff
2.0
Meals & Dining
1.0

The worst

The worst place to live in ft. Smith staff goes home on Friday at 430 you don't see them until Monday morning problems that arise during the weekend never get resolved after 8 months for this I'm sick of this place.

Barb

Independent Living

Resident/client

December 5, 2024

5.0 out of 5 stars
Cleanliness
5.0
Friendliness
5.0
Value for Cost
5.0
Care Services
5.0
Activities
5.0
Staff
5.0
Meals & Dining
4.0

Good experience

Nice place, wonderful town. A gold mind of shops, close by. You will need gloves and a hat. Gettin' cool here. Great location to interstate, nice country roads. Now that the price of fuel is low, it's a great time to see Arkansas.

Richard F

Independent Living

Family/friend

October 1, 2024

5.0 out of 5 stars
Verified Review
Cleanliness
5.0
Friendliness
5.0
Value for Cost
5.0
Care Services
5.0
Activities
5.0
Staff
5.0
Meals & Dining
5.0

A great place for mom to be close to family than living 1500 miles away.

My mom has really enjoyed her time. In my experience the facility/staff of Morada Fort Smith are the glue that keeps everything together adding to such an excellent experience for residents and their families. All the amenities are excellent and the apartment sizes so much larger than my first apartment I had in college many years ago.

Anonymous

Independent Living

Resident/client

April 23, 2024

5.0 out of 5 stars
Verified Review
Cleanliness
5.0
Friendliness
5.0
Value for Cost
5.0
Care Services
5.0
Activities
5.0
Staff
5.0
Meals & Dining
5.0

Morada Fort Smith

Price and cleanliness are good, food is good, activities great. Nice people, not all of them, but most. We need some kind of amusement on Saturday and Sunday. It's so boring here when the activity room is locked up. If it was open we could at least play games or yoga exercise.

Anonymous

Independent Living

Family/friend

April 12, 2024

4.0 out of 5 stars
Verified Review
Cleanliness
4.0
Friendliness
4.0
Value for Cost
5.0
Care Services
4.0
Activities
4.0
Staff
4.0
Meals & Dining
4.0

Recommended

My loved one is currently a resident at Morada Fort Smith and overall everything has been very good for her, so far. The value for cost here is great! They worked very hard to get us in and did a fantastic job. I would recommend this facility to others.

Anonymous

Independent Living

Resident/client

January 11, 2024

4.0 out of 5 stars
Verified Review
Cleanliness
5.0
Friendliness
4.0
Value for Cost
4.0
Activities
2.0
Staff
4.0
Meals & Dining
2.0

from my point of view

Being Hebrew and eat clean/kosher, a majority of meal choices contains pork or pork products. Many vegetables and soups have bacon and pork ingredients. For diabetic residents a large number of choices of bread, pasta, potatoes, etc. Which limits or restricts their ability to eat healthy. There are conflicts among lower level staff creating a continual hostile work environment which top management refuses to address. Since the facility has come under new management, a number of amenities have been done away with with the reason being lack of funds. Activities have diminished to almost non existence. Many disgruntled residents freely expressing their discontentment. Now with the knowledge I have from experience it is likely I would make a different choice.

Steve

Independent Living

Family/friend

December 6, 2023

4.0 out of 5 stars
Verified Review

Very friendly, helpful staff!

Overall the transition has been exceptional. The only thing my father gives negative feedback about is the food choices are sorta bland in his opinion. Apartment sizes are perfect!

Virginia G

Independent Living

Family/friend

November 13, 2023

1.0 out of 5 stars
Cleanliness
2.0
Friendliness
2.0
Value for Cost
1.0
Care Services
2.0
Activities
2.0
Staff
2.0
Meals & Dining
2.0

30 day notice enforcement?

My mother was injured moving her belongs from one apartment to another. I was told she would have assistance moving. She did not. She was hospitalized for a fractured vertebrae. Following the hospitalization, she had to have physical therapy. And was then moved to another facility. Morada required a 30 day notice. Mom paid 2 weeks in advance. She had lived there more than 13 years. They did not have the records to tell me if she had paid a deposit or not. I had No Way to contact the Morada corporation. Mom needed that money to go to the other facility. The reason she had to switch apartments was because of months long over due water damage in her apartment. They have submitted my 86-year-old mother to a collection agency. And for an amount much more than she was paying. My family cleaned her apartment immediately when we knew she could not return. What happens if a person dies?

ML

Independent Living

Family/friend

September 21, 2023

5.0 out of 5 stars
Verified Review
Cleanliness
5.0
Friendliness
5.0
Value for Cost
5.0
Care Services
5.0
Activities
5.0
Staff
5.0
Meals & Dining
5.0

Review for Morada Fort Smith

I would highly recommend it they seem to have a genuine concern for my mom. We picked this community because of a site visit of several in my area they did everything they could to make my mom feel comfortable and the price was the cheapest and it is the best place of all that we visited.

Anonymous

Independent Living

Family/friend

May 22, 2023

3.0 out of 5 stars
Verified Review
Cleanliness
3.0
Friendliness
5.0
Value for Cost
2.0
Care Services
3.0
Activities
3.0
Staff
5.0
Meals & Dining
3.0

A friendly, welcoming place.

The atmosphere of this community could be more modern and light and they could also use some updating with the décor. They are currently renovating and they may help things and brighten it up a little bit. We really like that the people are very friendly and we like the cookies!

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