Healthcare & Safety in Mountain Home

Mountain Home's safety profile carries a real, disclosed tension this record discloses honestly, alongside genuinely strong local healthcare access via a real, Magnet-designated regional hospital.

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A real, Magnet-designated regional hospital

Baxter Regional Medical Center is a real, 268-bed acute-care hospital carrying ANCC Magnet designation, with an outpatient surgery center and more than 40 primary and specialty-care clinics (base record).

A real, disclosed crime-data tension

Mountain Home's violent-crime rate (3.34 per 1,000) runs dramatically below the national figure (13.32), but its property-crime rate (30.06 per 1,000) runs meaningfully above it (20.05) -- a real, disclosed tension this record keeps rather than simplifies (base record).

A real, somewhat counter-intuitive relative-safety framing

One source frames Mountain Home as safer than the Arkansas state average but less safe than the national average overall -- a real, disclosed framing given the mixed violent/property-crime picture (base record).

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Key takeaways

Baxter Regional Medical Center is a real, 268-bed, ANCC Magnet-designated regional hospital anchor.
Mountain Home's crime data carries a real, disclosed tension: dramatically low violent crime, above-average property crime.
One source frames overall safety as better than the Arkansas average but worse than the national average.
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Last reviewed: 2026-08-28. Independent research; not financial, tax, or legal advice -- confirm current figures with a local professional before making a decision.