Advance Health Care of Scottsdale

On top of being an elite facility overall, this facility also performed well in our inspections category, where it earned an A+. Few places performed this well in this area. Our inspection ratings are based on many datapoints located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that excel in this area tend to have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. Unfortunately, we weren't able to find deficiency data for this nursing home. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Another reason we rated this nursing home so favorably is that it received an A+ short-term care grade. This is flat out as strong as it gets in this area. In our short-term care score, we try to craft a valuable measure for rehabilitation. In this process, we look at the facility's levels of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. Remarkably, this nursing home provides about 1.5 times as many hours of services from registered nurses and physical therapists than most nursing homes we looked at. This is a great sign. Lastly, we looked at the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that it outperformed the vast majority of facilities in the country in this area with 74.8 percent of its patients returning home.

Turning the page to our next area, this nursing home was awarded a strong long-term care grade. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A in that category. Nursing homes that receive this kind of score in this category typically provide consistent around the clock care to ensure residents are well cared for. One of the factors we considered after nursing hours is vaccinations. It doesn't look like this nursing home provided information on its vaccination levels. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

The last area we looked at is nursing, where this nursing home was given an A. This rounded out a very impressive profile. Very few nursing homes received an A- or better in in each area we assessed. Our nursing grade analyzes the nursing home's nurse staffing levels. We look at both the levels of skill of those nurses as well as the number of hours spent with patients. This nursing home provides an incredible 5.3 hours of nursing care per resident each day. Out of this total, many of the hours were provided by registered nurses, which is one of the most highly trained levels of nurses. On top of offering impressive levels of care, this facility also excelled in the quality-based metrics we assessed. It performed as well as any facility in the country when it comes to minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls.