Advanced Healthcare of Mesa

On top of receiving a great overall score, this facility earned an A+ inspection rating. This is based on its recent inspection reports. An A+ in this area is one of the best complements we can pay to a facility. Arguably the most important factor we consider in determining our inspection scores is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's inspection reports. Places with better scores in this area typically avoided the more severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. While this facility had some deficiencies on its inspection report, none of them were major deficiencies based on CMS' scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This first-rate nursing home also performed remarkably in the area of short-term care, where we awarded it a grade of A+. Very few facilities performed better in this category. Our short-term care grades are likely most important for folks needing a nursing home for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually requires more highly-skilled nursing. This includes not only nursing, but also physical and occupational therapy, as well as other forms of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all nursing homes employs these types of nurses. However, according to the information this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Lastly, we looked at the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 7.4 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

This nursing home also was superb in the area of long-term care, where we awarded it a score of A. Not many facilities fared better in this category. For prospective residents in need of a permanent place to live as opposed to skilled nursing, long-term care is a very important category. One of the factors we considered in addition to nursing hours is vaccinations. Unfortunately, it does not look like this facility provided data regarding vaccinations. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. It had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

Moving on to the fourth area, this facility also performed well in the nursing category. We awarded it an A- in that category. This completed truly elite profile. Nursing scores are based largely on quantity of nursing care available. This nursing home provides 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also assessed certain nursing quality-based metrics in computing our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We look at these statistics as predictive measures of the caliber of nursing care offered, since better care tends to reduce these problems.