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. The fact that none of the deficiencies were severe leaves us less concerned with this inspection report.

We also gave this facility a score of A+ for its short-term care grade. With our short-term care assessment, we strive to create a valuable measure for rehabilitation services. In doing so, we look at a nursing home's level of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as occupational therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not all nursing homes employs these skilled professionals. However, according to the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we considered the number of patients who returned home from this facility. We found that 7.3 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

This facility also excelled in the area of nursing, where it received a grade of A-. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. There are quite a few criteria included in this area. Many of these factors are tied to the quantity and quality of nurse staffing. This particular nursing home provided 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This place performed very well when it comes to minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

Turning to our last category, this facility received a very strong long-term care rating. Even though this was not quite as elite as some of its other grades, this is still one of our stronger grades a facility can receive. For residents in need of a permanent residence rather than rehabilitation, long-term care grades are a key measure. Once we looked at the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we then looked at the facility's vaccination statistics. Unfortunately, it does not look like this facility submitted information on its vaccination levels. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.