Allegiant Healthcare of Mesa is a very-large nursing home located in Mesa, Arizona. Featuring an overall rating of C, this is likely a solid nursing home. You can definitely do worse than this facility. The best part of this nursing home's profile is is its inspection grade. Inspection grades are discussed in the next paragraph.
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Allegiant Healthcare of Mesa
- Nursing Home
- Memory Care
Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Lata
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- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- Is CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Individual
- Offers Post-Acute Care
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Registered Staff Hours
Facility Inspections
This nursing home's best category grade came in the category of government inspections. In that category, we gave this nursing home a grade of B+. It outperformed most nursing homes in this area. Inspection grades are based on pieces of information located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that excel in this category 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. While this nursing home had some deficiencies on its report, none of them were severe based on CMS' deficiency scale. A couple minor deficiencies shouldn't lead you to cross a nursing home off your list.
Short-term Care Quality
This nursing home's short-term care grade ended up being one of its better grades. The nursing home was given a B- in this area. Short-term care grades are commonly used to gauge a facility's performance with rehabilitation. In order to provide highly rated rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally must offer higher levels of skilled nursing services. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other highly trained professionals. In this place's case, we were surprised to learn that it actually provides less registered nurse and physical therapist hours per patient than the average facility. Finally, we assessed the percentage of residents that eventually returned home from this nursing home. We found that 4.8 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was well below the national average.
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Nurse Quality
Another strength of this nursing home is its favorable grade in nursing. We gave them one of our better scores in that area, with a grade of D. When calculating our nursing grades, we weigh both staffing levels and the levels of licensure of the nurses. This facility provided just 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in computing our nursing ratings. This facility fared well when it comes to minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls.
Long-term Care Quality
The next area we rated is long-term care, was this facility's weakest area. We gave this nursing home a grade of D in that category. In a long-term care setting, the facility's primary objective is to maintain residents' quality of life and keep them safe. In addition to assessing the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home gave the vaccine to 96.85535 percent of its residents. To our surprise, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. With only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this facility had fewer hospitalizations than most nursing homes. Sadly, some of its other scores in this category were not as favorable as these.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Allegiant Healthcare of Mesa Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Allegiant Healthcare of Mesa, 15.21% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This is the percentage of patients that suffered from a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers, which are also known as bed sores, are often the result of patients not being moved frequently enough. Better nursing protocols reduces the percentage of residents in a nursing home who sustain pressure ulcers.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Allegiant Healthcare of Mesa, 2.2% of Patients had Serious Falls
This indicates the percent of residents that suffered from a fall which caused serious injury.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Allegiant Healthcare of Mesa, 0.95% of Patients had UTIs
This is the percentage of patients who sustained a urinary tract infection. Urinary tract infections are considered to be a measure of the quality of nursing care . UTI's are routinely the result of worse hygiene protocols. Nevertheless, this datapoint may be skewed for some facilities due to inconsistent reporting standards for infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Allegiant Healthcare of Mesa, 8.2% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This is a measure of the percent of long-term residents receiving antipsychotic drugs. While antipsychotic medications serve an important medical purpose, it is important to make sure these medications are being used only where medically required. In limited situations, excessive reliance on these medications may suggest a facility is using these drugs to control patient behavior.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Allegiant Healthcare of Mesa, 34.68% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This indicates the percentage of patients who were prescribed antianxiety drugs. Antianxiety drugs are given to patients suffering from anxiety and depression.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Allegiant Healthcare of Mesa, 5.07% of Patients
This tells you the percent of patients who are exhibiting depressive symptoms.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Allegiant Healthcare of Mesa, 97.57% of Patients
This indicates the percent of residents who were administered the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be standard at this point.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Allegiant Healthcare of Mesa, 14.34% of Patients
Measures the percentage of long-term care patients that required additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as getting dressed and continence. Some experts argue this is a reliable measure of a patient's well-being.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Allegiant Healthcare of Mesa, 15.27% of Residents
This is the percentage of residents that retained mobility levels over time. Preserving mobility is usually a great sign for residents' health.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Allegiant Healthcare of Mesa, 15.27% of Residents Rehospitalized
This tells you the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Allegiant Healthcare of Mesa, 81.27% of Resident
This metric measures the percentage of short-term care patients who saw functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. Some experts believe this is a measure of a facility's rehabilitation performance.
Scores for Mesa, AZ
- Overall Rating has a grade of B-plus
- Nurse Rating has a grade of B
- Long-term Care Rating has a grade of B-minus
- Short-term Care Rating has a grade of A-minus
- Inspection Rating has a grade of A
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Nearby Dialysis
- Home Dialysis of Mesa (Fmc)1.82 miles away1337 S Gilbert Rd Ste 106 Mesa Arizona 85204Dialysis Stations: 1 (480) 926-9222
- Mesa Dialysis (Dsi)1.82 miles away1337 S Gilbert Rd Ste 109 Mesa Arizona 85204Dialysis Stations: 16 (480) 926-1906
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- Southwest Kidney Dialysis - Gilbert (Dva)2.19 miles away5222 E Baseline Rd Ste 104 Gilbert Arizona 85234CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 24 (480) 832-6996
- Southwest Kidney Central Mesa (Dva)3.23 miles away1134 E University Dr Ste 101 Mesa Arizona 85203CMS Rating: 1 stars Dialysis Stations: 24 (480) 464-3851
- Mesa Dialysis Center (Fmc)4.13 miles away1525 N Gilbert Rd Ste 121 Gilbert Arizona 85234CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 12 (480) 497-1127
- Power Road Dialysis (Dva)4.59 miles away301 S Power Road Suite 104 Mesa Arizona 85206Dialysis Stations: 12 (480) 641-1193
- East Valley Dialysis (Fmc)4.67 miles away135 S Power Rd Ste 103 Mesa Arizona 85206CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 36 (480) 985-4911