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Brookdale Santa Catalina

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  • Memory Care

Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Reese

Historical Rating
Grade: B-plus
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7500 North Calle Sin Envidia,
Tucson AZ 85718

(520) 230-7694

72.85% estimated occupancy 1

Brookdale Santa Catalina is a small nursing home located in Tucson, Arizona. This facility was awarded an overall grade of B+, which is a well above average score. You can certainly do much worse than this facility. We were also pleased to find that this facility did not have any poor grades in any of the four major categories. More information about its category grades can be found below.

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Quick Details

  • Accepts Medicare 1
  • No Medicaid 1
  • Is CCRC
  • Has Resident Council
  • Has Family Council
  • For profit - Corporation
  • Secure Memory Care 
  • Offers Hospice
  • Offers Post-Acute Care 
  • Offers Respite Care
  • Offers Inpatient Rehab

Specialized Services

  • Personal Care
  • Medication Management
  • Home Making
  • Transportation
  • Speech Therapy
  • Stroke Recovery
  • IV Antibiotic Therapy
  • Wound Care
  • Occupational Therapy
  • Cardiac Therapy
  • Diabetes Management
  • Physical Therapy
  • Respiratory Therapy
  • Nutritional Counseling
  • Recreational Therapy
  • Pain Management
  • Colostomy Care
  • Orthopedic Rehabilitation
  • Catheter Care
  • Total Parenteral Nutrition

Awards

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Top Nursing Home in Arizona Awards 2019

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Top Nursing Home in Arizona Awards 2021

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Short-term Care Quality

Grade: A-plus

One of the many reasons this turned out to be a great nursing home is that it earned an A+ in short-term care. This is simply as good as it gets in this area. In our short-term care score, we try to craft a fair barometer for rehabilitation services. In doing so, we analyze a facility's scope of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as respiratory therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these types of nurses. However, according to the data this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we assessed the percentage of patients that eventually returned home from this nursing home. We found that 6.7 percent of this nursing home's residents were able to return home.

Facility Inspections

Grade: A

Adding to its impressive profile, this nursing home also performed well in the area of inspections. In fact, it earned a nearly flawless government inspection report this year. As a result, it earned one of our best grades in that category with an A. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in determining these inspection scores. One critical factor is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of deficiencies is arguably more important than the number of deficiencies, as some of these can be quite insignificant. While this place had some minor dings on its inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you the government inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. A couple minor deficiencies are not the end of the world.

Nurse Quality

Grade: B-minus

Turning to the category of nursing care, this facility didn't perform quite as well in this area as some of the categories discussed above. Nevertheless, a grade of B- in this category is by no means a bad score. Our nursing rating analyzes the facility's nurse staffing levels. We weigh both the levels of skill of those nurses as well as the quantity of hours spent with patients. This place provides only 0.4 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. This is a somewhat discouraging figure as it is well below the national average. Finally, despite not having the most impressive total nursing hours per resident, this nursing home performed admirably in the area of preventing major falls. This is generally an indicator that a facility has sufficient quality controls in place.

Long-term Care Quality

Grade: C

Switching gears to the last category, this facility received a decent long-term care rating. While this is not as dominant as several of its other grades, this is really not a bad grade. If you are looking for anything other than short-term rehabilitation, you should take a close look at long-term care scores. In addition to assessing the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its patients. This nursing home 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 a remarkably low number.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

FDCB-BB+A-AA+Oct 18Dec 23

Brookdale Santa Catalina Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

Grade: F

In Brookdale Santa Catalina, 29.63% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This indicates the percentage of residents who sustained a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are considered to be a barometer of the quality of nursing care . Pressure ulcers, also called bed sores, are routinely caused by patients not being moved frequently enough.

Minimizes Serious Falls

Grade: F

In Brookdale Santa Catalina, 18.18% of Patients had Serious Falls

This gauges the percent of long-term care residents who had a fall which caused serious injury. We use this statistic in calculating our nursing scores.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

Grade: C

In Brookdale Santa Catalina, 3.13% of Patients had UTIs

This is the percentage of patients that sustained a urinary tract infection. Urinary tract infections are routinely the result of worse hygiene protocols. Better nursing care can limit the number of UTI's sustained by residents in a nursing home. We want to point out that this statistic is sometimes skewed by the fact that facilities have incongruent reporting standards for UTI's.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

Grade: A+

In Brookdale Santa Catalina, 0% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This indicates the percent of patients given antipsychotic drugs. These drugs may be used to treat a variety of conditions, such as Alzheimer's or other dementias.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

Grade: F

In Brookdale Santa Catalina, 40.74% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This tells you the percent of patients prescribed antianxiety medications. These drugs are typically used to treat patients suffering from depression and anxiety.

Managing Depression Among Residents

Grade: B

In Brookdale Santa Catalina, 3.85% of Patients

This tells you the percent of residents who are exhibiting signs of depression. High rates of depression may be a sign a lower level of care.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

Grade: B-minus

In Brookdale Santa Catalina, 95.65% of Patients

This is the percentage of patients who were administered the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be demanded by residents.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

Grade: F

In Brookdale Santa Catalina, 30.77% of Patients

This indicates the percentage of residents who required increased assistance with activities of daily living over time.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

Grade: A-plus

In Brookdale Santa Catalina, 47.27% of Residents

This tells you the percentage of residents who retained mobility levels over time. Retaining mobility is usually a good sign for residents' well-being.

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

Grade: F

In Brookdale Santa Catalina, 47.27% of Residents Rehospitalized

This is the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term patient care.

Short-term Care: ER Visits

Grade: A-plus

In Brookdale Santa Catalina, 5.36% of Patients

This datapoint is a measure of the number of emergency room visits per 1,000 days of short-term care. Avoiding medical emergencies is one way to gauge patient care during rehabilitation.

Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement

Grade: C

In Brookdale Santa Catalina, 72.46% of Resident

This is the percentage of short-term care residents that saw functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living.

Scores for Tucson, AZ

  • Overall Rating has a grade of B
  • Nurse Rating has a grade of B
  • Long-term Care Rating has a grade of B
  • Short-term Care Rating has a grade of B-plus
  • Inspection Rating has a grade of A-minus

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