Casas Adobes Post Acute Rehab Center

This nursing home received a solid overall grade as described above, but we really wanted to point out its excellent inspections in recent years. We awarded them an A in this category. Perhaps the most critical factor we consider in calculating our inspection scores is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's inspection reports. Places with higher scores in this category most likely dodged the most severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Even some of the best nursing homes receive an occasional ding on their inspection report.

We also awarded this facility a strong score in short-term care. This facility earned a B in this category, which happens to be one of our better grades. With our short-term care assessment, we strive to create a sound gauge for rehabilitation services. In doing so, we assess a facility's levels of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. Unfortunately, it does not appear that this facility submitted data regarding its registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. Lastly, we considered the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 6 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

This facility's next highest area turned out to be long-term care. In that area, we awarded this nursing home a grade of B-. If you are seeking services other than short-term rehabilitation, you should take a close look at each nursing home's long-term care ratings. After we finished assessing the quantity of care provided by nurses, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination record. Frankly, we were a bit concerned this nursing home vaccinated a relatively low 80.95238 percent of its residents for pneumonia. Fortunately, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

This facility's weakest area was nursing, which is the final area we analyzed. For this category, we gave this facility a D. When calculating a nursing home's nursing rating, we consider the number of hours nurses commit to patients and the level 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. On top of receiving below average marks for nursing hours, this nursing home was less impressive in some of the quality-based measures we looked at in computing our nursing grades. We looked at the percent of patients experiencing pressure ulcers and found this nursing home was at roughly 150 percent of the national average in this metric. This is likely a bad sign when you consider that so many bed sores are believed to be preventable with better nursing care. This statistic really pulled down this facility's nursing score substantially.