Catalina Post Acute and Rehabilitation
2611 North Warren Avenue, Tucson AZ 85719 · (520) 795-9574 · 81.66% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Lata
Catalina Post Acute and Rehabilitation is an average-sized nursing home located in Tucson, Arizona. This facility was given an overall grade of B, which is a good score. Even in a city featuring 22 nursing homes, this nursing home turns out to be a fine selection. This nursing home's strong profile was highlighted by its inspection reports, which is addressed in the next paragraph.
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Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 102 Beds
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For profit - Corporation
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for our inspections rating. These inspection ratings take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these issues by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. It doesn't appear that we were able to find deficiency data for this nursing home. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
Short-term Care Quality
This nursing home is also strong in the area of short-term care, where it was awarded a score of B+. It performed more favorably than most facilities in this category. In the area of short-term care, we attempt to qualify indicators of a facility's rehabilitation. We look at the facility's skilled nursing services, such as the ones performed by registered nurses and physical and occupational therapists. This nursing home boosted its score in this category by offering more than 50% more physical therapy hours to its residents than the average facility. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of patients who who were able to eventually return home from this facility. In addition to excelling in the area of physical therapy, we found that it fared as well as just about any facility in this area with 71.2 percent of its patients returning home. Most nursing homes are below 50 percent in this statistic.
Long-term Care Quality
This nursing home also was given a strong long-term care grade. Indeed, we awarded it an above average grade of B+ in this area. Facilities that do well in long-term care tend to provide patients with closer supervision and stay on top of routine healthcare services. In addition to providing elite levels of nurse staffing, this nursing home administered the pneumonia vaccine to 98.58156 percent of its residents. This statistic is also significantly higher than the average nursing home. This combination proved to be successful as this nursing home also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.
Nurse Quality
Turning to the fourth area, this nursing home didn't perform very well. With a very poor grade of F in nursing, this is clearly this facility's worst grade. Nursing scores are based largely on nurse staffing levels. We do not think quantity of care is the reason for this facility's poor nursing grade. With 4.4 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis, this nursing home actually surpassed the national average. Lastly, our nursing ratings also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This place performed admirably in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a nursing home has reliable quality controls in place. Some falls can be avoided if a nursing home provides enough nurses aids to assist its patients.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Catalina Post Acute and Rehabilitation Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This tells you the percent of patients who have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers, which are also referred to as bed sores, are often the result of patients staying in one position for too long. Better nursing care can reduce the number of pressure ulcers sustained by residents in a nursing home.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term residents that sustained a fall leading to severe injury. This is one of the statistics we use in calculating our nursing ratings.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This indicates the percentage of patients that suffered from a urinary tract infection. These infections are associated with insufficient hygiene.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This is the percent of patients given antipsychotic drugs. These drugs may be used to treat a variety of conditions, such as dementia.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This is a measure of the percentage of long-term residents taking antianxiety medications.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
Measures the percent of long-term care patients who are showing signs of depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This metric measures the percent of long-term care patients who have received the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be very dangerous for nursing home residents, making these types of vaccines important for resident well-being.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This tells you the percentage of residents who required increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. High levels of needing for assistance with ADL's may be a sign of the deterioration of a patient's health.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This indicates the percent of residents that were able to retain mobility over time. Retaining mobility can be a good sign for residents' health.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
Measures the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This indicates the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term patient care. There is generally a correlation between having fewer emergency room visits and the quality of care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This is the percent of short-term care patients who experienced functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. High levels of independence with activities of daily living usually correlates with successful rehabilitation services.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better