Desert Terrace Healthcare Center is an average-sized facility located in Phoenix, Arizona. This facility was awarded an uninspiring overall grade of D, which is a well below average score. Phoenix received a city grade of B, so there are some other options in the city worth looking at. Despite all this, one of the few highlights of this facility's report card is its strong inspection reports. You can scroll down to find out about inspections and other category scores
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Desert Terrace Healthcare Center
- Nursing Home
- Memory Care
Updated Apr 1, 2023 by Nick Reese
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- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Limited Liability company
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
- Offers Outpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Medication Management
- Home Making
- Transportation
- Speech Therapy
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Physical Therapy
- Respiratory Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Recreational Therapy
- Pain Management
- Lymphedema Care
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Registered Staff Hours
Facility Inspections
Although we didn't grade this facility favorably overall, we did give it an excellent score in the category of inspections, where it received an A-. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in calculating these inspection grades. One key factor is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of the deficiencies is usually more important than the number of deficiencies, as some deficiencies are relatively insignificant. While this nursing home had a few deficiencies on its government inspection report, none of them were severe based on CMS' scale. A couple minor deficiencies are not necessarily the end of the world.
Short-term Care Quality
This facilities next best area is short-term care. We gave it a B- in this area. This is essentially a middle of the pack score in this category. Our short-term care grade is often used to grade a facility's rehabilitation services. To offer high-end rehabilitation services, facilities generally need to feature better levels of highly skilled nursing. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other licensed professionals. Unfortunately, this nursing home was below average in terms of its level of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its patients based on the metrics we assessed. Finally, we looked at the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 5.7 percent of this facility's patients returned home. At most facilities, closer to half of their patients are able to return home so this figure is below average.
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Nurse Quality
Turning to the area of nursing care, this facility received a grade of just D in this category. Nursing scores are tied to quality and quantity of nursing care. This facility offered a meager 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing scores. This place fared well when it comes to avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be reliable indicators of the quality of nursing care.
Long-term Care Quality
The next category we looked at is long-term care. This nursing home received a bottom of the barrel grade of F in this category. Nursing homes that don't score well in long-term care often don't provide as much nursing care and also may be struggling in a few of the areas of routine personal care we looked at. One of the data points we considered in addition to nursing hours is vaccinations. Frankly, we were a bit worried that this facility provided the pneumonia vaccination to a relatively low 76.15894 percent of its patients. Surprisingly, this place was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this nursing home had less hospitalizations than many nursing homes. This is its best feature in this category.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Desert Terrace Healthcare Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Desert Terrace Healthcare Center, 8.99% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This tells you the percentage of patients who have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are damage to the skin resulting from remaining in one position for too long.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Desert Terrace Healthcare Center, 3.04% of Patients had Serious Falls
This indicates the percentage of long-term residents who sustained a fall leading to serious injury. Falls can arise for a variety of reasons, but excessive numbers of falls could be a sign of lower quality nursing care.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Desert Terrace Healthcare Center, 1.4% of Patients had UTIs
This tells you the percent of residents that sustained a urinary tract infection. These infections could be linked to poor hygiene.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Desert Terrace Healthcare Center, 11.79% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This datapoint gauges the percentage of long-term patients that are given antipsychotic medication. High levels of antipsychotic drug use may suggest a nursing home is using these medications to control patient behavior in scenarios where such medications are not medically required. However, some nursing homes need to rely on these drugs due to having more patients suffering from cognitive disorders.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Desert Terrace Healthcare Center, 17.9% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This tells you the percentage of residents given antianxiety medications. These drugs are used to treat patients experiencing anxiety and depression.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Desert Terrace Healthcare Center, 3.74% of Patients
This tells you the percent of residents demonstrating depressive symptoms.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Desert Terrace Healthcare Center, 74.57% of Patients
Measures the percentage of long-term care residents that have received the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be very dangerous for nursing home patients, making these vaccines critical to patient care.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Desert Terrace Healthcare Center, 12.93% Percentage of Patients
This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term care residents who needed additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. Activities of daily living include activities such as dressing and continence.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Desert Terrace Healthcare Center, 15.66% Percentage of Residents
This datapoint measures the percentage of long-term patients that maintained mobility. Some argue that the ability to move around is important for patients physical and mental health.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Desert Terrace Healthcare Center, 15.66 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
This tells you the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term care.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Desert Terrace Healthcare Center, 11.86 Percentage of Patients
This indicates the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Desert Terrace Healthcare Center, 75.23% Percentage of Resident
This metric is a measure of the percentage of short-term care residents that experienced functional improvements.
Scores for Phoenix, AZ
- Overall Rating has a grade of B
- 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 B
- Inspection Rating has a grade of A
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Nearby Dialysis
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