Devon Gables Rehabilitation Center is located in the large metropolitan area of Tucson, Arizona. This turns out to be a well above average facility, with an overall grade of B+. In fact, we found this nursing home to be better than the majority of the nursing homes in Tucson, which has a city grade of B. This nursing home was also given strong scores in all of our categories. More information about these categories can be found below.
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Devon Gables Rehabilitation Center
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Updated Nov 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
- Secure Memory Care
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Medication Management
- Meal Delivery
- Home Making
- Transportation
- Medical Transportation
- Speech Therapy
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Mental Health
- Physical Therapy
- Respiratory Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Pharmacy
- Recreational Therapy
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Facility Inspections
On top of receiving a strong overall score, this nursing home also received top notch health inspections in recent years. We awarded them one of our higher grades in this category, with an A. Inspection ratings weigh several factors, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these items by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Although this facility had a few deficiencies on its report, none of them were serious based on CMS' deficiency scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
Long-term Care Quality
Adding to its profile, this facility also received a grade of B+ for its long-term care rating. This is a well above average grade in this area. Long-term care grades in this range generally require both around the clock care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine healthcare services. On top of assessing the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility vaccinated 92.060814 percent of its patients. This is somewhat less than we anticipated but still a reasonably acceptable percentage. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.
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Short-term Care Quality
The next category we looked at is short-term care. This facility was given an above average short-term care score, with a grade of B in this area. Short-term care ratings are crucial for patients needing rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically mandates more highly-skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes a wide scope of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other types of therapy. Unfortunately, it does not look like this nursing home submitted data regarding its registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. Finally, we looked at the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 5.5 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.
Nurse Quality
The last area we graded is nursing, in which we gave it an above average grade of B. This nursing home truly doesn't have any weak areas. In calculating a facility's nursing score, we assess the number of hours nurses are seeing patients as well as the levels of training of the nurses. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at certain nursing quality-based metrics in computing our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We view these statistics as good measures of the quality of nursing care being provided, since better care tends to reduce these problems.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Devon Gables Rehabilitation Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Devon Gables Rehabilitation Center, 7.71% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This statistic measures the percentage of long-term residents which have pressure ulcers. We've found that pressure ulcers are a great indicator of quality of care.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Devon Gables Rehabilitation Center, 2.53% of Patients had Serious Falls
This indicates the percent of patients who sustained a fall which caused serious injury.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Devon Gables Rehabilitation Center, 2.21% of Patients had UTIs
This tells you the percent of residents who suffered from a urinary tract infection. Urinary tract infections are considered to be a measure of nursing care . UTI's are often linked to a nursing home with worse hygiene protocols. Nevertheless, this datapoint may be skewed for certain nursing homes due to varying reporting standards for UTI's.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Devon Gables Rehabilitation Center, 20.62% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This statistic is an indication of the percentage of long-term patients that are given antianxiety medication. These medications are prescribed to patients experiencing depression and anxiety.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Devon Gables Rehabilitation Center, 0% of Patients
This tells you the percent of patients who are showing symptoms of depression. Increased rates of depression may reveal a less hospitable environment.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Devon Gables Rehabilitation Center, 93.92% of Patients
This tells you the percent of patients that have received the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be standard at this point.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Devon Gables Rehabilitation Center, 10.96% of Patients
This datapoint is a measure of the percent of long-term stay patients who needed additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. Activities of daily living include activities such as getting dressed and bathing.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Devon Gables Rehabilitation Center, 12.73% of Residents
This datapoint is a measure of the percent of long-term residents that remained mobile levels.
Hospitalizations
In Devon Gables Rehabilitation Center, 0.01 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This is a measure of the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of patient care. Keeping residents out of the hospital is key to the physical well-being of nursing home patients.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Devon Gables Rehabilitation Center, 12.73% of Residents Rehospitalized
This indicates the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term care.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Devon Gables Rehabilitation Center, 11.76% of Patients
This datapoint measures the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Devon Gables Rehabilitation Center, 71.58% of Resident
This indicates the percent of short-term care residents that experienced functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. Higher levels of performance with activities of daily living generally correlates with successful rehabilitation services.
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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