Haven Health - Camp Verde

On top of receiving a strong overall grade, this facility also received first-rate health inspections in recent years. We gave it one of our better scores in this category, with an A-. Inspection ratings are tied to items located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that receive favorable grades in this area have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these facilities generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. Fortunately, although 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 CMS did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A couple relatively minor dings aren't the end of the world.

This facility really excelled in the area of nursing, where it received a grade of A-. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. Nursing grades are primarily associated with the nursing home's nurse staffing. This particular nursing home provided 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality-based metrics and this facility excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any nursing home the state in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can many times be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as by employing a system of turning patients at least once a day.

Turning to an additional strength for this nursing home, we gave them one of our better grades in our short-term care category as well, with a B+. Our short-term care grade is commonly used to judge a facility's performance with rehabilitation To offer highly rated rehabilitation services, facilities generally need to feature better levels of skilled nursing services. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other types of therapists. Fortunately, it looks like this facility employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these types of nurses. However, according to the data this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The final measure we looked at in this category is the number of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We found that 5.8 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

The next category we rated is long-term care, in which this nursing home was given a grade of B-. This actually is this facility's least impressive area. This is still nothing to be ashamed of. In calculating our long-term care ratings, we assess the assistance with daily living received by the nursing home's residents. After assessing the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we next considered the facility's vaccination records. This nursing home vaccinated 99.200005 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is higher than the majority of nursing homes. This facility was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.