Haven of Cottonwood
197 South Willard Street, Cottonwood AZ 86326 · (928) 634-5548 · 99.42% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Sara Levinsohn
Haven of Cottonwood is a nursing home in Cottonwood, Arizona, which has 23,344 people. We awarded this nursing home an A- overall grade, ranking it in the top 25 percent of all nursing homes in the nation. We really can not say enough good things about this facility. More information on this nursing home's category grades is available below. Its best category is short-term care, which is discussed in the next paragraph.
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Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 70 Beds
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For profit - Corporation
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Short-term Care Quality
We also want to emphasize that this nursing home received an impressive grade of A for short-term care. In the area of short-term care, we attempt to qualify indicators of a nursing home's rehabilitation services. We assess the facility's skilled nursing services, including the ones performed by registered nurses and physical and occupational therapists. One of this nursing home's strengths is registered nurse hours. We found that it offers more care from registered nurses to its residents than most facilities. The last datapoint we looked at in this area is the number of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We found that it fared as well as just about any nursing home in Arizona in this area with 68.8 percent of its residents returning home. For most facilities, fewer than half of their short-term residents are able to return home.
Facility Inspections
This nursing home has earned near flawless health inspections recently. We awarded them an impressive grade of A in this area. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in computing our inspection grades. One of those factors is deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of deficiencies is usually more meaningful than the quantity of deficiencies, as some deficiencies are relatively insignificant. While this place had a few deficiencies on its report, none of them were serious based on CMS' scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
Long-term Care Quality
Moving on our third category, we awarded this nursing home a score of A- for its long-term care score. This is a very strong score. When facilities receive this type of score in long-term care it is a good sign for resident care and suggests that the nursing home is well-staffed with nurses aids. Once we looked at the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination statistics. This nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its residents against pneumonia. Vaccines are vital to keeping residents healthy. The last datapoint we assessed was the nursing home's hospitalization rate. Although it had 2.43 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, its risk adjusted metric was middle of the road since it had more complicated patients.
Nurse Quality
The next category we graded was nursing. We awarded this nursing home a decent score in that category, with a B-. Even though this is not as high as some of its other grades, it is nevertheless nothing to be ashamed of. Nursing grades are based in large part on nurse staffing levels. This nursing home provided just 3.2 hours of nursing care per patient each day. This is well below average. However, more than one quarter of this care was provided by registered nurses, which are highly trained nurses. This is a high percentage of skilled nursing care. We weight these hours heavily in calculating our scores. Lastly, we also baked a few quality measures into our nursing grades. This place was relatively weak in two of the major areas we look at, with below average scores for minimizing its patients' major falls and pressure ulcers. These areas are generally decent indicators of the quality of nursing care available.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Haven of Cottonwood Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This is the percentage of patients that sustained a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are damage to the skin resulting from staying in one position for too long.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This indicates the percent of patients who sustained a fall leading to serious injury.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This figure is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay residents which had a UTI. UTI's could be an indication of a nursing home with worse hygiene protocols. However, this datapoint may also be misleading for some nursing homes due to varying reporting standards for infections.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This statistic indicates the percent of long-term care patients receiving antipsychotic drugs. While antipsychotic medications serve an important medical purpose, it is important to confirm these drugs are being used only where medically required. In some cases, increased usage of these drugs may suggest a facility is using these medications to control patient behavior.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This indicates the percentage of long-term patients that were prescribed antianxiety drugs. These drugs are typically given to residents suffering from anxiety and depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This is a measure of the percent of long-term care residents who are demonstrating depressive symptoms. Many believe that this is a reliable measure of quality of care.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This indicates the percentage of residents who were given the flu and pneumonia vaccines. High vaccination rates should be the norm at this point.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This tells you the percent of residents who required increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. High levels of needing for assistance with ADL's could be a sign of erosion of a resident's well-being.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This datapoint measures the percent of long-term stay patients who remained mobile levels. Some would argue that the ability to move around is important for residents' well-being.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This metric tracks the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of patient care. Minimizing hospitalizations is important to the physical health of residents.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This is the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This metric is a measure of the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term patient care. Staying out of the emergency room is one way to measure short-term care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
Measures the percentage of short-term stay residents that experienced functional improvements.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better