Haven of Safford

On top of being a first rate facility overall, this facility also excelled in the area of nursing, where it received a grade of A. When calculating a facility's nursing grade, we weigh the quantity of hours nurses commit to patients and the skill levels of those nurses. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This nursing home performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a place has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can many times be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

To complement its dominant accomplishments in other areas, we gave this facility a score of A for its long-term care score. When facilities receive this type of score in this category it is usually a good sign for resident care and suggests that the nursing home is well-staffed with nurses aids. In addition to assessing the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home administered the vaccine to 100 percent of its residents. Vaccines are critical to keeping residents out of the hospital. Clearly, this place 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 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

Racking up another strong category grade, this nursing home also excelled in inspections, where it received a grade of A. Few facilities performed better in this area. Inspection grades account for a host of factors found on a nursing home's inspection reports. One of the most important criteria we look at is the number and severity of deficiencies. Nursing homes with better grades in this category tend to have very few of these severe deficiencies. While this nursing home had a few deficiencies on its inspection 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.

In our final area, this facility also was awarded a first-rate short-term care rating, with a grade of B+. This topped off a first-rate report card. Our short-term care grade is generally used to gauge a nursing home's performance with rehabilitation. To offer highly scored rehabilitation services, facilities generally need to offer higher levels of highly skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other highly trained professionals. Fortunately, it looks like this facility employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, according to the information this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The final statistic we looked at in this category is the number of residents who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We found that 4.8 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.