Haven of Safford

On top of being a first rate facility overall, this facility also excelled in our long-term care category, where it earned an impressive grade of A. When facilities receive this kind of grade in this category it is typically a good sign for resident care and indicates that the nursing home is well-staffed with nurses aids. In addition to looking at the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility gave the vaccine to 98.92473 percent of its residents, which is very impressive. Pneumonia is too frequently a life or death condition for nursing home residents so we strongly prefer when a facility does not leave its residents vulnerable. Lastly, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

Adding to its impressive category scores, this nursing home also excelled in the category of inspections, where it received an A-. Not many nursing homes performed as well in this area. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in computing these inspection scores. One critical factor is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of these deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the quantity of deficiencies, as some are relatively minor. While this facility had a few deficiencies on its government inspection report, none were severe based on CMS' scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Moving on our third category, this nursing home was given an excellent short-term care score. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A- in that category. Our short-term care grade is generally used to judge a facility's rehabilitation services To provide highly graded rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally need to have better levels of skilled nursing services. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other highly trained professionals. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not every facility employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, based on the information this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last datapoint we assessed in this category is the number of patients who ultimately were able to return home from the facility. We found that 5.6 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.

The final area we graded is nursing, where this facility received a grade of A-. This finished off an elite report card. Not many nursing homes earned an A- or better in in each area we assessed. We weighed the levels of nurses at the facility, in addition to the quantity of hours the nurses spent with patients, in determining our grade in this category. This facility provided 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality-based metrics and this nursing home excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any facility Arizona in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can generally be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as employing a system of turning a resident more often.