Haven Health - Scottsdale

While we did not rate this nursing home well overall, we would like to note its decent government inspection reports in recent years. We awarded it a somewhat respectable grade of B- in this area. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in determining our inspection grades. One of those factors is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of deficiencies is arguably more important than the number of deficiencies, as some of these end up being relatively minor. This place received 5 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe. This tells you that the inspectors didn't consider any of these deficiencies to be an immediate threat to patient safety or health. Lastly, this facility was flagged by CMS for possible abuse or neglect. We prefer to avoid facilities with this designation. Please do your best to find an alternative nursing home.

We also want to point out that this facility received a decent grade in our nursing category. We awarded it a grade of B- in the area. Nursing grades are largely tied to a facility's nurse staffing. This nursing home averages just 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low figure. Finally, nursing ratings also consider quality-based assessments, such as preventing major falls. Despite not having the most impressive total nursing hours per resident, this nursing home performed admirably in the metric of preventing major falls. This is often an indicator that a facility has sufficient quality controls in place. Many falls could be avoided if a nursing home supplies enough nurses to assist its patients.

This facility's third highest area is its short-term care score, where it was awarded a B-. Short-term care grades are vital for individuals requiring rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically utilizes more highly-skilled nursing. This means a wide range of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. In this place's case, we were surprised to learn that it actually provides less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than the typical facility. The hope is that this does not adversely impact the quality of care. Lastly, we considered the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 5.7 percent of this facility's patients returned home. At most nursing homes, closer to half of their patients are able to return home so this figure is below average.

Our last category is long-term care, where we gave this facility a B- in this category. For patients seeking a permanent residence as opposed to skilled nursing, long-term care grades are very important. After assessing the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination record. We were pleased to learn that this nursing home vaccinated 99.2126 percent of its residents for pneumonia. This nursing home keeps its patients out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.