Haven of Tucson

To go along with its strong overall score, we gave this nursing home an A+ for our inspections rating. Arguably the most critical factor we look at in computing our inspection scores is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places with better grades in this category most likely dodged the most severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. This place received 6 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were considered severe. This tells you that the government inspectors did not deem any of these deficiencies to be an immediate risk to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

To add to its impressive accomplishments in other areas, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A- for its long-term care grade. Facilities that receive this type of score in this category typically provide consistent around the clock care to make sure patients are well cared for. This nursing home clearly fared favorably enough in these measures to receive a quality grade in this category.

This nursing home also fared very well in the category of short-term care, where it received a score of A-. Very few facilities received a better grade in this category. Our short-term care grade is often used to grade a facility's performance with rehabilitation To have highly scored rehabilitation services, facilities generally must have higher 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. However, based on the data they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Lastly, we assessed the percentage of patients that who were able to eventually return home from this facility. We found that 6.9 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

The next category we assessed was nursing, where this facility received a grade of B-. Although this ended up being its poorest category grade, this is still nothing to be ashamed of. There are numerous data points included in this area. Most of the subcategories relate to the quantity and quality of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this facility fared better in some of the quality-based metrics we looked at. It performed well in the area of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be measures of the quality of nursing care. In some cases, the quality of nursing care is as important as the number of hours of care provided.