Haven Health Tucson

One of the many reasons this turned out to be a quality nursing home is that it received an A+ inspection grade. This is simply as good as it gets in this critical category. Arguably the most critical factor we consider in calculating our inspection ratings is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities with better grades in this category typically dodged the most severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. This facility was assessed 6 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none of the deficiencies were considered severe. This means that the government inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies to create an imminent threat to resident safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This facility really excelled in the area of short-term care, where we awarded it a score of A-. Not many nursing homes performed better in this category. Short-term care grades are based in part on a nursing home's quantity of skilled nursing services. This includes a broad scope of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other types of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all facilities 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 last item we assessed in this area is the percentage of patients who ultimately were able to return home from the nursing home. We found that 6.5 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.

Turning to an additional strength for this nursing home, we gave them one of our more favorable scores in our long-term care category as well, with a grade of B+. When facilities receive a score in this range in long-term care it generally means it's well-staffed and is a quality place to live on a permanent basis. In addition to assessing the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home gave the vaccine to 100 percent of its residents. Vaccines are critical to keeping patients healthy. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

The last area we looked at was nursing, proved to be this nursing home's least impressive category. We awarded this nursing home a grade of D in this category. This really was one of the few dings in a very solid profile. Nursing ratings are based largely on quality and quantity of nursing care. This particular nursing home offered just 0.4 hours of nursing care per patient daily. This statistic is far below average. While this place didn't excel in nursing hours, it actually surprised us in a few of the quality-based assessments in the nursing category, such as avoiding serious falls. This place performed better than average in this datapoint, which was one redeeming quality we found in this category.