Haven of Yuma

Haven of Yuma is an average-sized facility in Yuma, Arizona. This is a very good nursing home. We gave this it an overall grade of B+, which is very favorable grade. You could definitely do much worse than this nursing home. This place was better in some categories than others, but it didn't have any poor grades in any of our four major categories. More information about these categories can be found below.

To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for our inspections rating. Arguably the most important factor we consider in computing our inspection scores is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a nursing home's inspection reports. Places with higher grades in this area most likely dodged the more severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. While this place had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are found in categories G through L. This means that CMS didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This facility received high grades in the category of short-term care as well. In fact, we gave it one of our best grades in that area with a area of A-. In computing our short-term care grades, we analyze the facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. Our purpose is to formulate a measure for sizing up the rehabilitation services of nursing homes. One of this nursing home's strengths is physical therapy hours. We found that it offers more hours with physical therapists to its residents than most facilities. The final measure we looked at in this area is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We found that it fared as well as just about any nursing home in Arizona in this area with 63.2 percent of its residents returning home. With most nursing homes, fewer than half of their short-term residents are able to return home.

Turning to an additional strength for this facility, we gave them one of our more favorable scores in our long-term care category as well, with a B+. Facilities that excel in this category typically provide residents with more supervision and stay on top of routine medical care. After assessing the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we next considered the facility's vaccination record. This nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its patients against pneumonia. Vaccines are vital to keeping residents healthy. Lastly, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. With only 1.28 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this facility has fewer hospitalizations than the average nursing home.

The final area we scored is nursing. We gave this nursing home an acceptable grade in that category, with a grade of B-. Even though this is not as dominant as some of this facility's other scores, it is still not a poor grade. Our nursing score consists of quite a few components, however, the primary consideration is the level of nurse hours spent with patients. This particular nursing home provided 3.7 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in some quality-focused statistics. Specifically, we look at the percent of residents who sustained pressure ulcers and major falls. We look at these areas as reliable indicators of the quality of nursing care, since better care tends to reduce these problems.