Life Care Center of Scottsdale

In addition to receiving a strong overall grade, this facility fared well in short-term care. In fact, we awarded it an A for that category, which is one of our highest grades. Our short-term care scores are presumably more meaningful for individuals needing rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation usually utilizes additional highly-skilled nursing services. This means not only nursing, but also physical and respiratory therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not every facility employs these types of nurses. However, according to the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we assessed the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 6.7 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

In addition, this facility also excelled in inspections, where it received a grade of A. Our inspection ratings weigh a host of factors found on a nursing home's inspection report. One of the most important criteria we consider is the number and severity of deficiencies. Nursing homes with better grades in this area generally have few severe deficiencies. This facility received 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none of the deficiencies were considered severe. This tells you that CMS didn't consider any of these deficiencies to cause an immediate threat to resident health or safety. We should point out that deficiency-free inspection reports are uncommon in this industry.

This nursing home also received a strong nursing score. In fact, we awarded it an above average grade of B in this area. Our nursing grade is largely tied to the facility's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This place performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a facility has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can frequently be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

The next area we graded was long-term care. We awarded this nursing home a solid grade in this category, with a C. While this was not as dominant as some of this facility's other grades, it is still not a bad grade. Our long-term care scores are based in part on a facility's quantity of nursing services. This includes a vast range of personal care services, ranging from assistance with activities of daily living to routine healthcare services. One of the factors we considered after nurse's aid hours was vaccinations. It does not appear that this nursing home provided information on its vaccination levels. Finally, this place excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.