Sabino Canyon Rehabilitation & Care Center is an average-sized nursing home located in Tucson, Arizona. Sporting an overall rating of A-, it is one of the ten highest graded facilities in Tucson. We really can't say enough favorable things about this nursing home. As you can find below, this nursing home also performed just fine in our category ratings. It is hard to find any major flaws in this place's profile.
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Sabino Canyon Rehabilitation & Care Center
- Nursing Home
Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Reese
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- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Limited Liability company
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
- Offers Outpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Speech Therapy
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Cardiac Therapy
- Physical Therapy
- Respiratory Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Recreational Therapy
- Lymphedema Care
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Facility Inspections
On top of being a great facility overall, it also earned A+ inspections recently. Its inspections are virtually flawless. Inspection scores are based on several datapoints found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that excel in this category tend to have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these facilities generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. It doesn't look like we were able to find deficiency counts for this nursing home. We wish we had more data for this nursing home. Without having access to complete deficiency related data, it is a challenge to grade it in this area.
Short-term Care Quality
To complement its impressive achievements in other areas, we gave this facility a score of A for its short-term care score. In computing our short-term care grades, we analyze a nursing home's levels of skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other licensed professionals. This grade is often a fair assessment of the facility's rehabilitation services. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not every facility employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, based on the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Lastly, we assessed the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 6.7 percent of this facility's patients returned home.
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Nurse Quality
This nursing home also received a strong nursing score. In fact, we awarded it an above average grade of B+ in this area. Nursing scores are based in large part on quantity of nursing care available. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality-based metrics and this facility excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any place the state in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can many times be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as by employing a protocol of moving a patient more often.
Long-term Care Quality
The final category we scored is long-term care, in which this facility was awarded a grade of B. While this is its poorest category score, this is nevertheless a quality rating. For prospective patients in need of a permanent residence as opposed to skilled nursing, long-term care grades are an important measure. After assessing the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination data. This nursing home vaccinated 92 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which is slightly below what we expected but still a respectable percentage. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Sabino Canyon Rehabilitation & Care Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Sabino Canyon Rehabilitation & Care Center, 5.96% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This statistic tells you the percentage of long-term residents which developed pressure ulcers. We find that pressure ulcers are a solid indicator of the quality of nursing care a facility provides.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Sabino Canyon Rehabilitation & Care Center, 2.29% of Patients had Serious Falls
This tells you the percent of long-term residents which have had falls resulting in serious injury. This is one of the statistics we use in determining nursing ratings.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Sabino Canyon Rehabilitation & Care Center, 1.14% of Patients had UTIs
This indicates the percentage of residents that suffered from a urinary tract infection. Urinary tract infections are often the result of poor nursing care. More frequent bathing can reduce the number of UTI's sustained by residents in a nursing home. Keep in mind that this metric is affected by by the fact that nursing homes have different reporting standards for UTI's.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Sabino Canyon Rehabilitation & Care Center, 4.76% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This is the percent of residents who were given antipsychotic medications. These medications are sometimes used to treat several conditions, including Alzheimer's or other dementias.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Sabino Canyon Rehabilitation & Care Center, 7.1% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This is the percent of patients who were given antianxiety medications. These drugs are typically used to treat patients suffering from depression and anxiety.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Sabino Canyon Rehabilitation & Care Center, 0.98% of Patients
This is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay patients demonstrating signs of depression.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Sabino Canyon Rehabilitation & Care Center, 92.07% of Patients
This is a measure of the percent of long-term patients that were given the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be fatal for nursing home residents, making these vaccines vital to patient care.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Sabino Canyon Rehabilitation & Care Center, 7.69% of Patients
This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term patients that needed increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as taking medications and eating. Some experts argue this is a reliable measure of a resident's well-being.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Sabino Canyon Rehabilitation & Care Center, 22.84% of Residents
This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term residents that remained mobile levels. Some experts would argue that the ability to move around is critical to residents' physical and mental well-being.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Sabino Canyon Rehabilitation & Care Center, 22.84% of Residents Rehospitalized
This indicates the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term care. There is typically a correlation between reduced hospitalizations and a nursing homes short-term rehabilitation performance.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Sabino Canyon Rehabilitation & Care Center, 9.36% of Patients
This datapoint is a measure of the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Sabino Canyon Rehabilitation & Care Center, 79.77% of Resident
Measures the percentage of short-term stay residents who experienced functional improvements.
Scores for Tucson, AZ
- Overall Rating has a grade of B
- Nurse Rating has a grade of B
- Long-term Care Rating has a grade of B
- Short-term Care Rating has a grade of B-plus
- Inspection Rating has a grade of A-minus
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