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Santa Fe Care Center

  • Nursing Home
  • Memory Care

Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Reese

Historical Rating
Grade: C
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635 Harkle Road,
Santa Fe NM 87505

(505) 982-2574

68.83% estimated occupancy 1

Located in Santa Fe, New Mexico, Santa Fe Care Center is one of just a couple nursing homes in this area. This nursing home proved to be a middle of the road facility, with an overall grade of C. Based on our analysis, this place ought to meet the needs of many people. The best part of this place's profile is is its short-term care score. We discuss short-term care in the next paragraph.

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Quick Details

  • Accepts Medicare 1
  • Accepts Medicaid 1
  • No CCRC
  • Has Resident Council
  • No Family Council
  • For profit - Limited Liability company
  • Offers Hospice
  • Offers Post-Acute Care 
  • Offers Respite Care
  • Offers Inpatient Rehab

Specialized Services

  • Personal Care
  • Medication Management
  • Home Making
  • Transportation
  • Dialysis Transportation
  • Medical Transportation
  • Speech Therapy
  • Stroke Recovery
  • Amputee Recovery
  • IV Antibiotic Therapy
  • Palliative Care
  • Dentistry
  • Wound Care
  • Occupational Therapy
  • Mental Health
  • Diabetes Management
  • Physical Therapy
  • Nutritional Counseling
  • Recreational Therapy
  • Optometry
  • Orthopedic Rehabilitation

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Short-term Care Quality

Grade: A-minus

This nursing home really excelled in our short-term care category. In fact, we gave it an A- for that category, which is one of our highest scores. This really salvaged its overall profile. With our short-term care grade, we seek to forge a fair barometer for rehabilitation. In this process, we look at a nursing home's offerings of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as occupational therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not every nursing home employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, based on the information this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The last measure we considered in this area is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return home. We found that 6.5 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

Nurse Quality

Grade: B

One of the other reasons we rated this facility so highly is that it received a very impressive nursing rating. This turned out to be its second best category grade. In that area, we gave this nursing home an B. When computing a facility's nursing rating, we assess the amount of time nurses are with residents as well as the level of skill of the nurses. This nursing home averages 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality-based metrics and this nursing home 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 nation in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can many times be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as having a system of turning residents at least once a day.

Long-term Care Quality

Grade: D

Sadly, this facility only earned a D for its long-term care score, which is not a score to write home about. In a long-term care setting, the facility's primary objective is to keep patients as healthy and safe as possible. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate patients. After we finished assessing the amount of care provided by nurses, we turned to the facility's vaccination record. We were optimistic to discover that this facility vaccinated 95.16908 percent of its patients against pneumonia. Surprisingly, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this nursing home had fewer hospitalizations than most nursing homes. Unfortunately, a few of its other scores in the category were not as favorable as these.

Facility Inspections

Grade: F

Moving on our final category of inspections, this nursing home received a grade that's as bad as it gets. Unfortunately, with an F in the inspection category, this facility's overall grade was adversely affected. When a nursing home has this bad of an inspection score, you should expect some severe deficiencies on its inspection report. Severe deficiencies indicate a risk to patient safety. This particular nursing home was hit with 5 deficiencies by CMS. The only favorable thing we can say is that none of the deficiencies were in the categories that indicate that they posed a threat to patient health or safety. Lastly, we need to point out that this place received large government fines in recent years of over $100,000. This often signifies that a facility's poor performance spanned several years.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

FDCB-BB+A-AA+Oct 18Dec 23

Santa Fe Care Center Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

Grade: A-minus

In Santa Fe Care Center, 5.71% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This indicates the percentage of residents who suffered from a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are skin damage resulting from remaining in the same position for too long.

Minimizes Serious Falls

Grade: A

In Santa Fe Care Center, 1.45% of Patients had Serious Falls

This tells you the percent of patients that sustained a fall leading to major injury.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

Grade: A-minus

In Santa Fe Care Center, 0.51% of Patients had UTIs

This indicates the percent of patients who have had a urinary tract infection. UTI's are considered to be an indicator of the quality of nursing care . UTI's are often linked to poor nursing care. Nevertheless, this metric may also be skewed for some facilities due to inconsistent reporting standards for UTI's.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

Grade: F

In Santa Fe Care Center, 31.02% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This indicates the percentage of residents prescribed antipsychotic drugs. These drugs are used for several conditions, such as dementia.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

Grade: A

In Santa Fe Care Center, 10.82% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This tells you the percentage of patients prescribed antianxiety medications. Antianxiety medications are administered to residents suffering from depression and anxiety.

Managing Depression Among Residents

Grade: A+

In Santa Fe Care Center, 0% of Patients

This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term patients who are demonstrating depressive symptoms.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

Grade: B-minus

In Santa Fe Care Center, 93.95% of Patients

This metric measures the percentage of long-term care patients who were vaccinated against pneumonia and flu.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

Grade: C

In Santa Fe Care Center, 17.98% of Patients

Measures the percent of long-term patients who required additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. Activities of daily living include activities such as moving around and taking a bath.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

Grade: B-plus

In Santa Fe Care Center, 17.9% of Residents

This indicates the percentage of patients who remained mobile levels over time. Optimizing mobility can be a great sign for residents' well-being.

Hospitalizations

Grade: B-minus

In Santa Fe Care Center, 0.02 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days

This indicates the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of patient care.

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

Grade: B-minus

In Santa Fe Care Center, 17.9% of Residents Rehospitalized

This datapoint is a measure of the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term care. Keeping residents out of the hospital during rehabilitation is key to restoring the physical abilities of residents.

Short-term Care: ER Visits

Grade: F

In Santa Fe Care Center, 25.72% of Patients

This metric tracks the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.

Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement

Grade: D

In Santa Fe Care Center, 68.23% of Resident

This tells you the percentage of short-term stay residents who experienced functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living.

Nearby Hospitals

  • Christus St Vincent Regional Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 0.35 miles away455 St Michael's Drive Santa Fe New Mexico 87505Voluntary non-profit - Private(505) 913-5201

Nearby Dialysis

  • Santa Fe Dialysis (Fmc)0.05 miles away641 Harkle Rd Santa Fe New Mexico 87505CMS Rating: 2 stars Dialysis Stations: 20 (505) 982-9427
  • Home Dialysis of Santa Fe,LLC1.51 miles away2904 Rodeo Park Drive East 300 A Santa Fe New Mexico 87505Dialysis Stations: 8 (505) 467-8199
  • Fresenius Kidney Care Turquoise Trail4.86 miles away5221 Las Soleras Drive Santa Fe New Mexico 87507Dialysis Stations: 12 (505) 474-1458