Santa Rita Nursing & Rehabilitation Center
150 North La Canada Drive, Green Valley AZ 85614 · (520) 625-0178 · 70% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Lata
Santa Rita Nursing & Rehabilitation Center is an average-sized nursing home located in Green Valley, Arizona. Featuring an overall score of A+, this facility is without a doubt a superb facility. In fact, this facility has the prestigious distinction of being one of the top 25 facilities in Arizona. This also turned out to be a very consistent nursing home with consistent scores in all of our categories. More information about these categories can be found below.
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Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 111 Beds
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For profit - Limited Liability company
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Long-term Care Quality
In addition to receiving a great overall grade, this facility also received an A+ long-term care grade. Facilities that do well in this category typically provide residents with closer supervision and stay on top of routine healthcare services. In addition to providing very impressive levels of nursing care, this nursing home gave the pneumonia vaccine to 99.52607 percent of its residents. This statistic is also significantly higher than the vast majority of nursing homes. Lastly, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.
Facility Inspections
Adding to its impressive category scores, this nursing home also excelled in the category of inspections, where it earned an A. Few nursing homes performed as well in this area. Arguably the most significant factor we look at in calculating our inspection grades is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places with higher grades in this area typically avoided the more severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. This particular nursing home received 5 deficiencies on its inspection report. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
Short-term Care Quality
Turning the page to our third category, we gave this nursing home a grade of A for its short-term care grade. This is a dominant grade. In forming these short-term care grades, we look at the facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. The goal is to devise a barometer for comparing the rehabilitation services of various 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 last metric we looked at in this category is the percentage of patients 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 73.3 percent of its patients returning home.
Nurse Quality
Switching gears to the final category, this nursing home also excelled in our nursing category. We gave it an A- in this category. This rounded out truly elite profile. Our nursing score includes quite a few components, however, the most important consideration is the level of nurse hours spent with patients. This nursing home provided 4.2 hours of nursing care per resident per day, which was among the better totals we found. Finally, this nursing home also excelled in the quality measures we assessed. For example, it performed as well as any facility the country when it comes to minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We look at these statistics as reliable measures of the quality of nursing care offered.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Santa Rita Nursing & Rehabilitation Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This metric measures the percentage of long-term stay patients which suffered from pressure ulcers . We use this statistic in calculating our nursing grades.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This is the percentage of residents who have had a major fall. Falls resulting in severe injury are often caused by poor nursing care. Better nursing protocols limits the number of major falls sustained by residents in a nursing home.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This tells you the percentage of patients that sustained a urinary tract infection. UTI's are considered to be an indicator of the quality of nursing care . UTI's are often associated with lower quality nursing care. Nevertheless, this datapoint can also be skewed for some facilities due to varying reporting standards for these infections.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This indicates the percent of patients who were given antipsychotic drugs. These medications may be used for several medical conditions, such as dementia.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This datapoint indicates the percentage of long-term stay patients which were administered antianxiety medication. These drugs are generally prescribed to residents suffering from depression or anxiety.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This datapoint measures the percent of long-term stay patients demonstrating signs of depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This is the percentage of residents who were administered the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be demanded by residents.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This datapoint measures the percentage of long-term patients that needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as getting dressed and eating. Many in the industry believe that this is a reliable measure of a resident's well-being.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This datapoint is a measure of the percent of long-term stay patients who remained mobile levels. Many in the industry believe that mobility is vital to patients mental and physical health.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This tells you the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term patient care. There is generally a correlation between having fewer hospitalizations and a nursing homes short-term rehabilitation performance.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This indicates the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term care. There is typically a correlation between keeping patients out of the emergency room and the quality of nursing home care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This tells you the percentage of short-term patients that saw functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. Higher levels of performance with ADL's generally correlates with higher quality rehabilitation services.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better