Sante of Chandler

In addition to receiving a great overall grade, this nursing home received an A+ in the area of short-term care. Short-term care ratings are based on a facility's quantity of skilled nursing services. This includes a broad scope of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not every nursing home employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the data they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Lastly, we considered the number of residents that eventually returned home from this nursing home. We found that 6.7 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

This nursing home also earned an A+ inspection score, making it one of the rare places to receive multiple A+'s in our categories. This score is based on the nursing home's recent inspection reports. Inspection scores account for several factors found on a nursing home's inspection report. One key criteria we consider is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Facilities with better scores in this area typically have very few of these severe deficiencies. While this place had a few minor dings on its inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means that the inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. We should note that deficiency-free inspection reports are rare in this industry.

To complement its strong performance in other areas, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for our inspections rating. The nursing score includes a variety of factors. The most heavily weighted variable is the amount of time nurses spend with patients. This particular nursing home provided 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This facility performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a place has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can typically be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

The last category we analyzed is long-term care. We gave this nursing home one of our higher scores in that area, with a B. Even though this is not as strong as many of this nursing home's other grades, it is still a positive grade. In a long-term care setting, the nursing home's primary goal is to maintain residents' quality of life and keep them safe. Once we assessed the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination record. Unfortunately, we were not able to find this place's vaccination data. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.