Sedona Trace Health and Wellness

While this facility's overall grade was decent, it really fared well in the area of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A+ for that category, which is one of our highest scores. Inspection grades take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these issues by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

We also gave this facility a positive grade in long-term care. This nursing home earned a grade of B+ in this area, which turns out to be one of our more favorable grades. In a long-term care setting, the nursing home'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 residents. This facility seems like a viable option if you are searching for a permanent place to reside.

We awarded this nursing home just a D for our short-term care rating. This is not an impressive grade. With our short-term care category, we attempt to craft a meaningful barometer for rehabilitation. In this process, we assess the facility's levels of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as respiratory therapy. Unfortunately, we discovered that this place offered fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per patient than most facilities. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that just 0 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

This nursing home's weakest area was nursing, which is the last area we scored. It received a lowly F for this category. In spite of multiple respectable scores in other areas, this score is still alarming so we felt obligated to point it out. There are many factors included in this category. Many of the factors reflect the quantity of nurse staffing. This facility offered only 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. This is an alarmingly low total. Lastly, to round out our nursing grade, we turn to some quality-focused statistics in rounding out our nursing grades. Specifically, we look at the percent of patients who sustained pressure ulcers and major falls. We view these statistics as predictive indicators of the quality of nursing care, since better care tends to reduce these problems.