Splendido at Rancho Vistoso is a small nursing home located in Tucson, Arizona. This nursing home turns out to be an A+ rated facility. Being awarded an A+ in our grading system takes excellent scores across the board. Indeed, we ranked this facility as the best nursing home in Tucson. Headlining this facility's remarkable profile is its short-term care grade, which you can find in the next section.
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Splendido at Rancho Vistoso
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- Assisted Living
- Memory Care
Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Reese
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- Accepts Medicare 1
- No Medicaid 1
- Is CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Limited Liability company
- Offers Hospice
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Home Making
- Transportation
- Medical Transportation
- Speech Therapy
- Occupational Therapy
- Physical Therapy
- Recreational Therapy
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Short-term Care Quality
In addition to performing well in its overall grade, this facility received high marks in our short-term care rating as well. As a result, it received our highest score in that category with an A+. Short-term care grades are commonly employed to score a facility's performance with rehabilitation. To have highly graded rehabilitation services, facilities generally must have higher levels of highly skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other highly trained professionals. Fortunately, it looks like this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not every facility employs these skilled professionals. However, according to the data this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Finally, we assessed the percentage of patients that eventually returned home from this facility. We found that 6.4 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.
Nurse Quality
In addition, this facility received high marks in the area of nursing. As a result, it received one of our highest grades in that category with a score of A+. Nursing ratings are primarily associated with a facility's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 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 nursing home performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a facility has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can typically be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.
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Facility Inspections
Adding to an already impressive profile, this facility also received virtually flawless health inspections in recent years. As a result, we awarded it an A+ inspection grade. These inspection ratings take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these factors by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Although this place had a few deficiencies on its government inspection report, none were major deficiencies based on CMS' scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
Long-term Care Quality
In the last area, this nursing home also was awarded an excellent long-term care score, with an A. This topped off a first-rate report card. Nursing homes that excel in long-term care typically are well-staffed and provide extensive hands on care to residents. One of the criteria we considered on top of nurse's aid hours was vaccines. This nursing home provided the pneumonia vaccination to 95.505615 percent of its patients. This is a great way to minimize negative health outcomes for the senior population. Lastly, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Splendido at Rancho Vistoso Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Splendido at Rancho Vistoso, 2.86% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This indicates the percent of residents who have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are skin damage resulting from remaining in one position for an excessive period of time.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Splendido at Rancho Vistoso, 7.87% of Patients had Serious Falls
This is a measure of the percent of long-term stay residents who sustained a fall resulting in severe injury. Falls can arise for a variety of reasons, but excessive numbers of falls may be a sign of lower levels of patient supervision.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Splendido at Rancho Vistoso, 3.57% of Patients had UTIs
This tells you the percentage of patients that suffered from a urinary tract infection. These infections are associated with inadequate hygiene.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Splendido at Rancho Vistoso, 12.36% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This datapoint is an indication of the percentage of long-term residents taking antipsychotic drugs. While antipsychotic drugs serve an important medical purpose, it is important to make sure these medications are being used only where medically required. In limited situations, increased usage of these drugs may indicate a nursing home is using these drugs to subdue residents.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Splendido at Rancho Vistoso, 31.67% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This indicates the percent of patients given antianxiety medications. Antianxiety medications are given to residents suffering from anxiety and depression.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Splendido at Rancho Vistoso, 0% of Patients
This indicates the percentage of residents who are demonstrating symptoms of depression.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Splendido at Rancho Vistoso, 96.93% of Patients
This tells you the percentage of residents who received the flu and pneumonia vaccines. High vaccination rates should be standard at this point.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Splendido at Rancho Vistoso, 5.77% of Patients
This indicates the percentage of residents that required increased assistance with activities of daily living over time.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Splendido at Rancho Vistoso, 11.82% of Residents
This tells you the percent of patients who were able to retain mobility over time. Optimizing mobility can be a good sign for residents' health.
Hospitalizations
In Splendido at Rancho Vistoso, 0.01 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Measures the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of patient care. Avoiding hospitalizations is key to preserving the physical health of residents.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Splendido at Rancho Vistoso, 11.82% of Residents Rehospitalized
This is a measure of the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term patient care. Minimizing rehospitalizations during rehabilitation is key to restoring the physical abilities of patients.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Splendido at Rancho Vistoso, 12.22% of Patients
This tells you the number of emergency room visits per 1,000 days of short-term patient care. There is typically a correlation between fewer emergency room visits and the quality of short-term care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Splendido at Rancho Vistoso, 78.74% of Resident
This metric measures the percentage of short-term care patients 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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