Desert Cove Nursing Center
Nursing home in Chandler, AZ
Medicare & Medicaid certified2★ overall (CMS)CMS abuse icon
Public-record details
- Address
- 1750 West Frye Road, Chandler, AZ 85224
- Phone
- (480) 899-0641
- Listed under
- For-profit, No fines in 3 years
- Medicare CCN
- 035095
- Overall star rating
- 2 of 5 ★★☆☆☆
- Health inspection rating
- 1 of 5
- Staffing rating
- 3 of 5
- Quality measures rating
- 5 of 5
- Certified beds
- 120
- Average residents per day
- 69
- Ownership
- For-profit, partnership
- Legal business name
- Chandler United Medical Investors Limited Partnership
- Chain
- Life Care Centers of America (194 facilities)
- Certified for
- Medicare and Medicaid
- First approved by Medicare/Medicaid
- Dec 3, 1984
- Changed ownership in last 12 months
- No
- Continuing care retirement community
- No
- Located inside a hospital
- No
- Resident or family council
- Resident council
- Sprinklers in all required areas
- Yes
Inspection record
Most recent standard health inspection: Nov 19, 2025. CMS lists 35 health citations for this facility across its last three standard inspection cycles and complaint inspections (Nov 3, 2022 to Jun 29, 2026): 12 from complaint inspections, 0 at the “actual harm” level or higher. CMS shows its abuse icon for this facility, which it uses for nursing homes cited for abuse at the harm level recently or at the potential-harm level in each of the last two years.
| Inspection | Citation | Severity |
|---|---|---|
| Jun 29, 2026 | Protect each resident from all types of abuse such as physical, mental, sexual abuse, physical punishment, and neglect by anybody. | D |
| Apr 15, 2026 | Safeguard resident-identifiable information and/or maintain medical records on each resident that are in accordance with accepted professional standards. | E |
| Dec 18, 2025 | Ensure services provided by the nursing facility meet professional standards of quality. | D |
| Dec 18, 2025 | Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to prevent accidents. | D |
| Dec 18, 2025 | Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program. | D |
| Nov 19, 2025 | Honor the resident's right to request, refuse, and/or discontinue treatment, to participate in or refuse to participate in experimental research, and to formulate an advance… | D |
| Nov 19, 2025 | Protect each resident from all types of abuse such as physical, mental, sexual abuse, physical punishment, and neglect by anybody. | D |
| Nov 19, 2025 | Ensure that nurses and nurse aides have the appropriate competencies to care for every resident in a way that maximizes each resident's well being. | D |
| Nov 19, 2025 | Post nurse staffing information every day. | D |
| Nov 19, 2025 | Provide pharmaceutical services to meet the needs of each resident and employ or obtain the services of a licensed pharmacist. | D |
| Nov 19, 2025 | Ensure that residents are free from significant medication errors. | D |
| Nov 19, 2025 | Ensure drugs and biologicals used in the facility are labeled in accordance with currently accepted professional principles; and all drugs and biologicals must be stored in… | D |
Fines and payment denials
CMS records no fines or payment denials for this facility in the last three years.
Staffing
- Total nurse staffing per resident per day
- 3.81 hours
- Registered nurse (RN) time per resident per day
- 0.69 hours
- Nurse aide time per resident per day
- 1.96 hours
- Total nurse staffing on weekends
- 3.16 hours
- Nursing staff turnover (yearly)
- 50%
- RN turnover (yearly)
- 75%
- Administrators who left in the past year
- 1
A citation is what inspectors found on one date; most are corrected within weeks. Look for patterns — the same problem cited in several inspections — and for anything at the G–L level (actual harm or immediate jeopardy). The full inspection narrative (Form CMS-2567) is linked from Medicare Care Compare, and your state long-term care ombudsman can tell you about complaints.