Hacienda Healthcare

    1402 E South Mountain Ave, Mesa, AZ 85042
    • Assisted Living
    • Skilled Nursing
    4.0ยท20 reviews

    Compassionate staff; dignified care overall

    My loved one has been at Hacienda for 11 months and I feel they're in very capable, caring hands. The medical and support staff are professional, compassionate, and attentive, treat residents with dignity and build real relationships - I'm very pleased overall, with only minor areas that could be improved.

    Loved one of resident
    Jul 2026

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    Amenities

    Healthcare services

    • Activities of daily living assistance
    • Assistance with bathing
    • Assistance with dressing
    • Assistance with transfers
    • Medication management

    Healthcare staffing

    • 24-hour call system
    • 24-hour supervision

    Meals and dining

    • Diabetes diet
    • Meal preparation and service
    • Special dietary restrictions

    Room

    • Air-conditioning
    • Cable
    • Fully furnished
    • Housekeeping and linen services
    • Kitchenettes
    • Private bathrooms
    • Telephone
    • Wifi

    Transportation

    • Community operated transportation
    • Transportation arrangement

    Common areas

    • Beauty salon
    • Computer center
    • Dining room
    • Fitness room
    • Gaming room
    • Garden
    • Outdoor space
    • Small library
    • Wellness center

    Community services

    • Concierge services
    • Fitness programs
    • Move-in coordination

    Activities

    • Community-sponsored activities
    • Planned day trips
    • Resident-run activities
    • Scheduled daily activities

    Reviews

    4.00ยท(20)

    Overall rating

    1. 5
    2. 4
    3. 3
    4. 2
    5. 1
    • Care

      3.0
    • Staff

      3.4
    • Meals

      4.0
    • Amenities

      4.0
    • Value

      4.0

    Pros

    • Skilled and professional medical staff
    • Compassionate, patient-centered caregivers
    • Respectful staffโ€“resident interactions
    • Reliable and attentive daily care
    • Strong staffโ€“family communication
    • Supportive staffโ€“resident relationship continuity
    • Perceived high-quality standing within its facility type

    Cons

    • Gaps in staff supervision and conduct controls
    • Inconsistent attentiveness and staffing levels
    • Safeguarding vulnerabilities for high-dependency residents
    • Inconsistent quality-assurance and incident-response practices
    • Potential for significant reputational and regulatory exposure
    • Allegations of staff sexual misconduct and supervisory failures

    Summary of reviews

    The reviews present a mixed but clear pattern: many families and residents highlight consistently high marks for day-to-day caregiving while a small set of very serious concerns raise questions about oversight and safety. Positive commentary emphasizes professional clinical care, compassionate bedside manner, and staff who build long-term supportive relationships with residents. Several accounts describe responsive phone communication with families, dependable assistance with daily needs, and a family-like culture among caregivers that contributed to residents feeling respected and well cared for.

    Care quality and staffing are described in largely favorable terms with multiple notes of skilled medical personnel and attentive support staff. Reviewers frequently mention respectful interactions and continuity of caregivers, which supports strong relational continuity for long-stay residents. Where care is praised, families cite clear communication about issues and an orientation toward supporting resident dignity and comfort.

    Alongside these strengths, reviewers raise notable operational concerns that are not limited to single incidents. The material indicates gaps in staff supervision, conduct controls, and quality-assurance processes that have, according to some accounts, allowed very serious individual incidents to occur. There are also recurring comments pointing to inconsistent attentiveness and variability in staffing levels, which can create vulnerabilities for residents with higher dependency needs. Together these items suggest the facility would benefit from strengthened supervision, more consistent staffing practices, and clearer protocols for monitoring and reporting serious events.

    Dining, activities, and facilities receive limited explicit commentary in the supplied summaries. The absence of substantive remarks about dining or programming implies reviewers focused primarily on clinical care and safety; prospective families should therefore ask the facility directly for current information on meal quality, activity schedules, and amenity upkeep. Likewise, there is limited detail about environmental cleanliness or pest control in these summaries, so targeted questions on sanitation practices and housekeeping standards are advisable during visits.

    Management and governance emerge as an important area for scrutiny. Reviewers request greater accountability, transparency, and a more robust incident-response framework; one review thread includes an allegation of staff sexual misconduct and related supervisory failures, which elevates the need for documented corrective actions, human-resources safeguards, and cooperation with regulatory oversight. Prospective residents and families should review the facilityโ€™s staffing ratios, background-check policies, training programs (including safeguarding and boundary training), recent inspection reports, and formal procedures for incident reporting and family notification. In summary, Hacienda Healthcare shows clear strengths in compassionate, clinically capable caregiving and family communication, but also exhibits operational weaknesses around oversight and safeguarding that prospective families should investigate directly.

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    Location

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    Hacienda Healthcare is located at 1402 E South Mountain Ave, Mesa, AZ, 85042.

    About Hacienda Healthcare

    Hacienda Healthcare sits at 1402 East South Mountain Avenue in Phoenix, Arizona, where the facility's been for over 50 years, and it began when Ilene Mae Butler's car broke down on her way to California; since then, the nonprofit's grown to have over 300 staff and provide a range of health and residential services for some of Arizona's most profoundly challenged children, teens, and adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities, and their services include intermediate care in a 60-bed facility, a 74-bed skilled nursing home, and the 58-bed Hacienda Children's Hospital, which offers sub-acute care for kids who need a step down from regular hospitals but aren't ready for home yet. You'll find that Hacienda Healthcare has specialized programs for seniors with Alzheimer's and dementia too, with 24-hour supervision, specialized memory programs, and support for daily needs, and for people of all ages with complex medical needs, they provide clinical ventilator care, respiratory therapy, nursing, occupational and speech therapy, and a lot of hands-on help from doctors, nurses, and all kinds of therapists, and they really put effort into making sure every resident-whether a child or older adult-has comfort and dignity, and that goes for those who can't walk or need extra equipment, because most rooms are wheelchair accessible with private bathrooms, air conditioning, and have things like cable TV and Wi-Fi, plus there are one-bedroom units.

    You'll notice that they have lots of activities-there's a garden outside, arts rooms, music programs, a game room, a library, fitness spaces, walking paths, social outings, even a community theater, and staff organize both group and one-on-one programs to let people work on skills or just enjoy themselves, and families can join in too, because they have counseling and family support services, and the place is open to family visits with help from their Volunteer Coordinator Tara-Ann Chavez and Activity Director Theresa Labadie, who keep everyone busy. Hacienda Healthcare serves special diets, including diabetic meals and allergy-sensitive options, with restaurant-style dining all day, and there's also housekeeping, laundry, and assistance with things like bathing, getting dressed, medication management, and moving safely from beds or chairs, plus a 24-hour call system so someone's always available.

    The facility is recertified after addressing deficiencies found in federal surveys and is certified by Medicare and Medicaid-the organization is transparent, providing information on health standards, complaints, and any fines or deficiencies, and accepts both Medicare and Medicaid, making care possible for many. They also run Innovative Home Health, a for-profit company that supplies nursing, home health help, and equipment for people needing care at home, and South Mountain Health Supply for purchasing medical supplies. Their programs don't only cover living at the center, since they offer short-term respite care for families and hands-on training for parents of children with special needs, plus at-home nursing for all ages, and even vocational training and day programs for adults who want to learn new skills or need daytime care. Hacienda Healthcare has specialized support for medically fragile individuals and those with special needs, striving to help every resident have a meaningful life, whether through medical care, social activities, safe living environments, or supporting their families, with a team that works around the clock every single day to make sure everyone's needs are met with as much respect and compassion as possible.

    People often ask...

    Hacienda Healthcare offers assisted living and skilled nursing.

    The full address for this community is 1402 E South Mountain Ave, Mesa, AZ 85042.

    No, Hacienda Healthcare does not offer respite care. Respite care in assisted living communities provides temporary, short-term relief for primary caregivers by offering professional care for their loved ones. It allows individuals to stay in an assisted living community for a limited time, giving caregivers a break while ensuring residents receive necessary support and assistance with daily activities.

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