Las Palomas Center

    8100 Palomas Ave NE, Albuquerque, NM 87109
    • Assisted Living
    • Memory Care
    • Skilled Nursing

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    Amenities

    Healthcare services

    • Activities of daily living assistance
    • Assistance with bathing
    • Assistance with dressing
    • Assistance with transfers
    • Coordination with health care providers
    • Medication management
    • Mental wellness program

    Healthcare staffing

    • 24-hour call system
    • 24-hour supervision

    Meals and dining

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

    Room

    • Cable
    • Fully furnished
    • Housekeeping and linen services
    • Kitchenettes
    • Telephone
    • Wifi

    Transportation

    • Transportation arrangement (medical)
    • Transportation to doctors appointments

    Common areas

    • Beauty salon
    • Dining room
    • Garden
    • Outdoor space

    Community services

    • Move-in coordination

    Activities

    • Community-sponsored activities
    • Scheduled daily activities

    Reviews

    3.30·(166)

    Overall rating

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

      2.2
    • Staff

      3.0
    • Meals

      1.8
    • Amenities

      2.4
    • Value

      1.6

    Pros

    • Dedicated, compassionate CNAs and nursing staff
    • Strong physical and occupational therapy and rehabilitation services
    • Helpful admissions and financial-placement support
    • Accessible outdoor courtyard and safe location
    • Shuttle transportation for appointments
    • Attentive front-desk and admissions personnel
    • Goal-directed therapy with measurable recovery outcomes
    • Some consistently clean and well-maintained rooms
    • Engaging volunteer-led activities and programs
    • After-hours patrol and entry oversight

    Cons

    • Inconsistent and insufficient staffing levels
    • Delays and errors in medication administration and management
    • Poor responsiveness to call lights and assistance requests
    • Sanitation and housekeeping inconsistencies, including laundry issues
    • Inconsistent meal quality, timing, and dietary accommodation
    • Communication and care-coordination breakdowns with families and providers
    • Property-inventory and resident-belongings management weaknesses
    • Equipment and facility maintenance lapses
    • Gaps in emergency-transfer and clinical escalation processes
    • Inadequate leadership accountability and operational oversight
    • Reliance on temporary staff with limited continuity of care
    • Documentation and clinical-record accuracy problems

    Summary of reviews

    The reviews present a highly mixed picture of care at this facility. Positive accounts emphasize strong rehabilitation services, several nurses and CNAs who are described as compassionate, and an admissions/financial team that can make placement smoother. Therapy (PT/OT) repeatedly appears as a consistent strength: goal-oriented programs, measurable progress, and attentive rehab staff are cited as bright spots. The campus features such as a secure location, accessible courtyard for rollators and wheelchairs, shuttle transportation, and an active volunteer program also contribute to favorable experiences for some families.

    At the same time, there is a pervasive pattern of operational concerns that affect clinical care and resident experience. Staffing levels and consistency emerge as a core issue: families describe reliance on temporary or on-call personnel, uneven CNA availability, and long response times to call lights. These staffing gaps are linked to delays in assistance with activities of daily living (bathing, toileting, repositioning), missed or delayed medications, and inconsistent documentation of clinical status. Several accounts cite medication-management problems including late doses and medication changes without clear family communication, which is associated with clinical deterioration and unplanned hospital transfers in a number of narratives.

    Sanitation, laundry, and housekeeping processes are another recurring theme. Reviews point to inconsistent cleaning of rooms and shared bathrooms, laundry handling problems, and incontinence-care delays; reviewers express odor concerns and a need for more reliable housekeeping routines. Facility-maintenance issues — broken equipment, unreliable electronic beds, unrepaired windows, and limited oxygen supplies or backup — further compound safety and comfort concerns. Dining and nutrition practices are described as variable: some meals noted as flavorful, but meal timing, cold service, limited menu variety, and inadequate assistance at mealtimes (including feeding support and provision of appropriate foods for dietary needs) were commonly cited and in several cases implicated in blood-sugar or choking risks.

    Communication and management practices are inconsistent. While individual staff members and departments (therapy, specific nurses, front desk) receive frequent praise, many families report poor communication from leadership, an unresponsive social-work experience, and documentation or discharge-planning gaps. There are also allegations concerning missing personal property and financial-priority perceptions of leadership; one review references a regulatory-level inquiry. These management and accountability concerns appear to amplify operational weaknesses when staffing or clinical issues arise.

    In sum, the facility appears to deliver strong rehabilitative care and has numerous staff members who provide attentive, compassionate service. However, recurring, facility-level weaknesses — inconsistent staffing, medication-administration and escalation delays, sanitation and laundry deficiencies, maintenance lapses, and uneven family communication — pose risks to resident safety and comfort. Prospective residents and families should weigh the demonstrated strengths in therapy and certain staff relationships against these operational concerns, and consider targeted questions during tours: current staffing ratios and use of agency staff, medication-safety protocols, housekeeping and laundry workflows, equipment maintenance schedules, and any active regulatory reviews or corrective plans. Regular family advocacy and clear care agreements may be important to achieving a safe, satisfactory stay here.

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    Medicare Ratings

    1·/ 5
    • Overall

    • Health Inspection

    • Staffing

    • Quality Measures

    Cited by CMS for abuse, or potential for abuse, on its most recent survey cycle.

    Ratings from the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (Care Compare). View on Medicare.gov

    Location

    Las Palomas Center is located at 8100 Palomas Ave NE, Albuquerque, NM, 87109.

    About Las Palomas Center

    Las Palomas Center, also called Las Palomas Nursing & Rehab, sits at 8100 Palomas Ave NE in Albuquerque near several big hospitals like UNM Hospital, the Raymond G. Murphy VA Medical Center, and Presbyterian Hospital, so people who need medical attention can get to it pretty easily, and the building itself is wheelchair accessible, has air conditioning throughout, and offers simple things like restrooms and parking for visitors, plus it accepts credit cards and a range of insurance plans like Medicare and Medicaid, which helps people pay for care. The center can care for up to 120 people and offers short-term, long-term, and respite care, with some folks coming in just for recovery or transitional care after a hospital stay, while others might live here longer and get help with everyday needs in a skilled nursing or assisted living setting, and the care ranges from physical, occupational, and speech therapy to wound and orthopedic care, memory support for dementia, as well as vision, podiatry, and psychiatric help, with a medical director and nurse practitioner on staff, and even things like pain management, heparin therapy, and case management, so a lot of needs get attention here. The facility's owned by Genesis Healthcare, which runs hundreds of other places like this across the country, and they also tie into groups like the National Alliance for Care at Home and the New Mexico Health Care Association, so there are a lot of connections and resources available, plus they offer educational materials, workshops, and tools to help families and residents make informed choices, and pets are even allowed, which some residents find comforting. Folks here can join cultural, religious, and social activities, and the dining program has won community awards for nutritious, quality meals, so residents generally don't lack for engagement or decent food, and there are activity rooms, gardens, a beauty salon and barber, an on-site theater, and cable television, plus internet access and private or semi-private rooms for residents to choose from, and staff are known for their kindness and friendliness, even getting community awards for their attitude and the activities they set up, with interpreter services and care plans set up to match each person's specific needs, and there is a 24-hour alert and response system for emergencies. Now, while they've got a lot going on, Las Palomas Center has had more than its share of problems, like a record of legal and regulatory issues, including a CMS rating of just 1 out of 5 stars overall, with low scores for health inspections, staffing, and quality, and the most recent inspection found 30 health citations-much higher than the national average-which includes infractions on infection control, resident dignity, discharge planning, safe environment, and proper medication management, plus there have been multiple citations for abuse, neglect, and failing to provide enough nursing hours, with the number of residents who lost too much weight and those with worsened mobility being higher than what you'd see nationally, and complaints have come up about hazardous areas and food safety. So, Las Palomas Center covers a wide range of services, offers a lot in the way of amenities, and has some good points with engaged staff and community programs, but the place has struggled with inspections, citations, and low staffing, so families should look closely at these factors and ask plenty of questions before deciding if it's the right fit.

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