Pueblo Springs Rehabilitation Center

    5545 E Lee St, Tucson, AZ 85712
    • Skilled Nursing

    Excellent care and responsive staff

    I placed my mom here after a hospital stay and had a very positive experience. The staff were caring, professional, and responsive - PT/therapy really helped her recover and wound care was handled well. The facility was clean with pleasant grounds, smooth admissions/discharge, and attentive doctors and nurses; I would recommend it.

    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
    • Coordination with health care providers
    • Medication management
    • Mental wellness program

    Healthcare staffing

    • 12-16 hour nursing
    • 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
    • Transportation arrangement (medical)
    • Transportation arrangement (non-medical)
    • Transportation to doctors appointments

    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

    3.13·(40)

    Overall rating

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

      2.7
    • Staff

      2.9
    • Meals

      2.6
    • Amenities

      2.8
    • Value

      3.1

    Pros

    • Effective physical and occupational therapy programs
    • Compassionate CNAs and bedside caregivers
    • Helpful and professional admissions staff
    • Clean, well-maintained rooms and renovated wing
    • Park-like grounds and convenient location
    • Skilled physicians with good bedside manner
    • Outstanding kitchen staff and palatable meals
    • Private-room options in renovated units
    • Active activities and recreational programming
    • Responsive outpatient therapy services
    • Small, residential facility atmosphere

    Cons

    • Inconsistent clinical-care quality across shifts and units
    • Medication-management vulnerabilities including omissions and timing errors
    • Slow or inconsistent staff responsiveness, especially during night shifts
    • Gaps in family and physician communication and care updates
    • Weak discharge planning and care-transition coordination
    • Inadequate wound- and skin-care protocols
    • Sanitation and linen-handling concerns
    • Understaffing and staff fatigue affecting service levels
    • Irregular meal-service continuity and dietary-accommodation gaps
    • Safety and fall-prevention procedural weaknesses
    • Admission and intake process delays with incomplete onboarding
    • Allegations of theft and mishandling of personal belongings

    Summary of reviews

    The reviews describe a facility with a polarized set of experiences: several families describe effective therapy, attentive CNAs, clean renovated units, and pleasant grounds, while other accounts raise substantive operational and clinical concerns. Therapy and rehabilitative services are repeatedly cited as a strength — many reviews note helpful, effective physical and occupational therapy that contributed to functional improvement. Admissions staff and some nursing teams receive positive mention for professionalism and ease of intake in certain cases, and a renovated wing with larger private rooms and well-kept grounds is a consistent facility-level positive.

    At the same time, recurring patterns indicate variability in clinical quality and operational reliability. Multiple reviewers described medication administration problems (omissions, delays, or incorrect timing) and uneven responsiveness to call bells, particularly overnight. These issues align with broader concerns about staffing levels and staff fatigue; understaffing appears to affect response time, bathing and toileting assistance, and timely delivery of medications and treatments. Wound and skin-care management, discharge planning, and coordination of home equipment or services (for example oxygen or IV care) were also noted as areas where protocols and follow-through can be inconsistent.

    Communication and management practices are another mixed area. Families praised some physicians and nurses for bedside manner and informative interactions, while other accounts describe poor communication, avoidance by administration, and incomplete handoffs to family decision-makers and external providers. This variability extends to dietary services: the kitchen and some staff are singled out for excellent meals and accommodations, yet there are also reports of missed or changed meal orders, cold plates, and inadequate dietary accommodation that contributed to weight loss in some cases.

    Facility and safety observations are similarly mixed. The property and many rooms are described as clean and well-maintained, with engaging activities and a small, residential feel. At the same time, several reviews raised sanitation and linen-handling concerns, gaps in fall-prevention and safety procedures, and allegations involving mishandled personal belongings. These are operational traits rather than universal conditions, but they are recurrent enough to warrant attention.

    For prospective residents and families, the overall pattern suggests that experience at this facility may vary substantially depending on unit, shift, and individual care team. Strengths to consider include robust therapy programs, compassionate CNAs, and some strong clinical and dietary staff. Areas to evaluate closely during a tour or intake include medication administration processes, night staffing levels and response times, discharge planning and care-transition practices, wound and skin-care protocols, communication protocols with families and physicians, and procedures for linens and personal belongings. Asking facility leadership for specific policies and recent quality metrics on medication administration errors, staffing ratios, wound incidence, and discharge-safety checklists may help clarify whether this facility’s operational practices align with a family’s expectations and care needs.

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    Medicare Ratings

    1·/ 5
    • Overall

    • Health Inspection

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    • Quality Measures

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

    Location

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    Pueblo Springs Rehabilitation Center is located at 5545 E Lee St, Tucson, AZ, 85712.

    About Pueblo Springs Rehabilitation Center

    Pueblo Springs Rehabilitation Center is a skilled nursing facility with 129 certified beds, though some reports mention 143 beds, and the center keeps an average of about 75 residents each day, which leaves them with space most of the time. The place focuses on both short-term and long-term rehabilitation, and you'll see a wide variety of therapy services offered here, most aimed at helping people build up strength and mobility after accidents or surgery, with specific programs for physical and occupational therapy plus in-house services that use both modern equipment and hands-on therapy; you'll notice the therapy gyms, rehab equipment, and specialized spaces throughout the campus when you walk around. The grounds at Pueblo Springs are landscaped and well cared for, and there's indoor and outdoor seating where residents can sit with family or friends if they want a change of scenery, plus dining rooms and recreational spaces that host a calendar of different activities each month-most focused on helping folks stay involved or social, but you'll still have plenty of quiet time if you like that instead. People live in private or semi-private rooms depending on preference or availability, and the center provides laundry and housekeeping along with nutritious meals, all meant to make daily life smoother for everyone. Pueblo Springs has air conditioning for comfort, wheelchair accessibility, reservation services, restrooms and customer parking on site, and they accept credit cards. Safety is taken seriously, with systems in place to prevent accidents, plus the staff help keep areas free of hazards, and you'll see supervision throughout the day; there are also programs for preventing abuse, neglect, and exploitation, reflecting a concern for residents' welfare. The nurse staffing level is 3.26 hours per resident each day, which is about average for this type of facility, though the nurse turnover rate is a bit higher at 47.9%. The place has been managed by Ellen Cote since September 2017 and is affiliated with The Ensign Group. Pueblo Springs Rehabilitation Center builds rehabilitation plans for each resident with input from the staff, healthcare providers, and family when needed, and its main goal is to support independence and recovery for every patient. The facility doesn't share a lot of extra details about itself but keeps its focus on providing safe, steady, and thorough care in a setting made for recovery and comfort.

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