Dr Guy Gorman Sr Care Home — Chinle, AZ
This page sets out what the federal inspection record says about Dr Guy Gorman Sr Care Home, a 80-bed nursing home at Highway 191 & Hospital Road, Chinle, Arizona. Every figure below is copied from data the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) publishes about nursing homes that take Medicare or Medicaid. We have not added our own judgment to it.
The record at a glance
| Federal ID (CCN) | 035242 |
| Legal business name | Legal Business Name Not Available |
| Address | Highway 191 & Hospital Road, Chinle, AZ 86503 |
| Phone listed with CMS | (928) 674-5216 |
| Ownership type | Non profit – Corporation |
| Certified beds | 80 |
| Average residents per day | 51.1 |
| Certified since | July 10, 1997 |
| Overall CMS rating | 1 out of 5 |
| Health inspection rating | 1 out of 5 |
| Staffing rating | 3 out of 5 |
| Quality measures rating | 4 out of 5 |
| Most recent standard inspection | July 25, 2025 |
CMS scores nursing homes from one to five stars. The health inspection rating is set relative to other nursing homes in the same state, so a one-star home is in the bottom fifth in Arizona, not the bottom fifth nationally. Staffing and quality measure ratings are scored against national thresholds.
Federal penalties
CMS’s penalty file lists 4 federal penalties against this facility: 2 fines totalling $127,634, and 2 denials of payment for new admissions. A denial of payment means CMS stopped paying the home for residents admitted after a set date until the problem was fixed.
Flags CMS has placed on this facility
- Special Focus Facility candidate. CMS lists this home as a candidate for the Special Focus Facility program. Candidates are drawn from the homes with the worst inspection records in the state; CMS selects a limited number of them into the program itself.
Inspectors have cited this home 44 times since January 2024
2 of those were at severity level G or above — what CMS calls actual harm. 19 came from complaints rather than routine inspections. Every one of them is listed below, with its date and what the rule required.
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Inspection citations since January 2024
CMS records 44 health citations at this facility from inspections between January 11, 2024 and July 25, 2025.
| Inspected | Tag | What the rule requires | Scope and severity | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 25, 2025 | F0700 | Try different approaches before using a bed rail. If a bed rail is needed, the facility must (1) assess a resident for safety risk; (2) review these risks and benefits with the resident/representative; (3) get informed consent; and (4) Correctly install and maintain the bed rail. (complaint) | F — Widespread, Potential for more than minimal harm | Correction date Jan 22, 2026 |
| Jul 25, 2025 | F0851 | Electronically submit to CMS complete and accurate direct care staffing information, based on payroll and other verifiable and auditable data. | F — Widespread, Potential for more than minimal harm | Correction date Nov 20, 2025 |
| Jul 25, 2025 | F0947 | Ensure nurse aides have the skills they need to care for residents, and give nurse aides education in dementia care and abuse prevention. | E — Pattern, Potential for more than minimal harm | Correction date Jan 22, 2026 |
| Jul 25, 2025 | F0580 | Immediately tell the resident, the resident’s doctor, and a family member of situations (injury/decline/room, etc.) that affect the resident. (complaint) | D — Isolated, Potential for more than minimal harm | Correction date Nov 20, 2025 |
| Jul 25, 2025 | F0609 | Timely report suspected abuse, neglect, or theft and report the results of the investigation to proper authorities. (complaint) | D — Isolated, Potential for more than minimal harm | Correction date Nov 20, 2025 |
| Jul 25, 2025 | F0610 | Respond appropriately to all alleged violations. (complaint) | D — Isolated, Potential for more than minimal harm | Correction date Nov 20, 2025 |
| Sep 27, 2024 | F0689 | Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to prevent accidents. (complaint) | H — Pattern, Actual harm | Correction date Oct 28, 2024 |
| Sep 27, 2024 | F0600 | Protect each resident from all types of abuse such as physical, mental, sexual abuse, physical punishment, and neglect by anybody. (complaint) | G — Isolated, Actual harm | Correction date Oct 28, 2024 |
The wording in the third column is CMS’s own plain-language summary of the federal rule that was cited, not a description of what happened. This table shows every one of the 2 citations at actual-harm level or above, plus the 6 most recent of the rest. The other 36 are in the CMS file linked below.
How to read scope and severity
Every citation gets a letter from A to L. The letter carries two things at once: how serious the problem was, and how many residents it reached.
| Severity | Isolated | Pattern | Widespread |
|---|---|---|---|
| Immediate jeopardy to resident health or safety | J | K | L |
| Actual harm | G | H | I |
| No actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm | D | E | F |
| No actual harm, potential for minimal harm | A | B | C |
“Immediate jeopardy” is CMS’s term for a situation that has caused, or is likely to cause, serious injury, harm, impairment or death. It requires the home to act at once.
What this page does not tell you
- A citation is an inspector’s finding against a federal rule. It is not a court judgment, and the facility may be disputing it. Citations marked “under dispute” above are in CMS’s formal review process.
- Citation counts partly reflect how often a home was inspected and how many complaints were filed about it. A home with more citations has not automatically given worse care than one with fewer.
- Bigger homes have more residents, more staff and more inspections, so they tend to accumulate more citations.
- None of this says anything about the care any one resident received. A home with a clean record can still fail somebody, and a home with a bad record can be caring for your mother well.
- This is a snapshot. CMS updates these files monthly, and the figures here are from the file dated August 1, 2026.
Where this comes from
- Ratings, ownership, beds and penalties: CMS Provider Information dataset (4pq5-n9py), file dated August 1, 2026.
- Citations: CMS Health Deficiencies dataset (r5ix-sfxw), file dated August 1, 2026, filtered to inspections on or after January 1, 2024.
- This facility on the government’s own site: Medicare Care Compare.
- Retrieved August 29, 2026. Our method is set out in Editorial policy and How we count.
For the facility
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