Phoenix Mountain Post Acute — Phoenix, AZ

This page sets out what the federal inspection record says about Phoenix Mountain Post Acute, a 130-bed nursing home at 13232 North Tatum Blvd, Phoenix, 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)	035072
Legal business name	Lookout Mountain Healthcare LLC
Listed chain or group	The Ensign Group
Address	13232 North Tatum Blvd, Phoenix, AZ 85032
Phone listed with CMS	(602) 996-5200
Ownership type	For profit – Corporation
Certified beds	130
Average residents per day	118.9
Certified since	November 25, 1979
Overall CMS rating	3 out of 5
Health inspection rating	2 out of 5
Staffing rating	2 out of 5
Quality measures rating	5 out of 5
Total nursing staff turnover	68.4%
Most recent standard inspection	November 19, 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 1 federal penalty against this facility: 1 fine totalling $8,018. A denial of payment means CMS stopped paying the home for residents admitted after a set date until the problem was fixed.

Inspectors have cited this home 10 times since January 2024

1 of those was at severity level G or above — what CMS calls actual harm. 5 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 10 health citations at this facility from inspections between June 11, 2024 and November 19, 2025.

Inspected	Tag	What the rule requires	Scope and severity	Status
Nov 19, 2025	F0803	Ensure menus must meet the nutritional needs of residents, be prepared in advance, be followed, be updated, be reviewed by dietician, and meet the needs of the resident.	E — Pattern, Potential for more than minimal harm	Correction date Nov 28, 2025
Nov 19, 2025	F0880	Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program.	E — Pattern, Potential for more than minimal harm	Correction date Nov 28, 2025
Nov 19, 2025	F0679	Provide activities to meet all resident’s needs.	D — Isolated, Potential for more than minimal harm	Correction date Nov 28, 2025
Nov 19, 2025	F0757	Ensure each resident’s drug regimen must be free from unnecessary drugs.	D — Isolated, Potential for more than minimal harm	Correction date Nov 28, 2025
Nov 19, 2025	F0770	Provide timely, quality laboratory services/tests to meet the needs of residents.	D — Isolated, Potential for more than minimal harm	Correction date Nov 28, 2025
Jul 11, 2025	F0908	Keep all essential equipment working safely. (complaint)	E — Pattern, Potential for more than minimal harm	Correction date Aug 8, 2025
Jun 11, 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 Jul 25, 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 1 citation at actual-harm level or above, plus the 6 most recent of the rest. The other 3 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

If anything on this page is wrong, out of date or missing context, we will correct it. Phoenix Mountain Post Acute and anyone acting for it can reach the watchdog team through our corrections and right of reply page. We publish the response alongside the record.