Caring House — Sacaton, AZ

This page sets out what the federal inspection record says about Caring House, a 100-bed nursing home at 510 South Ocotillo Road, Sacaton, 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)	035216
Legal business name	The Caring House
Address	510 South Ocotillo Road, Sacaton, AZ 85147
Phone listed with CMS	(520) 562-7400
Ownership type	Government – Federal
Certified beds	100
Average residents per day	81.2
Certified since	June 19, 1993
Overall CMS rating	2 out of 5
Health inspection rating	2 out of 5
Staffing rating	Not rated
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 3 federal penalties against this facility: 2 fines totalling $28,695, and 1 denial 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.

Inspectors have cited this home 8 times since January 2024

1 of those was at severity level G or above — what CMS calls actual harm. 1 reached immediate jeopardy, CMS’s most serious category. 3 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 8 health citations at this facility from inspections between July 29, 2024 and September 18, 2025.

Inspected	Tag	What the rule requires	Scope and severity	Status
Sep 18, 2025	F0689	Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to prevent accidents. (complaint)	J — Isolated, Immediate jeopardy	Past Non-Compliance
Sep 18, 2025	F0600	Protect each resident from all types of abuse such as physical, mental, sexual abuse, physical punishment, and neglect by anybody. (complaint)	D — Isolated, Potential for more than minimal harm	Correction date Nov 19, 2025
Jul 25, 2025	F0641	Ensure each resident receives an accurate assessment.	E — Pattern, Potential for more than minimal harm	Correction date Sep 4, 2025
Jul 25, 2025	F0644	Coordinate assessments with the pre-admission screening and resident review program; and referring for services as needed.	E — Pattern, Potential for more than minimal harm	Correction date Sep 4, 2025
Jul 25, 2025	F0755	Provide pharmaceutical services to meet the needs of each resident and employ or obtain the services of a licensed pharmacist.	E — Pattern, Potential for more than minimal harm	Correction date Sep 4, 2025
Jul 25, 2025	F0558	Reasonably accommodate the needs and preferences of each resident.	D — Isolated, Potential for more than minimal harm	Correction date Sep 4, 2025
Jul 25, 2025	F0582	Give residents notice of Medicaid/Medicare coverage and potential liability for services not covered.	D — Isolated, Potential for more than minimal harm	Correction date Sep 4, 2025

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 1 is 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. Caring House 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.