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The Arizona State Veteran Home (ASVH) is a new 200 bed licensed and
skilled nursing facility located at 4141 N. Third Street, Phoenix,
Arizona. This is a State owned and operated facility built to serve the
long term needs of the veterans of Arizona.
The 200 beds are
divided into four 50 bed units. One hundred fifty skilled beds and a 50
bed Alzheimer's Unit. There are 12 Medicare certified beds on the fifty
bed sub-acute unit. Each unit has an individual dining room and a well
decorated day room with a big screen TV. There is a centralized nursing
station on each unit. Each resident has a private telephone and a TV
with a remote control. There is a gift shop, a beauty/barber shop and a
meditation room for the use of the residents and family members. A
southwestern motif is followed throughout the building providing a very
pleasant color scheme.
The staff at ASVH
believes in caring for the whole person: body, mind and spirit.
Maximizing the quality of life of each resident in a home like
environment is the premise of ASVH philosophy. Veterans (including
spouses and widows) are eligible for admission.
A totally committed
and comprehensive nursing care program is administered 24 hours a day,
seven days a week. ASVH staff offer the best in physical therapy,
occupational, speech therapy, and respiratory therapy, rehabilitative
work and exercise classes.
Resident rooms are
designed to impart both a sense of privacy as well as convenience. All
rooms are equipped with special modifications for the wheelchair
disabled such as wide doors, specially designed lavatories, and high
commodes. Every room is furnished with a phone and television.
Housekeeping and laundry services are also provided.
A Veterans Benefits
Counselor is available to assist the residents in obtaining their
veteran benefits. Social Services is available to provide support for
residents and their families.
Our Mission
The mission of the
Arizona State Veteran Home is to provide professional skilled nursing
care for the geriatric and chronically ill veteran and
dependent/surviving spouses throughout the State of Arizona. Skilled
care is to include physical, psychological, social, emotional, and
spiritual aspects. Our mission is to meet the increasingly complex
long-term health care needs of veteran/spouses. Care is provided
regardless of age, race, creed or sex.
Philosophy
The services
provided by the Arizona State Veteran Home must adapt to meet the ever
changing health care needs of the population served. Care provided at
the Arizona State Veteran Home is based on the most currently accepted
knowledge, practices, and technologies implemented through skilled
personnel. In all levels of care, interdisciplinary approaches are
planned with the resident and/or family to meet his or her needs.
Programs are aimed at meeting long term health care needs and
encouraging wellness though preventive and rehabilitative services
offered to assist in attaining and maintaining an optimal level of
functioning.
Age, disability, or
terminal illness should not limit the individual's right to experience
life to the fullest extent possible. Despite the complexity of care
required and the degree of disability, the Arizona State Veteran Home
strives to provide care which promotes the resident's dignity,
self-determination, happiness, and well-being in a home-like
environment. Basic to the emphasis is fostering the individual to be as
self-determining and independent as possible.
The Arizona State
Veteran Home is committed to quality care. It is important to anticipate
trends in care needs and plan services to meet those trends, evaluate
the care provided, research new approaches, and update programming. The
Arizona State Veteran Home has the responsibility to share findings with
others involved in long-term health care services.
Admission
An applicant is
eligible for admission if the applicant is a veteran or the spouse of a
veteran. The applicant must require skilled nursing care as determined
by a physician. There must be documented evidence of the absence of
tuberculosis. Admission information and forms may be obtained by calling
the Admission Coordinator at (602) 248-1550. Assistance will be provided
in completing the forms if requested |