Albuquerque Heights Healthcare and Rehabilitation
A nursing home in Albuquerque, New Mexico 87109
103 Hospital Loop NE, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87109. (505) 348-8300.
Watch and the shortlist are kept with a free account, on every device. Your watch list. CMS’s own record is on Care Compare.
The short answer
Record last released by CMS on Oct 8, 2026.
- 3of 5 CMS’s overall rating
- 20 health citations at the latest inspection cycle New Mexico average: 17.9
- 3.76 nurse hours per resident per day New Mexico average: 3.54
- 1 fine in the last three years (needs attention)
Each figure’s source sits beside it, in its section below.
What these words mean7
- Star ratings
- CMS rates some kinds of place from 1 to 5 stars, more stars meaning better on CMS’s own measures for that kind: for a nursing home, its health inspections, staffing and quality measures. A rating is CMS’s summary of those measures; it doesn’t promise good care. Source: CMS, Care Compare and the Five-Star Quality Rating System.
- Inspection (survey)
- A visit by state inspectors, often unannounced, who check a place against the rules it must meet. For nursing homes and other places Medicare pays, CMS calls these visits surveys: a standard survey of a nursing home comes at least every 15 months, and a complaint survey whenever a complaint calls for one. Source: CMS; 42 CFR 488.308.
- Deficiency, citation, violation
- What inspectors write up when a place didn’t meet a rule: the rule, what they saw, and when. CMS calls it a deficiency; states may say citation or violation. It is the inspectors’ finding, not a court’s, and the place is usually asked for a plan to correct it. Source: CMS, statement of deficiencies (Form CMS-2567); each state’s licensing agency.
- Scope and severity (A to L)
- CMS grades each nursing home deficiency with a letter. A to C: no actual harm, with potential for minimal harm. D to F: no actual harm, but potential for more. G to I: actual harm. J to L: immediate jeopardy. Within each band, the letter rises as more residents were affected or could be: one or a few, a pattern, or widespread. Source: CMS, nursing home scope and severity grid (State Operations Manual, chapter 7).
- Nurse staffing hours
- The hours registered nurses, licensed practical nurses and nurse aides worked, per resident per day, from the payroll records each home sends CMS. Source: CMS, Payroll-Based Journal.
- Fines and payment denials
- A fine (civil money penalty) is money CMS makes a nursing home pay when it falls short of federal rules. A payment denial means Medicare and Medicaid stop paying for new admissions until the home meets the rules again. Source: CMS; 42 CFR 488.430 and 488.417.
- Capacity
- The most people the licence or certification lets the place care for at once: residents, children, beds or apartments, as the state counts them. It isn’t how many are there now. Source: Each state’s licensing agency.
What did inspectors find?
20 health citations at the latest inspection cycle
The New Mexico average is 17.9.
Last standard inspection Apr 15, 2025.
Most serious in three years: actual harm (G), at a complaint inspection on Aug 23, 2024
CMS, Provider Information, State and US Averages and Health Deficiencies. Released Oct 8, 2026. Updated monthly.
When those citations happened
56 citations in 12 months of the last 36. Last cited Jul 2026. Most serious: actual harm (G). The last 3 years, to Oct 30, 2026.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Nov | Dec | ||||||||||
| 2024 | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
| 2025 | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
| 2026 | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct |
Hover or focus a month to read it.
Hearth Record drew this from the dates and levels in the source’s own records.
All 56 citations in the last three years
Grouped by inspection, newest first. Each carries CMS grades each nursing home deficiency with a letter. A to C: no actual harm, with potential for minimal harm. D to F: no actual harm, but potential for more. G to I: actual harm. J to L: immediate jeopardy. Within each band, the letter rises as more residents were affected or could be: one or a few, a pattern, or widespread. Source: CMS, nursing home scope and severity grid (State Operations Manual, chapter 7)., from A, the least serious, to L, the most. 33 came from complaint inspections.
CMS, Health Deficiencies. Released Oct 8, 2026. Updated monthly.
Jul 24, 2026: complaint inspection1 citation
-
Honor the resident’s right to a dignified existence, self-determination, communication, and to exercise his or her rights.
May 22, 2026: complaint inspection3 citations
-
Immediately tell the resident, the resident’s doctor, and a family member of situations (injury/decline/room, etc.) that affect the resident.
-
Ensure services provided by the nursing facility meet professional standards of quality.
-
Ensure therapeutic diets are prescribed by the attending physician and may be delegated to a registered or licensed dietitian, to the extent allowed by State law.
Feb 3, 2026: complaint inspection2 citations
-
PASARR screening for Mental disorders or Intellectual Disabilities
-
Make sure that the nursing home area is safe, easy to use, clean and comfortable for residents, staff and the public.
Dec 31, 2025: complaint inspection1 citation
-
Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to prevent accidents.
Dec 12, 2025: complaint inspection5 citations
-
Reasonably accommodate the needs and preferences of each resident.
-
Honor the resident’s right to a safe, clean, comfortable and homelike environment, including but not limited to receiving treatment and supports for daily living safely.
-
Ensure services provided by the nursing facility meet professional standards of quality.
-
Provide safe, appropriate dialysis care/services for a resident who requires such services.
-
Provide routine and 24-hour emergency dental care for each resident.
Aug 14, 2025: complaint inspection1 citation
-
Develop and implement a complete care plan that meets all the resident’s needs, with timetables and actions that can be measured.
Jun 10, 2025: complaint inspection2 citations
-
Honor the resident’s right to a safe, clean, comfortable and homelike environment, including but not limited to receiving treatment and supports for daily living safely.
-
Safeguard resident-identifiable information and/or maintain medical records on each resident that are in accordance with accepted professional standards.
Apr 15, 2025: standard inspection7 citations
-
Ensure each resident receives an accurate assessment.
-
Ensure services provided by the nursing facility meet professional standards of quality.
-
Provide care and assistance to perform activities of daily living for any resident who is unable.
-
Provide the appropriate treatment and services to a resident who displays or is diagnosed with mental disorder or psychosocial adjustment difficulty, or who has a history of trauma and/or post-traumatic stress disorder.
-
Ensure that residents are free from significant medication errors.
-
Ensure food and drink is palatable, attractive, and at a safe and appetizing temperature.
-
Make sure that the nursing home area is safe, easy to use, clean and comfortable for residents, staff and the public.
Apr 15, 2025: standard and complaint inspection1 citation
-
Ensure drugs and biologicals used in the facility are labeled in accordance with currently accepted professional principles; and all drugs and biologicals must be stored in locked compartments, separately locked, compartments for controlled drugs.
Apr 15, 2025: complaint inspection1 citation
-
Provide or obtain x-rays/tests when ordered and promptly tell the ordering practitioner of the results.
Jan 16, 2025: complaint inspection3 citations
-
Ensure each resident receives an accurate assessment.
-
Provide enough food/fluids to maintain a resident’s health.
-
Provide safe, appropriate dialysis care/services for a resident who requires such services.
Aug 23, 2024: complaint inspection7 citations
-
Protect each resident from all types of abuse such as physical, mental, sexual abuse, physical punishment, and neglect by anybody.
-
Honor the resident’s right to a dignified existence, self-determination, communication, and to exercise his or her rights.
-
Immediately tell the resident, the resident’s doctor, and a family member of situations (injury/decline/room, etc.) that affect the resident.
-
Honor the resident’s right to a safe, clean, comfortable and homelike environment, including but not limited to receiving treatment and supports for daily living safely.
-
Ensure services provided by the nursing facility meet professional standards of quality.
-
Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to prevent accidents.
-
Make sure that a working call system is available in each resident’s bathroom and bathing area.
May 30, 2024: complaint inspection1 citation
-
Develop the complete care plan within 7 days of the comprehensive assessment; and prepared, reviewed, and revised by a team of health professionals.
Jan 31, 2024: standard inspection16 citations
-
Honor the resident’s right to a dignified existence, self-determination, communication, and to exercise his or her rights.
-
Honor the resident’s right to and the facility must promote and facilitate resident self-determination through support of resident choice.
-
Honor the resident’s right to organize and participate in resident/family groups in the facility.
-
Give residents notice of Medicaid/Medicare coverage and potential liability for services not covered.
-
Honor the resident’s right to a safe, clean, comfortable and homelike environment, including but not limited to receiving treatment and supports for daily living safely.
-
Develop the complete care plan within 7 days of the comprehensive assessment; and prepared, reviewed, and revised by a team of health professionals.
-
Ensure services provided by the nursing facility meet professional standards of quality.
-
Ensure residents do not lose the ability to perform activities of daily living unless there is a medical reason.
-
Provide care and assistance to perform activities of daily living for any resident who is unable.
-
Provide activities to meet all resident’s needs.
-
Provide safe, appropriate dialysis care/services for a resident who requires such services.
-
Observe each nurse aide’s job performance and give regular training.
-
Ensure each resident must receive and the facility must provide necessary behavioral health care and services.
-
Provide or obtain dental services for each resident.
-
Procure food from sources approved or considered satisfactory and store, prepare, distribute and serve food in accordance with professional standards.
-
Ensure nurse aides have the skills they need to care for residents, and give nurse aides education in dementia care and abuse prevention.
Jan 31, 2024: standard and complaint inspection2 citations
-
Reasonably accommodate the needs and preferences of each resident.
-
Plan the resident’s discharge to meet the resident’s goals and needs.
Jan 31, 2024: complaint inspection1 citation
-
Safeguard resident-identifiable information and/or maintain medical records on each resident that are in accordance with accepted professional standards.
Nov 2, 2023: complaint inspection2 citations
-
Provide appropriate treatment and care according to orders, resident’s preferences and goals.
-
Ensure meals and snacks are served at times in accordance with resident’s needs, preferences, and requests. Suitable and nourishing alternative meals and snacks must be provided for residents who want to eat at non-traditional times or outside of scheduled meal times.
Is it certified, and in good standing?
- Certified for Medicare and Medicaid since May 1, 1992.
- Not on CMS’s special focus list.
- No abuse icon from CMS.
- No change of ownership in the last 12 months.
- CMS lists its ownership as for profit, corporation.
- 134 certified beds.
CMS, Provider Information. Released Oct 8, 2026. Updated monthly.
Has it been fined or penalized?
- 1 fine in the last three years, $8,170 in all.
- No Medicare payment denials in the last three years.
- 33 citations in the last three years came from complaint inspections.
CMS, Penalties and Health Deficiencies. Released Oct 8, 2026. Updated monthly.
| Date | Kind | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Aug 23, 2024 | Fine | $8,170 |
Who does the caring?
3.76 nurse hours per resident per day
The New Mexico average is 3.54.
CMS publishes staffing about four months after the fact.
CMS, Provider Information and State and US Averages. Released Oct 8, 2026. Updated monthly.
| Measure | This home | New Mexico average |
|---|---|---|
| Nurse hours per resident per day | 3.76 | 3.54 |
| Of which registered nurses | 1.01 | 0.63 |
| At weekends | 3.38 | 3.10 |
| Nursing staff turnover | 66.7% | 53.3% |
| Registered nurse turnover | 53.8% | 53.6% |
| Administrators who left | 0 | Not given |
Who owns it?
- Summit Care LLC owns 100% directly since Jul 25, 2007.
- 10 owners or officers are people: Arnold M Whitman (owns 5% or more through other companies, 10.8%); Steven E Fishman (owns 5% or more through other companies, 7.6%); Laura Bridgeford (corporate officer, 0%); David Hicks (runs it (operational or managerial control)); David Hicks (additional disclosable party (controls, leases property to, or provides services to the home)); Diane Louise Morris (runs it (operational or managerial control)); Avi Pinchas Mendelson (corporate officer, 0%); Michael T Berg (corporate officer, 0%); Lisa S Noya (runs it (operational or managerial control)); Lisa S Noya (additional disclosable party (controls, leases property to, or provides services to the home)).
- Part of Genesis Healthcare (184 homes in CMS’s data).
- No private-equity firm among the owners CMS lists.
- No real-estate investment trust among the owners CMS lists.
CMS, All Owners. Checked Oct 30, 2026. Updated monthly.
CMS, Provider Information. Released Oct 8, 2026. Updated monthly.
| Organisation | Role | Share | Since |
|---|---|---|---|
| Summit Care LLC | Owns 5% or more directly | 100% | Jul 25, 2007 |
| Gen Operations I LLC | Owns 5% or more through other companies | 100% | Feb 2, 2015 |
| Gen Operations II LLC | Owns 5% or more through other companies | 100% | Feb 2, 2015 |
| Fc-Gen Operations Investment LLC | Owns 5% or more through other companies | 100% | Feb 2, 2015 |
| Summit Care Parent LLC | Owns 5% or more through other companies | 100% | Jan 1, 2013 |
| Genesis Healthcare LLC | Owns 5% or more through other companies | 100% | Feb 2, 2015 |
| Genesis Healthcare Inc. | Owns 5% or more through other companies | 100% | Jul 25, 2007 |
| Skilled Healthcare LLC | Owns 5% or more through other companies | 100% | Feb 2, 2015 |
| Sun Healthcare Group Inc. | Owns 5% or more through other companies | 65.3% | Nov 15, 2022 |
| Hccf Management Group Xi LLC | Owns 5% or more through other companies | 10.8% | Nov 15, 2022 |
| Zac Properties Xi LLC | Owns 5% or more through other companies | 7.6% | Nov 15, 2022 |
| Welltower Op LLC | Owns 5% or more through other companies | 5.7% | Nov 15, 2022 |
| Sundance Rehabilitation Holdco Inc. | Owns 5% or more through other companies | 5.2% | Nov 15, 2022 |
| An organisation CMS lists without a name | Additional disclosable party (controls, leases property to, or provides services to the home) | Mar 9, 2025 | |
| An organisation CMS lists without a name | Additional disclosable party (controls, leases property to, or provides services to the home) | Mar 9, 2025 |
How do residents fare?
- CMS rates its quality measures 4 of 5 (New Mexico average 3.8).
CMS, Provider Information and State and US Averages. Released Oct 8, 2026. Updated monthly.
| Measure | Rating |
|---|---|
| Overall rating | 3 of 5 |
| Health inspections | 3 of 5 |
| Staffing | 4 of 5 |
| Quality measures | 4 of 5 |
How does it compare nearby?
- Among the 12 nearest homes, within 3.8 miles, this one had the 4th most health citations at the latest inspection cycle (20; the middle value was 19).
CMS, Provider Information. Released Oct 8, 2026. Updated monthly.
| Place | Miles away | Citations, latest cycle |
|---|---|---|
| Albuquerque Heights Healthcare and Rehabilitation This nursing home | 20 | |
| Spanish Trails Wellness & Rehabilitation | 1.2 | 18 |
| The Rehabilitation Center of Albuquerque | 1.7 | 24 |
| Advanced Health Care of Albuquerque | 1.9 | 4 |
| Sandia Ridge Center | 2.8 | 20 |
| Uptown Rehabilitation Center | 3.1 | 20 |
| Odelia Healthcare | 3.2 | 12 |
| Las Palomas Center | 3.2 | 27 |
| Manzano Del Sol By Purehealth | 3.3 | 16 |
| Canyon Transitional Rehabilitation Center, LLC | 3.4 | 7 |
| Princeton Health & Rehabilitation | 3.6 | 28 |
| Fiesta Park Wellness & Rehabilitation | 3.8 | 18 |
What the record doesn’t say
- Complaints that didn’t lead to a citation aren’t published.
- Inspections reach CMS’s data about six weeks after they happen, and staffing about four months after.
- CMS publishes the inspectors’ full written findings in a separate monthly file, which isn’t loaded yet.
- Fines and Medicare payment denials are the only enforcement CMS publishes; state licence actions aren’t included.
Sources
-
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Provider Information (4pq5-n9py).
Released Oct 8, 2026 and checked Oct 30, 2026. Updated monthly. Public domain (U.S. Government work).
-
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Health Deficiencies (r5ix-sfxw).
Released Oct 8, 2026 and checked Oct 30, 2026. Updated monthly. Public domain (U.S. Government work).
-
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Penalties (g6vv-u9sr).
Released Oct 8, 2026 and checked Oct 30, 2026. Updated monthly. Public domain (U.S. Government work).
-
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, All Owners (afe44b85-cc6d-40d7-b5df-00ae8910d1d2).
Checked Oct 30, 2026. Updated monthly. Public domain (U.S. Government work).
-
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, State and US Averages (xcdc-v8bm).
Released Oct 8, 2026 and checked Oct 30, 2026. Updated monthly. Public domain (U.S. Government work).
If you believe something here is wrong, a correction starts with the agency whose record this copies: CMS. CMS’s own record is on Care Compare. If Hearth Record copied something wrongly, it will fix it and log the correction publicly, with its date: how corrections work.
This copy of the record was made on Oct 30, 2026.
From the home
The public record above comes first. Anything the home adds will appear here, below it, and say who wrote it.
Replies
None. Replies aren’t open yet. When they open, the home will be able to answer any finding for free, and the reply will show beside that finding, unedited and dated.
Paid listing
None. Paid listings aren’t open yet. When they open, anything paid for will say “Paid by the home”, and paying will never change a finding, a rating or the order of results.