Foothills Rehabilitation Center: Wall Hole Unfixed for Weeks - AZ
When inspectors arrived on the 200-hall in late March 2026, they found a broken outlet plate cover with jagged edges near the nurse's station, the opening measuring roughly two inches by four inches. The 200-hall is a lockdown unit. The maintenance director, identified in inspection records as Staff #48, told inspectors the problem had been reported to him verbally on March 15, eleven days before the inspection.
"It should have been fixed by now," he said.
Staff #48 described the risk plainly: someone could get cut. The administrator, Staff #116, went a step further, saying the jagged edges could cause a skin tear for a resident. Neither offered an explanation for why eleven days had passed without a repair on a unit they both characterized as requiring heightened attention.
A charge nurse on the hall, Staff #50, said she hadn't known the hole was there until inspectors pointed it out. She looked at it and described the jagged bottom edge of the broken plate herself, then acknowledged that residents on the unit could attempt to put their hand into the opening.
The hole wasn't the only problem inspectors documented on the 200-hall. Baseboards throughout the corridor were missing or peeling. Staff #50 said a resident had told her she didn't like the appearance of the missing baseboards and that it affected her desire to come out of her room into communal areas. The resident's reluctance to leave her room was, in the charge nurse's telling, a direct consequence of what the hallway looked like.
Staff #48 acknowledged the baseboards too. He said he was aware of them and that they would be fixed. He had been working on renovations to the 200-hall for approximately six months. Outstanding work orders at the time of the inspection included repairs to the main door, hallway painting, and improvements to the dining area.
He said the 200-hall, as it stood, did not constitute a home-like environment. He said the condition of the hall carried an additional risk beyond physical injury: residents feeling bad about their current living situation.
The administrator's account of how maintenance problems were supposed to be handled described a system that depended entirely on staff submitting written work orders. Staff #116 said one of the challenges the facility had encountered was staff not providing those written orders to the maintenance department. The hole in the wall, by the maintenance director's own account, had been reported verbally on March 15 and never converted into a completed repair.
Staff #116 told inspectors that holes in walls are fixed the minute maintenance finds out about them. The inspection record shows that one sat open for at least eleven days on a locked unit, with jagged edges, near a nurse's station.
The 200-hall renovation had been underway for half a year. The maintenance department, Staff #48 said, receives more than twenty work orders a day and prioritizes anything involving resident safety. A broken outlet plate with exposed edges on a lockdown unit, by his own characterization, qualified as exactly that kind of issue.
The resident who told Staff #50 she didn't like the missing baseboards had stopped coming out of her room. That detail appears once in the inspection record, in a single sentence, attributed to the charge nurse. No one followed up on it in the documents. No one described what the resident's days looked like, or how long she had been staying inside.
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Last verified: June 18, 2026 · Our methodology
FOOTHILLS REHABILITATION CENTER in TUCSON, AZ was cited for violations during a health inspection on March 28, 2026.
The 200-hall is a lockdown unit.
Health inspections identify deficiencies that facilities must correct. Violations range from minor documentation issues to serious safety concerns. Review the full report below for specific details and facility response.