Archie Hendricks Senior Skilled Nursing Facility is certified as a Medicare and Medicaid facility and has been approved to provide these services since 2004-09-15. Medicare covers short-term skilled nursing care (typically up to 100 days after a qualifying hospital stay). Medicaid covers long-term care for residents who meet financial eligibility requirements. Contact the facility at (520) 585-5500 or your local Medicaid office to verify current eligibility.

Archie Hendricks Senior Skilled Nursing Facility holds an overall CMS (Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services) rating of 3 out of 5 stars. This is made up of three components: Health Inspection (3★), Staffing (4★), and Quality of Resident Care (3★). Our independent composite quality score — which uses the raw underlying CMS numbers to break ties between similarly-rated facilities — is 84.2/100, placing it #1984 of 14703 facilities nationally and #47 of 140 in Arizona. Star ratings are a useful starting point, but the composite score and individual sub-ratings give a more complete picture for families comparing facilities.

Each resident at Archie Hendricks Senior Skilled Nursing Facility receives a reported average of 6 hours 27 minutes of total nurse staffing per day. This breaks down as: Registered Nurse (RN) coverage — 1 hour 12 minutes; Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) — 39 minutes; Nurse Aide — 4 hours 35 minutes. On weekends, total nurse staffing is 5 hours 44 minutes per resident per day. The CMS Staffing Rating for this facility is 4 out of 5. The national average for total nursing hours is approximately 3.5 hrs/day. Total nursing staff turnover is 60.9%. Families are encouraged to ask about current staffing schedules during their facility visit.

The facility has received 8 fine(s) over the 5-year period, totaling $63,209. No substantiated complaints have been recorded in the available data. In the most recent CMS reporting period, the facility received 0 fine(s) totaling $0, and 0 Medicare payment denial(s). Total penalties: 0. The Total Weighted Health Survey Score is 29.0 (lower scores are better). Full inspection history and complaint details are available at medicare.gov/care-compare.

Nationally, Archie Hendricks Senior Skilled Nursing Facility ranks 1984th out of 14,703 facilities (composite score: 84.2/100), placing it in the top 25% nationwide. Within AZ, it ranks 47th out of 140 nursing homes. For 2026 staffing: total nurse hours rank #240 nationally and RN hours rank #1,118 nationally (#14 in AZ). Our composite quality score of 84.2/100 weighs health inspections, quality of resident care, staffing hours, compliance record, and five-year performance trends — giving a more complete picture than CMS star ratings alone, which can place hundreds of facilities in the same 5-star bucket. To browse and compare all nursing homes in Sells, visit: https://nursinghomesnearme.org/arizona/sells/