Desert Sanctuary Assisted Living
5216 West Spur Drive, Phoenix, AZ 85083
Integrity Senior Placement is a free placement service. We have worked with Desert Sanctuary Assisted Living and other homes in Phoenix for years. Call us and we can tell you the current price, if a room is open, and if it’s the right fit for your loved one.
Call Integrity (480) 271-7759Pricing
- Assisted living homeEstimated$5,300 to $9,600/month
An estimate, not this home's own price. Based on the published prices of 20 comparable assisted living homes, 2 in Phoenix. Call or ask us for a verified price and whether a room is open.
Typical in Arizona: $3,500 to $10,000 a month, from our own market figures (September 2026).
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Amenities
Care
- Medication management
- Hospice care in place
- Visiting doctor
- Therapy on site
- Incontinence care
Activities
- Outings
- Group and individual recreational programs
- Daily exercise class
- Weekly activities with fun prizes
- Music therapy and in-home concerts
- Arts and crafts classes
- Pet therapy
Services
- Housekeeping
- Laundry service
- Transportation
- Salon
- Wifi
Building and grounds
- Secured perimeter
About Desert Sanctuary Assisted Living
ADHS licenses it at the directed care level, the highest of the state's three assisted living care levels, with a capacity of 10 residents. According to its website, the home sits on park-like secured grounds with a large outdoor patio, and each room has free WiFi and cable TV. The home's website describes daily assistance with bathing, dressing and grooming, feeding assistance, incontinence care, transfer and walking assistance, and medication management, along with home health services for physical, occupational, speech and respiratory therapy, hospice care, and physician and podiatrist visits. Meals are described as nutritional and home cooked, with special diets offered, plus scheduled outings, transportation to doctor's appointments, and activities such as a daily exercise class, music therapy, arts and crafts, and pet therapy. It is listed in the ALTCS networks of: UnitedHealthcare Community Plan (ALTCS) (list dated July 28, 2025).
Ask who works at night and how long the caregivers have been there. You cannot tell that from a photo, so ask in person.
Care and services
ADHS lists the home's licensed services as directed care, personal care and supervisory care. It also says home health providers visit for physical, occupational, speech and respiratory therapy, that hospice care is available in place, and that a physician and podiatrist make visits.
Daily life
According to its website, meals are nutritional and home cooked, with special diets offered. The website lists group and individual recreational programs, a daily exercise class, weekly activities with prizes, music therapy and in-home concerts, arts and crafts classes, and pet therapy, along with scheduled shopping trips and outings and scheduled transportation to doctor's appointments. It also says residents have beauty and barber shop services and personal laundry and housekeeping, and that WiFi and cable TV are provided in every room.
The neighborhood
The home sits about 0.05 miles from Stetson Valley Park, according to OpenStreetMap data. The nearest grocery store is a Safeway about 1.91 miles away, and the nearest pharmacy is a Walgreens about 1.99 miles away. The nearest hospital with emergency services is HonorHealth Sonoran Crossing Medical Center, about 4.78 miles away, per CMS data; the nearest hospital of any type is Quail Run Behavioral Health, about 4.70 miles away. Four more hospitals are within 10 miles, including HonorHealth Deer Valley Medical Center, Abrazo Arrowhead Campus and Banner Thunderbird Medical Center.
Questions families ask
- What level of care is Desert Sanctuary Assisted Living licensed for?
- ADHS licenses the home at the directed care level, the highest of the state's three assisted living care levels.
- How many residents can the home serve?
- ADHS licenses the home for a capacity of 10 residents.
- Does the home participate in ALTCS?
- It is listed in the ALTCS networks of: UnitedHealthcare Community Plan (ALTCS) (list dated July 28, 2025).
- Does the company offer hospice care?
- The home's website says hospice care is available in place.
We put this together from public records and the home's own website. Desert Sanctuary Assisted Living did not write or approve it.
Learn more about Desert Sanctuary Assisted Living
Open a section for the details, each with where it came from and when we read it. Checked against state records in September 2026.
Care and services
- Services offered
- Hospice care in place
- Incontinence care
- Medication management
- Visiting doctor
- Therapy on site
- Care levels licensed
- Directed care
- Personal care
- Supervisory care
Daily life
- Amenities
- Transportation
- Outings
- Housekeeping
- Laundry service
- Salon
- Wifi
- Meals
- Nutritional home cooked mealsThe home's website, September 2026
- Activities
- Group and individual recreational programs
- Daily exercise class
- Weekly activities with fun prizes
- Music therapy and in-home concerts
- Arts and crafts classes
- Pet therapy
Building and grounds
- Features
- Secured perimeter
- Outdoor space
- Large outdoor patio; park-like secured grounds for walkingThe home's website, September 2026
Hospitals and the area
- Nearest emergency room
- HonorHealth Sonoran Crossing Medical Center, 4.8 milesCenters for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), September 2026
- Nearest hospital
- Quail Run Behavioral Health, 4.7 milesCenters for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), September 2026
- Nearest pharmacy
- Walgreens, 2.0 milesOpenStreetMap contributors, via Geofabrik, September 2026
- Nearest grocery
- Safeway, 1.9 milesOpenStreetMap contributors, via Geofabrik, September 2026
- Nearest park
- Stetson Valley Park, 0.1 milesOpenStreetMap contributors, via Geofabrik, September 2026
- Hospitals within 10 miles
- Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), September 2026
Name Miles Drive time Quail Run Behavioral Health 4.7 about 16 min HonorHealth Sonoran Crossing Medical Center 4.8 about 19 min HonorHealth Deer Valley Medical Center 5.2 about 19 min Abrazo Arrowhead Campus 5.2 about 20 min Banner Thunderbird Medical Center 8.1 about 29 min Drive times are typical, without traffic. Routing © openrouteservice by HeiGIT, data © OpenStreetMap contributors.
Name and operator
- Operator
- Desert Sanctuary Assisted Living LLCThe home's website, September 2026
- Other names
- Desert Sanctuary Assisted Living LLCADHS, September 2026
State license
- Licensed since
- December 6, 2019ADHS, September 2026
- Manager of record
- Diana LucaADHS, September 2026
- Chief administrative officer
- Diana LucaADHS, September 2026
More details
- Features
- Feeding assistance
- Transfer assistance
- Adl assistance
- Daily assistance with bathing, dressing and groomingThe home's website, September 2026
- Staff experience years
- over 25 yearsThe home's website, September 2026
We gathered these facts. Desert Sanctuary Assisted Living did not write or approve them. Details change, so ask us to check anything important.
Location
Safety and compliance
In Arizona, the Department of Health Services licenses assisted living homes and communities, inspects them and looks into complaints. Its record for each one is public on AZ Care Check (this home's record, opens in a new tab).
- License number
- AL11322H
- Facility type
- Assisted living home
- Name on the license
- Desert Sanctuary Assisted Living LLC
- Licensed capacity
- 10 residents
- Care level
- Directed care
- Effective
- December 6, 2025
- Expires
- December 5, 2026
- Phone on its state license
- (602) 989-9977
Inspections
3 inspections on file since April 2024, 1 with deficiencies cited.
From AZ Care Check, checked September 24, 2026.
- Inspections
- 3
- With deficiencies cited
- 1
- Enforcement actions
- 1
2025
- August 27, 2025AZ Care Check record of the inspection on August 27, 2025, opens in a new tab
- Type
- Annual compliance
- Deficiencies cited
- 0
2024
- May 1, 2024AZ Care Check record of the inspection on May 1, 2024, opens in a new tab
- Type
- Other
- Deficiencies cited
- 0
- April 8, 2024AZ Care Check record of the inspection on April 8, 2024, opens in a new tab
- Type
- Annual compliance
- Deficiencies cited
- 7
- Fall prevention trainingA.R.S. § 36-420.01.APlan of correction accepted
- AdministrationR9-10-803.A.9Plan of correction accepted
- Staffing and staff recordsR9-10-806.A.4.a-bPlan of correction accepted
- Staffing and staff recordsR9-10-806.A.7Plan of correction accepted
- Staffing and staff recordsR9-10-806.C.1.bPlan of correction accepted
- Service plansR9-10-808.C.1.gPlan of correction accepted
- Tuberculosis screeningR9-10-113.A.2.b.i-iiPlan of correction accepted
Enforcement actions
- May 13, 2024AZ Care Check record of the enforcement action on May 13, 2024, opens in a new tab
- Action
- Civil penalty
- Civil penalty
- $1,250
- Status
- Closed
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Before we refer you to any assisted living home, we send you this notice to read and sign. Here it is now, so you can read it at your own pace.
Arizona law requires that we provide you with the following disclosure notice.
We are in the business of referring residents to assisted living facilities and assisted living homes. We will be paid by the assisted living facility or assisted living home if you move into one of the referred assisted living facilities or assisted living homes. The fee we receive from the assisted living facility or assisted living home into which you move typically ranges from 70 to 100 percent of your first month's rent and care charges. We do have a current business relationship but we do not have a common ownership or control in, or any other financial, business, management or familial relationship with, any of the assisted living homes and assisted living facilities to which we are referring you.
By providing us with a written or electronic notice, you have the right to terminate our services to you at any time, including our use of your personal information. If you terminate our services, we will not be entitled to any fee for any move-in you make after the date of the termination notice unless either:
1. The assisted living facility or assisted living home you choose within the next twelve months is one that we specifically identify and refer to you after we evaluate your profile and requests but before we receive your notice of termination.
2. You communicate with us before you move into the assisted living facility or assisted living home.
To end our services at any time, reply to any email from us or call Integrity Senior Placement at 480.271.7759.
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