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Assisted living home
DoveSong Retreat at Scottsdale Scottsdale, AZ
17814 N 56th St, Scottsdale, AZ 85254
- Licensed for 10 residents
- Directed care
- Private rooms
From $7,000 a month
Published on the home's website, September 2026.
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Integrity Senior Placement
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DoveSong Retreat at Scottsdale
From its state license
- Licensed by Arizona for 10 residents at directed care, the highest of the state's three assisted living care levels.
From the home's website
- Care levels licensed: Directed care, Personal care, Supervisory care
- Staffing: a minimum of two awake caregivers 24/7
- Meals: nutritious, low-sodium meals planned with resident input
- Special diets: Low-sodium
- Activities: Daily staff-led activities, Exercise classes
- Outdoor space: landscaped outdoor spaces including a large gazebo and private patios for many suites
Also on the home's website
- Awake staff overnight
- Medication management
- Therapy on site
- Private rooms
- Shared rooms
- Housekeeping
Address
Location
17814 North 56th Street, Scottsdale, AZ 85254Maricopa County
- A park1.2 mi
- Fry's Food Stores1.0 mi
- CVS Pharmacy1.7 mi
- Mayo Clinic HospitalClosest hospital, with an emergency room0.8 mi
Arizona state record
What the inspections show
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).
Licensed in April 2025. Its licensing inspection on April 1, 2025 cited no deficiencies, as every licensing inspection on file did. It has not had a routine inspection yet. Among the homes on file, a new home's first routine inspection has come a median of 17 months after its licensing inspection.
No complaint inspections since April 2025.
AZ Care Check lists no enforcement action against this license.
Last updated September 24, 2026.
License detailsLicense AL13406H, valid to April 16, 2027
- License number
- AL13406H
- Facility type
- Assisted living home
- Name on the license
- DoveSong Retreat 2
- Licensed capacity
- 10 residents
- Care level
- Directed care
- Effective
- April 17, 2026
- Expires
- April 16, 2027
- Licensed since
- April 17, 2025
- Manager of record
- Stephanie Stafford
- Chief administrative officer
- Cindy Sorber
- For residents and staff
- (602) 363-4781
The full inspection record2 inspections on file since April 2025, none with deficiencies cited.
Last updated September 24, 2026.
2025
Enforcement actions
AZ Care Check has no enforcement actions on file for this home.
Our research
Learn more about DoveSong Retreat at Scottsdale
Open a section for the details, each with where it came from and when we read it. Checked against state records in September 2026.
Overview
In our words
The house is at 17814 North 56th Street in Scottsdale (Maricopa County, ZIP 85254) and is licensed for 10 residents. It is run by DoveSong Retreat, a small group of homes that also has a Peoria location. According to the company's website, a minimum of two awake caregivers are on duty 24/7, with medication management, mobility assistance, and on-site physical therapy and exercise classes through a partnership called Living Gracefully. Meals are described as nutritious and low-sodium and planned with resident input, and staff lead activities every day. Outside there is landscaped space with a gazebo and private patios for many of the suites, and inside a private theatre, activity rooms and a coffee bar, and the site says the home is minutes from the Mayo Clinic Phoenix Campus. Going by mapping data, Mayo Clinic Hospital, the nearest hospital and emergency department, is about 0.78 miles away as the crow flies.
DoveSong Retreat, the company that runs this home, lists a sister home on its website: DoveSong Retreat at Peoria, at 20817 N 101st Lane in Peoria, AZ.
Ask who works at night and how long the caregivers have been there. You cannot tell that from a photo, so ask in person.
Highlights
- As of September 2026, ADHS records show DoveSong Retreat at Scottsdale licensed for 10 residents at the directed care level.
- Per the company's website, every home keeps a minimum of two awake caregivers on duty 24/7.
- The company says it also runs a sister home, DoveSong Retreat at Peoria.
The details
- Operator
- DoveSong Retreat
- Sister communities
- DoveSong Retreat at Peoria, 20817 N 101st Lane, Peoria, AZ 85382
- Other names
- Shambhala Assisted Living, LLC
Care and services
In our words
ADHS licenses DoveSong Retreat at Scottsdale for directed, personal and supervisory care services, the three assisted living care levels ADHS recognizes in Arizona. Directed care is the level for residents who cannot direct their own care.
The details
- Services offered
- Care levels licensed
- Directed care
- Personal care
- Supervisory care
- Staffing
- a minimum of two awake caregivers 24/7
Daily life
The details
- Amenities
- Meals
- nutritious, low-sodium meals planned with resident input
- Special diets
- Low-sodium
- Activities
- Daily staff-led activities
- Exercise classes
- Outdoor space
- landscaped outdoor spaces including a large gazebo and private patios for many suites
Rooms
The details
- Room features
Pricing and payment
The details
- How pricing works
- All inclusive
Hospitals and the area
In our words
The home is in Maricopa County, and its website puts it minutes from the Mayo Clinic Phoenix Campus. On mapping data, Mayo Clinic Hospital is the closest hospital and emergency department, about 0.78 miles away in a straight line, and six more hospitals are within 10 miles, among them Abrazo Scottsdale Campus and two HonorHealth Scottsdale campuses. For errands, Fry's Food Stores is the nearest grocery store at about 1 mile, and the nearest pharmacy, a CVS Pharmacy, is about 1.68 miles off, both measured in a straight line.
The details
- Neighborhood
- Near the Mayo Clinic Phoenix Campus
- Nearest emergency room
- Mayo Clinic Hospital, 0.8 miles
- Nearest hospital
- Mayo Clinic Hospital, 0.8 miles
- Nearest pharmacy
- CVS Pharmacy, 1.7 miles
- Nearest grocery
- Fry's Food Stores, 1.0 miles
- Nearest park
- Unnamed park, 1.2 miles
- Hospitals within 10 miles
Name Miles Drive time Mayo Clinic Hospital 0.8 mi about 6 min Abrazo Scottsdale Campus 2.3 mi about 10 min HonorHealth Scottsdale Thompson Peak Medical Center 2.7 mi about 12 min HonorHealth Scottsdale Shea Medical Center 6.4 mi about 17 min HonorHealth John C. Lincoln Medical Center 8.4 mi about 26 min Quail Run Behavioral Health 9.0 mi about 19 min HonorHealth Deer Valley Medical Center 9.0 mi about 17 min Drive times are typical, without traffic. Routing © openrouteservice by HeiGIT, data © OpenStreetMap contributors.
More details
The details
- Features
- Electronic care records
- ECP software
- Operations director
- Cindy Sorber
- Company email
- info@dovesongretreat.com
- Staff training
- ECP software training, licensing assistance, continuing education
Questions families ask
In our words
- What level of care is DoveSong Retreat at Scottsdale licensed for?
- It holds an ADHS license at the directed care level, the highest of the three ADHS assisted living care levels, meant for residents who cannot direct their own care.
- How many residents can the home serve?
- Up to 10 residents, according to ADHS.
- Is overnight staff awake?
- The company's website says every home keeps a minimum of two awake caregivers on duty 24/7.
- Does the home offer therapy services?
- Its site describes on-site physical therapy and exercise classes for residents through a partnership with Living Gracefully.
- Are there other DoveSong Retreat homes?
- Yes. The website lists a sister home, DoveSong Retreat at Peoria, at 20817 N 101st Lane in Peoria, AZ.
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