About us
A family-owned home, run like one.
A licensed assisted living home on a quiet street in south Scottsdale, owned and run by our family. Everything about how this place works comes from that.
Who we are
Owned by a family, run by that family.
Latham is a licensed assisted living home on East Latham Street in Scottsdale, owned and run by our family. The people whose name is on the license are the people in the house.
We’re not a chain. There’s no corporate office, no regional manager, and no call center. The people who own this home are the people who answer the phone and walk you through the door.
What we care about is that our caregivers genuinely know every resident — what they like for breakfast, who calls on Sundays, when something’s a little off. Everything else about how we run the house follows from protecting that.
Our caregivers
The same people, month after month.
The biggest complaint we hear about larger communities is turnover — a new face every week, and nobody who remembers who takes their pills with applesauce.
We keep a small, steady team, and we work at keeping them. When the same caregivers are here month after month, they notice the day something changes. That’s not a soft benefit. Catching things early is how people stay out of the hospital.
Licensing and oversight
Licensed, inspected, and accountable.
Latham is licensed by the Arizona Department of Health Services as an assisted living home. Arizona licenses homes like ours separately from large facilities, with its own rules for staffing, training, medications, food safety, and residents’ rights.
Inspection reports for any licensed Arizona care home are public. We’d encourage you to look ours up — and every other home you’re considering.
What we believe
A few things we won’t compromise on.
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Quality of care, before anything else.
Personal care happens at the pace of the person, not the schedule. Being hurried through a shower, a meal or a hard morning is one of the quickest ways to take someone’s dignity, and it is the first thing to slip when a home is stretched — so if doing it properly takes longer, it takes longer.
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Home-style dining, every day.
Everything is cooked in our own kitchen — the traditional, authentic dishes our residents grew up on, alongside American comfort classics — and made around what each person needs and what they actually like. Appetite is one of the first things to go when someone stops feeling well, so what goes on the plate, and how much comes back, is something we pay attention to.
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We’ll tell you if we’re not the right fit.
We turn away families whose needs we can’t meet well. A move that doesn’t work out costs a family far more than an honest conversation does.
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No one has to move at the end.
We work with hospice so residents can stay here through the end of life, in their own room, with the people who know them.
Come see it for yourself.
The only way to really know if Latham is right for your family is to walk through it. Call and we’ll tell you what we have open. Visits take about half an hour — no pressure, no sales pitch, just a look around and a chance to ask whatever’s on your mind.