The Desert Treasure Care Community
Our Mission
Our Facilities
Our Services
At the Desert Treasure Care Community,
RESIDENTS ALWAYS COME FIRST.
With a team approach, individualized care is a priority for each distinctive resident. Our relaxed atmosphere promotes a cozy and cheerful home environment where families and residents alike find solace and comfort in each other during these changing times.
Desert Tr
At the Desert Treasure Care Community,
RESIDENTS ALWAYS COME FIRST.
With a team approach, individualized care is a priority for each distinctive resident. Our relaxed atmosphere promotes a cozy and cheerful home environment where families and residents alike find solace and comfort in each other during these changing times.
Desert Treasure Care Homes are dedicated to providing compassionate and dignified care during the most vulnerable moments of an adult's life. Our long-standing team strives to quality of life for our residents and families.
Our Services
Our Facilities
Our Services
Dedicated in providing compassionate and dignified care during the most vulnerable moments of an adult's life, our team improves quality of life for residents and families alike. Our housekeeping, meal preparation, assistance with ADL's and medication supervision makes family time quality time.
A continuum of care assistance is availabl
Dedicated in providing compassionate and dignified care during the most vulnerable moments of an adult's life, our team improves quality of life for residents and families alike. Our housekeeping, meal preparation, assistance with ADL's and medication supervision makes family time quality time.
A continuum of care assistance is available in the Desert Treasure Community:
Independent Living
Assisted Living
Memory Care
Our Facilities
Our Facilities
Our Facilities
Serenely situated in the midst of a bounty of fruit and palm trees, our facilities are close to recreation, physician offices, restaurants and shopping.
Desert Sun Assisted Living Home
provides long-term living to those who require hands on assistance wth activities of daily living and medication assistance.
Desert Treasure Board & Care
Serenely situated in the midst of a bounty of fruit and palm trees, our facilities are close to recreation, physician offices, restaurants and shopping.
Desert Sun Assisted Living Home
provides long-term living to those who require hands on assistance wth activities of daily living and medication assistance.
Desert Treasure Board & Care Home provides affordable long or short term accommodations to those who seek a more independent yet supportive setting.
About Us
Ernestina Navarro, LPN
Ernestina Navarro, LPN
Ernestina Navarro, LPN
“Ernie” Navarro, LPN opened Desert Treasure Residence in 1994 and has continued her loyal, capable nursing assistance and oversight ever since. From her genuine love of the elderly and of helping others, she has more than 43 years of clinical experience having began her career at Tucson General Hospital where she was a nurse on the medical/surgical floor.
Over the years she has acquired vast exposures to many facets of nursing such as geriatric rehabilitation, pain management, urology and the sub acute nursing setting - - insightful assets to all of the residents she serves. In addition to providing clinical supervision and training to the certified staff, she provides state required Service Plan Reviews and enjoys getting acquainted with residents and families alike.
A native to Tucson, Ernie lives every day under an honorable mantra: “We Are Here to Serve”, a philosophy she practices not just at work, but also at home where during her personal time, she enjoys exploring her faith and enriching the devotion to her extended family. Ernie’s intuitive compassion and respect for humanity bring a loving perspective found only at the Desert Treasure Assisted Living Homes.
Jill Arowesty
Ernestina Navarro, LPN
Ernestina Navarro, LPN
Jill is a licensed Arizona Assisted Living Facility Manager who has owned and operated Desert Treasure Residence, LLC since 1993. Along with her long standing capable staff, she is proud to offer dignified, loving long term care services to Tucsonans who suffer complex medical conditions or memory disorders.
Before founding Desert Treasure Residence, Jill, also a Certified Financial Planner, was the Director of Financial Planning at a Lexington Avenue financial services firm specializing in planning for those seriously or terminally ill. In addition to overseeing personal financial planning, she directed the firm’s fiscal strategies and operational budgets but invariably preferred working closely with her special needs clients. Jill knew then that she would continue to work with this community.
In 1988, Prentice-Hall published The Experts’ Guide to Managing and Marketing a Successful Financial Planning Practice which Ms. Arowesty co-authored with a nationally known authority in the financial planning industry. The 1990-91 Who’s Who in American Women references her biography and achievements as well.
A native New Yorker, she has resided in Tucson, AZ since 1990.