Country View of Sunbury

On top of performing well in its overall grade, this facility performed at an even higher level in the area of inspections. In fact, it received a nearly flawless inspection report this year. As a result, it received one of our highest grades in that category with a score of A+. Inspection grades are based on pieces of information found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that receive favorable grades in this category have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these facilities should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Adding to its profile, this facility also earned a score of B+ for its long-term care rating. This is an above average grade in this area. In a long-term care setting, the facility's primary objective is to keep patients healthy and safe. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate residents. After assessing the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination record. This nursing home vaccinated 86.833855 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which happens to be somewhat less than we anticipated but still a respectable figure. Although its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we like to see, we were pleased to find place was able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

The third best area we gave this facility in any area came in the category of short-term care, where we awarded it a B-. With our short-term care assessment, we attempt to craft a meaningful measure for rehabilitation. In this process, we look at the nursing home's scope of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all nursing homes employs these types of nurses. However, according to the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we looked at the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 5.7 percent of this facility's patients returned home. At most nursing homes, closer to half of their patients are able to return home so this figure is below average.

Moving on to our next category, we gave this nursing home a D for our nursing category. This was the facility's least impressive category rating. Sadly, this category hurt the nursing home's overall profile to some degree. We weighed the skill-level of nurses working for the nursing home, in addition to the quantity of time the nurses worked with residents, in determining our rating in this area. This place offered only 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis. This is an alarmingly low total. Although this nursing home's nursing hours are below average, it surprised us in a few of the qualitative data points in this category. In particular, we were pleased to find that its residents appear to be sustaining fewer pressure ulcers than most nursing homes.