Sugar Creek Rehabilitation and Convalescent Center

In addition to being a respectable facility overall, this place really excelled in the category of inspections, where it earned a grade of A-. Few nursing homes performed better in this category. Our inspection ratings weigh a host of factors found on a nursing home's inspection reports. One key criteria we look at is the number and severity of deficiencies. Facilities with better scores in this category typically have very few severe deficiencies. This particular nursing home received 8 deficiencies on its inspection report. Overall, this is still a solid inspection report, but we'd always recommend looking into any deficiencies you find troubling.

This nursing home's next best category is its short-term care score, where it was given a grade of B-. In determining our short-term care ratings, we size up a nursing home's levels of skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other licensed professionals. This grade is considered to be a solid measure of the facility's rehabilitation services. Unfortunately, we found that this place provided fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most other facilities. The more important thing is determining what effect this had on the quality of care. Finally, we looked at the percentage of patients that returned home from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was quite a bit below average.

The next highest grade we gave this nursing home in any area came in the category of nursing, where we gave it a grade of C. Our nursing rating looks at the nursing home's level of nurse staffing. We weigh both the levels of skill of those nurses and the quantity of hours spent with residents. This particular nursing home provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This figure is far below average. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics. While this nursing home got docked a bit for nursing hours per resident, it excelled in some of these quality-based metrics. With less than five percent of its residents suffering from pressure ulcers, it fared well in this metric. This is often a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can often be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as employing a protocol of moving a patient more frequently.

The next area we analyzed was long-term care, which proved to be this facility's weakest area. We awarded this nursing home a D in this category. Facilities that don't fare well in long-term care often do not provide as much nursing care and also may be lagging in some of the areas of routine personal care we looked at. Once we finished looking at the amount of nursing care, we next considered the facility's vaccination record. This nursing home vaccinated 92.69663 percent of its patients against pneumonia. To our surprise, this facility was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this facility had fewer hospitalizations than the majority of nursing homes. This was its best feature in this category.