Sun City Health and Rehabilitation Center

To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A- for our nursing grade. Our nursing rating is based on the facility's nurse staffing levels. We consider both the levels of skill of those nurses and the number of hours spent with residents. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This facility performed very well when it comes to avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

Adding to its impressive profile, this facility also performed well in the area of inspections. In fact, it received a nearly flawless inspection report this year. As a result, it earned one of our highest grades in that category with an B+. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in calculating these inspection scores. One critical factor is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of deficiencies is usually more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some deficiencies are quite insignificant. This facility was assessed 7 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered to be severe. This means that the government inspectors did not consider any of these deficiencies to create an imminent risk to patient safety or health. We should note that deficiency-free inspection reports are rare in this industry.

This facility's next most favorable area is its short-term care grade, where it was awarded a grade of B-. With our short-term care assessment, we seek to create a valuable gauge for rehabilitation services. In this process, we assess a nursing home's scope of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not every facility employs these types of nurses. However, according to the data this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last datapoint we considered in this category is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that just 4.2 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home, which is actually below average.

Turning to the final area, this facility was awarded a grade of B- in long-term care, which is generally a respectable score. In a long-term care setting, the primary objective is to maintain residents' quality of life and keep them safe. After assessing the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we then looked at the facility's vaccination record. This nursing home vaccinated 99.69419 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is more than most nursing homes. Lastly, this facility was also able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.