Sun Prairie Health Care Center

We also wanted to emphasize the fact that this facility excelled in our nursing rating. We awarded them an impressive grade of A+ in this category. Our nursing score is based on a variety of datapoints. The most important variable is the number of hours nurses spend with residents. This nursing home provides an incredible 4.6 hours of nursing care per resident each day. Out of this total, many of the hours were provided by registered nurses, which is one of the more highly trained levels of nurses. On top of offering high levels of care, this place also excelled in the quality measures we assessed. It performed as well as any facility in Wisconsin when it comes to avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls.

We also wanted to draw your attention to the fact that this nursing home fared very well in our long-term care rating. We gave them an elite score of A+ in this category. Nursing homes that excel in this category tend to be well-staffed and offer extensive hands on care to residents. In addition to elite nursing hour statistics, this nursing home's vaccination statistics was superb also. In fact, this nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its patients against pneumonia. Finally, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

This facility also received a nearly flawless inspection report. As a result, it received one of our highest scores in that area with a score of A+. Inspection scores are tied to many pieces of information located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that receive favorable grades in this category tend to have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these places generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. This facility received 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were considered severe. This tells you that the government inspectors did not deem any of these deficiencies to create an imminent threat to resident health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

In the final category we assessed, this facility was awarded a very favorable grade of A in our short-term care category. With this grade, the facility rounded out a straight A profile. In the category of short-term care, we try to assess indicators of a facility's rehabilitation. We analyze the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses and physical, occupational and other therapists. When we assessed this facility's nursing hours, we found it offered more care from registered nurses than most nursing homes. The last item we assessed in this area is the number of patients who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. It performed as well as just about any nursing home in Wisconsin in this area with 61.4 percent of its residents returning home. With most nursing homes, less than half of their short-stay residents are able to return home.