Sundance Skilled Nursing and Rehabilitation

Sundance Skilled Nursing and Rehabilitation is one of 22 options in Colorado Springs, Colorado. This nursing home received an overall grade of A-. As a matter of fact, this proved to be ranked among the top ten facilities in the city. Based on our assessment, this nursing home is just about as as good as it gets. Scroll down to see this facility's category ratings, which are also strong. It would be hard to poke holes in this nursing home's profile.

We also wanted to emphasize the fact that this nursing home received an A in our long-term care category. When nursing homes receive this kind of grade in this category it is typically a good sign for patient care and indicates that the place is well-staffed with nurses aids. After considering the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination statistics. This nursing home vaccinated 96.969696 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which is more than the majority of nursing homes. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

Adding to its impressive resume, this nursing home also excelled in our nursing category. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A for that category. The nursing score weighs numerous subcategories. The most important factor is the amount of time nurses spent with residents. This nursing home provides 2.8 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This facility performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a facility has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can many times be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

This nursing home also earned excellent inspections in recent years. We awarded it one of our best grades in that category, with an A-. Perhaps the most significant factor we consider in computing our inspection grades is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Facilities with better scores in this area most likely avoided the most severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. Fortunately, although this nursing home had some minor dings on its report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those labeled as categories G through L. This means that the inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

The last category we analyzed was short-term care. In that category, we awarded this facility a favorable grade of B. In determining our short-term care scores, we look at a facility's levels of highly skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other highly skilled individuals. This grade is frequently a meaningful assessment of the facility's rehabilitation. One of this nursing home's strengths is registered nurse hours. We found that it offers more care from registered nurses to its residents than most facilities. Finally, we looked at the percentage of residents who who were able to eventually return home from this nursing home. We found that 44.5 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.