Sunny Acres Nursing Home
19130 Sunny Acres Road, Petersburg IL 62675 · (217) 632-2334 · 81.69% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Sara Levinsohn
Sunny Acres Nursing Home is an average-sized government-owned nursing home located in Petersburg, Illinois. With an overall rating of C, this is a solid nursing home. This place seems to have some things working in its favor. One of the best aspects of this nursing home's profile is its exemplary inspection score, which you can find in the next paragraph.
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Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 106 Beds
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Government - County
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
While this facility's overall grade was not bad, it really excelled in the category of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A+ for that category, which is one of our best scores. Our inspection ratings are based on datapoints found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that excel in this area have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these places should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. While this facility had some deficiencies on its government inspection report, none were major deficiencies based on CMS' deficiency scale. A couple of minor deficiencies should not stop you from considering a nursing home.
Long-term Care Quality
The next highest area we awarded this facility in any category came in the category of long-term care, where we gave it a grade of B-. In a long-term care environment, the facility's primary goal is to maintain residents' quality of life and keep them safe. One of the factors we considered after nursing hours was vaccinations. Candidly, we were a bit concerned this nursing home administered the pneumonia vaccine to a relatively low 84.640526 percent of its residents. The last datapoint we assessed was the facility's hospitalization rate. We found that this facility had 1.74 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is also slightly below the national average.
Nurse Quality
Moving on to another strength for this facility, it also received an elite nursing score. We gave this facility an impressive grade of D. The nursing category analyzes several datapoints, many of which are based on nursing hours. This place offered only 3.1 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis. This is not a very impressive figure. On top of receiving below average marks for nursing hours, this place was less impressive in some of the quality-based metrics we looked at in calculating our nursing scores. We looked at the percentage of residents experiencing pressure ulcers and found this facility was at roughly 1.5 times the national average in this statistic. This is a bad sign when you consider that so many pressure ulcers are preventable with better nursing care. This statistic pulled down this facility's nursing rating substantially.
Short-term Care Quality
Switching gears to the next area, we gave this facility a grade of D in the area of short-term care. This was the nursing home's weakest category grade. Our short-term care grades are arguably most critical for those needing a nursing home for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually utilizes higher levels of skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes not merely nursing, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. Given its grade in this area, we weren't stunned to discover that this nursing home was well below average in terms of its number of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its residents based on the figures we looked at. The final datapoint we assessed in this category is the number of patients that ultimately returned home from the nursing home. This nursing home a bit in this area as well, with just 48.5 percent of its residents returning home. This was below the national average.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Sunny Acres Nursing Home Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This tells you the percent of residents who have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers, also known as bed sores, are routinely the result of patients not being moved frequently enough. Better nursing protocols minimizes the number of pressure ulcers sustained by residents in a nursing home.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This statistic gauges the percent of long-term patients who had falls resulting in major injury. Falls can arise for a variety of reasons, but excessive numbers of falls could be an indication of lower quality nursing care.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This is the percent of patients who suffered from a urinary tract infection. These infections may be associated with inadequate hygiene.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This statistic measures the percentage of long-term care patients receiving antipsychotic medications. While antipsychotic medications serve an important medical purpose, it is important to confirm these medications are being used appropriately. In some situations, increased usage of these drugs may mean a nursing home is using these drugs to control patient behavior.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This is the percent of residents who were given antianxiety medications. These medications are generally prescribed to patients suffering from anxiety or depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term care patients who are demonstrating depressive symptoms.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This metric measures the percentage of long-term care patients that received the flu and pneumonia vaccines.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This is a measure of the percentage of long-term care patients that required increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as taking medications and taking a bath. Some argue that this is a reasonable measure of a patient's well-being.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This indicates the percentage of patients that remained mobile levels over time. Retaining mobility is usually a great sign for residents' well-being.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This is the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of care. There is typically a correlation between keeping patients out of the hospital and the quality of care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This is the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This metric measures the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This tells you the percentage of short-term care residents that saw functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better