Sunny Hill Care Center is a facility in Tama, Iowa, which has a population of 4,504 people. Featuring an overall grade of A, this facility is among the highest-graded facilities we assessed. We were so impressed with this nursing home that we ranked it in the top fifth of all nursing homes in the nation. This also appears to be a very consistent facility with consistent grades in all of our categories. More information about its category grades is available below.
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Sunny Hill Care Center
- Nursing Home
Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Reese
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- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Partnership
- Offers Hospice
- Offers Respite Care
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
- Offers Outpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Home Making
- Transportation
- Speech Therapy
- IV Antibiotic Therapy
- Occupational Therapy
- Physical Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
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Nurse Quality
In addition to performing well in its overall grade, this facility received an excellent nursing grade. In fact, we gave it a grade of A in that category. Our nursing score includes a host of factors. The most important one is the quantity of hours nurses spent with residents. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This facility performed very well when it comes to minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.
Facility Inspections
Turning to inspections, this nursing home excelled in that area, which is based on the facility's recent government inspections. In fact, we awarded it an A for that category. Arguably the most critical factor we look at in computing our inspection ratings is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities with better grades in this area most likely dodged the more severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. This facility was assessed 7 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered severe. This indicates that CMS didn't consider any of the deficiencies to be an immediate threat to resident safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
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Long-term Care Quality
This nursing home also was awarded a fine long-term care score. In fact, this is this nursing home's third strongest category grade. In that category, this facility received a score of A. Facilities that receive this kind of score in long-term care tend to provide consistent 24/7 care to make sure residents are well cared for. In addition to looking at the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home administered the vaccine to 100 percent of its patients, which is significantly higher than most nursing homes. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.
Short-term Care Quality
In the last area, this nursing home also received a first-rate short-term care grade, with a grade of A-. This topped off an elusive straight A report card. Our short-term care scores are considered to be more meaningful for those needing a nursing home for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically utilizes more highly-skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing means not just nursing, but also physical and respiratory therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not every nursing home employs these types of nurses. However, based on the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Lastly, we looked at the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 5.3 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Sunny Hill Care Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Sunny Hill Care Center, 0% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This tells you the percentage of residents who have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are damage to the skin caused by staying in the same position for too long.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Sunny Hill Care Center, 2.26% of Patients had Serious Falls
This is the percentage of patients that suffered from a major fall. Falls resulting in severe injuries are routinely associated with lower levels of patient supervision. More supervision can limit the number of major falls sustained by residents in a nursing home.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Sunny Hill Care Center, 1.2% of Patients had UTIs
This is the percent of patients that sustained a urinary tract infection. Urinary tract infections are considered by many experts to be an indicator of the quality of nursing care at a nursing home. UTI's are routinely the result of worse hygiene protocols. Nevertheless, this datapoint could also be misleading for some facilities due to varying reporting standards for urinary tract infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Sunny Hill Care Center, 14.2% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This is the percentage of patients who were given antipsychotic medications. Antipsychotic drugs are administered to patients for a variety of medical conditions, including cognitive disorders. Tragically, in some situations, increased usage of these drugs may indicate a nursing home is using these medications to subdue residents.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Sunny Hill Care Center, 15.79% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This tells you the percent of residents who were prescribed antianxiety medications. These drugs are generally prescribed to patients suffering from depression and anxiety.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Sunny Hill Care Center, 13.61% of Patients
This tells you the percent of residents exhibiting signs of depression. Higher rates of depression may be a sign lower quality care.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Sunny Hill Care Center, 100% of Patients
This tells you the percent of residents that have received the flu and pneumonia vaccines. High vaccination rates should be standard at this point.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Sunny Hill Care Center, 9.47% of Patients
This tells you the percentage of patients who needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of dependence on staff for assistance with ADL's could be a sign of deterioration of a resident's medical condition.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Sunny Hill Care Center, 5.99% of Residents
This datapoint measures the percentage of long-term patients who retained mobility levels.
Hospitalizations
In Sunny Hill Care Center, 0.01 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This datapoint is a measure of the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of patient care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Sunny Hill Care Center, 5.99% of Residents Rehospitalized
This indicates the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term patient care. There is a correlation between reduced hospitalizations and a nursing home's quality of short-term rehabilitation.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Sunny Hill Care Center, 9.2% of Patients
This metric is a measure of the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Sunny Hill Care Center, 88.38% of Resident
This tells you the percent of short-term stay residents who experienced functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living.
Nearby Hospitals
- Unitypoint Health-MarshalltownAcute Care Hospitals 17.35 miles away3 S 4th Ave Marshalltown Iowa 50158Voluntary non-profit - Private(641) 754-5151
- Grinnell Regional Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 17.94 miles away210 Fourth Avenue Grinnell Iowa 50112Voluntary non-profit - Private(641) 236-7511
Nearby Dialysis
- Marshalltown Mary Greeley Dialysis17.36 miles away3120 2nd St. Marshalltown Iowa 50158Dialysis Stations: 24 (641) 752-1819
- University of Iowa Hospital & Clinics - Grinnell17.82 miles away803 Broad St Grinnell Iowa 50112Dialysis Stations: 9 (641) 236-7419