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Arboreta Health and Rehabilitation Sunny Knoll Care Center

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Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Reese

Historical Rating
Grade: F
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135 Warner Street,
Rockwell City IA 50579

(712) 297-8918

51.31% estimated occupancy 1

Arboreta Health and Rehabilitation Sunny Knoll Care Center is a small nursing home located in Rockwell City, Iowa. With a terrible overall grade of F, this nursing home didn't fare well in our assessment. If you are not satisfied with this facility's pedestrian overall grade, you may have to look in other cities as this is the only nursing home in Rockwell City. We wouldn't blame you if you are ready to stop reading and find another nursing home. However, if you want to learn more about this place's category grades, short-term care grades are discussed in the next section.

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Quick Details

  • Accepts Medicare 1
  • Accepts Medicaid 1
  • No CCRC
  • Has Resident Council
  • No Family Council
  • For profit - Limited Liability company
  • Offers Hospice
  • Offers Post-Acute Care 
  • Offers Respite Care
  • Offers Inpatient Rehab

Specialized Services

  • Personal Care
  • Medication Management
  • Home Making
  • Transportation
  • Speech Therapy
  • Stroke Recovery
  • IV Antibiotic Therapy
  • Wound Care
  • Occupational Therapy
  • Mental Health
  • Diabetes Management
  • Physical Therapy
  • Respiratory Therapy
  • Nutritional Counseling
  • Pharmacy
  • Recreational Therapy
  • Pain Management
  • Bariatric Care
  • Orthopedic Rehabilitation

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Short-term Care Quality

Grade: C

Although we graded this nursing home incredibly poorly overall, it received a decent short-term care score this year. We gave it a C in that category. Short-term care grades are generally used to assess a facility's rehabilitation services. To provide highly rated rehabilitation services, facilities generally must have better levels of highly skilled nursing services. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other types of therapists. We found that this facility was below average in the two key staffing areas we assessed. In fact, it supplied fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most other facilities. Finally, we considered the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients returned home. At most nursing homes, closer to half of their patients are able to return home so this figure is below average.

Facility Inspections

Grade: C

Interestingly, this facility's abysmal overall score can't really be attributed to its inspection reports. We gave it a C for inspections. Inspection ratings take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can learn more about each of these factors by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This nursing home was hit with 6 deficiencies on its government inspection report, but fortunately none were in any of the categories labeled G through L. This means the government inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies to present an imminent risk to patient health or safety. Unfortunately, we also need to draw your attention to the fact that this facility received significant government fines in recent years.

Nurse Quality

Grade: D

Turning to the area of nursing care, this facility received a grade of just D in this category. The nursing category weighs many components, most of which are based on nursing hours. This facility provided just 0.2 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing ratings. This facility fared well in the area of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. Many consider these metrics to be reliable measures of the quality of nursing care.

Long-term Care Quality

Grade: F

The last area we scored was long-term care. This facility received a poor grade of F in this area. Nursing homes that don't fare well in this category often do not provide as much nursing care and also may be struggling in some of the areas of routine healthcare services we assessed. In addition to assessing the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. We discovered that this nursing home vaccinated just 61.01695 percent of its patients, which is slightly concerning. To our surprise, this place actually fared well at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had just 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. This was its best feature in this category.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

FDCB-BB+A-AA+Oct 18Dec 23

Arboreta Health and Rehabilitation Sunny Knoll Care Center Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

Grade: B

In Arboreta Health and Rehabilitation Sunny Knoll Care Center, 7.89% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This tells you the percentage of residents who suffered from a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers, also known as bed sores, are routinely the result of patients staying in one position for too long. Better nursing protocols limits the percentage of residents in a nursing home who sustain pressure ulcers.

Minimizes Serious Falls

Grade: F

In Arboreta Health and Rehabilitation Sunny Knoll Care Center, 8.47% of Patients had Serious Falls

This statistic measures the percent of long-term residents who experienced falls resulting in major injury. This is one of the statistics we use in calculating our nursing grades.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

Grade: A+

In Arboreta Health and Rehabilitation Sunny Knoll Care Center, 0% of Patients had UTIs

This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term care patients who suffered from a UTI. While a higher rate of these infections could reflect poorly on a nursing home's nursing care, it can be problematic to compare different nursing homes due to differing reporting standards.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

Grade: F

In Arboreta Health and Rehabilitation Sunny Knoll Care Center, 34.62% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This tells you the percentage of patients prescribed antipsychotic medications. Antipsychotic drugs are given to residents for a variety of conditions, including Alzheimer's or other dementias. Sadly, in some cases, high levels of antipsychotic drug use may indicate a nursing home is using these drugs to subdue residents.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

Grade: B

In Arboreta Health and Rehabilitation Sunny Knoll Care Center, 18.6% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This indicates the percent of patients who were given antianxiety medications. Antianxiety drugs are given to residents experiencing depression and anxiety.

Managing Depression Among Residents

Grade: B-minus

In Arboreta Health and Rehabilitation Sunny Knoll Care Center, 6.82% of Patients

This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term residents who are showing depressive symptoms. Many would argue this is a reliable measure of patient quality of life.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

Grade: F

In Arboreta Health and Rehabilitation Sunny Knoll Care Center, 64.99% of Patients

This datapoint is a measure of the percent of long-term patients who received the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be very dangerous for nursing home residents, making these types of vaccines critical to patient safety.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

Grade: F

In Arboreta Health and Rehabilitation Sunny Knoll Care Center, 30.95% of Patients

Measures the percentage of long-term care patients that required additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. Activities of daily living include activities such as moving around and using the bathroom.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

Grade: B-minus

In Arboreta Health and Rehabilitation Sunny Knoll Care Center, 14.07% of Residents

Measures the percentage of long-term patients that were able to retain mobility. Some experts believe that mobility is important for patients physical and mental well-being.

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

Grade: B-plus

In Arboreta Health and Rehabilitation Sunny Knoll Care Center, 14.07% of Residents Rehospitalized

Measures the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term care. Avoiding rehospitalizations during rehabilitation is key to restoring the physical abilities of patients.

Nearby Hospitals

  • Stewart Memorial Community HospitalCritical Access Hospitals 11.17 miles away1301 West Main Street Lake City Iowa 51449Voluntary non-profit - Private(712) 464-3171
  • Loring HospitalCritical Access Hospitals 18.29 miles away211 Highland Avenue PO Box 217 Sac City Iowa 50583Voluntary non-profit - Private(712) 662-7105

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Footnotes:

  1. https://www.medicare.gov/nursinghomecompare/profile.html#ID=165284