Sunny View Retirement Community

In addition to a phenomenal overall grade, this facility also received A+ nursing grade. Nursing grades are heavily correlated with nurse staffing levels. This nursing home averages 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality-based metrics and this facility excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any nursing home the country in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can often be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as by employing a protocol of turning patients even once per day.

In addition, this facility received strong marks in the category of long-term care. As a result, it received one of our best scores in that category with a grade of A+. When facilities receive this kind of score in long-term care it is usually a good sign for resident care and suggests that the place is well-staffed with nurses and aids. On top of assessing the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home administered the vaccine to 100 percent of its residents, which is much higher than the majority of nursing homes. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

Turning our next area, this top-shelf facility also excelled in the area of short-term care. In this category, we gave it a grade of A+. Only a small group of nursing homes performed better in this category. In our short-term care score, we strive to craft a fair barometer for rehabilitation services. In this process, we look at the facility's scope of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as respiratory therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the data this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Lastly, we considered the percentage of residents that returned home from this nursing home. We found that 6.4 percent of this nursing home's residents were able to return home.

In the final area we looked at, we found that this facility received a solid inspection report this year as well. It received a decent score in inspections with a score of B-. Our inspection scores account for a host of factors found on a nursing home's inspection reports. One of the most important criteria we consider is the number and severity of deficiencies. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.