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Sunnyside Care Center

  • Nursing Home
  • Independent Living
  • Assisted Living
  • Memory Care

Updated Apr 1, 2023 by Nick Reese

Historical Rating
Grade: A-plus
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Sunnyside Care Center's website

16561 Us Highway 10,
Lake Park MN 56554

(218) 238-5944

77.99% estimated occupancy 1

Sunnyside Care Center is a small government-owned facility in Lake Park, Minnesota. This facility is ranked among the best nursing homes we found. Receiving an A+ in our grading scheme requires excellent scores across the board. This is really as good of a nursing home as you're going to find. One of the best aspects of this nursing home's stellar profile is its long-term care rating. Long-term care grades are discussed in the next section.

Quick Details

  • Accepts Medicare 1
  • Accepts Medicaid 1
  • No CCRC
  • Has Resident Council
  • No Family Council
  • Government - County
  • Secure Memory Care 
  • Offers Inpatient Rehab
  • Offers Outpatient Rehab

Specialized Services

  • Personal Care
  • Medication Management
  • Home Making
  • Speech Therapy
  • Stroke Recovery
  • IV Antibiotic Therapy
  • Palliative Care
  • Dentistry
  • Wound Care
  • Occupational Therapy
  • Cardiac Therapy
  • Diabetes Management
  • Physical Therapy
  • Respiratory Therapy
  • Nutritional Counseling

Awards

Top Nursing Home in Minnesota badge

Top Nursing Home in Minnesota Awards 2020

Top Nursing Home in Minnesota badge

Top Nursing Home in Minnesota Awards 2021

Registered Staff Hours

Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2022)
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Long-term Care Quality

Grade: A-plus

To pair with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for its nursing grade. When nursing homes receive this type of grade in long-term care it is typically a good sign for resident care and suggests that the place is well-staffed with nurses aids. Once we assessed the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination data. This nursing home vaccinated 97.8022 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is significantly higher than the majority of nursing homes. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

Facility Inspections

Grade: A-plus

This facility has also received near flawless health inspections in recent years. We awarded them an impressive grade of A+ in this category. Our inspection scores are based on many pieces of information located in the a nursing home's recent government inspections. Facilities that receive favorable grades in this area tend to have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these places should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. While this place had some deficiencies on its inspection report, none were severe based on CMS' scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Nurse Quality

Grade: A

Among its many impressive grades, this facility received an excellent nursing grade. In fact, we gave it a grade of A in that category. In computing a facility's nursing rating, we assess the amount of time nurses commit to residents and the levels of training of the nurses. This facility provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This place performed very well in terms of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

Short-term Care Quality

Grade: A-minus

In the final category we graded, this facility was awarded a very strong grade of A- in our short-term care category. With this score, the facility finished off a straight A report card. Our short-term care scores are based on a facility's quantity of skilled nursing services. This means a broad scope of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this facility employs registered nurses. Not every facility employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the information they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The last measure we assessed in this category is the number of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return home. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

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

Sunnyside Care Center Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

Grade: A-plus

In Sunnyside Care Center, 6.14% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This is the percentage of residents who have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are skin damage due to staying in the same position for too long.

Minimizes Serious Falls

Grade: D

In Sunnyside Care Center, 3.86% of Patients had Serious Falls

This measures the percentage of long-term stay residents which suffered a fall which caused severe injury. We use this statistic in calculating nursing scores.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

Grade: B-plus

In Sunnyside Care Center, 2.89% of Patients had UTIs

This tells you the percentage of residents who suffered from a urinary tract infection. Urinary tract infections are considered to be a barometer of nursing care at a nursing home. UTI's are routinely associated with poor nursing care. However, this metric can be misleading for some nursing homes due to different reporting standards for urinary tract infections.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

Grade: B-plus

In Sunnyside Care Center, 15.26% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This indicates the percent of patients prescribed antipsychotic drugs. While antipsychotic drugs may be helpful for many patients, it is important to confirm these drugs are being used appropriately. In some cases, excessive reliance on these medications may indicate a facility is using these medications to control patient behavior.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

Grade: B

In Sunnyside Care Center, 11.96% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This datapoint measures the percent of long-term patients which are administered antianxiety drugs. These drugs are generally used to treat patients experiencing anxiety or depression.

Managing Depression Among Residents

Grade: A+

In Sunnyside Care Center, 4.16% of Patients

This is the percent of residents showing signs of depression.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

Grade: B

In Sunnyside Care Center, 94.15% of Patients

This is the percent of residents that were given the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be demanded by residents.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

Grade: A

In Sunnyside Care Center, 13.41% Percentage of Patients

This indicates the percent of residents who required additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of dependence on staff for assistance with ADL's could be a sign of the decline of a patient's well-being.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

Grade: B-minus

In Sunnyside Care Center, 15.86% Percentage of Residents

This is a measure of the percentage of long-term patients who remained mobile levels.

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

Grade: B-plus

In Sunnyside Care Center, 15.86 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized

This is the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term patient care. There is generally a correlation between keeping patients out of the hospital and a nursing homes short-term rehabilitation performance.

Nearby Dialysis

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