Sunnyside Conv. Hospital

On top of having a decent overall score, we also wanted to note that this nursing home received favorable nursing marks this year. We awarded them one of our better scores in that area, with a B+. This proved to be the facility's top score. There are a number of factors within this grade. Most of these factors reflect nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This facility performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a nursing home has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can typically be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

Additionally, we also would like to note that this facility received positive short-term care marks this year. We gave them one of our higher scores in this category, with a grade of B+. This turned out to be the facility's second best score. Short-term care grades are commonly employed to assess a nursing home's rehabilitation services. In order to have high-end rehabilitation services, facilities generally need to provide better levels of highly skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other licensed professionals. We weren't able to track down information about this nursing home's registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. The final measure we assessed in this area is the number of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return home. We discovered that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

This nursing home's next most favorable category was long-term care. We gave it a grade of C in this area. This is basically a middle of the pack grade in this area. In computing our long-term care ratings, we assess the assistance with daily living received by a nursing home's residents. Once we assessed the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination data. We were pleased to discover that this nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its residents against pneumonia. This nursing home was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. It had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

The final category we looked at is inspections. This ended up being this facility's weakest link. We gave it a D in this category. Since this data is collected by independent government inspectors, we weight it heavily in our assessment. Our inspection grades account for several factors included in a facility's inspection report. One of the most important criteria we look at is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. This particular nursing home had 2 deficiencies by CMS. The only positive thing we can say is that none of these deficiencies were in the categories that indicate that they caused a threat to resident safety or health. Finally, this facility also received 4 substantiated complaints in recent years. This is yet another bad sign.