Sunnyview Nursing Home & Apartments

This facility received a long-term care grade which is better than its overall grade. We awarded this facility an above average grade of B in this area. This boosted its overall profile. Nursing homes that receive this kind of grade in this category tend to provide consistent around the clock care to make sure residents are kept in good health. On top of assessing the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility administered the vaccine to 96.969696 percent of its residents, which is higher than the average nursing home. Finally, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

This facility also excelled in our nursing category, where it earned an B. Nursing grades are primarily tied to a nursing home's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality-based metrics and this place excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any place the nation in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can typically be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as employing a protocol of moving residents even once per day.

We also awarded this nursing home a decent grade in the area of short-term care, where we awarded it a grade of B-. Our short-term care scores are based in part on the facility's quantity of skilled skilled healthcare professionals. This means a broad scope of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. We found that this nursing home was below average in the two key staffing areas we looked at. The facility offered fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most other facilities. Finally, we assessed the number of residents who who were able to eventually return home from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was well below average.

The last category we looked at is inspections. Unfortunately, this ended up being this facility's weakest link. We gave it a grade of just D in this area. Since this information is compiled by independent government inspectors, we weight it heavily in our grading. One of the most important factors in evaluating an inspection report is deficiencies. We would pay close attention to the level of severity of the deficiencies. This facility was assessed 5 deficiencies by CMS. The only positive thing we can say is that none of its deficiencies were in the categories that suggest that they caused a threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility also received 6 substantiated complaints in recent years. This is yet another bad sign.