Sunrise Manor Nursing Home

We awarded this nursing home one of our better grades in the area of long-term care, with an A-. This is a much better grade than its overall score, which was decent but not in the elite range. Long-term care scores of this caliber generally require both around the clock care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine healthcare services. On top of looking at the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home administered the vaccine to 98.60725 percent of its patients, which is very impressive. Pneumonia sadly is often a deadly ailment for nursing home patients so we like it when a nursing home doesn't take any chances. Finally, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

This nursing home received high scores in our nursing category as well. In fact, it earned one of our highest scores in that category with an B-. Our nursing score is primarily based on a nursing home's level of nurse staffing. This facility provided just 0.4 hours of nursing care per patient per day. This figure is significantly below average. Lastly, although this facility got dinged a bit for nursing hours, it excelled in some of our quality-based metrics. With fewer than five percent of its residents suffering from pressure ulcers, it fared remarkably well in this statistic.

This nursing home's next most favorable category turned out to be its short-term care score, where it was given a B-. With our short-term care assessment, we endeavor to forge a fair barometer for rehabilitation. In doing so, we analyze a nursing home's scope of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. We were surprised to find that this facility was below average in the two key staffing areas we assessed. It provided fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most other nursing homes. It is still important to determine whether this also correlates to a lower quality of care. The last metric we assessed in this category is the number of residents who ultimately returned home from the facility. We found that just 4.1 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home. This figure was below average.

The final category we assessed was inspections. This nursing home did not receive favorable inspection reports in recent years. In fact, we gave it an F in this category. This ended up pulling down this nursing home's overall grade significantly. With places that received this poor of an inspection score, we would scrutinize the severe deficiencies on its inspection report. This nursing home was hit with a category G through L deficiency, which rank among the more serious categories of deficiencies. This generally indicates that the deficiencies found by inspectors had the potential to pose actual harm to residents. Lastly, we want to point out that this place received significant government fines amounting to over $100,000. This typically means that a poor performance spanned multiple years.