Sunset Home

This facility's best category grade came in the area of nursing. In this category, we awarded this nursing home a grade of B. It outperformed most facilities in this category. When computing a nursing home's nursing score, we consider the quantity of hours nurses are seeing residents and the skill levels of those nurses. This particular nursing home provided 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home performed very well in terms of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

We also awarded this nursing home a grade of B- for our inspections rating. This is a very respectable nursing score. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in calculating our inspection scores. One of those factors is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of the deficiencies is usually more meaningful than the quantity of deficiencies, as some deficiencies are quite insignificant. While this facility had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those found in categories G through L. This tells you CMS didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A few minor deficiencies shouldn't stop you from considering a nursing home.

The third area we analyzed was long-term care, where this nursing home was awarded a B- in this category. Our long-term care grade assesses a nursing home's personal care rather than the highly skilled nursing or medical services that are critical to a skilled nursing facility. In addition to considering the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility provided the vaccine to 80.57554 percent of its patients. This is quite a bit less than what we were hoping for. On a more positive note, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

Our final category is short-term care, where we awarded this nursing home a B- in that area. Our short-term care scores are meaningful for people seeking rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually mandates higher levels of skilled nursing services. This means a broad range of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other types of therapy. In this place's case, we were surprised to learn that it actually provides less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than the typical facility. Finally, we looked at the percentage of residents that ultimately returned home from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home. This figure was well below average.