Sunset Home

The primary reason this turned out to be a decent nursing home is that it earned an elite inspection grade. In fact, its inspection grade was far superior to its overall score. In the inspections category, we gave this facility a grade of A+. Perhaps the most significant factor we look at in determining our inspection grades is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's inspection reports. Places with higher scores in this category typically avoided the most severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. Unfortunately, it does not appear that we have deficiency data for this nursing home. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

We also wanted to note that this facility was awarded a great long-term care grade. Indeed, we awarded it one of our most impressive scores in this category with a score of A. When nursing homes receive a score in this range in long-term care it typically means it's well-staffed and is an overall good place to reside on a permanent basis. Once we looked at the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination record. This facility vaccinated 96.7033 percent of its patients against pneumonia. Vaccines are vital to keeping residents healthy. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

Another strength of this facility is its favorable grade in nursing. We gave them one of our better scores in that area, with an impressive grade of D. In computing a facility's nursing score, we consider the amount of time nurses are caring for residents as well as the levels of training of the nurses. This nursing home averaged only 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing scores. This nursing home fared well when it comes to avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers.

Moving on to our last category, this facility really did not perform very well. Due to a rock bottom grade of F in short-term care, this is its worst grade. In calculating our short-term care ratings, we size up the facility's levels of highly skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other types of therapists. This grade is more often than not a useful assessment of the facility's rehabilitation. Unfortunately, we found that this place offers fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most other facilities. Lastly, we assessed the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that just 4.8 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.