Sunset Home
1800 West 9th St, Clifton TX 76634 · (254) 675-8637 · 91.64% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Lata
Sunset Home is a facility located in Clifton, Texas, a city with 7,093 people. We gave this facility an overall grade of B-. A score of this caliber requires some respectable marks. Based on our analysis, this nursing home likely wouldn't be a bad choice. The best part of this facility's report card was its remarkable inspection rating. We discuss inspections in the next paragraph.
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Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 128 Beds
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Non profit - Corporation
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
In addition to being a respectable nursing home overall, this facility really excelled in the category of inspections, where it received an A+. Few facilities performed better in this area. Our inspection scores are tied to several items found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that score well in this area typically have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. It doesn't appear that we were able to find deficiency counts for this nursing home. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
Long-term Care Quality
Another strength of this facility is its strong score in long-term care. We awarded it one of our better grades in that category, with a score of A-. Facilities that excel in this category typically are well-staffed and offer extensive hands on care to residents. On top of looking at the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home provided the vaccine to 98.37963 percent of its residents, which is very impressive. Pneumonia sadly is often a deadly health condition for nursing home patients so we like it when a nursing home does not leave its residents vulnerable. Lastly, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0.95 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.
Nurse Quality
Turning to another strength for this facility, it also earned an elite nursing rating. In fact, we gave this facility an impressive grade of D. The nursing rating features a number of subcategories. The most important factor is the amount of time nurses spent with patients. This nursing home averaged a meager 3.1 hours of nursing care per patient each day. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. In addition to its below average nursing hours, this facility received poor scores in several of the quality-based metrics we considered in calculating our nursing grades. We found that more of this facility's patients experienced falls leading to major injury. We believe that many falls could be avoided with better nursing care. This statistic contributed to this facility receiving a poor nursing rating.
Short-term Care Quality
Turning to our next area, we awarded this nursing home a grade of D for our short-term care category. This is the facility's least impressive category grade. Naturally, this grade pulled down the nursing home's overall profile to some degree. In calculating our short-term care scores, we size up a nursing home's levels of skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other highly skilled individuals. This area is considered to be a useful assessment of the facility's rehabilitation services. Unfortunately, we found that this place offered less registered nurse and physical therapist hours per patient than most nursing homes. The last measure we considered in this category is the percentage of patients that eventually returned home from the nursing home. This nursing home a bit in this area as well, with just 46.2 percent of its patients returning home. This was below average.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Sunset Home Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This tells you the percentage of patients who have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are considered to be a barometer of nursing care at a nursing home. Pressure ulcers, also called bed sores, are often the result of residents staying in one position for too long.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This statistic tells you the percent of long-term stay residents which have sustained a fall which caused serious injury. This is one of the statistics we use in calculating our nursing grades.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This is the percent of patients who suffered from a urinary tract infection. Urinary tract infections are considered by many in the nursing home industry to be an indicator of the quality of nursing care . UTI's are routinely associated with a facility with lower levels of hygiene. Nevertheless, this metric can be skewed for certain nursing homes due to inconsistent reporting standards for these infections.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This is the percent of patients who were given antipsychotic drugs. These medications are used for several conditions, including Alzheimer's or other dementias.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This is the percentage of residents prescribed antianxiety drugs. These medications are typically given to residents experiencing anxiety or depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This is a measure of the percent of long-term stay patients who are demonstrating symptoms of depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This indicates the percent of patients that received the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be demanded by residents.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
Measures the percent of long-term care residents that needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time. Activities of daily living include activities such as getting dressed and using the bathroom.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This tells you the percentage of residents that remained mobile levels over time. Preserving mobility is often a great sign for residents' health.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
Measures the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of patient care. Minimizing hospitalizations is key to the physical well-being of residents.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This tells you the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term care. There is a correlation between having fewer hospitalizations and the quality of rehabilitation services.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This metric measures the number of emergency room visits per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This indicates the percentage of short-term care patients who experienced functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better