Sunview Respiratory and Rehabilitation

The primary reason this nursing home received a decent overall score is its impeccable government inspections in recent years. We awarded them one of our higher scores in that category, with an A+. This is a much better score than the place's overall grade, which was decent but not in the elite range. Our inspection scores are tied to many datapoints found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that score well in this category have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. Fortunately, although this facility had a few minor dings on its inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those labeled as categories G through L. This tells you CMS did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. The fact that none of the deficiencies were severe made us feel better about this inspection report.

We also awarded this nursing home a strong grade in long-term care. This nursing home earned a B+ in this category, which is one of our better scores. In a long-term care environment, the primary objective is to keep patients healthy and safe. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate residents. This facility seems like a viable option if you're searching for a long-term care facility.

This facility's next best category grade came in the area of nursing. In that category, we gave this nursing home a grade of C. The nursing category weighs a handful of datapoints, most of which are tied to levels of nurse staffing. This place provides only 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident daily. This is a somewhat alarming figure which is well below the national average. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this place fared better in some of the quality-based metrics we assessed. It scored well when it comes to avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls.

Turning to our final category, we awarded this nursing home a D for short-term care. This was the nursing home's least impressive category score. Of course, this category pulled down the facility's overall profile to a certain degree. In calculating these short-term care grades, we look at the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. Our goal is to create a tool for sizing up the rehabilitation services of nursing homes. Unfortunately, we discovered that this facility provides fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per patient than most other facilities. The last statistic we looked at in this area is the number of patients who ultimately returned home from the facility. This facility struggled quite a bit in this area as well, with just 0 percent of its residents returning home. This was quite a bit below average.