Surprise Health and Rehabilitation Center

Surprise Health and Rehabilitation Center is a nursing home located in Surprise, Arizona, a city with a total of 119,941 people. We awarded this facility an A overall grade, ranking it in the top 20 percent of all nursing homes in the nation. Based on our assessment, this place ought to be a wonderful choice for most people. This facility also received very consistent grades in each of the major categories we assessed. More information about its category grades is available below.

In addition to being a great overall grade, this facility also received A+ health inspections in recent years. Its inspections were virtually flawless. Inspection grades are based on many items located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that excel in this category typically have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like we have information on deficiency's for this nursing home. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

To add to its impressive performance in other areas, we gave this facility a grade of A- for its long-term care score. In a long-term care setting, the facility's primary goal is to keep patients healthy and safe. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate patients. This nursing home clearly performed favorably enough in these metrics to earn an encouraging score in this area.

The next area we analyzed is short-term care. This facility received a very positive short-term care score, with a B+ in this area. In forming our short-term care ratings, we quantify the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. The purpose is to create a scale for comparing the rehabilitation services of nursing homes. This facility provides more services with physical therapists and registered nurses than most nursing homes we looked at. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of patients that who were able to eventually return home from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.

In the final category we analyzed, this facility received an impressive grade grade of B+ in our nursing category. With this grade, the nursing home rounded out a very impressive profile. There are several data points within this grade. Many of the criteria relate to staffing levels. This facility provides an incredible 6.7 hours of nursing care per resident each day. Out of that total, many of the hours were provided by registered nurses, which is one of the more highly trained levels of nurses. On top of providing impressive levels of care, this nursing home also excelled in the quality measures we assessed. It performed as well as any nursing home in Arizona in terms of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls.