The Villas at Sunny Acres is a large nursing home located in Denver, Colorado. This is a quality nursing home with a B overall. This was right in line with the city grade in Denver. Even in a city featuring 40 other nursing homes, this facility turns out to be a quality choice. One of the better aspects of this facility's profile is its impressive short-term care grade, which is addressed in the next section.
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The Villas at Sunny Acres
- Nursing Home
- Independent Living
- Assisted Living
Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Reese
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- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- Is CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Corporation
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Medication Management
- Home Making
- Transportation
- Speech Therapy
- Palliative Care
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Physical Therapy
- Respiratory Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Recreational Therapy
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Short-term Care Quality
In addition to being a quality nursing home overall, this facility really excelled in our short-term care category, where it received a grade of A-. Few facilities fared better in this area. In the area of short-term care, we seek to assess measures of a nursing home's rehabilitation services. We analyze a facility's skilled nursing services, including the ones performed by registered nurses and physical therapists. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, according to the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we assessed the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 5.6 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.
Facility Inspections
Adding to its impressive profile, this nursing home also performed at a high level in the category of inspections. In fact, it received a nearly flawless inspection report this year. As a result, it received one of our highest grades in that category with an A-. These inspection grades take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these factors by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report, which is still very impressive. A single deficiency isn't the end of the world.
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Nurse Quality
This facility is also strong in the area of nursing, where it received a grade of B. It outperformed most nursing homes in this category. Our nursing score is based on the facility's level of nurse staffing. We factor in both the levels of training of those nurses as well as the amount of time spent with patients. This facility provided 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home performed very well in the area of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.
Long-term Care Quality
The last category we scored is long-term care, which ended up being this nursing home's weakest area. We awarded this facility a D in this area. Sadly, this category pulled down the facility's overall profile to a certain degree. When facilities receive this kind of score in this category it is a bad sign for patient care and it may indicate that the place is not as well-staffed. After we finished looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination record. We were a bit concerned this nursing home vaccinated only 78.16594 percent of its residents against pneumonia. Surprisingly, this nursing home was actually decent at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had just 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. This was its best score in this category.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
The Villas at Sunny Acres Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In The Villas at Sunny Acres, 3.33% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This is the percentage of patients that suffered from a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are considered to be an indicator of nursing care at a nursing home. Pressure ulcers, which are also known as bed sores, are often the result of residents staying in one position for too long.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In The Villas at Sunny Acres, 3.49% of Patients had Serious Falls
This is the percentage of patients that suffered from a major fall. Falls leading to serious injuries are routinely linked to lower levels of patient supervision. Additional nurse staffing minimizes the number of major falls sustained by residents in a nursing home.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In The Villas at Sunny Acres, 0.91% of Patients had UTIs
This measures the percent of long-term patients who suffered from UTI's. Although more of these infections could reflect poorly on a nursing home's hygiene protocols, it can be difficult to compare different facilities due to facilities having varying reporting standards.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In The Villas at Sunny Acres, 22.12% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This metric gauges the percent of long-term patients which were administered antipsychotic medication. Excessive reliance on these medications may mean that a facility is using these drugs to subdue residents in situations where such medications are not medically required. Nevertheless, some facilities need to rely more on these medications due to an increased number of patients with Alzheimer's or other dementias.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In The Villas at Sunny Acres, 10.95% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This gauges the percentage of long-term care residents receiving antianxiety drugs.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In The Villas at Sunny Acres, 8.9% of Patients
This is the percent of patients demonstrating symptoms of depression.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In The Villas at Sunny Acres, 86.53% of Patients
This tells you the percent of patients that were given the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be demanded by residents.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In The Villas at Sunny Acres, 7.75% of Patients
This datapoint is a measure of the percent of long-term residents who required increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as taking medications and using the bathroom.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In The Villas at Sunny Acres, 8.55% of Residents
This indicates the percentage of patients that remained mobile levels over time. Optimizing mobility is usually a great sign for residents' health.
Hospitalizations
In The Villas at Sunny Acres, 0.01 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This indicates the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In The Villas at Sunny Acres, 8.55% of Residents Rehospitalized
This datapoint measures the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term patient care. Keeping residents out of the hospital during rehabilitation is critical to restoring the health of patients.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In The Villas at Sunny Acres, 8.01% of Patients
This is the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In The Villas at Sunny Acres, 94.93% of Resident
This is the percentage of short-term care patients who experienced functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. Higher levels of independence with ADL's usually correlates with superior rehabilitation services.
Scores for Denver, CO
- Overall Rating has a grade of B
- Nurse Rating has a grade of B-plus
- Long-term Care Rating has a grade of B
- Short-term Care Rating has a grade of B
- Inspection Rating has a grade of B-plus
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