The Villas at Sunny Acres is a large nursing home located in Denver, Colorado. We gave this facility a B- overall, which is a decent grade. This is comparable with the city grade in Denver, which is a B. Even in a city featuring 42 nursing homes, this facility looks like a respectable selection. One of the better aspects of this facility's profile is its strong inspection rating, which we will address in the next section.
The Villas at Sunny Acres
- Nursing Home
- Independent Living
- Assisted Living
Updated Sep 1, 2022 by Nick Lata
Quick Details
- 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
Registered Staff Hours
Facility Inspections
In addition to being a respectable facility overall, this facility also excelled in the category of inspections, where it earned an A-. Few facilities performed better in this area. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in calculating our inspection ratings. One of those factors is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of deficiencies is usually more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some of these are quite minor. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report, which is still very impressive. We should note that deficiency-free inspection reports are uncommon in the industry.
Short-term Care Quality
This nursing home also was given an impressive score in our short-term care category. We gave this facility an above average grade of B+ in that category. In computing our short-term care ratings, we assess 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 comparing the rehabilitation services of nursing homes. Unfortunately, we were not able to find information on registered nurse or physical therapy staffing for this nursing home. The final measure we looked at in this area is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We discovered that 5.8 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.
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Nurse Quality
This nursing home's nursing grade appears to be one of its better features. The facility received a grade of B- in this category. Our nursing grade assesses many factors, however, the primary one is the number of nurse hours spent with patients. This nursing home averages just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis, which is not an impressive total. Finally, nursing grades also consider quality-based metrics, such as avoiding major falls. Despite not having the highest total nursing hours, this place performed admirably in the area of preventing major falls. This is often a reliable indicator that a place has sufficient quality controls in place. Many falls can be avoided if a facility supplies enough nurses aids to assist its patients.
Long-term Care Quality
The final category we scored was long-term care. We gave this nursing home a D in long-term care, rendering this the nursing home's least impressive area. For prospective patients seeking a permanent residence rather than skilled nursing, long-term care is a very important category. In addition to assessing the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home vaccinated 97.577095 percent of its patients. To our surprise, this facility also keeps its patients out of the hospital. It had just 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. Unfortunately, a few of its other scores in this category weren't as favorable as these.
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, 5.86% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This tells you the percent of patients that suffered from a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are damage to the skin due to staying in one position for too long.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In The Villas at Sunny Acres, 3.47% of Patients had Serious Falls
This measures the percent of long-term patients who suffered falls resulting in severe injury. We use this statistic in computing our nursing grades.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In The Villas at Sunny Acres, 2.14% of Patients had UTIs
This metric is an indication of the percentage of long-term stay patients who have had a urinary tract infection. UTI's could be an indication of worse hygiene protocols. However, this datapoint could be misleading for some facilities due to inconsistent reporting standards for infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In The Villas at Sunny Acres, 17.6% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This indicates the percentage of patients given antipsychotic medications. While antipsychotic drugs may be vital to many residents, it is important to make sure these drugs are being used only where medically required. In limited situations, high levels of antipsychotic drug use may mean that a facility is using these medications to control patient behavior.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In The Villas at Sunny Acres, 12.24% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This is the percent of patients given antianxiety medications. These medications are commonly given to patients experiencing depression and anxiety.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In The Villas at Sunny Acres, 3.81% of Patients
This metric measures the percentage of long-term patients showing depressive symptoms.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In The Villas at Sunny Acres, 84.99% of Patients
This datapoint measures the percent of long-term residents that were administered the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be very dangerous for nursing home patients, making these types of vaccines critical to patient safety.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In The Villas at Sunny Acres, 15.45% Percentage of Patients
This is the percentage of patients that needed increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. High levels of dependence on staff for assistance with ADL's could indicate the erosion of a patient's well-being.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In The Villas at Sunny Acres, 19.26% Percentage of Residents
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term care patients that remained mobile levels.
Hospitalizations
In The Villas at Sunny Acres, 1.08 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This tells you the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of patient care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In The Villas at Sunny Acres, 19.26 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
This tells you the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term patient care. There is a correlation between reduced hospitalizations and the quality of rehabilitation services.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In The Villas at Sunny Acres, 12.03 Percentage of Patients
This indicates the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term patient care. There is usually a correlation between reduced emergency room visits and the quality of short-term care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In The Villas at Sunny Acres, 75.71% Percentage of Resident
This datapoint measures the percentage of short-term care residents that experienced functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. Some would argue that this is a reasonable measure of 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-plus
- Inspection Rating has a grade of B-plus
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