Sunshine Children’S Home And Rehab Center is certified as a Medicare and Medicaid facility and has been approved to provide these services since 1983-11-07. Medicare covers short-term skilled nursing care (typically up to 100 days after a qualifying hospital stay). Medicaid covers long-term care for residents who meet financial eligibility requirements. Contact the facility at (914) 333-7000 or your local Medicaid office to verify current eligibility.

Sunshine Children’S Home And Rehab Center holds an overall CMS (Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services) rating of 5 out of 5 stars. This is made up of three components: Health Inspection (5★), Staffing (5★), and Quality of Resident Care (5★). Our independent composite quality score — which uses the raw underlying CMS numbers to break ties between similarly-rated facilities — is 98.9/100, placing it #49 of 14703 facilities nationally and #6 of 596 in New York. Star ratings are a useful starting point, but the composite score and individual sub-ratings give a more complete picture for families comparing facilities.

Each resident at Sunshine Children’S Home And Rehab Center receives a reported average of 9 hours 39 minutes of total nurse staffing per day. This breaks down as: Registered Nurse (RN) coverage — 5 hours 37 minutes; Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) — 8 minutes; Nurse Aide — 3 hours 54 minutes. On weekends, total nurse staffing is 8 hours 44 minutes per resident per day. The CMS Staffing Rating for this facility is 5 out of 5. The national average for total nursing hours is approximately 3.5 hrs/day. Total nursing staff turnover is 33.7%. Families are encouraged to ask about current staffing schedules during their facility visit.

The facility has received 2 fine(s) over the 5-year period, totaling $1,300. No substantiated complaints have been recorded in the available data. In the most recent CMS reporting period, the facility received 0 fine(s) totaling $0, and 0 Medicare payment denial(s). Total penalties: 0. The Total Weighted Health Survey Score is 5.0 (lower scores are better). Full inspection history and complaint details are available at medicare.gov/care-compare.

Nationally, Sunshine Children’S Home And Rehab Center ranks 49th out of 14,703 facilities (composite score: 98.9/100), placing it in the top 5% nationwide. Within NY, it ranks 6th out of 596 nursing homes. In Ossining, it ranks 1st out of 3 facilities. Among facilities sharing its ZIP code, it ranks 1st of 3. For 2026 staffing: total nurse hours rank #28 nationally and RN hours rank #11 nationally (#3 in NY). Our composite quality score of 98.9/100 weighs health inspections, quality of resident care, staffing hours, compliance record, and five-year performance trends — giving a more complete picture than CMS star ratings alone, which can place hundreds of facilities in the same 5-star bucket. To browse and compare all nursing homes in Ossining, visit: https://nursinghomesnearme.org/new_york/ossining/