Courtney Manor

In addition to being a quality nursing home overall, this nursing home excelled in the area of short-term care, where it received an A-. Short-term care scores are based in part on a nursing home's quantity of skilled skilled healthcare professionals. This includes a vast scope of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, not to mention other forms of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not every facility employs these types of nurses. However, according to the information this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Finally, we assessed the percentage of residents who ultimately were able to return home from this nursing home. We found that 6.6 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.

One of the other reasons we rated this facility so highly is that it received a very impressive nursing rating. In that area, we awarded this facility an B+. Our nursing grade consists of many subcategories, many of which are based on nursing hours. This nursing home averages 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality measures and this place excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any nursing home the nation in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can many times be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as employing a protocol of moving residents more frequently.

Another area of strength for this nursing home is in the area of inspections. Inspections turned out to be one of its best categories. In that area, we gave this facility a grade of B. Our inspection ratings account for several factors included in a nursing home's inspection reports. One of the most important criteria we rely on is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Places with better grades in this area usually have very few of these severe deficiencies. While this nursing home had some deficiencies on its report, none of them were major deficiencies based on CMS' scale. We should point out that deficiency-free inspection reports are rare in this industry.

Switching gears to the last category, this facility received a grade of C in long-term care, which is a respectable rating. With our long-term care category, we weigh the amount of services offered by a nursing home, as well as a few quality statistics. Once we assessed the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination record. We were pleased to learn that this facility vaccinated 95.918365 percent of its patients against pneumonia. Lastly, this facility was also able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.