Courtyard at Seasons

In addition to being a quality facility overall, this facility really excelled in the area of short-term care, where it earned an impressive grade of A. Few facilities performed better in this category. In the category of short-term care, we strive to evaluate measures of a facility's rehabilitation services. We analyze a nursing home's skilled nursing services, including the ones performed by registered nurses and physical and occupational therapists. Fortunately, it looks like this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not every nursing home employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the information this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The final datapoint we assessed in this area is the percentage of patients that returned home from the facility. We found that 6.9 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.

In addition, this facility also received excellent government inspections in recent years. We gave them one of our better grades in that area, with a grade of B+. Inspection scores are based on pieces of information located in the a nursing home's government inspections. Facilities that score well in this category tend to have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. This nursing home was hit with 8 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none were considered to be major deficiencies. This tells you that the government inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies to be an immediate threat to patient health or safety. We should note that deficiency-free inspections are uncommon in the industry.

This facility received a very good nursing grade this year as well. It received one of our better scores in that category with a grade of B. Nursing scores are based in large part on quality and quantity of nursing care. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This nursing home performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a facility has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can often be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

The final area we rated was long-term care, which was this facility's worst area. We gave this facility a grade of D in that category. Naturally, this category pulled down the facility's overall profile a bit. If you are looking for anything other than short-term rehabilitation, you should take a close look at long-term care grades. Once we assessed the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination data. We were pleased to find that this nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its patients against pneumonia. To our surprise, this facility also keeps its residents out of the hospital. It had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. Unfortunately, some of its other scores in this category weren't as favorable as these.