Courtyard Manor Nurse Care Center & Assisted Liv

In addition to being a respectable facility overall, this facility also excelled in the category of inspections, where it earned an A-. Few nursing homes performed better in this category. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in computing our inspection ratings. One of those factors is deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of these deficiencies is usually more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some end up being relatively insignificant. While this place had a few deficiencies on its government inspection report, none were serious based on CMS' deficiency scale. A few minor deficiencies should not lead you to cross a nursing home off your list.

This facility also was given an impressive long-term care score. As a matter of fact, we gave them a grade of B in that category, which happens to be one of our more favorable scores. When nursing homes receive a grade in this range in long-term care it typically means it's well-staffed and is an overall good place to live on a permanent basis. Once we looked at the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination statistics. This facility vaccinated 99.625465 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is higher than the vast majority of nursing homes. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

Another strength of this nursing home is its favorable grade in nursing. We awarded them one of our better scores in that area, with an impressive grade of D. Nursing grades are based largely on nurse staffing levels. This nursing home averaged a meager 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient per day. This is well below average. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in computing our nursing ratings. This facility fared well in terms of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. Many consider these areas to be reliable indicators of the quality of nursing care.

Moving on to the next category, this nursing home really did not fare well. With a rock bottom grade of F in short-term care, this was this nursing home's worst area. With our short-term care grade, we try to forge a meaningful barometer for rehabilitation. In this process, we assess the facility's offerings of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as respiratory therapy. Considering its score in this area, we weren't stunned to discover that this nursing home was well below average in terms of its quantity of registered nurse and physical therapy hours offered to its residents based on the data we assessed. Frankly, this was what we expected to find. Finally, we considered the percentage of patients who ultimately were able to return home from this facility. This facility didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 3.3 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.