Courtyard Manor Nurse Care Center & Assisted Liv

We want to draw your attention to the fact that this facility really outperformed its overall score in the category of inspections. In fact, it received an excellent government inspection report this year. As a result, it received one of our highest grades in that category with a grade of A. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in calculating these inspection grades. One key factor is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of deficiencies is usually more meaningful than the quantity of deficiencies, as some of these end up being relatively minor. Although this place had some deficiencies on its government inspection report, none were serious based on CMS' scale. Keep in mind that deficiency-free inspections are uncommon in this industry.

Additionally, we gave this facility a B+ in our long-term care category. This is one of our more impressive scores. Nursing homes that receive this type of score in this category tend to provide consistent 24/7 care to make sure patients are kept in good health. Once we concluded our assessment of the amount of care provided by nurses, we next considered the facility's vaccination record. This facility vaccinated 100 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which is an impressive figure. Pneumonia sadly can be a life threatening ailment for nursing home patients so we strongly prefer when a nursing home does not leave its residents vulnerable. Finally, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

This nursing home's nursing grade appears to be one of its better features. The facility received a grade of C in this category. The nursing rating consists of many factors, but the main one is the level of nurse hours spent with patients. This nursing home provided just 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident each day. This figure is far below the national average. Finally, our nursing scores also factor in quality-based measures, such as preventing major falls. Despite not having the most impressive total nursing hours per resident, this place actually performed admirably in the metric of preventing major falls. This is usually a good indicator that a nursing home has sufficient quality controls in place. Some falls can be avoided if a nursing home provides enough nurses aids to assist its patients.

The last category we scored was short-term care, which proved to be this facility's least impressive area. We gave it an abysmal F for this area, which is certainly concerning. Short-term care grades are generally used to measure a nursing home's performance with rehabilitation. To provide highly graded rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally need to feature better levels of skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other highly trained professionals. In this nursing home's case, we found that it provides less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than the average facility. The final measure we considered in this area is the number of patients who returned home from the nursing home. This nursing home struggled quite a bit in this metric as well, with just 4 percent of its patients returning home. Unfortunately, this was well below average.