Courtyard Nursing and Rehabilitation

We want to draw your attention to the fact that this facility really outperformed its overall grade in the category of inspections. In fact, it received an excellent inspection report this year. As a result, we gave it one of our best grades in this category with a grade of A-. Our inspection ratings are tied to many items found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that excel in this category have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. While this facility had a few minor dings on its report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G through L. This tells you CMS did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A couple of minor deficiencies should not stop you from considering a nursing home.

This nursing home was given its next best category score in the area of long-term care. We awarded this nursing home a grade of B- in this area, which is a decent grade. Long-term care grades assess a facility's assistance with daily living rather than the skilled therapy or healthcare services that are critical to a rehabilitation facility. In addition to considering the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. Thankfully, this nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its patients, which is a very solid statistic. This facility also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

Turning to another strength for this facility, it also earned an elite nursing rating. In fact, we gave this nursing home an impressive grade of D. There are several criteria included in this category. Most of these criteria are tied to the quantity of nurse staffing. This place offered just 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is well below average. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in calculating our nursing scores. This nursing home fared well in the area of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good measures of the quality of nursing care.

The next category we looked at is short-term care, which was this nursing home's least impressive area. We awarded this nursing home a D in that area. In the area of short-term care, we seek to assess indicators of a facility's rehabilitation services. We analyze the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses and physical therapists. Not surprisingly, we found that this nursing home provides far less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than the average facility. The final datapoint we assessed in this area is the percentage of patients that returned home from the facility. This facility struggled quite a bit in this area as well, with just 0 percent of its residents returning home.