Courtyard Nursing and Rehabilitation

The primary reason this facility received a decent overall grade is its impeccable government inspections in recent years. We awarded them one of our better grades in that area, with an A. This is a notably better grade than the place's overall score, which was decent but not in the elite range. Inspection grades weigh several factors, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can learn more about each of these items by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Although this facility had a few deficiencies on its inspection report, none of them were major deficiencies based on CMS' deficiency scale. A couple of minor deficiencies should not lead you to cross a nursing home off your list.

This nursing home's second best area ended up being long-term care. In that category, we gave this facility a B-. In a long-term care environment, the primary goal is to keep patients as healthy and safe as possible. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate patients. One of the datapoints we considered on top of nursing hours is vaccines. Fortunately, this nursing home provided the pneumonia vaccination to 100 percent of its residents. Lastly, this facility was also able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

Another strength of this facility is its favorable grade in nursing. We gave them one of our better scores in that area, with an impressive grade of D. There are a variety of factors within this grade. Many of the subcategories relate to levels of nurse staffing. This place provided a meager 0.4 hours of nursing care per patient per day. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in calculating our nursing scores. This nursing home performed well in the area of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. Many consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

The final category we assessed was short-term care, which ended up being a weak link for this facility. We awarded this nursing home a D in our short-term care category. Short-term care scores are crucial for individuals looking for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally utilizes additional highly-skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes a wide scope of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. Given its score in this category, we were not stunned to learn that this nursing home was well below average in terms of the quantity of registered nurse and physical therapy hours offered to its patients based on the metrics we assessed. Frankly, this was what we expected to find. The final item we looked at in this area is the percentage of residents who eventually returned home from the nursing home. This nursing home struggled quite a bit in this area as well, with just 0 percent of its patients returning home.