Courtyard Nursing and Rehabilitation

Although we did not rate this nursing home favorably overall, we want to point out its nearly flawless health inspections in recent years. We awarded them an A in this category. Inspection scores take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these items by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this facility had a few deficiencies on its government inspection report, none of them were severe based on CMS' scale. A couple minor deficiencies are not the end of the world.

This facility's second best category was long-term care, but it nevertheless earned just a D in that category. This is still a relatively poor score. If you are seeking services other than rehabilitation, you should take a close look at each facility's long-term care scores. After considering the amount of care provided by nurses, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination statistics. We were optimistic to discover that this facility vaccinated 100 percent of its residents against pneumonia. To our surprise, this place also keeps its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had just 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. Unfortunately, a few of its other scores in the category weren't as favorable as these.

We gave this facility just a D for our short-term care grade. This is not an impressive grade. Our short-term care scores are based in part on a nursing home's quantity of highly-skilled highly skilled professionals. This includes a broad spectrum of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. With a grade this poor in this category, we were not stunned to discover this facility was below average in the two key staffing areas we assess. In fact, it supplied far fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most other facilities. The final item we assessed in this area is the percentage of patients that who were able to eventually return home from the nursing home. This nursing home struggled quite a bit in this metric as well, with just 0 percent of its residents returning home. Unfortunately, this was well below average.

The next category we rated was nursing. It received a lowly F in this category, which is a bottom of the barrel score. We looked at the licensure of nurses at the nursing home, as well as the quantity of hours those nurses were with residents, in calculating our grade in this category. This place offered only 0.4 hours of nursing care per patient daily. This is not a very impressive figure. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in computing our nursing ratings. This nursing home performed well in the area of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers.