Courtyard Nursing Care Center is one of just three facilities in Medford, Massachusetts. This is a quality facility, with an overall grade of B. We actually rated it as the best facility in Medford. This facility's strong report card was highlighted by its short-term care grade, which you can find in the next section.
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Courtyard Nursing Care Center
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- Memory Care
Updated Apr 1, 2023 by Nick Reese
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- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- Has Family Council
- For profit - Partnership
- Secure Memory Care
- Offers Hospice
- Offers Respite Care
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Medication Management
- Home Making
- Transportation
- Speech Therapy
- Amputee Recovery
- IV Antibiotic Therapy
- Palliative Care
- Dentistry
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Podiatry
- Physical Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Pharmacy
- X-Ray
- Recreational Therapy
- Pain Management
- Optometry
- Audiology
- Colostomy Care
- Orthopedic Rehabilitation
- Total Parenteral Nutrition
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Short-term Care Quality
In addition to being a quality facility overall, this facility excelled in the area of short-term care, where it earned an A-. Short-term care scores are meaningful for people seeking rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically mandates more highly-skilled nursing. This includes a wide scope of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not all nursing homes employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, based on the information this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Lastly, we looked at the number of patients who ultimately were able to return home from this nursing home. We found that 5.8 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.
Nurse Quality
Building on its strong performance in other categories, we gave this nursing home an B+ for nursing. The nursing score features a variety of datapoints. The most heavily weighted factor is the quantity of hours nurses spend with patients. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This facility performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a nursing home has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can often be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.
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Long-term Care Quality
The third category we analyzed is long-term care. This nursing home was given an impressive long-term care grade, with a grade of B in the category. For long-term care residents, the nursing home's primary goal is to keep patients healthy and safe. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate residents. On top of looking at the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home provided the vaccine to 91.065834 percent of its patients, which is a few points less than we were hoping for. Finally, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.
Facility Inspections
Turning our last category, inspections proved to be this facility's worst grade. It received a C in this category. Inspection ratings are based on a nursing home's inspection reports. Our inspection grades account for a host of factors included in a nursing home's inspection reports. One key criteria we consider is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. It doesn't look like we were able to find information about this nursing home's deficiencies. Unfortunately, we also need to draw your attention to the fact that this facility received significant government fines in recent years.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Courtyard Nursing Care Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Courtyard Nursing Care Center, 6.61% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This metric is is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay patients who developed new or worsened pressure ulcers. We have found that pressure ulcers are an indicator of a facility's nursing care quality.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Courtyard Nursing Care Center, 3.77% of Patients had Serious Falls
This statistic measures the percent of long-term patients who sustained a fall which caused serious injury. This is one of the statistics we use in calculating our nursing ratings.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Courtyard Nursing Care Center, 2.05% of Patients had UTIs
This indicates the percentage of residents that suffered from a urinary tract infection. UTI's are routinely associated with worse hygiene protocols. Better nursing care can minimize the percentage of residents in a nursing home who suffer from UTI's. We want to point out that this statistic is sometimes skewed by the fact that nursing homes have incongruent reporting standards for urinary tract infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Courtyard Nursing Care Center, 19.24% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This datapoint measures the percentage of long-term residents which are given antipsychotic drugs. Excessive reliance on these medications may indicate a facility is using these drugs to control patient behavior in scenarios where such medications aren't medically required. Nevertheless, some nursing homes may need to rely on these drugs due to an increased number of patients suffering from dementia.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Courtyard Nursing Care Center, 18.54% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This tells you the percentage of residents prescribed antianxiety medications. These medications are commonly given to patients suffering from anxiety and depression.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Courtyard Nursing Care Center, 2.48% of Patients
This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term residents who are exhibiting signs of depression.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Courtyard Nursing Care Center, 91.39% of Patients
This tells you the percent of patients that were given the flu and pneumonia vaccines. High vaccination rates should be demanded by residents.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Courtyard Nursing Care Center, 16.21% Percentage of Patients
This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term patients who needed increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as taking medications and using the bathroom. Some experts believe that this is a reasonable measure of a patient's well-being.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Courtyard Nursing Care Center, 15.75% Percentage of Residents
This is the percentage of residents who remained mobile levels over time. Retaining mobility is usually a good sign for residents' health.
Hospitalizations
In Courtyard Nursing Care Center, 1.68 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This is the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of patient care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Courtyard Nursing Care Center, 15.75 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
This tells you the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term patient care. There is a correlation between reduced hospitalizations and a nursing homes short-term rehabilitation performance.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Courtyard Nursing Care Center, 11.2 Percentage of Patients
This indicates the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Courtyard Nursing Care Center, 71.52% Percentage of Resident
This tells you the percentage of short-term stay patients who experienced functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living.
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