Courville at Nashua
22 Hunt Street, Nashua NH 03060 · (603) 889-5450 · 73.7% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Reese
Courville at Nashua is located in Nashua, New Hampshire. The city has 86,494 people. With an overall grade of B, this facility is a very good option. Based on our analysis, you could do much worse than this place. The best part of this facility's strong report card is its inspection grade. Inspection grades are discussed in the next section
Additional Details:
Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 100 Beds
CCRC :
For profit - Corporation
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Family Council:
Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
This facility received a strong overall score as described above, but we especially want to emphasize its excellent inspections in recent years. We gave them an impressive grade of A+ in this area. Arguably the most significant factor we look at in determining our inspection grades is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places with higher scores in this category most likely avoided the more severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. We were not able to find deficiency data for this facility. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
Long-term Care Quality
Another one of this facility's quality category grades came in the area of long-term care. We gave them one of our better scores in that category, with a score of B+. Facilities that do well in this category tend to provide patients with closer supervision and stay on top of routine medical care. In addition to considering the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility gave the vaccine to 100 percent of its residents. Vaccines are vital to keeping patients healthy. Finally, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. With only 1.05 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this nursing home had less hospitalizations than many nursing homes.
Short-term Care Quality
This facility is also strong in the area of short-term care, where it received a grade of B. It outperformed most facilities in this category. In calculating our short-term care scores, we analyze the nursing home's levels of highly skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other highly trained professionals. This area is typically a solid measure of the nursing home's rehabilitation services. This place increased its grade in this area by providing more than 1.5 times as many physical therapy hours than the typical facility. The last datapoint we looked at in this category is the number of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We found that it fared as well as just about any nursing home in New Hampshire in this area with 56.9 percent of its patients returning home.
Nurse Quality
The final category we analyzed is nursing, which was this facility's least impressive category. We awarded this facility a grade of D in this category. Of course, this grade pulled down the nursing home's overall grade to a certain degree. We scrutinized the levels of nurses at the nursing home, in addition to the quantity of time the nurses were with residents, in computing our rating in this category. This facility provided 3.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is below the national average. While this facility's nursing hours were below average, it surprised us in some of the qualitative data points in this category. In particular, we were pleased to find that its residents appear to be suffering fewer pressure ulcers than the national average.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Courville at Nashua Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This tells you the percent of patients that sustained a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are skin damage due to remaining in one position for too long.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This indicates the percent of residents who sustained a fall which resulted in serious injury.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This is the percent of residents who have had a urinary tract infection. UTI's are considered by many experts to be an indicator of nursing care . UTI's are routinely linked to poor nursing care. However, this metric may also be skewed for some facilities due to inconsistent reporting standards for urinary tract infections.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This datapoint tells you the percentage of long-term residents receiving antipsychotic medications. While antipsychotic medications play an important role in caring for many residents, it is important to ensure these medications are being used appropriately. In limited cases, excessive reliance on these medications may indicate a nursing home is using these drugs to subdue residents.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This metric is an indication of the percentage of long-term care patients receiving antianxiety medications.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
Measures the percent of long-term residents who are showing symptoms of depression. Many believe that this is a reasonable measure of quality of care.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term care patients that were given the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be deadly for nursing home patients, making these types of vaccines indispensable.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This indicates the percentage of residents that needed increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of dependence on staff for assistance with activities of daily living could be a sign of deterioration of a patient's well-being.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This is the percent of patients that remained mobile levels over time. Preserving mobility is often a great sign for residents' health.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This tells you the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This tells you the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This indicates the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term patient care. There is usually a correlation between having fewer emergency room visits and the overall quality of care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This is the percentage of short-term care patients that experienced functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better