Carlyle Healthcare Center

We would like to point out that this facility's inspection grade exceeded its overall score. This facility earned a grade of B in this category, which is one of our better grades. Perhaps the most important factor we look at in computing our inspection scores is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a facility's inspection reports. Nursing homes with higher scores in this category typically dodged the more severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. Fortunately, although this place had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are labeled as categories G through L. This tells you the inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. A few minor deficiencies should not lead you to cross a nursing home off your list.

One of the other reasons we graded this nursing home so highly is that it earned a very impressive nursing grade. Nursing proved to be its second best category grade. In that category, we gave this facility an B-. Our nursing grade analyzes the nursing home's level of nurse staffing. We weigh both the levels of licensure of the nurses as well as the quantity of hours spent with residents. This place provided just 0 hours of nursing care per patient each day. This is a low total compared with most facilities. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this nursing home excelled in some of the quality-based metrics we looked at. In fact, it scored well in the area of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers.

The next category we analyzed was long-term care, where this nursing home was awarded a B- in this area. For prospective residents looking for a permanent place to live rather than rehabilitation, long-term care is an important category. Once we finished looking at the volume of care provided by nurses, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination data. We were pleased to learn that this nursing home vaccinated 96.456696 percent of its patients for pneumonia. This place was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

The next category we scored is short-term care. We gave this nursing home a B- in that category. Our short-term care ratings are based in part on a nursing home's quantity of skilled highly skilled professionals. This includes a vast range of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. In this facility's case, we were surprised to learn that it actually provides less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than the average facility. Finally, we assessed the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 3.9 percent of this facility's patients returned home. At most nursing homes, closer to half of their patients are able to return home so this figure is below average.