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Colonial Park Care Center

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  • Memory Care

Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Reese

Historical Rating
Grade: F
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800 King Russ Road,
Harrisburg PA 17109

(717) 657-1520

66.36% estimated occupancy 1

Colonial Park Care Center is a senior living facility located in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, a city with 165,527 people. Our scoring system was not kind to this nursing home, as it received an overall rating of F. At the end of the day, you would be better off to avoid of this nursing home. Despite all this, one of the few highlights of this facility's profile is its impressive inspection rating. You can continue reading to learn more about inspections and other category scores

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Quick Details

  • Accepts Medicare 1
  • Accepts Medicaid 1
  • No CCRC
  • Has Resident Council
  • No Family Council
  • For profit - Corporation
  • Secure Memory Care 
  • Offers Hospice
  • Offers Post-Acute Care 
  • Offers Respite Care
  • Offers Inpatient Rehab

Specialized Services

  • Personal Care
  • Speech Therapy
  • Stroke Recovery
  • IV Antibiotic Therapy
  • Palliative Care
  • Wound Care
  • Occupational Therapy
  • Cardiac Therapy
  • Hemodialysis
  • Podiatry
  • Diabetes Management
  • Physical Therapy
  • Respiratory Therapy
  • Nutritional Counseling
  • Pharmacy
  • Laboratory
  • X-Ray
  • Bariatric Care
  • Optometry
  • Orthopedic Rehabilitation
  • Total Parenteral Nutrition

Registered Staff Hours

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Facility Inspections

Grade: B-plus

Although we gave this facility a terrible overall grade, we awarded it a B+ for our inspections category. This was due to the nursing home receiving a decent government inspection report this year. These inspection grades take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these factors by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Fortunately, although this facility 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 means the government inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A couple minor deficiencies aren't the end of the world.

Long-term Care Quality

Grade: C

This nursing home also didn't fare terribly in the category of long-term care. In fact, we gave it a C for that category, which turned out to be another one of its higher scores. In the category of long-term care, we focus on the quantity of services provided by a facility, rather than more healthcare-oriented services. One of the datapoints we considered on top of nurse's aid hours is vaccines. Thankfully, this nursing home administered the pneumonia vaccination to 100 percent of its patients. Finally, this nursing home was also able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

Short-term Care Quality

Grade: F

Another unfortunate development is the F this facility received in the category of short-term care. Our short-term care grades are presumably most important for residents needing rehabilitation from their nursing home. Rehabilitation usually utilizes higher levels of highly-skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes not only nursing, but also physical and occupational therapy, as well as other forms of therapy. Given its weak score in this category, we weren't surprised to discover this nursing home provided significantly fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per patient than most nursing homes. Lastly, we assessed the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that just 4.2 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

Nurse Quality

Grade: F

The final category we scored is nursing, where this facility was given a rock bottom grade here as well. It received an abysmal F for this area, which is obviously a major disappointment. The nursing grade features several subcategories. The most heavily weighted one is the quantity of hours nurses spent with residents. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. To go along with its low totals in the area of nursing hours per resident, this nursing home also did not perform as well in the quality-based measures we looked at in calculating our nursing ratings. We looked at the percentage of patients sustaining pressure ulcers and major falls. This facility had more falls and pressure ulcers than the average facility. This could be a bad sign when you consider that many falls and bed sores are believed to be preventable with better nursing care. Unfortunately, these metrics hurt this facility's nursing rating significantly.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

FDCB-BB+A-AA+Oct 18Dec 23

Colonial Park Care Center Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

Grade: B-minus

In Colonial Park Care Center, 8.79% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This metric tells you the percentage of long-term care residents who suffered from pressure ulcers . We use this statistic in calculating both nursing and long-term care grades.

Minimizes Serious Falls

Grade: C

In Colonial Park Care Center, 4.76% of Patients had Serious Falls

This is the percent of residents that sustained a fall which caused severe injury.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

Grade: D

In Colonial Park Care Center, 4.39% of Patients had UTIs

This indicates the percent of patients who sustained a urinary tract infection. UTI's are routinely associated with worse hygiene protocols. Closer supervision minimizes the number of UTI's sustained by residents in a nursing home. Note that this metric is affected by by the fact that nursing homes have incongruent reporting standards for urinary tract infections.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

Grade: B-minus

In Colonial Park Care Center, 15.63% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This tells you the percent of residents prescribed antipsychotic drugs. These medications are used for a variety of conditions, including cognitive disorders.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

Grade: B

In Colonial Park Care Center, 19.68% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This statistic measures the percentage of long-term patients which are given antianxiety medication. These medications are generally given to residents suffering from depression or anxiety.

Managing Depression Among Residents

Grade: B-plus

In Colonial Park Care Center, 2.16% of Patients

This is a measure of the percent of long-term residents who are showing symptoms of depression.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

Grade: A-minus

In Colonial Park Care Center, 99.03% of Patients

This datapoint measures the percent of long-term care residents who received the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be fatal for nursing home residents, making these types of vaccines critical to patient safety.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

Grade: C

In Colonial Park Care Center, 18.33% of Patients

This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term patients that required more assistance with activities of daily living over time. Activities of daily living include activities such as getting dressed and continence. Many argue that this is a reliable measure of a patient's well-being.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

Grade: B-plus

In Colonial Park Care Center, 19.3% of Residents

This indicates the percent of patients who remained mobile levels over time. Preserving mobility can be a great sign for residents' health.

Hospitalizations

Grade: B-minus

In Colonial Park Care Center, 0.02 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days

This indicates the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of patient care.

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

Grade: B-minus

In Colonial Park Care Center, 19.3% of Residents Rehospitalized

This tells you the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term patient care. There is generally a correlation between having fewer hospitalizations and a nursing homes short-term rehabilitation performance.

Short-term Care: ER Visits

Grade: A-plus

In Colonial Park Care Center, 3.5% of Patients

This datapoint is a measure of the number of emergency room visits per 1,000 days of short-term patient care. Staying out of the emergency room is one way to assess the well-being of patients during rehabilitation.

Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement

Grade: D

In Colonial Park Care Center, 62.8% of Resident

This datapoint is a measure of the percent of short-term patients who saw functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. Some experts argue this is a measure of a facility's rehabilitation services.

Scores for Harrisburg, PA

  • Overall Rating has a grade of C
  • Nurse Rating has a grade of C
  • Long-term Care Rating has a grade of C
  • Short-term Care Rating has a grade of D
  • Inspection Rating has a grade of B-plus

Looking for more options? Harrisburg, Pennsylvania has 4 other nursing homes

Nearby Hospitals

  • Pinnacle Health HospitalsAcute Care Hospitals 3.82 miles away409 South Second Street Harrisburg Pennsylvania 17105Voluntary non-profit - Other(717) 782-5181
  • Pennsylvania Psychiatric InstitutePsychiatric 4.49 miles away2501 North Third Street Harrisburg Pennsylvania 17110Proprietary(717) 782-4742
  • Holy Spirit HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 6.24 miles away503 North 21st Street Camp Hill Pennsylvania 17011Voluntary non-profit - Private(717) 763-2100
  • Good Samaritan HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 19.25 miles awayFourth and Walnut Streets Lebanon Pennsylvania 17042Voluntary non-profit - Other(717) 270-7500

Nearby Dialysis

  • Fresenius Kidney Care - Harrisburg0.66 miles away4343 Union Deposit Road Union Court Harrisburg Pennsylvania 17111CMS Rating: 2 stars Dialysis Stations: 16 (717) 564-5690
  • Cedar Dialysis, LLC1.5 miles away479 Port View Drive, Suite b21 Harrisburg Pennsylvania 17111CMS Rating: 1 stars Dialysis Stations: 16 (717) 558-0290
  • Millonee Dialysis, LLC3.75 miles away4390 Sturbridge Drive Harrisburg Pennsylvania 17110Dialysis Stations: 12 (717) 545-2805
  • Fresenius Kidney Care - Cityline4.47 miles away2601 North 3rd Street, Suite 101 Harrisburg Pennsylvania 17110Dialysis Stations: 17 (717) 909-9450
  • Fresenius Kidney Care - Capital Area4.68 miles away1300 Linglestown Road, 1st Floor Harrisburg Pennsylvania 17110Dialysis Stations: 21 (717) 234-8840
  • Ldhb Middletown, LLC4.72 miles away1050 Kreider Dr., Suite 100 Middletown Pennsylvania 17057Dialysis Stations: 15 (717) 944-2327
  • Liberty Dialysis LLC - Camp Hill5.83 miles away500 N. 12th Street, Suite 300 Lemoyne Pennsylvania 17043CMS Rating: 5 stars Dialysis Stations: 17 (717) 230-1630
  • Davita West Shore5.83 miles away550 North 12th St., Suite 110 Lemoyne Pennsylvania 17043Dialysis Stations: 12 (717) 737-3272