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. We were surprisingly able to give this facility some positive feedback for our inspections category, which you can find more information about below.
Colonial Park Care Center
- Nursing Home
- Memory Care
Updated Sep 1, 2022 by Nick Reese
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
Facility Inspections
Although this nursing home's overall grade was as bad as it gets, it performed pretty well in the category of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a B for that category, which is one of our better scores. Perhaps the most important factor we look at in determining our inspection grades is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. It is typically in your best interest to avoid places that have too many severe deficiencies. Although this nursing home had a few deficiencies on its report, none were severe based on CMS' deficiency scale. A couple minor deficiencies are not the end of the world.
Long-term Care Quality
Turning to the category of long-term care, this nursing home received just a D in this category. Unfortunately, this ended up being one of its better grades. In a long-term care setting, the facility'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. In addition to considering the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home gave the vaccine to 97.45098 percent of its residents, which is more than the vast majority of nursing homes. To our surprise, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0.03 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this facility has fewer hospitalizations than many nursing homes. Sadly, a few of its other scores in this category were not as favorable as these.
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Nurse Quality
We also wanted to point out that this nursing home received an F for its nursing grade. When computing a nursing home's nursing rating, we consider the amount of time nurses are with residents and the skill levels of the nurses. This facility provided a meager 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident daily. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in calculating our nursing scores. This nursing home performed well when it comes to minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls.
Short-term Care Quality
Turning to our last area, this facility really didn't fare very well in this category either. Due to an abysmal grade of F in short-term care, this is just about as as uninspiring as it gets. In determining our short-term care scores, we scrutinize the nursing home's levels of skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other licensed professionals. This category is generally a useful measure of a facility's rehabilitation. Given its grade in this area, we weren't surprised to discover that this place is well below average in terms of its number of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its residents based on the figures we looked at. Honestly, this was about what we expected here. The final statistic we assessed in this category is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We discovered that just 4 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home, which is well below average. The combination of these poor statistics doomed this facility's short-term care grade.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Colonial Park Care Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Colonial Park Care Center, 7.59% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This datapoint gauges the percent of long-term residents which have pressure ulcers. Many experts believe that pressure ulcers are a reliable barometer of the quality of nursing care a nursing home provides.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Colonial Park Care Center, 3.37% of Patients had Serious Falls
This metric tells you the percentage of long-term care residents who have experienced falls resulting in severe injury. We use this statistic in determining nursing grades.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Colonial Park Care Center, 1.9% of Patients had UTIs
This is the percent of patients that have had a urinary tract infection. These infections are sometimes linked to poorer hygiene.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Colonial Park Care Center, 15.54% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This tells you the percent of patients prescribed antipsychotic drugs. Antipsychotic drugs are prescribed to residents for many medical conditions, such as cognitive disorders. Tragically, in limited situations, high levels of antipsychotic drug use may indicate that a nursing home is using these medications to subdue residents.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Colonial Park Care Center, 19.74% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This tells you the percent of long-term care patients which were administered antianxiety medication. These drugs are given to residents experiencing anxiety and depression.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Colonial Park Care Center, 3.12% of Patients
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay residents who are showing signs of depression.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Colonial Park Care Center, 88.22% of Patients
This tells you the percentage of residents that received the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be the norm at this point.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Colonial Park Care Center, 14.84% Percentage of Patients
This datapoint measures the percentage of long-term care residents who required increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as dressing and bathing.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Colonial Park Care Center, 21.64% Percentage of Residents
This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term residents that maintained mobility. Many in the industry would argue that mobility is important for residents' mental and physical well-being.
Hospitalizations
In Colonial Park Care Center, 1.31 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
In Colonial Park Care Center, 21.64 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
This is the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term care.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Colonial Park Care Center, 8.92 Percentage of Patients
This tells you the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Colonial Park Care Center, 72.59% Percentage of Resident
This metric is a measure of the percentage of short-term care residents who saw functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. Many in the industry would argue this is a reasonable measure of a facility's rehabilitation services.
Scores for Harrisburg, PA
- Overall Rating has a grade of C
- Nurse Rating has a grade of B-minus
- 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
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