Cumberland Crossings Retirement Community

Cumberland Crossings Retirement Community is a facility located in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, a city with a population of 55,373 people. With an overall rating of B, this appears to be a good option. This grade was right in line with the city grade in Carlisle. The best part of this facility's impressive profile is its inspection reports. Inspection reports are discussed in the next paragraph

One of the reasons this ended up being a strong facility is that it earned an impressive inspection grade. Inspections turned out to be its best category grade. In that category, we gave it an A. Inspection grades are tied to several pieces of information located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that excel in this category have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. Although this nursing home had a few deficiencies on its inspection report, none were serious based on CMS' deficiency scale. The fact that none of the deficiencies were severe made us feel better about this inspection report.

This facility performed well in the category of short-term care. As a result, we gave it a grade of A for that area, which happens to be one of our highest grades. Short-term care scores are important for residents needing rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically requires additional highly-skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing means a vast spectrum of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. This facility excelled in the two key staffing areas we looked at. The facility provided more care from registered nurses and physical therapists than a typical facility. This is usually a great sign. Finally, we looked at the percentage of patients that ultimately were able to return home from this nursing home. On top of excelling in the area of physical therapy hours, we found that it performed as well as just about any nursing home in the nation with 59.5 percent of its patients returning home. Most nursing homes are below 50 percent in this metric.

Another one of this facility's impressive category grades came in the area of nursing care. We awarded them one of our better scores in that area, with a grade of B. We scrutinized the licensure of nurses at the facility, in addition to the quantity of time the nurses were with patients, in determining our rating in this area. This facility provided 3.5 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 facility has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can generally be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

Turning to our next category, this nursing home did not fare very well. With a bottom of the barrel grade of F in that category, this is notably this nursing home's worst category. For long-term care residents, the primary goal is to keep patients as healthy and safe as possible. 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 analyzed the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home vaccinated 96.49123 percent of its residents. To our surprise, this facility was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had just 0.77 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. Sadly, some of its other scores in the category were not as favorable as these.