Cumberland Crossings Retirement Community is a nursing home located in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, a city with a population of 55,373 people. Featuring an overall rating of B+, this nursing home should work for most prospective patients. In fact, this is better than many of the nursing homes in Carlisle, which has a good selection of facilities. This facility was stronger in some categories than others, but it did not have any bad scores in any of our major areas discussed below. More information about these categories can be found below.
Cumberland Crossings Retirement Community
- Nursing Home
- Independent Living
Updated Sep 1, 2022 by Nick Lata
Quick Details
- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- Is CCRC
- No Resident Council
- No Family Council
- Non profit - Church related
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Recreational Therapy
Registered Staff Hours
Short-term Care Quality
On top of earning a strong overall score, this nursing home fared well in our short-term care category. We awarded it an A for that category, which is one of our highest grades. In the category of short-term care, we try to evaluate measures of a facility's rehabilitation. We assess a facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses and physical, occupational and other therapists. Fortunately, it looks like this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. However, according to the information this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we assessed the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 6.8 percent of this facility's patients returned home.
Facility Inspections
Adding to its impressive profile, this facility also performed well in the area of inspections. In fact, it earned a nearly flawless inspection report this year. As a result, it earned one of our highest grades in that category with a score of A. Inspection scores are tied to pieces of information found on the a nursing home's government inspections. Nursing homes that receive favorable grades in this area tend to have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these facilities should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. While this place had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means CMS did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
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Long-term Care Quality
This facility was given strong scores in the category of long-term care as well. Indeed, we awarded it one of our most elite grades in that area with a score of A-. Long-term care grades of this caliber generally require both 24/7 care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine healthcare services. In addition to looking at the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home administered the vaccine to 98.23529 percent of its patients, which is what we like to see. Pneumonia sadly can be a dangerous condition for nursing home patients so we prefer when a nursing home does not take any chances. Lastly, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0.03 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.
Nurse Quality
Moving on to our fourth area, this nursing home was awarded a respectable nursing rating. While this was not quite as impressive as a few of its other category grades, this is still not a major area of concern. Nursing ratings are tied to quality and quantity of nursing care. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Finally, despite not having the most impressive total nursing hours, this facility performed admirably in the metric of preventing major falls. This is often an indicator that a facility has sufficient quality controls in place.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Cumberland Crossings Retirement Community Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Cumberland Crossings Retirement Community, 7.59% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This figure is is a measure of the percent of long-term care patients who are suffering from pressure ulcers. We find that pressure ulcers are an measure of a facility's nursing care quality.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Cumberland Crossings Retirement Community, 3.37% of Patients had Serious Falls
This figure gauges the percent of long-term residents who had a fall leading to severe injury. Falls can arise for a variety of reasons, but high rates of major falls could be an indication of poor nursing care.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Cumberland Crossings Retirement Community, 1.9% of Patients had UTIs
This figure tells you the percentage of long-term residents that have suffered from a UTI. UTI's may be an indicator of a facility with worst hygiene practices. Nevertheless, this datapoint may also be skewed for certain nursing homes due to different reporting standards for these infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Cumberland Crossings Retirement Community, 15.54% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This is the percent of patients given antipsychotic medications. While antipsychotic drugs may be helpful for many patients, it is important to make sure these drugs are being used only where medically required. In some cases, excessive reliance on these medications may indicate a facility is using these drugs to control patient behavior.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Cumberland Crossings Retirement Community, 19.74% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This gauges the percentage of long-term patients taking antianxiety medications.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Cumberland Crossings Retirement Community, 3.12% of Patients
This is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay patients showing depressive symptoms.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Cumberland Crossings Retirement Community, 88.22% of Patients
This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term patients that have received the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be fatal for nursing home residents, making these vaccines vital to patient care.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Cumberland Crossings Retirement Community, 14.84% Percentage of Patients
This is a measure of the percentage of long-term care patients who needed increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as dressing and using the bathroom. Many would argue that this is a measure of a resident's well-being.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Cumberland Crossings Retirement Community, 21.64% Percentage of Residents
This is a measure of the percentage of long-term care patients who retained mobility levels.
Hospitalizations
In Cumberland Crossings Retirement Community, 1.31 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This tells you the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of patient care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Cumberland Crossings Retirement Community, 21.64 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Measures the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term care.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Cumberland Crossings Retirement Community, 8.92 Percentage of Patients
This metric tracks the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term care. Avoiding emergency medical situations is one way to measure patient care during rehabilitation.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Cumberland Crossings Retirement Community, 72.59% Percentage of Resident
This metric is a measure of the percentage of short-term stay residents who saw functional improvements.
Scores for Carlisle, PA
- Overall Rating has a grade of B-minus
- Nurse Rating has a grade of B-minus
- Long-term Care Rating has a grade of B-minus
- Short-term Care Rating has a grade of B
- Inspection Rating has a grade of A-minus
Looking for more options? Carlisle, Pennsylvania has 7 other nursing homes
Nearby Hospitals
- Carlisle Regional Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 1.39 miles away361 Alexander Spring Road Carlisle Pennsylvania 17015Proprietary(717) 249-1212
- Good Samaritan HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 4.2 miles awayFourth and Walnut Streets Lebanon Pennsylvania 17042Voluntary non-profit - Other(717) 270-7500
- Holy Spirit HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 15.35 miles away503 North 21st Street Camp Hill Pennsylvania 17011Voluntary non-profit - Private(717) 763-2100
- Pennsylvania Psychiatric InstitutePsychiatric 17.49 miles away2501 North Third Street Harrisburg Pennsylvania 17110Proprietary(717) 782-4742
- Pinnacle Health HospitalsAcute Care Hospitals 17.85 miles away409 South Second Street Harrisburg Pennsylvania 17105Voluntary non-profit - Other(717) 782-5181
Nearby Dialysis
- u.s. Renal Care - Carlisle1.03 miles away101 Noble Boulevard, Suite 103 Carlisle Pennsylvania 17013Dialysis Stations: 14 (717) 258-3099
- Fresenius Kidney Care - Cumberland1.8 miles away254 East High Street Carlisle Pennsylvania 17013Dialysis Stations: 16 (717) 240-2944
- Wooten Dialysis, LLC1.94 miles away419 Village Dr., Suite 10 Carlisle Pennsylvania 17015Dialysis Stations: 12 (717) 218-5104
- Dialysis Care Center - Mechanicsburg LLC10.15 miles away4 Flowers Drive, Suite 1 Mechanicsburg Pennsylvania 17050Dialysis Stations: 11 (717) 795-4665
- u.s. Renal Care Mechanicsburg10.74 miles away120 South Filbert Street Mechanicsburg Pennsylvania 17055Dialysis Stations: 15 (717) 790-6080
- u.s. Renal Care - Camp Hill14.5 miles away158 South 32nd Street, Suite 19 Camp Hill Pennsylvania 17011Dialysis Stations: 16 (717) 731-0506
- Fresenius Kidney Care - Camp Hill15.26 miles away240 Grandview Avenue, Suite 200 Camp Hill Pennsylvania 17011Dialysis Stations: 18 (717) 737-7800
- Bio-Medical Applications of Pennsylvania, Inc.15.42 miles away390 E. Penn Drive Enola Pennsylvania 17025Dialysis Stations: 2 (717) 732-3274