Cumberland Healthcare Center

With an address in Cumberland, Maryland, Cumberland Healthcare Center is one of four available nursing homes in the city. This nursing home received a somewhat concerning overall grade of D, which is a relatively poor score. Unfortunately, this grade isn't too far off the city grade for Cumberland, which is a C. Nevertheless, you still may be able to do better More information on this nursing home's category grades may be found below. Its best category is inspections, which is discussed in the next paragraph.

While we gave this facility a poor overall rating, we awarded it a fairly respectable score in the category of inspections, where we gave it a B-. This was certainly better than its other category grades. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in computing our inspection grades. One of those factors is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of the deficiencies is usually more important than the number of deficiencies, as some are quite minor. Although this nursing home had a few deficiencies on its report, none were serious based on CMS' scale. A couple minor deficiencies are not the end of the world.

This facility was given its second highest category grade in the category of long-term care. We gave this facility a B- in this category, which is an acceptable score. In calculating our long-term care grades, we scrutinize the assistance with daily living received by the facility's patients. One of the criteria we considered after nursing hours is vaccinations. Thankfully, this nursing home administered the pneumonia vaccine to 100 percent of its residents. Lastly, we looked at its number of hospitalizations. While it had 2.17 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, its risk adjusted metric was not too bad.

The next area we looked at was short-term care, where this nursing home received a grade of C in this area. In the area of short-term care, we strive to evaluate measures of a facility's rehabilitation services. We assess the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including the ones performed by registered nurses and physical therapists. Unfortunately, this facility was below average in terms of its number of registered nurse and physical therapy hours provided to its residents based on the measures we assessed. Lastly, we assessed the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. This proved to be more of a strength for this facility. In fact, we found that it outperformed the majority of facilities in this area with 51.7 percent of its patients returning home.

Turning to our next category, this facility didn't fare well in this area either. Due to a poor grade of F in nursing, this is really as bad as it gets. We analyzed the qualifications of nurses working for the nursing home, in addition to the quantity of hours those nurses worked with patients, in computing our grade in this category. This nursing home provides 3.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is slightly below average. To go along with its low total nursing hours per resident, this nursing home had really bad marks in several of the quality-based measures we looked at in computing our nursing grades. For starters, we looked at the percent of residents sustaining falls leading to major injury. This facility was at more than 1.5 times the national average in this statistic. This is alarming in light of the fact that many falls could be avoided with better nursing care. This ended up sealing the nursing home's fate of receiving a poor nursing score.