Forest Park Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center is a facility in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, which has a population of 55,373 people. Featuring an overall rating of F, we consider this to be a bottom of the barrel nursing home. If you are not happy with this facility's subpar overall grade, you will be pleased to know there are seven other nursing homes in Carlisle. Lastly, this nursing home's ownership changed in the last year, so we will need to monitor it to confirm it is able to raise its standard of care going forward.
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Forest Park Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center
- Nursing Home
- Memory Care
Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Lata
Please note our records indicate that Forest Park Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center has changed ownership recently and while our data on this page is up-to-date there is a chance that the quality of this facility may change under new management.
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- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Corporation
- Secure Memory Care
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Medication Management
- Home Making
- Transportation
- Medical Transportation
- Speech Therapy
- IV Antibiotic Therapy
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Physical Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Recreational Therapy
- Orthopedic Rehabilitation
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Registered Staff Hours
Long-term Care Quality
Neither this nursing home's overall grade nor its category grades gave us much to write home about. Its best category was long-term care, but even there it received just a D. In a long-term care setting, the nursing home's primary goal is to maintain patients' quality of life and keep them safe. On top of considering the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility vaccinated 94.52888 percent of its patients. To our surprise, this facility also fared well at keeping its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.03 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. Unfortunately, some of its other scores in the category were not as favorable as these.
Facility Inspections
We also wanted to point out this facility's inspection rating where it received a lowly F. This usually means we found some red flags on its inspection reports. You should pay special attention to any deficiencies on a nursing home's inspection reports when it receives this bad of an inspection score. We would scrutinize the severity of those deficiencies. This particular facility was hit with 3 deficiencies by government inspectors. The only favorable thing we can say is that none of the deficiencies were in the categories that indicate that they caused a risk to patient safety or health. Lastly, we also would like to draw your attention to the fact that this nursing home received significant government fines in recent years exceeding $50,000. This usually suggests that inspectors became fed up after multiple years of failed inspections.
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Nurse Quality
Among this nursing home's several poor grades was its F in the area of nursing care. Our nursing score analyzes a handful of subcategories, most of which are associated with nursing hours. With just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident each day, this nursing home's nurse staffing levels were far below average. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in computing our nursing grades. This facility fared well when it comes to avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers.
Short-term Care Quality
The final category we assessed is short-term care. This facility received a very poor grade of F in that area. In calculating our short-term care grades, we analyze a nursing home's levels of skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other highly skilled individuals. This area is typically a useful assessment of the nursing home's rehabilitation services. Considering its score in this area, we were not stunned to find that this facility was well below average in terms of its number of registered nurse and physical therapy hours offered to its patients based on the data we looked at. Lastly, we considered the number of residents that who were able to eventually return home from this facility. This facility didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 3.6 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home. This figure was well off the national average.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Forest Park Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Forest Park Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center, 6.44% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This statistic gauges the percent of long-term patients that suffer from new or worsened pressure ulcers . We use this statistic in calculating both nursing and long-term care grades.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Forest Park Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center, 5.47% of Patients had Serious Falls
This is the percent of patients who have had a major fall. Falls resulting in serious injuries are often the result of lower levels of patient supervision. More supervision reduces the percentage of residents in a nursing home who sustain major falls.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Forest Park Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center, 0.62% of Patients had UTIs
This figure gauges the percent of long-term patients who have had a urinary tract infection. UTI's may be a sign of worse hygiene protocols. However, this metric may be misleading for some facilities due to inconsistent reporting standards for infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Forest Park Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center, 28.81% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This datapoint tells you the percentage of long-term residents taking antipsychotic medications. While antipsychotic medications serve an important medical purpose, it is important to ensure these medications are being used only where medically required. In some cases, excessive reliance on these medications may suggest that a facility is using these drugs to subdue residents.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Forest Park Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center, 21.33% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This statistic indicates the percent of long-term stay patients which were given antianxiety drugs. These drugs are generally used to treat residents experiencing anxiety and depression.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Forest Park Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center, 14.47% of Patients
This indicates the percentage of residents who are exhibiting signs of depression. Higher rates of depression could reveal worse patient care.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Forest Park Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center, 85.45% of Patients
This is a measure of the percentage of long-term care patients who received the flu and pneumonia vaccines.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Forest Park Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center, 14.02% of Patients
This indicates the percent of patients that required increased assistance with activities of daily living over time.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Forest Park Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center, 13.09% of Residents
This metric tracks the percent of long-term care patients who remained mobile levels. Many would argue that the ability to move around is critical to residents' mental and physical well-being.
Hospitalizations
In Forest Park Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center, 0.03 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This metric is a measure of the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of patient care. Keeping residents out of the hospital is critical to maintaining the physical health of residents.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Forest Park Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center, 13.09% of Residents Rehospitalized
This indicates the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term care. There is generally a correlation between keeping patients out of the hospital and a nursing home's quality of short-term rehabilitation.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Forest Park Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center, 8.29% of Patients
This is the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term patient care. There is a correlation between fewer emergency room visits and the quality of rehabilitation.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Forest Park Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center, 64.62% of Resident
This datapoint measures the percentage of short-term stay patients who saw functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. Many believe that this is a measure of a nursing home's rehabilitation services.
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-minus
- Inspection Rating has a grade of B-plus
Looking for more options? Carlisle, Pennsylvania has 7 other nursing homes
Nearby Hospitals
- Carlisle Regional Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 1.07 miles away361 Alexander Spring Road Carlisle Pennsylvania 17015Proprietary(717) 249-1212
- Good Samaritan HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 4.93 miles awayFourth and Walnut Streets Lebanon Pennsylvania 17042Voluntary non-profit - Other(717) 270-7500
- Holy Spirit HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 15.36 miles away503 North 21st Street Camp Hill Pennsylvania 17011Voluntary non-profit - Private(717) 763-2100
- Pennsylvania Psychiatric InstitutePsychiatric 17.41 miles away2501 North Third Street Harrisburg Pennsylvania 17110Proprietary(717) 782-4742
- Pinnacle Health HospitalsAcute Care Hospitals 17.88 miles away409 South Second Street Harrisburg Pennsylvania 17105Voluntary non-profit - Other(717) 782-5181
Nearby Dialysis
- u.s. Renal Care - Carlisle0.57 miles away101 Noble Boulevard, Suite 103 Carlisle Pennsylvania 17013Dialysis Stations: 14 (717) 258-3099
- Fresenius Kidney Care - Cumberland1.34 miles away254 East High Street Carlisle Pennsylvania 17013Dialysis Stations: 16 (717) 240-2944
- Wooten Dialysis, LLC1.63 miles away419 Village Dr., Suite 10 Carlisle Pennsylvania 17015Dialysis Stations: 12 (717) 218-5104
- Dialysis Care Center - Mechanicsburg LLC10.01 miles away4 Flowers Drive, Suite 1 Mechanicsburg Pennsylvania 17050Dialysis Stations: 11 (717) 795-4665
- u.s. Renal Care Mechanicsburg10.86 miles away120 South Filbert Street Mechanicsburg Pennsylvania 17055Dialysis Stations: 15 (717) 790-6080
- u.s. Renal Care - Camp Hill14.56 miles away158 South 32nd Street, Suite 19 Camp Hill Pennsylvania 17011Dialysis Stations: 16 (717) 731-0506
- Bio-Medical Applications of Pennsylvania, Inc.15.26 miles away390 E. Penn Drive Enola Pennsylvania 17025Dialysis Stations: 2 (717) 732-3274
- Fresenius Kidney Care - Camp Hill15.32 miles away240 Grandview Avenue, Suite 200 Camp Hill Pennsylvania 17011Dialysis Stations: 18 (717) 737-7800