Manorcare Health Services-Carlisle

Manorcare Health Services-Carlisle is a large nursing home in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Sporting an overall rating of B-, this is likely a solid facility. The nursing homes in Carlisle received quality grades across the board with a city grade of a B. This facility is better in some categories than others, but it did not have any weak links in any of our major categories discussed below. More information about these categories can be found below.

To pair with its decent overall score, we gave this facility an A for our inspections rating. This score is far better than the facility's overall grade. Arguably the most significant factor we consider in calculating our inspection grades is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a facility's inspection reports. Places with higher grades in this area most likely avoided the more severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. This nursing home was assessed 5 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe deficiencies. This indicates that the government inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies an immediate threat to resident health or safety. We should point out that deficiency-free inspections are uncommon in the industry.

This facilities second most favorable category was long-term care. We gave it a B- in this area. This is essentially a middle of the road grade in this area. Long-term care ratings are based on the facility's volume of nursing services. This means a vast spectrum of personal care services, ranging from help with activities of daily living to routine healthcare services. Once we assessed the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination statistics. We were optimistic to learn that this nursing home vaccinated 99.557526 percent of its patients against pneumonia. The last statistic we assessed is its hospitalization rate. Here we found that this nursing home had 1.93 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is not too far off the national average.

This facility's third most favorable category ended up being its short-term care grade, where it was awarded a B-. Short-term care grades are based in part on a nursing home's quantity of highly-skilled skilled healthcare professionals. This includes a vast range of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. One of this nursing home's strengths is physical therapy hours. We found that it offers at least 50% more hours with physical therapists to its residents than most other facilities. Finally, we considered the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 42.1 percent of this facility's residents returned home. At most facilities, closer to half of their residents are able to return home so this is below average.

The next category we assessed is nursing. This facility was awarded a C in this category. Nursing ratings are based in large part on quantity of nursing care available. This facility provided just 3.1 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a relatively low total compared to most other facilities. While this facility didn't really impress in terms of the quantity of nursing care available, it performed admirably in some of our quality-based metrics. It was above average in two of the major metrics we assess, with favorable scores for minimizing its patients' major falls and pressure ulcers.