Belair Care Center

With an address in Bellmore, New York, Belair Care Center is the sole nursing home we identified in this city. This nursing home received an A- overall, which is one of our best grades. We were so impressed with this nursing home that we ranked it in the top quarter of all nursing homes in the country. As you will find below, this place also performed well in our category scores. It would be hard to poke holes in this place's profile.

In addition to performing well overall, this nursing home also earned nearly flawless government inspections. Consequently, it earned one of our highest grades in that category with an A+. Arguably the most significant factor we consider in calculating our inspection ratings is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities with better scores in this area most likely dodged the most severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. While this nursing home had some minor dings on its inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those found in categories G through L. This tells you that the inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This nursing home also was strong in the area of short-term care, where we awarded it a grade of A. Few nursing homes received a better grade in this area. Our short-term care grades are probably most meaningful for residents in need of rehabilitation from their nursing home. Rehabilitation generally utilizes higher levels of highly-skilled nursing. This includes not merely nursing, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. This place excelled at the highest level in the two key staffing areas we assessed. In fact, it supplied about 50% more care from physical therapists and registered nurses than a typical nursing home. Finally, we looked at the percentage of patients who ultimately were able to return home from this nursing home. In addition to excelling in the area of physical therapy, we found that it performed as well as just about any nursing home in the country in this area with 73.3 percent of its patients returning home. Most facilities are below 50 percent in this statistic.

This facility received a favorable long-term care grade as well. We awarded it one of our better scores in that area with a score of B+. When facilities receive this kind of score in long-term care it is typically a good sign for resident care and suggests that the facility is well-staffed with nurses aids. After looking at the impressive nursing hours provided by this nursing home, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination data. This nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which is much higher than the average nursing home. Lastly, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. With only 1.33 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this nursing home has less hospitalizations than many nursing homes.

The last area we rated is nursing. This facility received a better than average nursing score this year, with a grade of B. Even though this isn't nearly as good as some of its other scores, this remains one of our stronger scores in that area. There are a number of data points within this grade. Many of these subcategories reflect the quantity and quality of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides an incredible 4.3 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. Out of this total, many of the hours were provided by registered nurses, which is one of the most highly highly trained levels of nurses. On top of providing impressive levels of care, this nursing home also performed well in several of the quality measures we assessed. In terms of the percentage of its residents suffering falls resulting in major injury, this nursing home performed as well as any nursing home New York.