Fairview Nursing Care Center is a facility in Forest Hills, New York, a city with a total of 68,733 people. We awarded this facility an overall grade of B. A score in this range requires respectable marks in most areas. This place definitely has plenty working in its favor. This nursing home's impressive profile was highlighted by its inspection reports, which we will address in the next paragraph.
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Fairview Nursing Care Center
- Nursing Home
- Memory Care
Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Lata
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- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Individual
- Offers Hospice
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
- Offers Outpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Medication Management
- Home Making
- Speech Therapy
- Stroke Recovery
- Amputee Recovery
- IV Antibiotic Therapy
- Palliative Care
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Cardiac Therapy
- Diabetes Management
- Physical Therapy
- Respiratory Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Pharmacy
- Recreational Therapy
- Colostomy Care
- Orthopedic Rehabilitation
- Lymphedema Care
- Radiation Therapy
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Facility Inspections
One of the reasons this turned out to be a strong facility is that it earned a very impressive inspection score. Inspections is its best category grade. In this category, we gave it an A. Our inspection ratings weigh a host of factors included in a facility's inspection reports. One of the most important criteria we weigh heavily is the number and severity of deficiencies. Facilities with higher grades in this area tend to have few severe deficiencies. Although this facility had a few deficiencies on its report, none of them were serious based on CMS' scale. A couple minor deficiencies are not necessarily the end of the world.
Nurse Quality
This facility is also strong in the area of nursing, where it received a grade of B+. It outperformed most nursing homes in this category. There are a host of subcategories within this area. Many of these criteria reflect nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This facility performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a place has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can frequently be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.
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Short-term Care Quality
The third area we analyzed was short-term care. This nursing home was given an impressive short-term care grade, with a grade of B in this category. Short-term care ratings are based in part on the facility's quantity of skilled highly skilled professionals. This means a broad scope of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. However, according to the data this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we assessed the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 3.8 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.
Long-term Care Quality
Our final category is long-term care, where we gave this nursing home a C in that area. Long-term care grades assess a facility's personal care rather than the highly skilled nursing or healthcare services that are critical to a rehabilitation facility. One of the criteria we considered after nursing hours is vaccinations. Thankfully, this nursing home provided the pneumonia vaccine to 100 percent of its residents. Lastly, this facility was also able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Fairview Nursing Care Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Fairview Nursing Care Center, 16.33% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This datapoint measures the percent of long-term stay residents who suffered from new or worsened pressure ulcers or bed sores. We factor in this statistic in computing both nursing and long-term care grades.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Fairview Nursing Care Center, 0% of Patients had Serious Falls
This figure is a measure of the percentage of long-term patients which suffered a fall leading to major injury. Falls can happen for a variety of reasons, but high rates of falls resulting in injuries may be an indication of lower levels of patient supervision.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Fairview Nursing Care Center, 0% of Patients had UTIs
This datapoint measures the percent of long-term care residents who suffered from a UTI. Although a higher rate infections could reflect poorly on a nursing home's cleanliness, it can be difficult to compare different nursing homes due to nursing homes having inconsistent reporting standards.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Fairview Nursing Care Center, 0% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This tells you the percent of patients given antipsychotic medications. Antipsychotic drugs are administered to patients for many medical conditions, such as cognitive disorders. Unfortunately, in limited cases, high levels of antipsychotic drug use may mean that a nursing home is using these medications to subdue residents.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Fairview Nursing Care Center, 7.89% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This tells you the percent of residents who were given antianxiety drugs. These drugs are given to patients suffering from anxiety or depression.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Fairview Nursing Care Center, 30.11% of Patients
This metric measures the percentage of long-term stay patients who are showing signs of depression.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Fairview Nursing Care Center, 98.09% of Patients
This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term patients that received the flu and pneumonia vaccines.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Fairview Nursing Care Center, 11.65% of Patients
This is the percentage of patients who needed additional assistance with activities of daily living over time.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Fairview Nursing Care Center, 14.5% of Residents
Measures the percent of long-term care patients who remained mobile levels.
Hospitalizations
In Fairview Nursing Care Center, 0.01 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This indicates the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of patient care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Fairview Nursing Care Center, 14.5% of Residents Rehospitalized
This metric tracks the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term patient care. Keeping residents out of the hospital during rehabilitation is key to restoring the physical abilities of patients.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Fairview Nursing Care Center, 8.88% of Patients
This indicates the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term care. There is a correlation between staying out of the emergency room and the quality of rehabilitation.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Fairview Nursing Care Center, 87.92% of Resident
This indicates the percent of short-term stay patients who experienced functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living.
Nearby Hospitals
- Queens Hospital CenterAcute Care Hospitals 1.93 miles away82-68 164th Street Jamaica New York 11432Government - Local(718) 883-3000
- Jamaica Hospital Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 2.07 miles away89th Avenue and Van Wyck Expressway Richmond Hill New York 11418Voluntary non-profit - Private(718) 262-6000
- Flushing Hospital Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 2.4 miles away45th Avenue and Parsons Boulevard Flushing New York 11355Voluntary non-profit - Private(718) 670-5000
- Elmhurst Hospital CenterAcute Care Hospitals 2.73 miles away79-01 Broadway Elmhurst New York 11373Government - Local(718) 334-1141
- Wyckoff Heights Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 4.39 miles away374 Stockholm Street Brooklyn New York 11237Voluntary non-profit - Private(718) 963-7272
- Creedmoor Psychiatric CenterPsychiatric 5.54 miles away80-45 Winchester Blvd Bldg B Queens Village New York 11427Government - State(718) 264-4000
- Woodhull Medical & Mental Health CenterAcute Care Hospitals 5.66 miles away760 Broadway Brooklyn New York 11206Government - Local(718) 963-8100
- Brookdale Hospital Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 6.37 miles away1 Brookdale Plaza Brooklyn New York 11212Voluntary non-profit - Private(718) 240-5966
Nearby Dialysis
- The Ny Hosp Med Ctr of Queens1.61 miles away56-45 Main Street 8th Floor Hemodialysis Unit Flushing New York 11355Dialysis Stations: 4 (718) 670-1258
- Kew Gardens Dialysis Center1.69 miles away120-46 Queens Boulevard Kew Gardens New York 11415CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 31 (718) 793-3341
- Atlas Park Dialysis1.97 miles away8000 Cooper Ave Ridgewood New York 11385Dialysis Stations: 25 (718) 326-2789
- Broadway Dialysis Center at Elmhurst Hospital Center2.28 miles away79-01 Broadway D-7 Wing Elmhurst New York 11373CMS Rating: 2 stars Dialysis Stations: 25 (718) 205-7772
- Davita Jamaica Hillside Dialysis2.66 miles away171-19 Hillside Ave Jamaica New York 11432Dialysis Stations: 25 (718) 526-2051
- Queens Dialysis at the Pavilion, LLC2.8 miles away36-17 Parsons Blvd Flushing New York 11354Dialysis Stations: 12 (718) 888-5200
- Fms-Queens Artificial Kidney Center2.81 miles away34-35 70th Street Jackson Heights New York 11372CMS Rating: 2 stars Dialysis Stations: 52 (718) 651-9700
- Genesis Services2.91 miles away74-07 88th Street Ridgewood New York 11385CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 24 (646) 931-1000