Flushing Hospital Medical Center T C U

On top of faring well in its overall grade, this nursing home earned an excellent inspection report. As a result, it received one of our highest scores in that area with an A. Inspection scores weigh several factors, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can learn more about each of these items by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this nursing home had a few deficiencies on its inspection report, none of them were serious based on CMS' scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Contributing to its top-shelf profile, this facility also received a dominant short-term care score, with a grade of A. Our short-term care ratings are vital for people looking for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually mandates additional highly-skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing means a broad spectrum of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other types of therapy. Unfortunately, we were not able to locate registered nurse or physical therapy staffing data for this facility. The final statistic we assessed in this area is the number of residents who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We discovered that 6.5 percent of this nursing home's residents were able to return home.

Another strong feature for this facility is that it received an impressive nursing grade. In that area, we awarded this facility a grade of B+. Our nursing grade is based on a handful of datapoints, many of which are based on levels of nurse staffing. This facility provided 0 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 facility has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can often be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

In our last category, we gave this nursing home a grade of A for its long-term care grade. This topped off a very impressive report card. For long-term care residents, the facility's primary goal is to maintain patients' quality of life and keep them safe. One of the criteria we considered after nursing hours is vaccinations. Unfortunately, it does not appear that this nursing home provided information about vaccinations. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.