Flushing Hospital Medical Center T C U

One of the reasons this turned out to be a great facility is that it received a very impressive short-term care grade. This turned out to be its best category. In that area, we gave this facility an A. Short-term care scores are based in part on the nursing home's quantity of skilled nursing services. This means a broad range of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. Unfortunately, it does not look like this facility provided data regarding its registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of patients who returned home from this nursing home. We found that 6.6 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

This nursing home has earned near flawless health inspections recently. We awarded them an A- in this category. Arguably the most critical factor we look at in calculating our inspection ratings is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's inspection reports. Places with higher scores in this area most likely dodged the most severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. This place was assessed 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered to be severe deficiencies. This means that the inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies to be an imminent threat to resident health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

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+. Nursing scores are based largely 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 place performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a nursing home has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can typically be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

Switching gears to our last category, this facility was given a strong long-term care grade. In fact, we awarded it a B+ in this area, completing one of our more impressive profiles. Long-term care scores in this range generally require both 24/7 care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine healthcare services. In addition to assessing the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. Unfortunately, we were not able to track down information on vaccination rates. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.