Forest View Center for Rehabilitation & Nursing is the only nursing home we found in Forest Hills, New York. We gave this nursing home an overall grade of B. A score in this range requires solid scores in most areas. Based on our ratings, this place has quite a bit going for it. This nursing home's impressive report card was highlighted by its inspection grade, which is addressed in the next paragraph.
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Forest View Center for Rehabilitation & Nursing
- Nursing Home
Updated Apr 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 - Corporation
- Offers Hospice
- Offers Post-Acute Care
- Offers Respite Care
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Medication Management
- Transportation
- Speech Therapy
- IV Antibiotic Therapy
- Palliative Care
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Hemodialysis
- Mental Health
- Physical Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Pharmacy
- Recreational Therapy
- Pain Management
- Total Parenteral Nutrition
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Registered Staff Hours
Facility Inspections
To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for our inspections rating. Inspection scores are tied to several datapoints found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that receive favorable grades in this area have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these facilities generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. This place received 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none of the deficiencies were considered to be major deficiencies. This tells you that the government inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies to pose an immediate threat to resident health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
Long-term Care Quality
We also awarded this nursing home a score of A- for our long-term care grade. For patients looking for a permanent residence rather than skilled nursing, long-term care is a very important category. After considering the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination records. This facility vaccinated 86.847595 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is slightly less than we were hoping for but still a decent figure. While its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we hoped for, we were pleased to find facility was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.
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Short-term Care Quality
This facility received its next highest category score in the category of short-term care. We gave this facility a grade of C in this category, which is a respectable grade. In calculating our short-term care scores, we quantify the facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, respiratory therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. Our purpose is to devise a scale for comparing the rehabilitation services of different facilities. Fortunately, it looks like this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, according to the data this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Finally, we considered the percentage of patients that returned home from this nursing home. We found that 4.9 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home. This figure was actually quite a bit below the national average.
Nurse Quality
The next area we assessed was nursing. We awarded this facility a D for the area of nursing, making this the nursing home's least impressive area. Our nursing score is largely based on the nursing home's nurse staffing. With a meager 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis, this nursing home's nurse staffing levels were significantly below average. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in calculating our nursing scores. This facility fared well when it comes to minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Forest View Center for Rehabilitation & Nursing Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Forest View Center for Rehabilitation & Nursing, 9.18% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This is the percentage of patients that sustained a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are skin damage due to remaining in one position for too long.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Forest View Center for Rehabilitation & Nursing, 3.11% of Patients had Serious Falls
This figure tells you the percent of long-term residents which suffered falls which resulted in serious injury. We use this statistic in calculating nursing ratings.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Forest View Center for Rehabilitation & Nursing, 2.03% of Patients had UTIs
This measures the percentage of long-term stay patients that have experienced urinary tract infections. While a higher rate of these infections could reflect poorly on a nursing home's nursing care, it can be problematic to compare different facilities due to inconsistent reporting standards.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Forest View Center for Rehabilitation & Nursing, 12.22% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This is the percentage of residents given antipsychotic medications. While antipsychotic drugs may be vital to many patients, it is important to make sure these drugs are being used appropriately. In some cases, high levels of antipsychotic drug use may indicate that a facility is using these drugs to subdue residents.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Forest View Center for Rehabilitation & Nursing, 13.51% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This is the percent of residents given antianxiety drugs. These medications are generally used to treat residents experiencing depression and anxiety.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Forest View Center for Rehabilitation & Nursing, 13.75% of Patients
This datapoint is a measure of the percent of long-term stay residents demonstrating symptoms of depression. Some argue that this is a reliable measure of quality of care.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Forest View Center for Rehabilitation & Nursing, 90.38% of Patients
This datapoint measures the percentage of long-term residents that received the flu and pneumonia vaccines.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Forest View Center for Rehabilitation & Nursing, 15.3% Percentage of Patients
This is the percentage of patients who needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of dependence on staff for assistance with activities of daily living could be a sign of erosion of a resident's health.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Forest View Center for Rehabilitation & Nursing, 14.12% Percentage of Residents
This tells you the percentage of residents who were able to retain mobility over time. Retaining mobility can be a great sign for residents' well-being.
Hospitalizations
In Forest View Center for Rehabilitation & Nursing, 1.46 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This is the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Forest View Center for Rehabilitation & Nursing, 14.12 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
This tells you the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term care.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Forest View Center for Rehabilitation & Nursing, 9.74 Percentage of Patients
This indicates the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term patient care. There is typically a correlation between keeping patients out of the emergency room and the overall quality of nursing home care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Forest View Center for Rehabilitation & Nursing, 75.23% Percentage of Resident
This metric measures the percentage of short-term stay residents that saw functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. Some believe this is a reliable measure of rehabilitation services.
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