142 27 Franklin Avenue, Flushing NY 11355 · (718) 670-3400 · 98.28% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Reese
Note: Franklin Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing has been flagged for abuse in the past 12 months. We have capped this facility's overall grade accordingly.
Franklin Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing is in Flushing, New York. This city has a population of 219,342 people. This nursing home received a bottom of the barrel overall rating based on the data we assessed. This is one of the five worst rated facilities in Flushing based on the data we assessed. With many other nursing homes in the city, you may simply want to look elsewhere. We wouldn't blame you if you're ready to stop reading and find another nursing home. However, if you want to learn more about this facility's category grades, inspection reports are discussed in the next paragraph.
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Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 320 Beds
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For profit - Individual
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Facility Inspections
B-
Historical
While this place's overall grade was as bad as it gets, it actually didn't perform terribly in the area of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a B- for that category, which is one of our better scores. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in computing these inspection grades. One of those factors is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of deficiencies is usually more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some of these end up being relatively insignificant. This place was hit with 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none were considered to be severe deficiencies. This tells you that CMS didn't consider any of these deficiencies to pose an imminent risk to resident health or safety. Finally, CMS cited this nursing home for possible abuse or neglect. Hopefully, its performance improves in the future, but until then we simply can't recommend this facility.
Long-term Care Quality
B-
Historical
Remarkably, we gave this nursing home a B- for our long-term care grade, which really isn't a bad grade. For patients seeking a permanent place to live as opposed to skilled nursing, long-term care grades are a key measure. One of the criteria we considered in addition to nursing hours is vaccines. This nursing home provided the pneumonia vaccine to 91.68832 percent of its patients. Nevertheless, this facility was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had just 1.65 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days.
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Nurse Quality
D
Historical
Unfortunately, this facility only received a grade of D for its nursing grade, which was actually one of its better category grades. Our nursing score considers a host of factors. The most heavily weighted factor is the number of hours nurses spent with residents. This nursing home averages 3.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day, which is below the national average. Finally, we also looked at some quality measures in calculating our nursing ratings. This nursing home was above average in two of the statistics we considered, with good scores for minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls.
Short-term Care Quality
F
Historical
The final area we graded was short-term care. We gave it an F in this category, which is a rock bottom score. Short-term care grades are crucial for individuals in need of rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically requires additional highly-skilled nursing. Skilled nursing means a wide spectrum of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. Given its grade in this area, we were not stunned to find that this place was well below average in terms of its quantity of registered nurse hours provided to its residents. Frankly, this was about what we expected here. The last metric we looked at in this category is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that just 30.3 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home, which is well below average. This statistic was damning for this facility's short-term care grade.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Aug 20
Provider:
F
State:
B
National:
B
Overall Rating
Nurse Rating
Long-Term Rating
Short-Term Rating
Inspection Rating
Franklin Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This tells you the percent of patients who have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are skin damage due to staying in one position for too long.
Provider
B
6.79%
State
B-
8.47%
National
B
7.33%
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This indicates the percentage of patients who sustained a major fall. Falls leading to severe injury are considered by many experts to be an indicator of nursing care . Falls which result in injury are often the result of lower quality nursing care.
Provider
A
0.87%
State
B+
2.91%
National
B
3.36%
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This is the percentage of residents that have had a urinary tract infection. Urinary tract infections are considered by many experts to be an indicator of nursing care at a nursing home. UTI's are routinely linked to lower quality nursing care. However, this metric could be misleading for certain nursing homes due to different reporting standards for these infections.
Provider
A+
0%
State
B+
2.21%
National
B
2.65%
Percent of Patients with UTIs Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This is an indication of the percent of long-term stay patients who were given antipsychotic medication. Increased usage of these drugs may mean that a facility is using these medications to subdue residents in scenarios where such medications aren't medically indicated. Nevertheless, some facilities may need to rely on these drugs due to having more patients with Alzheimer's or other dementias.
Provider
A+
2.96%
State
B+
11.1%
National
B
14.18%
Percent of Patients Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This datapoint indicates the percent of long-term residents receiving antianxiety medications.
Provider
A+
5.97%
State
A-
13.33%
National
B
19.67%
Percent of Patients Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This indicates the percentage of patients who are demonstrating signs of depression.
Provider
B+
0.74%
State
B
7.09%
National
B+
5.09%
Percent of Patients Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This is the percent of patients that were given the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be standard at this point.
Provider
C
93.49%
State
B
93.26%
National
B
92.04%
Percent of Patients Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This is the percent of patients that required more assistance with activities of daily living over time. High levels of needing for assistance with ADL's may indicate decline of a resident's health.
Provider
A-
10.56%
State
B+
13.31%
National
B
14.47%
Percentage of Patients Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This is the percentage of residents who retained mobility levels over time. Retaining mobility is usually a great sign for residents' health.
Provider
D
9.27%
State
B-
15.38%
National
B
17.09%
Percentage of Residents Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
Measures the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of patient care.
Provider
A-
1.33
State
B+
1.46
National
B
1.70
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This tells you the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term care. There is a correlation between avoiding hospitalizations and the quality of rehabilitation services.
Provider
A
9.27
State
B+
15.38
National
B
17.09
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This datapoint is a measure of the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term patient care. Staying out of the emergency room is one way to assess short-term care.
This is the percent of short-term stay patients that experienced functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. Higher levels of independence with ADL's usually correlates with superior rehabilitation services.
Provider
A+
88.94%
State
B
69.8%
National
B
68.04%
Percentage of Resident Higher is Better
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