Fulton Commons Care Center
60 Merrick Avenue, East Meadow NY 11554 · (516) 222-9300 · 96% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Lata
Fulton Commons Care Center is a nursing home located in East Meadow, New York. This city has a population of 38,132 people. Sporting an overall grade of B, this is a good facility. This facility truly has plenty of good features. This place's strong report card was highlighted by its inspection grade, which you can find in the next section.
Additional Details:
Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 280 Beds
CCRC :
For profit - Corporation
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Family Council:
Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
On top of receiving a great overall score, this place also earned first-rate government inspections in recent years. We awarded them one of our better grades in this area, with an A+. Perhaps the most important factor we consider in determining our inspection grades is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a facility's inspection reports. Facilities with better grades in this area typically dodged the more severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. While this place had some deficiencies on its report, none were major deficiencies based on CMS' scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
Long-term Care Quality
This facility is also strong in the area of long-term care, where it received a grade of B+. It performed more favorably than most facilities in this area. When nursing homes receive this kind of grade in long-term care it is typically a good sign for resident care and suggests that the place is well-staffed with nurses and aids. On top of assessing the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility vaccinated 99.6788 percent of its patients, which is what we like to see. Pneumonia is often a deadly condition for nursing home residents so we prefer when a facility does not leave its residents vulnerable. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.8 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.
Short-term Care Quality
This nursing home also received a favorable short-term care score. Indeed, we gave it an above average score of B+ in this category. In forming our short-term care grades, we look at the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, respiratory therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. Our objective is to create a scale for sizing up the rehabilitation services of various nursing homes. This place improved its grade in this area by offering more than 1.5 times as many physical therapy hours to its residents than a typical facility. The last measure we assessed in this area is the number of patients that who were able to eventually return home from the nursing home. We found that it fared as well as just about any facility in New York in this area with 60.4 percent of its patients returning home. For most nursing homes, fewer than half of their short-stay residents are able to return home.
Nurse Quality
The next area we scored was nursing, ended up being this nursing home's weakest area. We awarded this facility a D in that area. This really was one of the few weak links of a very solid profile. We weighed the levels of nurses at the facility, as well as the number of hours those nurses worked with residents, in determining our rating in this area. With a meager 3.3 hours of nursing care per resident each day, this nursing home's nurse staffing levels were well below average. Although this facility's nursing hours are below average, it surprised us in a few of the qualitative areas in this category. In particular, we were pleased to see that its patients appear to be sustaining fewer pressure ulcers than the national average.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Fulton Commons Care Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This is the percentage of patients who suffered from a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are damage to the skin due to staying in the same position for an excessive period of time.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This indicates the percent of residents who have had a fall which caused serious injury.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This is the percent of residents that sustained a urinary tract infection. These infections may be associated with poor hygiene.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This is the percent of residents given antipsychotic drugs. Antipsychotic drugs are given to patients for many medical conditions, including dementia. Sadly, in limited cases, high levels of antipsychotic drug use may mean that a nursing home is using these medications to control patient behavior.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This is the percent of residents who were prescribed antianxiety drugs. These drugs are commonly given to residents experiencing anxiety or depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This indicates the percentage of patients demonstrating signs of depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
Measures the percentage of long-term patients that were administered the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be very dangerous for seniors, making these vaccines critical to patient well-being.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term residents that needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time. Activities of daily living include activities such as dressing and taking a bath.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
Measures the percentage of long-term care patients who remained mobile levels.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This metric tracks the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of patient care. Staying out of the hospital is key to maintaining the physical health of nursing home patients.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This metric tracks the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term care.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This is the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term patient care. There is typically a correlation between having fewer emergency room visits and the quality of rehabilitation.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This is a measure of the percentage of short-term care residents that experienced functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. Many argue that this is a reasonable measure of a nursing home's rehabilitation performance.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better