Fulton Commons Care Center

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.