Hempstead Park Nursing Home

We want to draw your attention to the fact that this facility really outperformed its overall score in the area of inspections. In fact, it received an excellent inspection report this year. As a result, we gave it one of our best scores in that area with an A-. Our inspection ratings are based on several items found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that excel in this category typically have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these places should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. This place received 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe. This indicates that CMS did not consider any of these deficiencies to pose an immediate threat to patient safety or health. A couple minor deficiencies shouldn't stop you from considering a nursing home.

This nursing home also was awarded a positive long-term care score. In fact, we awarded them a grade of B+ in this area, which is one of our better. In a long-term care setting, the facility's primary goal is to maintain residents' quality of life and keep them safe. In addition to considering the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility gave the vaccine to 77.96818 percent of its patients. This is somewhat below what we anticipated. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

Another strength of this nursing home is its favorable grade in nursing. We awarded them one of our better scores in that area, with an D. There are many subcategories within this category. Many of these factors relate to levels of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in calculating our nursing scores. This facility performed well when it comes to avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. Many consider these areas to be reliable indicators of the quality of nursing care.

The last category we scored is short-term care. It received an abysmal F for this category, which is a bottom of the barrel grade. This is clearly a significant concern. In computing our short-term care ratings, we look at the facility's levels of skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other highly trained professionals. This category is generally a reliable assessment of the nursing home's rehabilitation. Based on its score in this area, we were not surprised to find that this nursing home is well below average in terms of the quantity of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its residents based on the data we looked at. The final statistic we looked at in this area is the percentage of residents who returned home from the nursing home. This nursing home struggled quite a bit in this metric as well, with just 3.9 percent of its patients returning home. This was well below average.