Hempstead Park Nursing Home

Hempstead Park Nursing Home is one of only three available facilities in Hempstead, New York. With an overall grade of B-, this facility actually is the number one rated facility in the city. Based on our assessment, this nursing home ought to meet the needs of many people. One of the best aspects of this facility's profile is its exemplary inspection grade, which you can find in the next section.

The primary reason this turned out to be a decent nursing home is that it received an elite inspection grade. Its inspection grade was far superior to its overall score. In our inspections category, we gave it a grade of A+. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in computing these inspection scores. One critical factor is deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of the deficiencies is usually more meaningful than the quantity of deficiencies, as some deficiencies are relatively insignificant. This facility was assessed 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered to be major deficiencies. This tells you that the inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies to cause an immediate risk to resident safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Turning to the area of long-term care, we gave this facility a grade of A in that category. For patients in need of a permanent residence as opposed to skilled nursing, long-term care is an important category. On top of looking at the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home provided the vaccine to 88.4009 percent of its patients, which is a bit less than we expected. Finally, we looked at the nursing home's number of hospitalizations. We found that this nursing home had 2.23 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days.

We also gave this nursing home a decent score in the category of nursing care, with a grade of C. Our nursing grade is largely associated with a nursing home's nurse staffing. This facility provided just 3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a relatively low total compared to most other facilities. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this nursing home actually excelled in some of the quality-based metrics we looked at. It performed well in terms of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. Many consider these areas to be indicators of the quality of nursing care. In some cases, the quality of nursing care is just as important as the quantity of hours of care provided.

The next category we rated was short-term care. We gave it an abysmal F in this area, which is an abysmal score. This is obviously a significant concern. Short-term care grades are based on the nursing home's quantity of skilled nursing services. This includes a wide spectrum of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, not to mention other variations of therapy. In this nursing home's case, we found that it provided fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per patient than a typical facility. Finally, we assessed the number of patients that eventually returned home from this facility. This facility didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 26.2 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was well off the national average.