Long Island Care Center

Long Island Care Center is a large nursing home in Flushing, New York. This turns out to be a middle of the pack facility, with an overall grade of B-. The facilities in Flushing received quality scores across the board with a city grade of a B. The best part of this facility's profile was its remarkable inspection grade. Inspection grades are discussed in the next section.

To pair with its relatively modest overall score, we gave this nursing home a grade of A+ for our inspections rating. This grade is far better than the facility's overall score. Inspection grades weigh a host of factors included in a nursing home's inspection reports. One key criteria we consider is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Facilities with higher scores in this area usually have few severe deficiencies. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Another one of this nursing home's higher category scores came in the category of long-term care. In that area, we gave this nursing home a B. It actually performed better than most nursing homes in this area. When facilities receive this kind of score in long-term care it is usually a good sign for patient care and suggests that the facility is well-staffed with nurses aids. Once we finished looking at the volume of nursing care, we next considered the facility's vaccination record. This nursing home vaccinated 97.789116 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is an impressive figure. Pneumonia tragically can be a dangerous illness for nursing home residents so we like it when a nursing home doesn't leave this to chance. This facility also keeps its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had just 1.3 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a much lower hospitalization rate than most nursing homes.

This nursing home was given its next most favorable category grade in the area of short-term care. We gave this nursing home a B- in this category, which is a decent grade. In calculating our short-term care scores, we analyze a nursing home's levels of skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other highly trained professionals. This category is often a solid measure of a nursing home's rehabilitation services. This nursing home provided more physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most facilities. The final metric we looked at in this area is the percentage of patients who who were able to eventually return home from the facility. This place performed better than most nursing homes in this metric with 54.7 percent of its residents returning home.

This facility's worst category is nursing, which is the last category we analyzed. We gave it an F for this category. Even with multiple decent grades in other categories, this grade is nevertheless concerning so we would like to to point it out. Our nursing score is primarily based on the nursing home's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 3.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is slightly below average. In addition to receiving below average scores for nursing hours, this place was less impressive in some of the quality-based metrics we looked at in computing our nursing scores. We looked at the percent of residents sustaining pressure ulcers and found that this facility was at approximately 1.5 times the national average in this statistic.