Long Island Care Center
144-61 38th Ave, Flushing NY 11354 · (718) 939-7500 · 92.5% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Sara Levinsohn
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.
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Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 200 Beds
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For profit - Corporation
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
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.
Long-term Care Quality
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.
Short-term Care Quality
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.
Nurse Quality
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.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Long Island Care Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This tells you the percent of residents that sustained a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are skin damage caused by staying in one position for an excessive period of time.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This statistic is a measure of the percentage of long-term care patients which suffered a fall which caused serious injury. Falls can arise for a variety of reasons, but high rates of falls resulting in injuries may be a sign of poor nursing care.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This statistic is an indication of the percentage of long-term stay patients that had a urinary tract infection. UTI's could be an indicator of poor nursing care. Nevertheless, this datapoint can be skewed for certain nursing homes due to inconsistent reporting standards for these infections.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This indicates the percent of patients who were prescribed antipsychotic drugs. While antipsychotic drugs may be vital to many patients, it is important to ensure these medications are being used appropriately. In some situations, high levels of antipsychotic drug use may suggest a facility is using these drugs to control patient behavior.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This indicates the percent of patients prescribed antianxiety medications. These medications are generally used to treat patients suffering from depression and anxiety.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term care patients who are showing signs of depression. Some would argue this is a reliable measure of patient quality of life.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This indicates the percent of residents who were given the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be the norm at this point.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This metric measures the percentage of long-term care residents who required increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as dressing and using the bathroom.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
Measures the percentage of long-term patients that maintained mobility.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This tells you the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This indicates the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This metric measures the number of emergency room visits per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This indicates the percent of short-term stay patients who experienced functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better