Margaret Tietz Center for Nursing Care is located in Jamaica, New York. It looks like this nursing home is one of the higher-rated facilities we looked at. A score in this range requires high-end scores across the board. This is really as good of a nursing home as you'll find. We also gave this facility strong scores in all four of the major categories we assessed. More information about these categories can be found below.
Margaret Tietz Center for Nursing Care
- Nursing Home
- Adult Day Care
Updated Sep 1, 2022 by Nick Reese
Quick Details
- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Corporation
- Offers Hospice
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Speech Therapy
- Stroke Recovery
- Amputee Recovery
- IV Antibiotic Therapy
- Palliative Care
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Cardiac Therapy
- Tracheotomy Care
- Mental Health
- Physical Therapy
- Respiratory Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- X-Ray
- Recreational Therapy
Registered Staff Hours
Facility Inspections
In addition to performing well overall, this nursing home also earned nearly flawless government inspections. Therefore, it received one of our best scores in that category with an A+. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in determining these inspection ratings. One key factor is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of the deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the quantity of deficiencies, as some of these are relatively minor. While this nursing home had some deficiencies on its report, none of them were severe based on CMS' deficiency scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
Short-term Care Quality
Adding to its fine resume, this nursing home also was given an excellent short-term care grade, with a grade of A-. With our short-term care assessment, we try to forge a meaningful measure for rehabilitation. In doing so, we look at a facility's scope of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as respiratory therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not every facility employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the information they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Finally, we considered the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 5.5 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.
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Long-term Care Quality
Additionally, this facility also was awarded favorable long-term care scores in our assessment. In fact, we awarded it one of our better scores in that area, with a grade of B+. When nursing homes receive a grade in this range in long-term care it generally means it has plenty of staff and is an overall good place to reside on a permanent basis. On top of looking at the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home administered the vaccine to 99.82269 percent of its patients, which is an impressive figure. Pneumonia sadly is often a dangerous illness for nursing home patients so we prefer when a facility does not roll the dice on this issue. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. It had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.
Nurse Quality
In our last area, this nursing home also was awarded a first-rate nursing rating, with a B+. This completed a very favorable report card. Our nursing score analyzes the facility's nurse staffing levels. We weigh both the levels of skill of those nurses and the number of hours spent with residents. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This facility performed very well in the area of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Margaret Tietz Center for Nursing Care Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Margaret Tietz Center for Nursing Care, 9.58% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This tells you the percent of patients that have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers, also called bed sores, are routinely the result of residents staying in one position for too long. Better nursing protocols can reduce the number of pressure ulcers sustained by residents in a nursing home.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Margaret Tietz Center for Nursing Care, 3.04% of Patients had Serious Falls
This gauges the percent of long-term patients who experienced a fall resulting in major injury. We use this statistic in computing nursing ratings.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Margaret Tietz Center for Nursing Care, 2.1% of Patients had UTIs
This tells you the percentage of residents that have had a urinary tract infection. These infections may be associated with inadequate hygiene.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Margaret Tietz Center for Nursing Care, 11.59% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This is the percent of patients who were given antipsychotic medications. These medications are used for treating several medical conditions, such as Alzheimer's or other dementias.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Margaret Tietz Center for Nursing Care, 13.3% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This measures the percentage of long-term residents receiving antianxiety drugs.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Margaret Tietz Center for Nursing Care, 13.2% of Patients
This datapoint measures the percentage of long-term care patients demonstrating signs of depression. Many in the industry would argue this is a reliable measure of quality of care.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Margaret Tietz Center for Nursing Care, 91.26% of Patients
This indicates the percentage of patients who have received the pneumonia and flu vaccines. High vaccination rates should be demanded by residents.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Margaret Tietz Center for Nursing Care, 14.75% Percentage of Patients
This is the percentage of residents that required more assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of dependence on staff for assistance with ADL's could be a sign of the erosion of a patient's well-being.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Margaret Tietz Center for Nursing Care, 17.32% Percentage of Residents
This metric measures the percent of long-term stay residents who maintained mobility.
Hospitalizations
In Margaret Tietz Center for Nursing Care, 1.31 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This metric tracks the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of patient care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Margaret Tietz Center for Nursing Care, 17.32 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
This is a measure of the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Margaret Tietz Center for Nursing Care, 8.8 Percentage of Patients
This datapoint measures the number of emergency room visits per 1,000 days of short-term care. Avoiding emergency medical situations is one way to gauge patient well-being during rehabilitation.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Margaret Tietz Center for Nursing Care, 75.07% Percentage of Resident
This is the percent of short-term care residents who experienced functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living.
Scores for Jamaica, NY
- Overall Rating has a grade of B
- Nurse Rating has a grade of C
- Long-term Care Rating has a grade of B
- Short-term Care Rating has a grade of B-minus
- Inspection Rating has a grade of A-plus
Looking for more options? Jamaica, New York has 5 other nursing homes
Nearby Hospitals
- Queens Hospital CenterAcute Care Hospitals 0.25 miles away82-68 164th Street Jamaica New York 11432Government - Local(718) 883-3000
- Jamaica Hospital Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 1.25 miles away89th Avenue and Van Wyck Expressway Richmond Hill New York 11418Voluntary non-profit - Private(718) 262-6000
- Flushing Hospital Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 2.98 miles away45th Avenue and Parsons Boulevard Flushing New York 11355Voluntary non-profit - Private(718) 670-5000
- Creedmoor Psychiatric CenterPsychiatric 3.89 miles away80-45 Winchester Blvd Bldg B Queens Village New York 11427Government - State(718) 264-4000
- Elmhurst Hospital CenterAcute Care Hospitals 4.88 miles away79-01 Broadway Elmhurst New York 11373Government - Local(718) 334-1141
- Wyckoff Heights Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 6.15 miles away374 Stockholm Street Brooklyn New York 11237Voluntary non-profit - Private(718) 963-7272
- North Shore University HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 6.83 miles away300 Community Drive Manhasset New York 11030Voluntary non-profit - Private(516) 562-0100
- Brookdale Hospital Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 7.25 miles away1 Brookdale Plaza Brooklyn New York 11212Voluntary non-profit - Private(718) 240-5966
Nearby Dialysis
- Davita Jamaica Hillside Dialysis0.51 miles away171-19 Hillside Ave Jamaica New York 11432Dialysis Stations: 25 (718) 526-2051
- Fms-South Queens Dialysis Center1.06 miles away175-37 Liberty Avenue Jamaica New York 11433CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 32 (718) 297-9100
- Kew Gardens Dialysis Center1.32 miles away120-46 Queens Boulevard Kew Gardens New York 11415CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 31 (718) 793-3341
- Vestal Healthcare LLC1.7 miles away176-35 Union Turnpike Fresh Meadows New York 11366Dialysis Stations: 1 (718) 969-3293
- Trude Weishaupt Memorial Dialysis Center1.7 miles away@ New York Hospital of Queens 59-28 174th Street Fresh Meadows New York 11365CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 29 (718) 670-1276
- Davita Queens Dialysis Center2.31 miles away118-01 Guy R. Brewer Boulevard Jamaica New York 11434CMS Rating: 2 stars Dialysis Stations: 21 (718) 341-6711
- The Ny Hosp Med Ctr of Queens2.61 miles away56-45 Main Street 8th Floor Hemodialysis Unit Flushing New York 11355Dialysis Stations: 4 (718) 670-1258
- Fms-St. Alban's Dialysis Center2.69 miles away172-70 Baisley Blvd Jamaica New York 11434CMS Rating: 2 stars Dialysis Stations: 24 (718) 949-1600