Mayfair Care Center

Mayfair Care Center is a large nursing home located in Hempstead, New York. We gave this nursing home an F, which is just about as bad as it gets in our grading scheme. Based on our assessment, you'd be better off to avoid of this place. More information on this facility's category grades is available below. Its best category is inspections, which is discussed in the next section.

Although we gave this facility a terrible overall grade, we awarded it a B- for our inspections rating. In fact, the facility received very impressive inspection report this year. We would argue that one of the most important factors in assessing an inspection report is deficiencies. In this regard, we especially look at the severity of those deficiencies. Fortunately, although this facility had a few minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those found in categories G through L. This tells you the government inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Lastly, this facility was flagged by CMS for possible abuse or neglect. We prefer to avoid facilities with this designation. Please do your best to find an alternative nursing home.

Surprisingly, we awarded this nursing home a grade of B- for our long-term care grade, which really isn't too bad of a score. If you are looking for anything other than short-term rehabilitation, you should take a close look at long-term care ratings. One of the datapoints we considered in addition to nurse's aid hours was vaccinations. Fortunately, this facility administered the pneumonia vaccine to 94.28571 percent of its residents. This facility was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 1.05 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a substantially lower hospitalization rate than the majority of nursing homes.

This facility ended up receiving rock bottom score in our nursing category. It received an F in this category. Our nursing grade is based on the nursing home's nurse staffing levels. We weigh both the levels of training of those nurses and the number of hours spent with residents. This facility provided just 2.9 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. This nursing home also had terrible marks in some of the quality-based measures to pair with its weak nursing hour totals. We looked at the percentage of residents suffering pressure ulcers and we were disappointed. This place was at approximately 150 percent of the national average in this metric.

The final area we rated was short-term care. It received an F for this area, which is a very poor score. Short-term care scores are based on a facility's quantity of highly-skilled nursing services. This includes a vast spectrum of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, not to mention other forms of therapy. In this nursing home's case, we found that it provides far less registered nurse hours per resident than the average facility. Given its score in this area, this did not surprise us. The final datapoint we assessed in this area is the percentage of patients who eventually returned home from the nursing home. This nursing home struggled quite a bit in this area, with just 15.3 percent of its patients returning home. Unfortunately, this was well below the national average.