Meadowbrook Care Center

Meadowbrook Care Center is a very-large nursing home located in Freeport, New York. Featuring an overall score of B, this looks like a good option. Based on our assessment, you can do much worse than this facility. The best part of this facility's impressive profile is its inspection reports. Inspection grades are discussed in the next section

On top of performing well in its overall grade, this facility performed at an even higher level in the area of inspections. In fact, it received a nearly flawless inspection report this year. As a result, it received one of our highest grades in that category with a score of A+. Arguably the most critical factor we consider in determining our inspection ratings is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's inspection reports. Nursing homes with higher scores in this category most likely dodged the most severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. This facility was assessed 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were considered to be severe. This indicates that the inspectors didn't deem any of these deficiencies an imminent risk to resident health or safety. We should point out that deficiency-free inspection reports are rare in this industry.

Adding to its profile, this nursing home also received a score of B+ for its long-term care rating. This is an above average score in this area. Nursing homes that do well in this category tend to be well-staffed and provide extensive hands on care to residents. On top of assessing the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home vaccinated 99.762184 percent of its patients. Vaccines are critical to keeping patients out of the hospital. Lastly, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. Although it had 1.8 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, its risk adjusted score was better than the majority of nursing homes since it had some more complex patients.

The next most favorable category we gave this facility in any category came in the area of short-term care, where we awarded it a B-. Our short-term care grades are important for people in need of rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually utilizes additional skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes a vast range of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. One of this nursing home's strength is that it offers more hours of care from registered nurses to its residents. Lastly, we considered the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that it performed decently in this area, with 48.9 percent of its residents returning home.

Our next area is nursing, in which we gave this nursing home a C in that category. Nursing ratings are mostly tied to the facility's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides an impressive 3.9 hours of nursing care per patient per day. Lastly, our nursing grades also factor in some quality-focused statistics. Specifically, we look at the percent of residents who sustained pressure ulcers and major falls. We view these data points as predictive measures of the quality of nursing care, since better care tends to reduce these problems.