The Hamlet Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center at Nesconset is a nursing home located in Nesconset, New York, which has a total of 14,530 people. This is a fine nursing home. We gave this it an overall grade of B+, which is a strong score. Based on our analysis, this nursing home ought to meet the needs of most people. The best part of this facility's impressive report card was its inspection grade. Inspection grades are discussed in the next section
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The Hamlet Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center at Nesconset
- Nursing Home
Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Reese
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- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Corporation
- Offers Hospice
- Offers Post-Acute Care
- Offers Respite Care
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
- Offers Outpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Home Making
- Transportation
- Speech Therapy
- Amputee Recovery
- IV Antibiotic Therapy
- Palliative Care
- Dentistry
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Cardiac Therapy
- Podiatry
- Diabetes Management
- Physical Therapy
- Respiratory Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Recreational Therapy
- Pain Management
- Bariatric Care
- Optometry
- Orthopedic Rehabilitation
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Facility Inspections
In addition to faring well overall, this facility received a nearly flawless inspection report. Therefore, it earned one of our best scores in that area with an A+. These inspection scores take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these issues by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. 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
This facility truly excelled in the area of long-term care, where we gave it a grade of A-. Few nursing homes performed better in this category. Nursing homes that do well in long-term care tend to provide residents with better supervision and stay on top of routine healthcare services. In addition to considering the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility provided the vaccine to 98.686134 percent of its residents. Vaccines are critical to keeping residents out of the hospital. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.
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Short-term Care Quality
Turning to another strength for this facility, we awarded them one of our higher scores in our short-term care category as well, with a grade of B. In the category of short-term care, we seek to qualify measures of a facility's rehabilitation. We assess the facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses and physical and occupational therapists. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not every nursing home employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, according to the data this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The final metric we assessed in this area is the percentage of residents that who were able to eventually return home from the facility. We found that 5.3 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.
Nurse Quality
The final category we looked at turned out to be this nursing home's worst category. However, even in its worst category we still gave it an acceptable grade of B- in our nursing category. Nursing ratings are based in large part on levels of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Lastly, our nursing scores also factor in quality-based metrics, such as preventing major falls. While this facility didn't have as many nursing hours per resident as many of the other nursing homes we assessed, it was still better than average in the area of preventing falls.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
The Hamlet Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center at Nesconset Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In The Hamlet Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center at Nesconset, 5.18% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This datapoint indicates the percentage of long-term stay patients who developed pressure ulcers. We've found that pressure ulcers are a reliable barometer of quality of care.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In The Hamlet Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center at Nesconset, 2.92% of Patients had Serious Falls
This metric indicates the percent of long-term patients who sustained a fall which resulted in severe injury. This is one of the statistics we use in computing our nursing scores.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In The Hamlet Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center at Nesconset, 1.23% of Patients had UTIs
This tells you the percentage of patients that suffered from a urinary tract infection. Urinary tract infections are routinely caused by nursing homes with worse hygiene protocols. Better nursing care can limit the number of UTI's sustained by residents in a nursing home. Note that this datapoint is sometimes skewed by the fact that facilities have different reporting standards for UTI's.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In The Hamlet Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center at Nesconset, 6.08% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This indicates the percent of residents who were prescribed antipsychotic drugs. These drugs are used for several conditions, including dementia.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In The Hamlet Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center at Nesconset, 35.15% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This measures the percent of long-term residents receiving antianxiety medications.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In The Hamlet Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center at Nesconset, 2.27% of Patients
This tells you the percentage of patients who are exhibiting depressive symptoms. Increased levels of depression could be a sign lower quality care.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In The Hamlet Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center at Nesconset, 98.3% of Patients
This is the percentage of residents that were given the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be the norm at this point.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In The Hamlet Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center at Nesconset, 15.53% of Patients
This datapoint is a measure of the percent of long-term residents that needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as taking medications and using the bathroom. Many argue that this is a reasonable measure of a patient's well-being.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In The Hamlet Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center at Nesconset, 10.56% of Residents
This indicates the percent of residents that retained mobility levels over time. Retaining mobility is usually a good sign for residents' health.
Hospitalizations
In The Hamlet Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center at Nesconset, 0.01 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This tells you the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of patient care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In The Hamlet Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center at Nesconset, 10.56% of Residents Rehospitalized
This is the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term care. There is typically a correlation between reduced hospitalizations and a nursing home's quality of short-term rehabilitation.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In The Hamlet Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center at Nesconset, 6.07% of Patients
This is the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In The Hamlet Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center at Nesconset, 82.79% of Resident
This is a measure of the percentage of short-term residents who saw functional improvements.
Nearby Hospitals
- St Catherine of Siena HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 3.37 miles away50 Route 25a Smithtown New York 11787Voluntary non-profit - Private(631) 862-3000
- Pilgrim Psychiatric CenterPsychiatric 7.43 miles away998 Crooked Hill Road Brentwood New York 11717Government - State(631) 761-3500
- John T Mather Memorial Hospital of Port JeffersonAcute Care Hospitals 8.31 miles away75 North Country Road Port Jefferson New York 11777Voluntary non-profit - Private(631) 473-1320
- St Charles HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 8.58 miles away200 Belle Terre Road Port Jefferson New York 11777Voluntary non-profit - Private(631) 474-6000
- Southside HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 9.82 miles away301 East Main Street Bay Shore New York 11706Voluntary non-profit - Private(631) 968-3000
- Long Island Community HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 10.48 miles away101 Hospital Road Patchogue New York 11772Voluntary non-profit - Private(631) 654-7100
- Good Samaritan Hospital Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 12.71 miles away1000 Montauk Highway West Islip New York 11795Voluntary non-profit - Church(631) 376-3000
- Huntington HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 13.48 miles away270 Park Avenue Huntington New York 11743Voluntary non-profit - Private(631) 351-2000
Nearby Dialysis
- St. Catherine of Siena Med. Ctr3.51 miles away50 Route 25a Dialysis Unit Smithtown New York 11787CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 18 (631) 862-3707
- Coram Dialysis Center3.77 miles away1500 Middle Country Road Centereach New York 11720Dialysis Stations: 16 (631) 716-8758
- Hauppauge Dialysis Center4.35 miles away30 Central Avenue Hauppauge New York 11788CMS Rating: 2 stars Dialysis Stations: 16 (631) 761-6605
- Stony Brook Kidney Center, Dci5.41 miles away26 Research Way East Setauket New York 11733CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 26 (631) 444-0502
- Island Rehabilitative Services - Commack7.21 miles away68 Hauppauge Road Commack New York 11725CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 12 (631) 715-2740
- Davita Medford Kidney Center7.44 miles away1725 North Ocean Avenue Medford New York 11763CMS Rating: 2 stars Dialysis Stations: 10 (631) 289-8000
- Fms-Central Suffolk Akc7.69 miles away5225 Nesconset Highway Unit #72 - Bldg.9 Port Jefferson Station New York 11776CMS Rating: 2 stars Dialysis Stations: 24 (631) 331-5600
- Knickerbocker Dialysis Inc.7.9 miles away200 Carleton Avenue East Islip New York 11730CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 21 (631) 581-0897