Ozanam Hall of Queens Nursing Home

One of the reasons this turned out to be a quality nursing home is that it earned a very impressive inspection rating. Inspections is its best category. In this area, we awarded it a grade of A. These inspection grades weigh several factors, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these issues by obtaining 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. Even some of the best nursing homes receive an occasional ding on their inspection report.

One of the other reasons we graded this nursing home so highly is that it was awarded a dominant short-term care grade. Indeed, short-term care ended up being its second most impressive category grade. In that category, we awarded this nursing home a score of A-. In computing these short-term care scores, we analyze the facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, respiratory therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. The goal is to formulate a measure for comparing the rehabilitation services of different facilities. Fortunately, it appear that this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not every facility 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 statistic we considered in this area is the percentage of patients who returned home from the facility. We found that 5.9 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.

Turning to our third category, this nursing home also received a score of B for its long-term care rating. This is a well above average score in this category. If you are seeking anything other than short-term rehabilitation, you should take a close look at each nursing home's long-term care grades. Once we assessed the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we then looked at the facility's vaccination statistics. This facility vaccinated 81.5636 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which happens to be a bit below what we were hoping for but still a respectable figure. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

Turning to our fourth area, this nursing home was awarded a decent nursing rating. While this isn't quite as dominant as many of its other grades, this is really not the end of the world. Our nursing grade assesses several factors, but the paramount consideration is the quantity of nurse hours per patient per week. This facility provides only 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis. This is a somewhat uninspiring figure as it is well below average. Finally, despite not having the most impressive total nursing hours, this facility performed admirably in the area of preventing major falls. This is generally an indicator that a facility has quality controls in place.