Park Avenue Extended Care Facility
425 National Boulevard, Long Beach NY 11561 · (516) 431-2600 · 93.87% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Lata
Park Avenue Extended Care Facility is a facility located in Long Beach, New York, a city with a population of 37,280 people. With an overall rating of C, this appears to be a decent nursing home. This facility has some things working in its favor. One of the best aspects of this nursing home's report card is its exemplary inspection score, which we will address in the next paragraph.
Additional Details:
Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 240 Beds
CCRC :
For profit - Individual
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Family Council:
Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
This facility earned a solid overall grade as described above, but we really wanted to point out its nearly flawless health inspections in recent years. We gave them an A+ in this category. Arguably the most critical factor we look at in determining our inspection ratings is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's inspection reports. Places with higher scores in this category most likely avoided the most severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. 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. Based on this, we had positive view of this nursing home's inspections.
Long-term Care Quality
Additionally, we gave this nursing home a B in our long-term care category. This is one of our better scores. Nursing homes that excel in long-term care typically are well-staffed and provide extensive hands on care to patients. Once we concluded our assessment of the amount of care provided by nurses, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination records. This nursing home vaccinated 99.615875 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is an impressive figure. Pneumonia tragically can be a life threatening illness for nursing home residents so we prefer when a facility does not leave this to chance. Lastly, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. With only 1.32 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this facility has fewer hospitalizations than the majority of nursing homes.
Short-term Care Quality
This nursing home's next best category was short-term care. We gave it a grade of C in this area. This is basically a slightly below average score in this category. Our short-term care ratings are based in part on the nursing home's quantity of highly-skilled skilled healthcare professionals. This means a broad scope of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, in addition to other variations of therapy. We were pleased to find that this nursing home employs both registered nurses and physical therapists. The same can't be said for all nursing homes. The last statistic we looked at in this area is the number of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. It was above average in this metric with 54.9 percent of its residents returning home.
Nurse Quality
This nursing home's weakest category was nursing, which is the last category we assessed. We gave it a lowly F in this area. In spite of several solid grades in other areas, this grade is nevertheless concerning so we felt obligated to point it out. Our nursing grade assesses quite a few components, but the primary consideration is the level of nurse hours per patient per week. This facility averaged a meager 3.2 hours of nursing care per resident each day. This is well below average. This place 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 sustaining pressure ulcers and we were disappointed. This place was at approximately 150 percent of the national average in this metric. This is a bad sign in light of the fact that so many bed sores are preventable with better nursing care. This metric helped pull down this nursing home's nursing score quite a bit.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Park Avenue Extended Care Facility Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This is the percentage of residents who have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers, which are also known as bed sores, are routinely the result of patients not being moved frequently enough. Better nursing protocols can limit the number of pressure ulcers sustained by residents in a nursing home.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This datapoint is an indication of the percentage of long-term stay residents which have sustained falls which resulted in severe injury. This is one of the statistics we use in calculating nursing ratings.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This tells you the percentage of residents that have had a urinary tract infection. These infections are associated with poor hygiene.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This indicates the percent of residents who were prescribed antipsychotic medications. Antipsychotic drugs are prescribed to patients for a variety of conditions, including dementia. Sadly, in some situations, increased usage of these drugs may indicate that a nursing home is using these drugs to subdue residents.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This indicates the percent of patients who were prescribed antianxiety drugs. Antianxiety drugs are prescribed to residents experiencing anxiety or depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This is a measure of the percent of long-term residents who are demonstrating depressive symptoms.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This is a measure of the percent of long-term stay residents who have received the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be fatal for seniors, making these types of vaccines critical to patient care.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term residents who required more assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as dressing and taking a bath. Many would argue this is a measure of a patient's well-being.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term residents that remained mobile levels.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This is the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of care. There is usually a correlation between keeping patients out of the hospital and the overall quality of care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This metric tracks the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term care.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This datapoint measures the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term care. Staying out of the emergency room is one way to measure the well-being of patients during rehabilitation.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
Measures the percentage of short-term residents that saw functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. Many would argue that this is a reliable measure of a facility's rehabilitation services.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better