Peconic Landing at Southold

Peconic Landing at Southold is a small non-profit facility located in Greenport, New York. It looks like this nursing home is one of the best nursing homes we looked at. Receiving an A+ in our rating system requires superb marks across the board. We were so impressed with this nursing home that we ranked it as one of the top 25 nursing homes in New York. We also gave this facility strong scores in all of our categories. More information about these categories can be found below.

In addition to being a great overall grade, this facility also received A+ health inspections in recent years. Its inspections were virtually flawless. Arguably the most important factor we consider in determining our inspection scores is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a facility's inspection reports. Places with higher scores in this category most likely dodged the most severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. While this place had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means the inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This top notch nursing home also excelled in the category of short-term care, where we awarded it a grade of A+. Few nursing homes fared better in this category. Our short-term care scores are presumably most critical for patients requiring a nursing home for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually utilizes more highly-skilled nursing services. This includes not merely nursing services, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other types of therapy. This nursing home is the gold standard in terms of skilled nursing staffing. In fact, it supplied approximately 50% more physical therapist and registered nurse hours per patient than a typical facility. The last item we assessed in this category is the percentage of patients who ultimately were able to return home from the facility. We found that it performed as well as just about any nursing home in New York in this area with 72.2 percent of its patients returning home.

Another reason we rated this nursing home so highly is that it received an A+ nursing grade. This is simply as good as it gets in this category. We weighed the skill-level of nurses at the nursing home, in addition to the number of hours those nurses spent with residents, in determining our score in this category. This place boasts a really impressive 4.2 hours of nursing care per resident per day, of which a significant portion was provided by registered nurses. This is one of the most highly highly trained levels of nurses. This is one of the higher totals of nursing hours we found at any facility. On top of offering high levels of nursing care, this nursing home also excelled in several of the quality-based metrics we assessed. With less than five percent of its residents suffering from pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any facility the country in this category. This is often an indicator that a facility has reliable quality controls in place. Many pressure ulcers can be avoided by offering better nursing care and a protocol of turning residents more frequently.

The fourth area we scored was long-term care, where this facility was given an A-. This rounded out a very impressive profile. Very few facilities earned an A- or higher in in each area we assessed. When nursing homes receive this kind of grade in long-term care it is typically a good sign for resident care and indicates that the nursing home is well-staffed with nurses and aids. In addition to providing elite levels of nursing care, this nursing home administered the pneumonia vaccine to 100 percent of its patients. Vaccines are vital to keeping patients healthy. This combination proved to be effective as this nursing home also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.