Queens Boulevard Extended Care Facility

One of the many reasons this turned out to be a quality nursing home is that it earned an A+ inspection grade. This is just about as good as it gets in this critical category. Inspection grades are tied to pieces of information found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that receive favorable grades in this category tend to have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. While this place had some minor dings on its inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those labeled as categories G through L. This tells you that the inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. The fact that none of the deficiencies were severe made us feel better about this inspection report.

Contributing to this facility's list of accomplishments, it also received a superb short-term care score. We gave them an impressive strong of A- in this category. Our short-term care grades are important for individuals requiring rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually mandates more highly-skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing means a vast range of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not every facility employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the data this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last statistic we looked at in this category is the number of patients that were able to return home from the facility. We found that 5.9 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.

The third category we looked at is long-term care. This facility was given an above average long-term care grade, with a grade of B in the area. In a long-term care environment, the primary goal is to maintain residents' quality of life and keep them safe. After looking at the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we then looked at the facility's vaccination records. This facility vaccinated 93.60852 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which is a bit lower than we were hoping for but still a respectable percentage. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

The final area we scored was nursing. In that category, we gave this facility a solid grade of B-. This actually ended up being this nursing home's weakest category. Our nursing grade includes quite a few components, but the primary one is the number of nurse hours per patient per week. This place provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident each day. This is a lower figure than we were hoping for. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based metrics, such as avoiding major falls. Despite not having the most impressive total nursing hours, this facility performed admirably in the area of preventing major falls. This is generally a reliable indicator that a nursing home has quality controls in place. Many falls can be avoided if a nursing home supplies enough nurses to assist its residents.