Rego Park Nursing Home

To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A for our inspections rating. Inspection grades weigh several factors, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these factors by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this facility had some minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are found in categories G through L. This tells you the government inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. The fact that the deficiencies were relatively minor made us feel better about this inspection report.

In addition, this nursing home also was given favorable short-term care scores in our assessment. In fact, we awarded it one of our stronger grades in that category, with a grade of B+. Our short-term care grade is commonly employed to measure a nursing home's performance with rehabilitation. In order to offer highly scored rehabilitation services, facilities generally must feature higher levels of skilled nursing services. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other types of therapists. Fortunately, it looks like this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Lastly, we looked at the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 5 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

The next area we assessed was long-term care, where this facility was given a grade of B- in this category. If you are seeking services other than short-term rehabilitation, you should take a close look at long-term care scores. After we finished looking at the volume of nursing care, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination record. We were a bit concerned this facility vaccinated just 86.19528 percent of its patients for pneumonia. Nevertheless, this place excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had only 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

The next area we scored was nursing. This nursing home was awarded a grade of B- for the area. Our nursing rating considers a host of subcategories. The most heavily weighted one is the quantity of hours nurses spend with residents. This facility provided just 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident each day. This is a relatively low total compared to most other facilities. Lastly, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based metrics, such as preventing major falls. Despite not having the most impressive total nursing hours per resident, this place performed admirably in the area of preventing major falls. This is usually a reliable indicator that a nursing home has sufficient quality controls in place. Some falls can be avoided if a facility provides enough nurses to assist its patients.