St Marys Hospital for Children

St Marys Hospital for Children is located in Bayside, New York, a city with a total of 47,490 people. This facility is among the highest-graded facilities we found. In fact, it received our absolute highest grade. In fact, we ranked this nursing home number 113 in the United States. This puts it in the top one percentile of all facilities. Headlining this place's remarkable report card is its inspection rating, which is addressed in the next section.

In addition to performing well overall, this nursing home also received a nearly flawless inspection report. Consequently, it received one of our best scores in that category with an A+. Our inspection grades are based on several items located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that score well in this area typically have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these places should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. While this place had a few deficiencies on its inspection report, none of them were major deficiencies based on CMS' deficiency scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This nursing home also received an A+ for its nursing grade. Nursing scores are largely tied to the nursing home's nurse staffing. This facility provides an incredible 10.5 hours of nursing care per patient per day. Out of this total, many of those hours were provided by registered nurses, which is one of the most highly trained levels of nurses. In addition to providing impressive levels of nursing care, this place also excelled in the quality-based metrics we assessed. It performed as well as any facility in the state in terms of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls.

This facility also was given an A+ for its long-term care score. Nursing homes that excel in this category tend to be well-staffed and provide extensive hands on care to patients. In addition to considering the impressive level of care provided by nurses aids and other staff at this nursing home, we also were pleased by the nursing home's vaccination statistics. For example, this facility administered the pneumonia vaccine to 99.004974 percent of its residents, which is what we like to see. Finally, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

Moving on to our fourth category, this facility was awarded a highly favorable short-term care grade. In fact, we awarded it an A in that category, rounding out a straight A profile. In our short-term care assessment, we strive to craft a meaningful measure for rehabilitation. In doing so, we analyze a nursing home's level of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as respiratory therapy. Remarkably, this nursing home provides about 50% more services from physical therapists and registered nurses than most nursing homes we looked at. This is a very favorable sign. The final item we looked at in this area is the number of residents who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We discovered that 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.