The Five Towns Premier Rehab & Nursing Center
1050 Central Avenue, Woodmere NY 11598 · (516) 374-9300 · 80% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Reese
The Five Towns Premier Rehab & Nursing Center is the sole option located in Woodmere, New York. This nursing home was awarded an overall grade of C, which is a middle of the road grade. In our view, this facility ought to be a good fit for quite a few people. You also may want to review this nursing home's category grades below. We discuss short-term care in the next section.
Additional Details:
Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 336 Beds
CCRC :
For profit - Corporation
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Short-term Care Quality
It should also be noted that this facility's short-term care score outperformed its overall score. We gave it a B+ for short-term care, which is one of our better scores. This really helped its overall grade. In computing our short-term care scores, we look at a facility's levels of skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other types of therapists. This grade is typically a meaningful measure of a nursing home's rehabilitation services. This nursing home elevated its grade in this category by offering more care from registered nurses to its residents than the average facility. The final metric we looked at in this category is the number of patients that eventually returned home from the facility. It performed as well as just about any nursing home in New York in this metric with 58.4 percent of its patients returning home. With most nursing homes, fewer than half of their short-stay patients ever return home.
Facility Inspections
This nursing home also performed well in inspections. It received one of our best grades in that area with an B+. Our inspection scores are based on several datapoints located in the a nursing home's inspection reports. Nursing homes that score well in this area tend to have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these facilities generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. While this place had a few minor dings on its report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means the government inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. A couple of minor deficiencies should not lead you to cross a nursing home off your list.
Long-term Care Quality
We gave this facility just a D for our long-term care score. This is well below average in this category. If you are seeking anything other than short-term rehabilitation, you should take a close look at each facility's long-term care grades. On top of looking at the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility vaccinated 100 percent of its patients, which is more than the average nursing home. Surprisingly, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. While it had 3.19 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, its risk adjusted statistic was not bad since it had more complex patients.
Nurse Quality
This nursing home's weakest area was nursing, which is the last category we analyzed. In this area, we awarded this nursing home a grade of just D. We weighed the qualifications of nurses at the nursing home, as well as the number of hours the nurses were with residents, in calculating our rating in this area. According to CMS records, this place averaged 4.1 hours of nursing care per resident daily. Roughly a quarter of those hours were provided by registered nurses, which are among the more highly skilled nurses. These are both above average figures, so the problem here is not the quantity of care. Despite performing well in terms of nursing hours, this place was a bit less impressive in some of the quality-based measures we looked at in computing our nursing ratings. We looked at the percent of patients sustaining pressure ulcers and found that this place was at roughly 150 percent of the national average in this statistic. This is likely a bad sign when you consider that many bed sores are believed to be preventable with better nursing care. Unfortunately, this statistic pulled down this facility's nursing grade substantially.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
The Five Towns Premier Rehab & Nursing Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This is the percentage of residents who sustained a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers, which are also called bed sores, are routinely caused by patients not being moved frequently enough. Better nursing protocols minimizes the percentage of residents in a nursing home who sustain pressure ulcers.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This is the percentage of residents who sustained a major fall. Falls leading to major injury are often the result of lower levels of patient supervision. More supervision can limit the percentage of residents in a nursing home who sustain major falls.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This is the percentage of residents who sustained a urinary tract infection. These infections are sometimes associated with insufficient hygiene.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This statistic measures the percentage of long-term care patients receiving antipsychotic medications. While antipsychotic drugs serve an important medical purpose, it is important to make sure these drugs are being used appropriately. In limited cases, high levels of antipsychotic drug use may mean a nursing home is using these medications to control patient behavior.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This tells you the percent of patients who were given antianxiety drugs. These drugs are commonly prescribed to residents suffering from anxiety or depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This indicates the percentage of residents demonstrating depressive symptoms. High levels of depression could be an indicator worse patient care.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This tells you the percentage of patients who were given the pneumonia and flu vaccines. High vaccination rates should be the norm at this point.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term care residents who needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as dressing and taking a bath.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This datapoint measures the percent of long-term stay patients who retained mobility levels.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
Measures the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of patient care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This indicates the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term care. There is typically a correlation between reduced hospitalizations and a nursing home's quality of short-term rehabilitation.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This metric is a measure of the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term patient care. Avoiding medical emergencies is one way to assess patient care during rehabilitation.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This indicates the percent of short-term residents who saw functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. High levels of performance with ADL's often correlates with successful rehabilitation services.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better