Park Nursing Home is certified as a Medicare and Medicaid facility and has been approved to provide these services since 1967-01-01. Medicare covers short-term skilled nursing care (typically up to 100 days after a qualifying hospital stay). Medicaid covers long-term care for residents who meet financial eligibility requirements. Contact the facility at (718) 474-6400 or your local Medicaid office to verify current eligibility.

Park Nursing Home holds an overall CMS (Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services) rating of 3 out of 5 stars. This is made up of three components: Health Inspection (3★), Staffing (2★), and Quality of Resident Care (N/A★). Our independent composite quality score — which uses the raw underlying CMS numbers to break ties between similarly-rated facilities — is 70.3/100, placing it #8134 of 14703 facilities nationally and #391 of 596 in New York. Star ratings are a useful starting point, but the composite score and individual sub-ratings give a more complete picture for families comparing facilities.

Each resident at Park Nursing Home receives a reported average of 3 hours 12 minutes of total nurse staffing per day. This breaks down as: Registered Nurse (RN) coverage — 23 minutes; Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) — 36 minutes; Nurse Aide — 2 hours 12 minutes. On weekends, total nurse staffing is 2 hours 53 minutes per resident per day. The CMS Staffing Rating for this facility is 2 out of 5. The national average for total nursing hours is approximately 3.5 hrs/day. Total nursing staff turnover is 41.5%. Families are encouraged to ask about current staffing schedules during their facility visit.

In the current reporting period, the facility received 2 fine(s) totaling $12,463. No substantiated complaints have been recorded in the available data. In the most recent CMS reporting period, the facility received 2 fine(s) totaling $12,463, and 0 Medicare payment denial(s). Total penalties: 2. The Total Weighted Health Survey Score is 33.0 (lower scores are better). Full inspection history and complaint details are available at medicare.gov/care-compare.

Nationally, Park Nursing Home ranks 8134th out of 14,703 facilities (composite score: 70.3/100), placing it in the below average nationwide. Within NY, it ranks 391st out of 596 nursing homes. In Rockaway Park, it ranks 2nd out of 3 facilities. Among facilities sharing its ZIP code, it ranks 2nd of 3. For 2026 staffing: total nurse hours rank #12,030 nationally and RN hours rank #11,214 nationally (#494 in NY). Our composite quality score of 70.3/100 weighs health inspections, quality of resident care, staffing hours, compliance record, and five-year performance trends — giving a more complete picture than CMS star ratings alone, which can place hundreds of facilities in the same 5-star bucket. To browse and compare all nursing homes in Rockaway Park, visit: https://nursinghomesnearme.org/new_york/rockaway-park/