Bezalel Rehabilitation And Nursing Center is certified as a Medicare and Medicaid facility and has been approved to provide these services since 1983-10-01. 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) 471-2600 or your local Medicaid office to verify current eligibility.

Bezalel Rehabilitation And Nursing Center holds an overall CMS (Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services) rating of 4 out of 5 stars. This is made up of three components: Health Inspection (4★), Staffing (3★), and Quality of Resident Care (3★). Our independent composite quality score — which uses the raw underlying CMS numbers to break ties between similarly-rated facilities — is 71.6/100, placing it #7554 of 14703 facilities nationally and #372 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 Bezalel Rehabilitation And Nursing Center receives a reported average of 3 hours 14 minutes of total nurse staffing per day. This breaks down as: Registered Nurse (RN) coverage — 34 minutes; Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) — 28 minutes; Nurse Aide — 2 hours 12 minutes. On weekends, total nurse staffing is 2 hours 58 minutes per resident per day. The CMS Staffing Rating for this facility is 3 out of 5. The national average for total nursing hours is approximately 3.5 hrs/day. Total nursing staff turnover is 24.1%. Families are encouraged to ask about current staffing schedules during their facility visit.

The facility has received 3 fine(s) over the 5-year period, totaling $26,500. No substantiated complaints have been recorded in the available data. In the most recent CMS reporting period, the facility received 0 fine(s) totaling $0, and 0 Medicare payment denial(s). Total penalties: 0. The Total Weighted Health Survey Score is 19.0 (lower scores are better). Full inspection history and complaint details are available at medicare.gov/care-compare.

Nationally, Bezalel Rehabilitation And Nursing Center ranks 7554th out of 14,703 facilities (composite score: 71.6/100), placing it in the below average nationwide. Within NY, it ranks 372nd out of 596 nursing homes. In Far Rockaway, it ranks 4th out of 11 facilities. Among facilities sharing its ZIP code, it ranks 4th of 11. For 2026 staffing: total nurse hours rank #11,636 nationally and RN hours rank #7,228 nationally (#276 in NY). Our composite quality score of 71.6/100 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 Far Rockaway, visit: https://nursinghomesnearme.org/new_york/far-rockaway/