Cliffside Rehab & Residential Health Care Center is certified as a Medicare and Medicaid facility and has been approved to provide these services since 1974-12-01. 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) 886-0700 or your local Medicaid office to verify current eligibility.

Cliffside Rehab & Residential Health Care 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 74.1/100, placing it #6349 of 14703 facilities nationally and #326 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 Cliffside Rehab & Residential Health Care Center receives a reported average of 4 hours 26 minutes of total nurse staffing per day. This breaks down as: Registered Nurse (RN) coverage — 39 minutes; Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) — 1 hour 7 minutes; Nurse Aide — 2 hours 40 minutes. On weekends, total nurse staffing is 3 hours 54 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 29.4%. Families are encouraged to ask about current staffing schedules during their facility visit.

Cliffside Rehab & Residential Health Care Center has received zero fines across all five years of available data (2022–2026), reflecting a strong regulatory compliance record. 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, Cliffside Rehab & Residential Health Care Center ranks 6349th out of 14,703 facilities (composite score: 74.1/100), placing it in the above average nationwide. Within NY, it ranks 326th out of 596 nursing homes. In Flushing, it ranks 8th out of 11 facilities. Among facilities sharing its ZIP code, it ranks 6th of 8. For 2026 staffing: total nurse hours rank #2,608 nationally and RN hours rank #5,730 nationally (#212 in NY). Our composite quality score of 74.1/100 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 Flushing, visit: https://nursinghomesnearme.org/new_york/flushing/