Hempstead Nursing Home Abuse Lawyers

Nursing homes in the Town of Hempstead

Eighteen Medicare- and Medicaid-certified nursing homes operate in the Town of Hempstead, with 3,597 certified beds: Belair Care Center in Bellmore, Fulton Commons Care Center in East Meadow, Garden Care Center in Franklin Square, Meadowbrook Care Center and South Shore Rehabilitation and Nursing Center in Freeport, Hempstead Park Nursing Home, Mayfair Care Center and Nassau Rehabilitation & Nursing Center in Hempstead, The Grand Rehabilitation and Nursing at South Point in Island Park, Lynbrook Restorative Therapy and Nursing in Lynbrook, Mount Sinai South Nassau (Transitional Care Unit) and Oceanside Care Center in Oceanside, Rockville Skilled Nursing & Rehabilitation Center and The Grand Pavilion for Rehab & Nursing at Rockville Centre in Rockville Centre, A. Holly Patterson Extended Care Facility and Townhouse Center for Rehabilitation & Nursing in Uniondale, North Shore-LIJ Orzac Center for Rehabilitation in Valley Stream and The Five Towns Premier Rehabilitation & Nursing Center in Woodmere.

Seven hold a five-star overall rating; two hold one star (A. Holly Patterson Extended Care Facility and Mayfair Care Center). Eight were fined by CMS in roughly the last three years, for a combined $403,132. The average long-stay pressure-ulcer rate across the seventeen homes reporting one is 8.3 percent, against a New York average of 6.5 percent and a national average of 4.5 percent. A. Holly Patterson Extended Care Facility and Hempstead Park Nursing Home carry the CMS abuse icon.

What recent inspections found

Federal inspection reports are public. The most serious findings at homes in the town since 2023 — citations where inspectors found actual harm to a resident or immediate jeopardy to resident health or safety — include:

• A. Holly Patterson Extended Care Facility: in June 2026, a citation at the immediate-jeopardy level (J) for failing to keep residents free of accident hazards and to provide adequate supervision (F689); in September 2025, an actual-harm citation (G) for failing to keep residents free of accident hazards and to provide adequate supervision (F689); in May 2025, a citation at the immediate-jeopardy level (J) for the federal rule on freedom from abuse and neglect (F600).
• Fulton Commons Care Center: in April 2025, an actual-harm citation (G) for failing to keep residents free of accident hazards and to provide adequate supervision (F689).
• Garden Care Center: in January 2023, an actual-harm citation (G) for failing to keep residents free of accident hazards and to provide adequate supervision (F689).
• Hempstead Park Nursing Home: in March 2024, a citation at the immediate-jeopardy level (J) for failing to keep residents free of accident hazards and to provide adequate supervision (F689).
• Mayfair Care Center: in September 2024, an actual-harm citation (G) for failing to keep residents free of accident hazards and to provide adequate supervision (F689); in March 2023, an actual-harm citation (G) for the federal rule on freedom from abuse and neglect (F600).
• Nassau Rehabilitation & Nursing Center: in May 2025, a citation at the immediate-jeopardy level (J) for ensure each resident receives and the facility provides food prepared in a form designed to meet individual needs (F805).
• North Shore-LIJ Orzac Center for Rehabilitation: in August 2024, a citation at the immediate-jeopardy level (J) for ensure that residents are free from significant medication errors (F760).
• The Five Towns Premier Rehabilitation & Nursing Center: in November 2025, an actual-harm citation (G) for failing to provide necessary care and treatment (F684).
• The Grand Pavilion for Rehab & Nursing at Rockville Centre: in January 2025, an actual-harm citation (G) for pain management (F697).

A citation does not mean that your family member was harmed, and a clean record does not mean that they were not. What matters is the chart: the care plan, the turning and repositioning records, the skin assessments, the staffing for the shifts in question and what the home told you.

Bedsores and pressure injuries

A pressure injury that reaches Stage 3 or 4 often means the resident was left in one position too long, was not kept clean and dry, or was not eating and drinking enough, and that no one acted when the skin first changed. Federal rules require a home to prevent pressure ulcers unless they are clinically unavoidable and to treat them when they occur (42 C.F.R. § 483.25(b)). New York’s Public Health Law § 2801-d gives residents a direct right to sue when a home violates those rights.

Our free Family Guide to Bedsores explains each stage, how wounds are treated and what the home must document.

Hempstead cases: court, deadlines and reporting

Cases from the Town of Hempstead are filed in Supreme Court, Nassau County, 100 Supreme Court Drive, Mineola. When a resident has died, the estate is opened in Nassau County Surrogate’s Court, 262 Old Country Road, Mineola; only the appointed administrator or executor can bring the wrongful death and survival claims, and we handle the limited letters of administration as part of the case.

Our main office is at 44 Elm Street in Huntington. We meet families at home, at the bedside or at the office.

• Public Health Law § 2801-d and negligence claims: generally three years from the injury (CPLR 214).
• Claims framed as medical malpractice: generally two years and six months (CPLR 214-a).
• Wrongful death: two years from the date of death (EPTL 5-4.1).
• CMS lists A. Holly Patterson Extended Care Facility as government-owned. A claim against a public operator usually requires a notice of claim within 90 days (General Municipal Law § 50-e) and suit within one year and 90 days.

To report a problem: call 911 in an emergency; file a complaint with the New York State Department of Health, Centralized Complaint Intake, 1-888-201-4563; and contact the New York State Long Term Care Ombudsman Program (ltcombudsman.ny.gov).