Brooklyn-Queens Nursing Home

Care and services

From the community’s website

What Brooklyn-Queens Nursing Home says about itself, quoted from its own site. We have not checked these claims against licensing records. Ask about each one on a tour.

• Nurse on site: 24 hours a day. Our patients are provided with the 24-hour nursing care by our Registered Nurses and Licensed Nursing Practitioners, who are all ACLS and/or BCL-certified. (page, checked Oct 15, 2026)

Staff pay and workplace safety

Federal records about how the employer here treats its staff.

Federal wage and hour cases

The Department of Labor checks that staff are paid minimum wage and overtime as the law requires.

• Findings for Mar 24, 2019 to Mar 23, 2021. Violations found: Fair Labor Standards Act (pay and hours). Employer as DOL recorded it: Brooklyn Queens Nursing Home Inc. Case 1936909.

Source: U.S. Department of Labor, Wage and Hour Division enforcement data, loaded Oct 15, 2026. Concluded cases only. The dates are the period in which DOL found violations, not when the case opened or closed. Back wages are what the employer agreed to pay; penalties are what DOL assessed. DOL does not publish a page for each case, so search the dataset by case number.

OSHA workplace safety inspections

OSHA inspects workplaces for staff safety, such as lifting, needles, chemicals and workplace violence. It does not inspect resident care.

• Mar 30, 2022: follow-up inspection, partial (health). Case closed Jul 22, 2022. No violations cited. OSHA record. OSHA recorded the employer as Brooklyn Queens Nursing Home, INC.
• Apr 23, 2020: fatality or catastrophe inspection, partial (health). Case closed Feb 8, 2022. 4 violations cited (4 serious). Penalties: $12,145 proposed, $7,900 now. OSHA record. OSHA recorded the employer as Brooklyn Queens Nursing Home, INC.
  Details

  • Serious: Respiratory protection (respirators, N95 fit testing) (1910.134(c)(1)). Penalty $12,145 proposed, $7,900 now. To be fixed by Sep 25, 2020. Contested by the employer.
  • Serious: Respiratory protection (respirators, N95 fit testing) (1910.134(d)(1)(i)). Penalty $0 proposed, $0 now. To be fixed by Sep 25, 2020. Contested by the employer.
  • Serious: Respiratory protection (respirators, N95 fit testing) (1910.134(e)(1)). Penalty $0 proposed, $0 now. To be fixed by Sep 25, 2020. Contested by the employer.
  • Serious: Respiratory protection (respirators, N95 fit testing) (1910.134(f)(1)). Penalty $0 proposed, $0 now. To be fixed by Sep 25, 2020. Contested by the employer.

Source: U.S. Department of Labor OSHA enforcement data, as of Oct 15, 2026, inspections since 2016. Penalties can change while a case is open or contested.

Location and nearby care

Nearest hospital with an emergency room

Brookdale Hospital Medical Center, Brooklyn. 2.8 miles away, straight line. CMS overall hospital rating: 1 of 5 stars.

Nearest Medicare nursing home

Brooklyn United Methodist Church Home, Brooklyn. 0.1 miles away, straight line.

Nearest home health agency office

Four Seasons Nursing & Rehabilitation Chha, Brooklyn. 2.7 miles away, straight line. Agencies travel to clients, so ask which ones serve this address.

Nearest pharmacy

Wallgreens. 0.3 miles away, straight line. From OpenStreetMap, which does not list every pharmacy, so one may be closer.

Area

USDA classes ZIP code 11208 as metropolitan (metropolitan core).

Dialysis within 15 miles

Brooklyn United Methodist Continuum Services, Brooklyn, 0.1 miles away, straight line (CMS rating 1 of 5 stars)
Rogosin Brooklyn East Dialysis, Brooklyn, 0.8 miles away, straight line (CMS rating 4 of 5 stars)
Davita Ozone Park Dialysis, Ozone Park, 1.4 miles away, straight line (CMS rating 4 of 5 stars)

Hospice

7 Medicare hospices tell CMS they serve ZIP code 11208.
Caring Hospice Services Of New York, LLC, office in Brooklyn, 6.2 miles away, straight line
Hospice Of New York, LLC, office in Long Island City, 6.4 miles away, straight line (CMS family survey rating 2 of 5 stars)
M J H S Hospice And Palliative Care, Inc, office in New York, 8.1 miles away, straight line (CMS family survey rating 2 of 5 stars)

Nearest geriatric medicine practice

Griffin Myers Medical PC, Brooklyn. 2.1 miles away, straight line. 1 geriatric medicine doctor listed there.

Distances are straight lines from the community, not driving distance. Hospitals, home health, dialysis, hospice and doctors come from CMS provider data (CMS, hospital list updated Jul 22, 2026). Star ratings are CMS’s own.

Emergency and natural hazard risk

Public hazard maps for this location. Ask the community about its emergency plan, its generator and where residents would go in an evacuation.

Hurricane evacuation zone

Zone 3 on the New York City hurricane evacuation zones. (NYC Emergency Management, map updated May 8, 2025)

Flood zone

Outside the high and moderate risk flood areas on FEMA's flood map (Zone X, minimal flood hazard, or not studied). (FEMA flood map)

FEMA National Risk Index

Overall: very low. By hazard: hurricane relatively low, inland flooding very low, tornado very low, heat wave relatively moderate, earthquake relatively low. These are FEMA’s ratings for the census tract, compared with tracts nationwide. (FEMA, December 2025)

A flood zone describes the map at this point, not the building's elevation. In an emergency, follow the local emergency management agency.

What we checked

Every public source we searched for this community. “Nothing on record” means we found no record that matched it. A record can be missed when a name or address differs.