Nursing home
Fulton Commons Care Center
60 Merrick Avenue, East Meadow, NY 11554 · Map
For profit - Corporation · Part of The Grand Healthcare (16 facilities) · 280 certified beds
Fulton Commons Care Center is a Medicare-certified nursing home in East Meadow, New York. CMS rates it 2 out of 5 stars overall (3/5 for staffing, 2/5 for health inspections). Nurse staffing is 3.75 hours per resident per day, above the New York average of 3.65. Its most recent inspection on Dec 23, 2024 cited 7 deficiencies.
- 1 fine totaling $8,278In CMS records: 1 total penalty.
CMS quality ratings
Ratings from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), updated monthly. 5 stars is the highest quality.
How Fulton Commons Care Center compares
This facility vs. the New York and national averages, from CMS data. For staffing, higher is generally better; for turnover and deficiencies, lower is better.
| Metric | This facility | New York avg | National avg | Compared with the state |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total nurse staffing (hrs/resident/day) | 3.75 | 3.65 | 3.89 | above avg |
| RN staffing (hrs/resident/day) | 0.48 | 0.70 | 0.68 | below avg |
| Aide staffing (hrs/resident/day) | 2.51 | 2.18 | 2.34 | above avg |
| Nursing staff turnover | 24.3% | 40.5% | 46.4% | below avg |
| Deficiencies cited, last inspection | 7.0 | 7.6 | 9.5 | below avg |
Staffing
Hours per resident per day as reported to CMS. Higher numbers indicate more direct care time.
Staff turnover
Lower turnover typically indicates better working conditions and continuity of care. National average for nursing staff is 46.4%.
Recent health inspection
CMS inspects nursing facilities regularly. Deficiencies are categorized by severity.
Penalties in CMS records: 1 fine totaling $8,278, 1 total penalty.
What inspectors found at Fulton Commons Care Center
Specific deficiencies cited in recent CMS health inspections, most recent first. Severity follows the CMS scope/severity scale. Source: CMS Care Compare.
- Potential for harm
Provide enough nursing staff every day to meet the needs of every resident; and have a licensed nurse in charge on each shift.
Nursing and Physician Services Deficiencies · Dec 23, 2024 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Provide pharmaceutical services to meet the needs of each resident and employ or obtain the services of a licensed pharmacist.
Pharmacy Service Deficiencies · Dec 23, 2024 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Ensure each resident must receive and the facility must provide necessary behavioral health care and services.
Quality of Life and Care Deficiencies · Dec 23, 2024 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Obtain a doctor's order to admit a resident and ensure the resident is under a doctor's care.
Nursing and Physician Services Deficiencies · Dec 23, 2024 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Assist a resident in gaining access to vision and hearing services.
Quality of Life and Care Deficiencies · Dec 23, 2024 · Full report (PDF)
Show all 12 deficiencies
- Potential for harm
Plan the resident's discharge to meet the resident's goals and needs.
Resident Assessment and Care Planning Deficiencies · Dec 23, 2024 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Allow resident to participate in the development and implementation of his or her person-centered plan of care.
Resident Rights Deficiencies · Dec 23, 2024 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to prevent accidents.
Quality of Life and Care Deficiencies · Nov 28, 2023 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Develop and implement a complete care plan that meets all the resident's needs, with timetables and actions that can be measured.
Resident Assessment and Care Planning Deficiencies · Nov 28, 2023 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Encode each resident’s assessment data and transmit these data to the State within 7 days of assessment.
Resident Assessment and Care Planning Deficiencies · Apr 28, 2023 - Potential for harm
Safeguard resident-identifiable information and/or maintain medical records on each resident that are in accordance with accepted professional standards.
Resident Assessment and Care Planning Deficiencies · Apr 28, 2023 - Potential for harm
Ensure a licensed pharmacist perform a monthly drug regimen review, including the medical chart, following irregularity reporting guidelines in developed policies and procedures.
Pharmacy Service Deficiencies · Apr 28, 2023
Read the full inspection reports on Medicare.gov Each inspection there has a “Read the full report” link with the inspectors’ written findings.
About this facility
- Address
- 60 Merrick Avenue
East Meadow, NY 11554 - CMS certification #
- 335831
- Ownership
- For profit - Corporation
- Certified beds
- 280
- Avg residents/day
- 272.5
- Provider type
- Medicare and Medicaid
- First certified
- 2001-11-14
- Chain
- The Grand Healthcare (16 facilities)
- Setting
- Urban
Part of The Grand Healthcare
The Grand Healthcare operates 16 nursing facilities across the United States. View all The Grand Healthcare facilities →
Not SLA enrolled. This facility hasn’t enrolled in resident survey verification. Learn about enrollment →
Location and nearby
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Other public records
- Website says Respite stays, nurse 24 hours a day
- Staff pay 1 federal wage case with violations found, since 2015
Full public records, with dates and sources
Care and services
From the community’s website
What Fulton Commons Care Center says about itself, quoted from its own site. We have not checked these claims against licensing records. Ask about each one on a tour.
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 Jan 1, 2015 to Dec 31, 2016. Violations found: Overtime. Back wages: $494,365 owed to 172 employees. DOL marked the employer as a repeat violator. Employer as DOL recorded it: Fulton Commons Care Center (The New Fulton Commons Company, LLC). Case 1806628.
DOL also concluded 1 case here with no violations found, most recently for a period ending Sep 13, 2008.
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.
Location and nearby care
- Nearest hospital with an emergency room
- Nassau University Medical Center, East Meadow. 1.1 miles away, straight line. CMS overall hospital rating: 1 of 5 stars.
- Nearest Medicare nursing home
- Hempstead Park Nursing Home, Hempstead. 1.6 miles away, straight line.
- Nearest home health agency office
- St Mary'S Home Care, Uniondale. 1.1 miles away, straight line. Agencies travel to clients, so ask which ones serve this address.
- Nearest pharmacy
- CVS Pharmacy. 1.6 miles away, straight line. From OpenStreetMap, which does not list every pharmacy, so one may be closer.
- Area
- USDA classes ZIP code 11554 as metropolitan (metropolitan core).
- Dialysis within 15 miles
- Nassau University Medical Center, Uniondale, 1.8 miles away, straight line (has a shift starting after 5 pm; CMS rating 3 of 5 stars)
Davita Garden City Dialysis Center, Garden City, 3.2 miles away, straight line (CMS rating 3 of 5 stars)
Fresenius Kidney Care - Hempstead, Hempstead, 3.3 miles away, straight line (has a shift starting after 5 pm; CMS rating 5 of 5 stars) - Hospice
- 8 Medicare hospices tell CMS they serve ZIP code 11554.
Comprehensive Comm Hospice Of Parker Jewish Inst, office in New Hyde Park, 7.2 miles away, straight line
Good Shepherd Hospice, office in Farmingdale, 7.5 miles away, straight line (CMS family survey rating 4 of 5 stars)
Hospice Care Of Long Island, Queens, South Shore, office in Woodbury, 8.7 miles away, straight line (CMS family survey rating 3 of 5 stars) - Nearest geriatric medicine practice
- New York University, Mineola. 3.6 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.
- 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 relatively low, tornado very low, heat wave relatively low, 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.
| Source | Data as of | What we found |
|---|---|---|
| U.S. Department of Labor wage and hour cases | Oct 15, 2026 | See above |
| OSHA workplace safety inspections since 2016 | Oct 15, 2026 | Nothing on record |
| Hurricane evacuation zone maps | Not in a mapped zone | |
| FEMA flood map | See above | |
| USDA wildfire risk | Apr 15, 2026 | Not shown: no FEMA wildfire rating of moderate or higher here |
| FEMA National Risk Index | See above | |
| CMS hospitals, home health, dialysis, hospice and doctors; OpenStreetMap pharmacies | See above | |
| HUD Multifamily Properties - Assisted | Jul 6, 2026 | Nothing on record |
| State Veterans Homes (NASVH directory) | Sep 20, 2026 | Nothing on record |
| CMS Hospice - General Information | Aug 19, 2026 | Nothing on record |
| CMS Home Health Care Agencies | May 27, 2026 | Nothing on record |
| The community’s own website | See above |
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Frequently asked questions
Is Fulton Commons Care Center a good nursing home?
CMS gives Fulton Commons Care Center an overall rating of 2 out of 5 stars, including 3/5 for staffing and 2/5 for health inspections. These ratings come from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and are updated monthly.
How is Fulton Commons Care Center staffed?
Fulton Commons Care Center reports 3.75 total nurse hours per resident per day, compared with the New York average of 3.65.
Has Fulton Commons Care Center had inspection problems?
Its most recent CMS inspection cited 7 deficiencies.
How many beds does Fulton Commons Care Center have?
Fulton Commons Care Center is certified for 280 beds.