Nursing home
Peninsula Nursing and Rehabilitation Center
50 15 Beach Channel Drive, Far Rockaway, NY 11691 · Map
For profit - Limited Liability company · Part of Cassena Care (15 facilities) · 200 certified beds
Peninsula Nursing and Rehabilitation Center is a Medicare-certified nursing home in Far Rockaway, New York. CMS rates it 2 out of 5 stars overall (3/5 for staffing, 1/5 for health inspections). Nurse staffing is 3.27 hours per resident per day, below the New York average of 3.65. Its most recent inspection on Jul 3, 2024 cited 7 deficiencies.
- 1 fine totaling $125,210In 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 Peninsula Nursing and Rehabilitation 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) | 3.27 | 3.65 | 3.89 | below avg |
| RN staffing (hrs/resident/day) | 1.06 | 0.70 | 0.68 | above avg |
| Aide staffing (hrs/resident/day) | 1.92 | 2.18 | 2.34 | below avg |
| Nursing staff turnover | 38.8% | 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.
- Every deficiency from the October 31, 2025 inspection was corrected by December 23, 2025
Penalties in CMS records: 1 fine totaling $125,210, 1 total penalty.
What inspectors found at Peninsula Nursing and Rehabilitation Center
Specific deficiencies cited in recent CMS health inspections, most recent first. Severity follows the CMS scope/severity scale. Source: CMS Care Compare.
- Immediate jeopardy
Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to prevent accidents.
Quality of Life and Care Deficiencies · Oct 31, 2025 · Full report (PDF) - Actual harm
Provide appropriate treatment and care according to orders, resident’s preferences and goals.
Quality of Life and Care Deficiencies · Oct 31, 2025 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Respond appropriately to all alleged violations.
Freedom from Abuse, Neglect, and Exploitation Deficiencies · Oct 31, 2025 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program.
Infection Control Deficiencies · Jul 3, 2024 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Provide or obtain dental services for each resident.
Quality of Life and Care Deficiencies · Jul 3, 2024 · Full report (PDF)
Show all 12 deficiencies
- Potential for harm
Ensure the resident's doctor reviews the resident's care, writes, signs and dates progress notes and orders, at each required visit.
Nursing and Physician Services Deficiencies · Jul 3, 2024 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Give residents notice of Medicaid/Medicare coverage and potential liability for services not covered.
Resident Rights Deficiencies · Jul 3, 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 · Jun 22, 2023 - Potential for harm
Provide activities to meet all resident's needs.
Quality of Life and Care Deficiencies · Jul 28, 2022 - Potential for harm
Honor the resident's right to a safe, clean, comfortable and homelike environment, including but not limited to receiving treatment and supports for daily living safely.
Resident Rights Deficiencies · Jul 28, 2022 - Potential for harm
Ensure drugs and biologicals used in the facility are labeled in accordance with currently accepted professional principles; and all drugs and biologicals must be stored in locked compartments, separately locked, compartments for controlled drugs.
Pharmacy Service Deficiencies · Aug 14, 2019 - Potential for harm
Provide appropriate treatment and care according to orders, resident’s preferences and goals.
Quality of Life and Care Deficiencies · Aug 14, 2019
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
- 50 15 Beach Channel Drive
Far Rockaway, NY 11691 - CMS certification #
- 335387
- Ownership
- For profit - Limited Liability company
- Certified beds
- 200
- Avg residents/day
- 183.0
- Provider type
- Medicare and Medicaid
- First certified
- 1973-04-18
- Chain
- Cassena Care (15 facilities)
- Setting
- Urban
Part of Cassena Care
Cassena Care operates 15 nursing facilities across the United States. View all Cassena Care facilities →
Not SLA enrolled. This facility hasn’t enrolled in resident survey verification. Learn about enrollment →
Location and nearby
Explore the area around Peninsula Nursing and Rehabilitation Center using Google Maps.
Other public records
- Website says Nurse 24 hours a day, works with hospice, transportation, secured outdoor area
- Workplace safety 1 OSHA workplace safety inspection since 2016, 10 violations cited
- Emergency In hurricane evacuation Zone 1
Full public records, with dates and sources
Care and services
From the community’s website
What Peninsula Nursing and Rehabilitation 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.
- Nurse on site: 24 hours a day.
24/7 Skilled Nursing Care
(page, checked Oct 12, 2026) - Offers hospice care on site or works with hospice providers.
Palliative and Hospice Care
(page, checked Oct 12, 2026) - Provides transportation.
Recognizing the importance of social connections in the healing process, we provide transportation services to facilitate visits from family and friends, ensuring residents maintain vital personal relationships during their stay.
(page, checked Oct 15, 2026) - Has a secured outdoor area.
Our beautifully landscaped, fenced-in courtyard offers a peaceful outdoor retreat in the heart of Far Rockaway.
(page, checked Oct 15, 2026)
Staff pay and workplace safety
Federal records about how the employer here treats its staff.
OSHA workplace safety inspections
OSHA inspects workplaces for staff safety, such as lifting, needles, chemicals and workplace violence. It does not inspect resident care.
- Dec 28, 2016: complaint inspection, partial (health). Case closed Jul 5, 2017. 10 violations cited (7 serious, 3 other). Penalties: $12,468 proposed, $12,468 now. OSHA record. OSHA recorded the employer as Cardiff Bay Center, LLC. Matched by street address; the name OSHA recorded differs from the community's.
Details
- Serious: Respiratory protection (respirators, N95 fit testing) (1910.134(c)(1)). Penalty $6,926 proposed, $6,926 now. To be fixed by Jun 28, 2017.
- Serious: Respiratory protection (respirators, N95 fit testing) (1910.134(f)(1)). Penalty $0 proposed, $0 now. To be fixed by Jun 28, 2017.
- Serious: Respiratory protection (respirators, N95 fit testing) (1910.134(k)). Penalty $0 proposed, $0 now. To be fixed by Jun 28, 2017.
- Serious: Respiratory protection (respirators, N95 fit testing) (1910.134(m)(1)). Penalty $0 proposed, $0 now. To be fixed by Jun 28, 2017.
- Serious: Respiratory protection (respirators, N95 fit testing) (1910.134(m)(2)(i)(c)). Penalty $0 proposed, $0 now. To be fixed by Jun 28, 2017.
- Serious: Hazard communication (chemical labels, safety data sheets, training) (1910.1200(e)(1)). Penalty $5,542 proposed, $5,542 now. To be fixed by Jun 28, 2017.
- Serious: Hazard communication (chemical labels, safety data sheets, training) (1910.1200(h)(1)). Penalty $0 proposed, $0 now. To be fixed by Jun 28, 2017.
- Other than serious: Bloodborne pathogens (needles, blood and body fluids) (1910.1030(h)(2)(i)(a)). Penalty $0 proposed, $0 now. To be fixed by Jun 28, 2017.
- Other than serious: Bloodborne pathogens (needles, blood and body fluids) (1910.1030(h)(2)(i)(c)). Penalty $0 proposed, $0 now. To be fixed by Jun 28, 2017.
- Other than serious: Bloodborne pathogens (needles, blood and body fluids) (1910.1030(h)(5)). Penalty $0 proposed, $0 now. To be fixed by Jun 28, 2017.
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
- St John'S Episcopal Hospital At South Shore, Far Rockaway. 0.5 miles away, straight line. CMS overall hospital rating: 1 of 5 stars.
- Nearest Medicare nursing home
- Bezalel Rehabilitation and Nursing Center, Far Rockaway. 0.0 miles away, straight line.
- Nearest home health agency office
- Four Seasons Nursing & Rehabilitation Chha, Brooklyn. 7.9 miles away, straight line. Agencies travel to clients, so ask which ones serve this address.
- Nearest pharmacy
- CVS Pharmacy. 0.4 miles away, straight line. From OpenStreetMap, which does not list every pharmacy, so one may be closer.
- Area
- USDA classes ZIP code 11691 as metropolitan (metropolitan core).
- Dialysis within 15 miles
- Rockaway Dialysis, Far Rockaway, 0.4 miles away, straight line (CMS rating 1 of 5 stars)
Marjorie Basser Dialysis Center, Far Rockaway, 0.5 miles away, straight line (CMS rating 3 of 5 stars)
Cassena Kidney Care At Peninsula, Far Rockaway, 1.2 miles away, straight line (has a shift starting after 5 pm; CMS rating 1 of 5 stars) - Hospice
- 8 Medicare hospices tell CMS they serve ZIP code 11691.
Caring Hospice Services Of New York, LLC, office in Brooklyn, 9.3 miles away, straight line
Comprehensive Comm Hospice Of Parker Jewish Inst, office in New Hyde Park, 10.9 miles away, straight line
Hospice Of New York, LLC, office in Long Island City, 13.5 miles away, straight line (CMS family survey rating 2 of 5 stars) - Nearest geriatric medicine practice
- Peninsula Medical Care PLLC, Rockaway Park. 4.3 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 1 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: relatively low. By hazard: hurricane relatively low, inland flooding very low, coastal flooding very low, tornado very low, heat wave relatively high, 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 | Nothing on record |
| OSHA workplace safety inspections since 2016 | Oct 15, 2026 | See above |
| Hurricane evacuation zone maps | See above | |
| 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 Peninsula Nursing and Rehabilitation Center a good nursing home?
CMS gives Peninsula Nursing and Rehabilitation Center an overall rating of 2 out of 5 stars, including 3/5 for staffing and 1/5 for health inspections. These ratings come from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and are updated monthly.
How is Peninsula Nursing and Rehabilitation Center staffed?
Peninsula Nursing and Rehabilitation Center reports 3.27 total nurse hours per resident per day, compared with the New York average of 3.65.
Has Peninsula Nursing and Rehabilitation Center had inspection problems?
Its most recent CMS inspection cited 7 deficiencies.
How many beds does Peninsula Nursing and Rehabilitation Center have?
Peninsula Nursing and Rehabilitation Center is certified for 200 beds.