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Nursing Homes in Hempstead

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There are 3 verified nursing homes options listed in Hempstead. New York's Department of Health licenses and inspects this care type.

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A skilled nursing facility provides 24-hour licensed nursing, regulated under a separate rule chapter from assisted living: 10 NYCRR Part 415 in New York. Two different populations often live under the same roof: short-term rehab patients and long-term residents.

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We list 3 verified nursing homes options in Hempstead.

What to watch for with nursing homes in Hempstead

  • Medicare may cover a short rehab stay after a qualifying inpatient hospital admission, but it does not pay for long-term custodial nursing care.

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Verified nursing homes in Hempstead

CommunityCare typeAddressPhoneNYSDOH license #
Hempstead Park Nursing HomeNursing Home800 Front Street
Hempstead, NY 11550		(516) 705-97002906304N
Mayfair Care CenterNursing Home100 Baldwin Road
Hempstead, NY 11550		(516) 538-71712906302N
Nassau Rehabilitation & Nursing CenterNursing HomeOne Greenwich Street
Hempstead, NY 11550		(516) 565-48002906305N

Nursing Homes elsewhere in the region

Families in Hempstead sometimes place a parent one city over, especially when a specific care level is needed.

CommunityCare typeAddressPhoneNYSDOH license #
A Holly Patterson Extended Care FacilityNursing Home875 Jerusalem Avenue
Uniondale, NY 11553		(516) 572-14002950302N
Acadia Center for Nursing and RehabilitationNursing Home1146 Woodcrest Avenue
Riverhead, NY 11901		(631) 727-77445155301N
Affinity Skilled Living and Rehabilitation CenterNursing Home305 Locust Avenue
Oakdale, NY 11769		(631) 218-59005154323N
Allegria Nursing & Rehabilitation Center of Port JeffersonNursing Home1360 Route 112
Port Jefferson Station, NY 11776		(631) 473-71005151323N
Apex Rehabilitation & Care CenterNursing Home78 Birchwood Drive
Huntington Station, NY 11746		(631) 423-32005153311N
Beach Terrace Care CenterNursing Home640 West Broadway
Long Beach, NY 11561		(516) 431-44002902303N

The Hempstead market specifically

Nassau University Medical Center sits nearby in East Meadow, and the LIRR Hempstead Branch terminus makes this one of the more transit-accessible cities on this list. Housing stock skews older and denser than the South Shore villages, with real affordable senior housing already built into the village.

Families in Hempstead often weigh a move to a newer, private-pay community in nearby Garden City or Mineola against staying in Hempstead's existing, more affordable senior housing stock.

Before you sign anything

Get the all-in monthly cost in writing at your parent's current assessed care level, ask what triggers the next care level and what it costs, and ask for the rate increase history across the last three years. Communities that will not put these in writing are telling you something.

Ask what happens if private funds run out, and whether the community holds a Medicaid waiver provider agreement. A meaningful share of communities do not, which means a second move at the worst possible time.

You can check any facility's record free. NYS Health Profiles (profiles.health.ny.gov) publishes license status and inspection history free. Read the full explanation →

Questions families ask

What's the difference between being under observation and being formally admitted to the hospital, and why does it matter afterward?

Observation status and inpatient admission are different Medicare billing classifications that a hospital assigns based on a physician's assessment of the patient's condition, and the distinction significantly affects what Medicare covers afterward. Specifically, Medicare's skilled nursing facility benefit generally requires a prior 3-day qualifying inpatient hospital stay, and time spent under observation does not count toward that requirement. Families should ask hospital staff directly and explicitly which status their parent has been assigned, since it isn't always obvious from where the patient is physically located in the hospital.

Which Long Island hospital system likely serves my area - Northwell, Catholic Health, Stony Brook Medicine, or NYU Langone?

Coverage overlaps, but broadly: Northwell dominates central and western Nassau and much of Suffolk, plus the North Fork via Peconic Bay Medical Center in Riverhead. Catholic Health covers central Nassau and western-central Suffolk, including Rockville Centre, Roslyn, West Islip, Smithtown, Port Jefferson, and Bethpage. Stony Brook Medicine covers central and eastern Suffolk plus the South and North Forks. NYU Langone covers Mineola and central Nassau, with a Suffolk presence as well.

If my parent is discharged from Huntington Hospital, what senior care options are nearby?

Huntington Hospital is a Northwell Health facility located directly in the Town of Huntington, Suffolk County, which this site treats as its hub area for senior care research, covering neighborhoods from Huntington Village and Huntington Station to Cold Spring Harbor, Northport, Dix Hills, and Melville. Discharge planning from Huntington Hospital would coordinate with home care agencies, rehabilitation facilities, and assisted living or nursing communities in this immediate area.

What does Medicare's skilled nursing facility benefit actually require in terms of a prior hospital stay?

Medicare's skilled nursing facility benefit generally requires that the patient first have a qualifying inpatient hospital stay of at least 3 days before Medicare will cover a subsequent skilled nursing facility stay, and only time spent formally admitted as an inpatient counts toward that requirement, not time spent under observation status. This is a critical distinction for Long Island families navigating a hospital discharge, since a stay that looks identical from the patient's bed can be billed either way.

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