Brooklyn Community Estates

Located in Brooklyn, Iowa, Brooklyn Community Estates is the only facility we identified in the city. With an overall rating of B+, this looks like a high quality facility. Based on our ratings, you could do much worse than this place. The best aspect of this nursing home's strong profile is its inspection reports. Inspection grades are discussed in the next section

One of the reasons this place turned out to be a quality nursing home is that it earned an A+ in our inspections category. This is simply as good as it gets in this category. Our inspection grades are tied to several datapoints found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that receive favorable grades in this category have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these places generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. This facility was assessed 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe deficiencies. This means that the government inspectors did not consider any of these deficiencies to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This facility was awarded strong scores in the area of long-term care as well. As a result, we gave it one of our most superb scores in that category with a area of A. When facilities receive this type of grade in this category it is usually a good sign for resident care and indicates that the place is well-staffed with nurses aids. One of the criteria we considered after nursing hours is vaccines. This facility administered the pneumonia vaccine to 99.43503 percent of its residents. This is a reliable method to minimize unnecessary deaths and hospitalizations for the senior population. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had only 0.88 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

Next, we looked at the nursing category where we awarded this nursing home a grade of C. This facility didn't perform quite as well in this category as it did in some other categories. Nevertheless, this is still a respectable score. The nursing score weighs a handful of datapoints, many of which are associated with levels of nurse staffing. This particular nursing home provided just 3 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis. This figure is significantly below the national average. Lastly, our nursing grades also factor in some quality-focused metrics. We especially like to look at the percentage of patients who experienced pressure ulcers and major falls. Sometimes these metrics are measures of the quality of nursing care, since better care can reduce these problems.

The last category we scored was this facility's weakest area. Nevertheless, even in its weakest link we still gave it a decent grade of C for our short-term care category. Our short-term care ratings are probably more meaningful for residents in need of a nursing home for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually mandates additional skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing means not only nursing services, but also physical and respiratory therapy, as well as other forms of therapy. We were pleased to find that this nursing home employs both registered nurses and physical therapists. The same can't be said for all nursing homes. Finally, we assessed the percentage of residents who returned home from this facility. This place performed respectably in this area with 48.6 percent of its patients returning home.