Brooklyn Gardens Nursing & Rehabilitation Center

While we were not high on this nursing home overall, we awarded it an A for our inspections rating. This score is significantly more impressive than the facility's overall score. Inspection grades take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can learn more about each of these issues by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this nursing home had a few minor dings on its inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means that CMS did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A couple minor deficiencies are not the end of the world.

One of this facility's more favorable category scores was in the category of long-term care. This proved to be its second best category. In that category, we gave this nursing home a C. In determining our long-term care grades, we scrutinize the assistance with daily living offered to a nursing home's residents. Once we assessed the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination statistics. Unfortunately, this facility vaccinated a relatively low 85.40609 percent of its patients against pneumonia. Fortunately, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

This facility ended up receiving rock bottom score in our nursing category. It received an F in this category. Nursing ratings are based largely on nurse staffing levels. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in computing our nursing ratings. This facility fared well when it comes to minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers.

The last area we assessed is short-term care. Unfortunately, we gave it an abysmal F in this category, which is a very poor score. In computing these short-term care scores, we look at the facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. The purpose is to devise a tool for comparing the rehabilitation services of various facilities. With a grade in this range for this category, we were not stunned to learn this place was well below average in two of the key staffing areas we assess. It offered substantially fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most nursing homes. The last measure we considered in this category is the number of residents who eventually returned home from the facility. This facility struggled quite a bit in this metric as well, with just 2.8 percent of its patients returning home. Unfortunately, this was quite a bit below the national average.