Brooklyn Gardens Nursing & Rehabilitation Center is a very-large non-profit nursing home in Brooklyn, New York. We gave this nursing home an overall grade of B-. A score of this caliber requires some respectable scores. This grade was right in line with the city grade in Brooklyn. The best part of this facility's report card is its stellar inspection score. Inspection grades are discussed in the next section.
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Brooklyn Gardens Nursing & Rehabilitation Center
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Updated Apr 1, 2023 by Nick Reese
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- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- Has Family Council
- Non profit - Corporation
- Offers Hospice
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Home Making
- Speech Therapy
- IV Antibiotic Therapy
- Palliative Care
- Dentistry
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Tracheotomy Care
- Podiatry
- Physical Therapy
- Respiratory Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Recreational Therapy
- Optometry
- Audiology
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Facility Inspections
We want to draw your attention to the fact that this nursing home outperformed its overall grade in the category of inspections. In fact, it received a nearly flawless inspection report this year. As a result, we gave it one of our best scores in that category with an A+. Inspection scores account for several factors found on a facility's inspection reports. One of the most important criteria we look at is the number and severity of deficiencies. Facilities with higher grades in this category usually have few of these severe deficiencies. While this place had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means that the government inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
Long-term Care Quality
We also awarded this nursing home a positive score in long-term care. This facility received a B+ in this area, which happens to be one of our higher grades. For residents in need of a permanent place to live as opposed to rehabilitation, long-term care is a very important category. On top of looking at the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility gave the vaccine to 90.05305 percent of its patients. This is a bit below what we were hoping for but still a reasonably acceptable percentage. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.
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Short-term Care Quality
Unfortunately, this nursing home's next highest category was short-term care. As it turns out, with a grade of D in this category, it still performed relatively poorly. Our short-term care grades are thought to be more meaningful for those requiring rehabilitation from their nursing home. Rehabilitation generally utilizes more highly-skilled nursing. This means not just nursing services, but also physical and occupational therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. It looks like this nursing home was below average in several staffing areas we focus on. It supplied fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most other nursing homes. The final metric we looked at in this category is the number of residents that eventually returned home from the nursing home. This facility struggled quite a bit in this metric as well, with just 0 percent of its residents returning home.
Nurse Quality
Turning to our final area, this nursing home didn't fare very well. Due to a bottom of the barrel grade of F in nursing, this was its worst area. There are quite a few criteria included in this area. Most of the data points are tied to levels of nurse staffing. 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. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in computing our nursing grades. This place fared well when it comes to avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Brooklyn Gardens Nursing & Rehabilitation Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Brooklyn Gardens Nursing & Rehabilitation Center, 11.25% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This indicates the percent of patients who sustained a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers, also referred to as bed sores, are often caused by residents staying in one position for too long. Better nursing care minimizes the number of pressure ulcers sustained by residents in a nursing home.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Brooklyn Gardens Nursing & Rehabilitation Center, 0.93% of Patients had Serious Falls
This is the percent of patients who sustained a fall resulting in severe injury.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Brooklyn Gardens Nursing & Rehabilitation Center, 1.36% of Patients had UTIs
This indicates the percentage of residents that suffered from a urinary tract infection. Urinary tract infections are considered to be an indicator of nursing care at a nursing home. UTI's are often caused by a facility with lower levels of hygiene. However, this statistic can be skewed for some nursing homes due to inconsistent reporting standards for urinary tract infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Brooklyn Gardens Nursing & Rehabilitation Center, 5.66% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This tells you the percent of residents who were given antipsychotic drugs. While antipsychotic medications may be vital to many patients, it is important to confirm these drugs are being used only where medically required. In some situations, excessive reliance on these medications may suggest a facility is using these drugs to subdue residents.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Brooklyn Gardens Nursing & Rehabilitation Center, 4.99% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This indicates the percent of residents who were prescribed antianxiety drugs. These drugs are generally prescribed to residents suffering from anxiety and depression.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Brooklyn Gardens Nursing & Rehabilitation Center, 11.32% of Patients
This indicates the percentage of patients who are exhibiting symptoms of depression. Increased rates of depression could imply worse patient care.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Brooklyn Gardens Nursing & Rehabilitation Center, 90.69% of Patients
This indicates the percent of residents who received the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be standard at this point.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Brooklyn Gardens Nursing & Rehabilitation Center, 11.93% of Patients
This tells you the percentage of patients that needed additional assistance with activities of daily living over time.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Brooklyn Gardens Nursing & Rehabilitation Center, 8.18% of Residents
This indicates the percent of patients who retained mobility levels over time. Retaining mobility can be a good sign for residents' health.
Hospitalizations
In Brooklyn Gardens Nursing & Rehabilitation Center, 0.02 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This metric measures the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of patient care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Brooklyn Gardens Nursing & Rehabilitation Center, 8.18% of Residents Rehospitalized
This datapoint measures the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term resident care. Keeping residents out of the hospital during rehabilitation is critical to restoring the physical abilities of patients.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Brooklyn Gardens Nursing & Rehabilitation Center, 6.23% of Patients
Measures the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Brooklyn Gardens Nursing & Rehabilitation Center, 60.9% of Resident
This metric is a measure of the percentage of short-term patients who saw functional improvements.
Scores for Brooklyn, NY
- Overall Rating has a grade of B-minus
- Nurse Rating has a grade of D
- Long-term Care Rating has a grade of B
- Short-term Care Rating has a grade of C
- Inspection Rating has a grade of A-plus
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