Brooklyn Queens Nursing Home

Although we didn't rate this facility favorably overall, we actually gave it an excellent grade in the category of inspections, where it earned an A. Inspection ratings are tied to several datapoints found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Deficiencies are an important item to look for on these reports. Most importantly, you should avoid nursing homes with severe deficiencies associated with risks to resident well being. While this place had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you CMS didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. A few minor deficiencies aren't the end of the world.

Sadly, this facility's second most respectable category was long-term care. Nevertheless, with a D in this category, it still performed somewhat poorly. When nursing homes receive a score in this range in long-term care it generally means the facility did not perform well in our quality measures relating to patient care. On top of looking at the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. Frankly, we were a bit bothered by the fact that this nursing home provided the vaccine to just 36.666664 percent of its residents. To our surprise, this nursing home was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this facility has fewer hospitalizations than many nursing homes. This was its best score in this category.

Turning to the area of nursing care, this facility received a grade of just D in this category. The nursing score is based on a variety of datapoints. The most heavily weighted variable is the amount of time nurses spend with residents. This place provided only 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient each day. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing scores. This facility performed well when it comes to avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers.

Switching gears to the fourth area, this nursing home really did not perform very well in this category either. With a very poor grade of F in short-term care, this is about as terrible as it gets. Our short-term care grades are probably more critical for people needing rehabilitation from their nursing home. Rehabilitation generally requires additional skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing means not just nursing, but also physical and occupational therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. Based on its score in this category, we weren't surprised to find that this nursing home was well below average in terms of the quantity of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its patients based on the figures we looked at. Finally, we assessed the percentage of residents that were able to return home from this facility. This nursing home didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 4.2 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.