With over 20 facilities to choose from in Brooklyn, New York, Brooklyn United Methodist Church Home is one of the multitude of facilities here. We gave it an overall grade of C, which is a middle of the pack grade. This grade is not too far off the city grade for Brooklyn, which is a B-. One of the major highlights of this nursing home's profile is its stellar inspection grade, which we will address in the next paragraph.
Brooklyn United Methodist Church Home
Updated May 1, 2022 by Nick Reese
1485 Dumont Avenue,
Brooklyn NY 11208
99.5% estimated occupancy 1
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Facility Inspections
While this nursing home's overall grade was decent, it really excelled in the category of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A for that category, which is one of our best scores. Perhaps the most important factor we look at in computing our inspection grades is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a facility's inspection reports. Places with better scores in this area typically avoided the more severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. Although this nursing home had a few deficiencies on its report, none of them were severe based on CMS' deficiency scale. A couple minor deficiencies should not lead you to cross a nursing home off your list.
Long-term Care Quality
This facility's second best category is its long-term care score, where it received a B-. In the category of long-term care, we focus more on the amount of services provided by a nursing home, rather than more healthcare-oriented services. On top of assessing the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. We were a bit bothered by the fact that this facility vaccinated just 76.86747 percent of its patients. Fortunately, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. While it had 1.84 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, its risk adjusted metric was better than most facilities since it had some more complicated patients.
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Nurse Quality
This nursing home's nursing grade appears to be one of its better features. The facility received a grade of C in this category. The nursing score consists of a handful of subcategories, but the paramount consideration is the level of nurse hours per patient per week. This place averages just 2.6 hours of nursing care per patient each day, which is a very low figure. Although this nursing home ranked poorly in terms of the quantity of nursing care provided, it actually performed admirably in a few of our quality-based metrics. It was above average in two of the major metrics we look at, with favorable scores for minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls.
Short-term Care Quality
This nursing home's least impressive category is short-term care, which is the final area we looked at. We gave it an F for this category. Even with a few respectable grades in other categories, this score is still alarming so we would like to to draw your attention to it. Our short-term care grades are based in part on a facility's quantity of highly-skilled nursing services. This includes a wide spectrum of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other types of therapy. With its abysmal grade in this category, we weren't shocked to discover this facility provided far fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per patient than most facilities. The final metric we looked at in this category is the percentage of patients that ultimately were able to return home from the facility. This facility struggled quite a bit in this area as well, with just 29.3 percent of its patients returning home. Unfortunately, this was well below the national average.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Brooklyn United Methodist Church Home Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Brooklyn United Methodist Church Home, 9.64% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This is the percentage of residents that suffered from a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are considered by many experts to be a barometer of nursing care . Pressure ulcers, also called bed sores, are often the result of patients staying in one position for too long.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Brooklyn United Methodist Church Home, 3.1% of Patients had Serious Falls
This indicates the percentage of residents who sustained a fall which resulted in serious injury.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Brooklyn United Methodist Church Home, 2.09% of Patients had UTIs
This tells you the percentage of patients that sustained a urinary tract infection. Urinary tract infections are often associated with nursing homes with worse hygiene protocols. Better hygiene protocols can reduce the number of UTI's sustained by residents in a nursing home. We want to point out that this statistic is sometimes skewed by the fact that facilities have incongruent reporting standards for infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Brooklyn United Methodist Church Home, 11.62% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This indicates the percentage of residents prescribed antipsychotic medications. While antipsychotic drugs may be vital to many patients, it is important to confirm these medications are being used appropriately. In limited situations, high levels of antipsychotic drug use may mean that a facility is using these medications to subdue residents.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Brooklyn United Methodist Church Home, 13.11% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This indicates the percentage of patients who were given antianxiety medications. These medications are prescribed to patients experiencing depression or anxiety.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Brooklyn United Methodist Church Home, 13.02% of Patients
Measures the percentage of long-term stay residents showing depressive symptoms. Some experts believe this is a measure of quality of care.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Brooklyn United Methodist Church Home, 92.45% of Patients
This datapoint measures the percent of long-term care patients who received the flu and pneumonia vaccines.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Brooklyn United Methodist Church Home, 14.69% Percentage of Patients
This is the percent of patients who required more assistance with activities of daily living over time.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Brooklyn United Methodist Church Home, 18.9% Percentage of Residents
This indicates the percent of patients who maintained mobility over time. Retaining mobility is often a great sign for residents' health.
Hospitalizations
In Brooklyn United Methodist Church Home, 1.2 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This tells you the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Brooklyn United Methodist Church Home, 18.9 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
This indicates the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term patient care. There is usually a correlation between having fewer hospitalizations and a nursing homes short-term rehabilitation performance.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Brooklyn United Methodist Church Home, 8.78 Percentage of Patients
This indicates the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term care.
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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