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Buena Vida Continuing Care & Rehab Center

  • Nursing Home
  • Memory Care

Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Reese

Historical Rating
Grade: C
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48 Cedar Street,
Brooklyn NY 11221

(718) 455-6200

94.66% estimated occupancy 1

Buena Vida Continuing Care & Rehab Center is a very-large facility in Brooklyn, New York. This is a respectable facility, with an overall grade of C. Based on our analysis, this facility ought to meet the needs of many people. The best part of this place's report card was its remarkable inspection reports. We discuss inspections in the next paragraph.

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Quick Details

  • Accepts Medicare 1
  • Accepts Medicaid 1
  • No CCRC
  • Has Resident Council
  • Has Family Council
  • For profit - Limited Liability company
  • Secure Memory Care 
  • Offers Inpatient Rehab

Specialized Services

  • Home Making
  • Speech Therapy
  • Wound Care
  • Occupational Therapy
  • Physical Therapy
  • Nutritional Counseling
  • Recreational Therapy

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Facility Inspections

Grade: A

To pair with its decent overall grade, we awarded this nursing home an A for its inspection grade. This is far better than the facility's overall score. Arguably the most important factor we look at in determining our inspection ratings is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Facilities with higher grades in this area typically dodged the most severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. While this facility had a few minor dings on its inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means the inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. A couple of minor deficiencies shouldn't lead you to cross a nursing home off your list.

Long-term Care Quality

Grade: B

This nursing home also was given a favorable score in our long-term care category. We awarded this nursing home an above average grade of B in that area. For prospective patients in need of a permanent place to live rather than skilled nursing, long-term care grades are a key measure. Once we assessed the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination record. This facility vaccinated 79.88304 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is a few points below what we anticipated but still a reasonably acceptable percentage. While its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we like to see, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

Nurse Quality

Grade: D

Another strength of this nursing home is its favorable grade in nursing. We awarded them one of our better scores in that area, with an D. There are a variety of criteria within this area. Many of the criteria are tied to the quantity of nurse staffing. This nursing home provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. This number is quite a bit below the national average. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in computing our nursing ratings. This facility performed well in terms of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. Many consider these statistics to be good measures of the quality of nursing care.

Short-term Care Quality

Grade: F

The next area we assessed is short-term care, which turned out to be this nursing home's weakest category. It received a lowly F for this area, which is obviously a major concern. In determining our short-term care scores, we size up the facility's levels of skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other highly trained professionals. This area is often a meaningful assessment of a facility's rehabilitation services. With its grade in this area, we weren't stunned to find that this place was well below average in terms of its quantity of physical therapy and registered nurse hours offered to its patients based on the metrics we assessed. Frankly, this was what we expected here. The final datapoint we assessed in this area is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that just 3.7 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home, which is well below average. The combination of these poor metrics sunk this facility's short-term care score.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

FDCB-BB+A-AA+Oct 18Dec 23

Buena Vida Continuing Care & Rehab Center Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

Grade: B

In Buena Vida Continuing Care & Rehab Center, 7% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This figure indicates the percent of long-term stay patients who suffered from pressure ulcers . We factor in this statistic in computing both nursing and long-term care grades.

Minimizes Serious Falls

Grade: A-minus

In Buena Vida Continuing Care & Rehab Center, 2.11% of Patients had Serious Falls

This indicates the percent of patients that suffered from a fall which resulted in severe injury.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

Grade: B-plus

In Buena Vida Continuing Care & Rehab Center, 0.89% of Patients had UTIs

This metric measures the percent of long-term care patients who had a urinary tract infection. While a higher rate infections could reflect poorly on a nursing home's hygiene protocols, it can be problematic to compare different nursing homes due to facilities having inconsistent reporting standards.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

Grade: A-plus

In Buena Vida Continuing Care & Rehab Center, 3.39% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This datapoint gauges the percent of long-term care patients receiving antipsychotic medications. While antipsychotic medications serve an important medical purpose, it is important to confirm these drugs are being used appropriately. In some situations, excessive reliance on these medications may mean a nursing home is using these medications to control patient behavior.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

Grade: A-plus

In Buena Vida Continuing Care & Rehab Center, 3.36% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This datapoint is an indication of the percentage of long-term stay residents that were administered antianxiety drugs. These medications are prescribed to patients experiencing depression or anxiety.

Managing Depression Among Residents

Grade: D

In Buena Vida Continuing Care & Rehab Center, 13.52% of Patients

This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term patients who are demonstrating symptoms of depression.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

Grade: D

In Buena Vida Continuing Care & Rehab Center, 87.71% of Patients

This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term patients that were vaccinated against pneumonia and flu.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

Grade: B-plus

In Buena Vida Continuing Care & Rehab Center, 12.17% of Patients

This indicates the percentage of residents that required increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of dependence on staff for assistance with activities of daily living could indicate the decline of a patient's well-being.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

Grade: F

In Buena Vida Continuing Care & Rehab Center, 5.71% of Residents

This tells you the percent of patients that remained mobile levels over time. Optimizing mobility is often a good sign for residents' well-being.

Hospitalizations

Grade: B-minus

In Buena Vida Continuing Care & Rehab Center, 0.02 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days

This is the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of care. There is usually a correlation between avoiding hospitalizations and the quality of long-term care.

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

Grade: A-plus

In Buena Vida Continuing Care & Rehab Center, 5.71% of Residents Rehospitalized

This datapoint measures the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term care.

Short-term Care: ER Visits

Grade: B-minus

In Buena Vida Continuing Care & Rehab Center, 14.25% of Patients

This indicates the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term patient care.

Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement

Grade: B

In Buena Vida Continuing Care & Rehab Center, 79.54% of Resident

Measures the percent of short-term care patients that 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

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