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Buena Vida Continuing Care & Rehab Center

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  • Memory Care

Updated Apr 1, 2023 by Nick Lata

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

(718) 455-6200

95.83% 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: A-minus

We also wanted to draw your attention to the fact that this nursing home was awarded a great long-term care grade. In fact, we gave it one of our most favorable grades in this area with a grade of A-. For prospective residents in need of a permanent residence as opposed to skilled nursing, long-term care grades are an important measure. After assessing the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination records. This facility vaccinated 85.41423 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which happens to be somewhat below what we anticipated but still a decent percentage. Although its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we hoped for, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

Nurse Quality

Grade: F

This facility also received a strong nursing rating. We gave it a score of F in this area. Our nursing grade weighs several datapoints, but the most important one is the level of nurse hours per patient per week. This nursing home averaged only 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This facility fared well in terms of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls.

Short-term Care Quality

Grade: F

This facility's weakest category was short-term care, which is the final category we assessed. It received a lowly F for this area. Even with some respectable grades in other categories, this grade is nevertheless concerning so we felt obligated to draw your attention to it. In the category of short-term care, we endeavor to evaluate measures of a facility's rehabilitation. We assess the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including the ones performed by registered nurses and physical, occupational and other therapists. Given its grade in this area, we were not stunned to find that this facility is well below average in terms of the quantity of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its patients based on the metrics we looked at. Finally, we assessed the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. This definitely wasn't a strength for this nursing home. We found that just 3.6 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home. At most facilities, about half of their patients are able to return home so this is well below average.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

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

Buena Vida Continuing Care & Rehab Center Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

Grade: B

In Buena Vida Continuing Care & Rehab Center, 7.23% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This tells you the percentage of residents who sustained a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers, which are also called bed sores, are routinely caused by patients not being moved frequently enough. Better nursing care limits the percentage of residents in a nursing home who sustain pressure ulcers.

Minimizes Serious Falls

Grade: B

In Buena Vida Continuing Care & Rehab Center, 2.8% of Patients had Serious Falls

This tells you the percentage of patients that sustained a fall resulting in major injury.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

Grade: B-minus

In Buena Vida Continuing Care & Rehab Center, 2.24% of Patients had UTIs

This metric measures the percentage of long-term stay patients who sustained UTI's. UTI's may be a sign of lower quality nursing care. Nevertheless, this datapoint may also be misleading for certain nursing homes due to different reporting standards for urinary tract infections.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

Grade: A-plus

In Buena Vida Continuing Care & Rehab Center, 3.75% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This metric is an indication of the percentage of long-term patients who were given antipsychotic drugs. Increased usage of these drugs may mean a facility is using these drugs to subdue residents in situations where such drugs are not medically required. Nevertheless, some nursing homes need to rely more on these medications due to having more residents suffering from Alzheimer's or other dementias.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

Grade: A-plus

In Buena Vida Continuing Care & Rehab Center, 3.8% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This statistic tells you the percent of long-term stay residents taking antianxiety medications.

Managing Depression Among Residents

Grade: D

In Buena Vida Continuing Care & Rehab Center, 11.87% of Patients

This tells you the percent of patients who are demonstrating depressive symptoms.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

Grade: C

In Buena Vida Continuing Care & Rehab Center, 90.9% of Patients

This tells you the percent of residents that were administered the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be the norm at this point.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

Grade: B-plus

In Buena Vida Continuing Care & Rehab Center, 12.38% of Patients

This is the percentage of residents who required additional assistance with activities of daily living over time.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

Grade: D

In Buena Vida Continuing Care & Rehab Center, 7.38% of Residents

This is a measure of the percent of long-term patients that retained mobility levels. Some believe that the ability to move around is critical to patients physical and mental well-being.

Hospitalizations

Grade: C

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

This tells you the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of patient care.

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

Grade: A

In Buena Vida Continuing Care & Rehab Center, 7.38% of Residents Rehospitalized

This tells you the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term care.

Short-term Care: ER Visits

Grade: B-minus

In Buena Vida Continuing Care & Rehab Center, 12.55% of Patients

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

Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement

Grade: B-minus

In Buena Vida Continuing Care & Rehab Center, 71.85% of Resident

This indicates the percent of short-term stay patients who saw functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. High levels of independence with ADL's typically correlates with superior rehabilitation services.

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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