Cobble Hill Health Center
380 Henry Street, Brooklyn NY 11201 · (718) 855-6789 · 98.46% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Lata
Cobble Hill Health Center is a very-large non-profit nursing home in Brooklyn, New York. Featuring an overall grade of B-, this looks like a solid nursing home. This grade is right in line with the city grade in Brooklyn. One of the best aspects of this facility's report card is its exemplary inspection grade, which we will address in the next section.
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Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 364 Beds
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Non profit - Corporation
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
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 highest scores. Perhaps the most critical factor we consider in computing our inspection ratings is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a facility's inspection reports. Nursing homes with better scores in this area most likely avoided the most severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
Short-term Care Quality
Another one of this facility's higher category scores was in the category of short-term care. In that category, we gave this facility a grade of B+. It actually performed better than most facilities in this area. Our short-term care grades are meaningful for people in need of rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically utilizes more skilled nursing. This means a broad spectrum of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. We were pleased to find that this nursing home employs both registered nurses and physical therapists. The same can't be said for all nursing homes. Finally, we looked at the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home, which as an area this facility performed much more favorably. It outperformed the vast majority of facilities in the nation with 67 percent of its residents returning home. This is a significantly higher rate than most facilities.
Long-term Care Quality
In addition, we also would like to point out that this facility received positive long-term care marks in this assessment. We gave them one of our more favorable grades in that area, with a B. If you are looking for anything other than short-term rehabilitation, you should take a close look at each facility's long-term care scores. In addition to looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home vaccinated 88.69347 percent of its patients. This is slightly less than we anticipated but still a reasonably acceptable percentage. While its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we hoped for, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. Despite having 1.81 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, its risk adjusted statistic was better than most nursing homes due to it having some more complex patients.
Nurse Quality
This facility's least impressive category is nursing, which is the last category we analyzed. It received an F for this category. Even with a few solid scores in other areas, this score is still alarming so we felt obligated to draw your attention to it. There are a number of data points within this grade. Many of these data points reflect the quantity and quality of nurse staffing. This facility provided just 3.2 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. On top of receiving below average marks for nursing hours, this nursing home was a bit less impressive in some of the quality-based metrics we looked at in computing our nursing grades. We looked at the percentage of patients suffering pressure ulcers and found this place was at roughly 150 percent of the national average in this metric. This is a bad sign when you consider that so many pressure ulcers are believed to be preventable with better nursing care. Unfortunately, this statistic really pulled down this facility's nursing score significantly.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Cobble Hill Health Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This is the percent of residents that sustained a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are skin damage caused by remaining in the same position for too long.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This tells you the percent of residents who sustained a major fall. Falls leading to severe injuries are considered by many experts to be a measure of the quality of nursing care at a nursing home. Major falls leading to injury are routinely caused by poor nursing care.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This is the percentage of residents who suffered from a urinary tract infection. These infections are associated with poorer hygiene.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This tells you the percentage of patients who were given antipsychotic drugs. These medications may be used to treat several medical conditions, such as cognitive disorders.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This is the percentage of patients prescribed antianxiety medications. These medications are commonly given to patients experiencing anxiety or depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This tells you the percent of residents exhibiting signs of depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay residents that received the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be deadly for seniors, making these types of vaccines critical to patient care.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This is a measure of the percentage of long-term care residents who required additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. Activities of daily living include activities such as taking medications and continence.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This tells you the percent of residents who maintained mobility over time. Optimizing mobility can be a good sign for residents' health.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
Measures the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of patient care. Minimizing hospitalizations is critical to preserving the physical well-being of nursing home residents.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This indicates the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term care.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This indicates the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term care. There is a correlation between fewer emergency room visits and the overall quality of nursing home care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This metric is a measure of the percent of short-term stay residents who saw functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. Some experts would argue this is a reliable measure of rehabilitation performance.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better