Ditmas Park Nursing and Rehab

On top of being a quality facility overall, this place also excelled in our inspections category, where it earned an A. Not many facilities fared better in this category. Perhaps the most critical factor we consider in computing our inspection ratings is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places with better grades in this category typically avoided the more severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. This nursing home received 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered to be severe deficiencies. This indicates that CMS did not deem any of these deficiencies to create an imminent threat to resident health or safety. Keep in mind that deficiency-free inspection reports are uncommon in the industry.

An additional quality feature for this facility is that it received an impressive long-term care grade. Indeed, this wound up being its second best category score. In this category, we awarded this nursing home a B+. For patients seeking a permanent residence as opposed to skilled nursing, long-term care is a very important category. Once we looked at the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination record. This nursing home vaccinated 72.83531 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which happens to be slightly less than we expected but still a decent percentage. While its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we had hoped, we were pleased to find facility was able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

This nursing home's next best area is short-term care. In that area, we gave this nursing home a B-. In the category of short-term care, we strive to qualify measures of a facility's rehabilitation. We assess a nursing home's skilled nursing services, including the ones performed by registered nurses and physical therapists. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not every nursing home employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, based on the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we assessed the percentage of residents that eventually returned home from this nursing home. We found that 4.6 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was well below average.

Our next area is nursing, in which we gave this facility a grade of B- in this category. There are several data points included in this area. Most of the data points relate to the quantity and quality of nurse staffing. This facility averages 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident daily, which is well below average. Lastly, our nursing ratings also consider some quality-focused measures. We especially like to look at the percent of residents who sustained pressure ulcers and major falls. These metrics are decent measures of the quality of nursing care, since superior care can reduce these problems.