Ditmas Park Care Center

With over 20 facilities to choose from in Brooklyn, New York, Ditmas Park Care Center is one of the multitude of facilities here. With an overall score of B, we deemed this facility to be one of the fifteen highest rated facilities nursing homes in the city. Overall scores in this range are a strong indicator of a very solid facility. At the end of the day, this place looks like a solid choice for most people. This nursing home's strong report card was highlighted by its inspection rating, which you can find in the next section.

To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for our inspections rating. Perhaps the most significant factor we look at in computing our inspection ratings is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Places with better grades in this category typically avoided the more severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. This place was hit with 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered severe. This indicates that CMS didn't consider any of the deficiencies to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

In addition, this facility also was awarded favorable long-term care grades this year. Indeed, we awarded them one of our better scores in that area, with a grade of B+. Long-term care grades in this range generally require both around the clock care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine medical care. In addition to assessing the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home vaccinated 96.40151 percent of its patients, which is more than the majority of nursing homes. This nursing home also keeps its residents out of the hospital. While it had 2.31 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, its risk adjusted statistic was better than the majority of nursing homes since it had some more complex patients.

This nursing home's third best category was short-term care. We gave it a grade of B- in this area. This is basically a middle of the road grade in this area. With our short-term care assessment, we strive to forge a fair gauge for rehabilitation. In this process, we look at the nursing home's offerings of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. This nursing home provides more services with registered nurses and physical therapists than most nursing homes we looked at. This is often a very favorable sign. Lastly, we assessed the percentage of patients who were able to return home from this nursing home. It performed respectably in this area with 48.7 percent of its residents returning home.

The final category we assessed was nursing. For this category, we gave this nursing home a C. In calculating a nursing home's nursing score, we assess the amount of time nurses are caring for patients as well as the skill levels of the nurses. This nursing home provides 3.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based measures, such as preventing major falls. This place performed admirably in this area.