Four Seasons Nursing and Rehabilitation Center
1555 Rockaway Parkway, Brooklyn NY 11236 · (718) 927-6300 · 98.18% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Lata
Four Seasons Nursing and Rehabilitation Center is a very-large nursing home in Brooklyn, New York. This nursing home received an overall score of B. Indeed, this is ranked among the fifteen best nursing homes nursing homes in the city. Even in a city of 40 nursing homes, this facility looks like a sound choice. The best aspect of this facility's strong profile was its inspection grade. Inspection reports are discussed in the next section
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Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 270 Beds
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For profit - Limited Liability company
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
One of the reasons this place is a strong nursing home is that it received a very impressive inspection rating. Inspections is its best category. In that area, we awarded this facility an A+. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in computing these inspection scores. One key factor is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of these deficiencies is arguably more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some deficiencies are quite minor. 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.
Long-term Care Quality
Another quality feature for this facility is that it was given a very positive long-term care score. Indeed, this ended up being its second best category score. In this category, we gave this nursing home a grade of B+. Facilities that do well in long-term care tend to be well-staffed and provide extensive hands on care to residents. On top of assessing the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility gave the vaccine to 99.5439 percent of its patients, which is an impressive figure. Pneumonia sadly is often a life threatening health condition for nursing home patients so we prefer when a facility does not leave its residents vulnerable. The last datapoint we looked at is the nursing home's hospitalization rate. Here we found that this facility had 4.66 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. While this wasn't as impressive as most of its other scores in this category, this figure may be skewed for some nursing homes due to the preexisting medical conditions of residents.
Short-term Care Quality
This facility is also strong in the area of short-term care, where it received a score of B. It outperformed most nursing homes in this area. Our short-term care grade is generally employed to grade a facility's performance with rehabilitation To offer quality rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally need to offer higher levels of highly skilled nursing services. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other highly skilled individuals. This nursing home provides a decent amount of services from physical therapists and registered nurses based on our assessment. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of residents that returned home from this nursing home. We found that it performed as well as just about any nursing home in this area with 61.4 percent of its patients returning home. Most facilities are below 50 percent in this metric.
Nurse Quality
This facility's weakest area was nursing, which is the final area we assessed. We gave it a lowly F for this category. In spite of multiple strong scores in other areas, this score is nevertheless somewhat disappointing so we felt obligated to draw your attention to it. Our nursing score is primarily associated with a nursing home's nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 3.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is slightly below average. While this facility didn't excel in nursing hours, it actually surprised us in a few of the quality-based assessments in the nursing category, such as avoiding major falls. This facility performed above average in this metric, which was one redeeming quality we found in this category.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Four Seasons Nursing and Rehabilitation Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This is the percent of residents who have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are skin damage caused by staying in the same position for an excessive period of time.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This datapoint is a measure of the percent of long-term stay residents who have experienced a fall resulting in severe injury. We use this statistic in computing our nursing ratings.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This figure gauges the percent of long-term stay residents who had a urinary tract infection. While a higher rate of these infections could reflect poorly on a facility's hygiene protocols, it can be problematic to compare between nursing homes due to nursing homes having reporting standards.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This is the percent of patients given antipsychotic drugs. Antipsychotic drugs are given to residents for many conditions, including dementia. Tragically, in some situations, excessive reliance on these medications may suggest a facility is using these medications to control patient behavior.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This indicates the percent of patients who were given antianxiety drugs. These medications are prescribed to residents experiencing depression or anxiety.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This is the percentage of residents showing signs of depression. High levels of depression could reveal a less hospitable environment.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This tells you the percent of residents who were administered the flu and pneumonia vaccines. High vaccination rates should be the norm at this point.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This datapoint is a measure of the percent of long-term residents that needed additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as dressing and eating. Some would argue that this is a reasonable measure of a resident's well-being.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term residents who maintained mobility. Many in the industry would argue that mobility is important for residents' physical and mental health.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This metric is a measure of the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of patient care. Staying out of the hospital is critical to the physical health of nursing home residents.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This datapoint is a measure of the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term care.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This tells you the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This metric is a measure of the percentage of short-term care residents who experienced functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. Some experts would argue this is a reliable measure of a facility's rehabilitation services.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better