Schulman and Schachne Inst for Nursing & Rehab

Schulman and Schachne Inst for Nursing & Rehab is a very-large hospital-based nursing home located in Brooklyn, New York. Featuring an overall score of B, we deemed this facility to be ranked among the top fifteen facilities nursing homes in the city. An overall grade in this range is a reliable indicator of a very solid facility. Even in a city offering 40 other nursing homes, this facility should be a fine option. The best part of this nursing home's impressive profile was its inspection reports. Inspection grades are discussed in the next section

To pair with its favorable overall score, we awarded this facility an A+ for the area of inspections. Inspection ratings are based on pieces of information located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that excel in this area typically have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these places should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. Although this facility had some deficiencies on its inspection report, none of them were serious based on CMS' scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Another one of this facility's above average category scores came in the area of long-term care. We gave them one of our more positive grades in that category, with a score of B+. When facilities receive this kind of score in long-term care it is usually a good sign for resident care and indicates that the nursing home is well-staffed with nurses and aids. Once we assessed the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination statistics. This facility vaccinated 98.19355 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which is far higher than most nursing homes. This nursing home was also able to keep its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 1.53 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days.

This facility was awarded its third highest category grade in the category of short-term care. We awarded this facility a grade of B- in this area, which is a respectable grade. Short-term care grades are typically employed to grade a nursing home's performance with rehabilitation In order to have good rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally must provide higher levels of highly skilled nursing. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other types of therapists. Remarkably, this facility provides its residents with at least 50% more physical therapist hours per week than the average facility. Finally, we considered the number of patients that eventually returned home from this facility. It performed respectably in this metric with 48.2 percent of its patients returning home.

The final category we assessed was nursing. This facility was awarded a C in the category. Our nursing rating is largely associated with a facility's nurse staffing. This particular nursing home provided 3.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as minimizing major falls. This place performed admirably in this datapoint. Avoiding major falls is typically an indicator that a facility has quality controls in place. Many falls can be avoided if a nursing home provides enough nurses to assist its residents.