Williamsbridge Center

    1540 Tomlinson Ave, Bronx, NY 10461
    • Assisted Living
    • Memory Care
    • Skilled Nursing

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    Amenities

    Healthcare services

    • Activities of daily living assistance
    • Assistance with bathing
    • Assistance with dressing
    • Assistance with transfers
    • Medication management
    • Mental wellness program

    Healthcare staffing

    • 12-16 hour nursing
    • 24-hour call system
    • 24-hour supervision

    Meals and dining

    • Diabetes diet
    • Meal preparation and service
    • Restaurant-style dining
    • Special dietary restrictions

    Room

    • Air-conditioning
    • Cable
    • Fully furnished
    • Housekeeping and linen services
    • Kitchenettes
    • Private bathrooms
    • Telephone
    • Wifi

    Transportation

    • Community operated transportation
    • Transportation arrangement
    • Transportation arrangement (non-medical)

    Common areas

    • Beauty salon
    • Computer center
    • Dining room
    • Fitness room
    • Gaming room
    • Garden
    • Outdoor space
    • Small library
    • Wellness center

    Community services

    • Concierge services
    • Fitness programs
    • Move-in coordination

    Activities

    • Community-sponsored activities
    • Planned day trips
    • Resident-run activities
    • Scheduled daily activities

    Reviews

    4.00·(103)

    Overall rating

    1. 5
    2. 4
    3. 3
    4. 2
    5. 1
    • Care

      3.4
    • Staff

      3.5
    • Meals

      2.7
    • Amenities

      3.2
    • Value

      3.0

    Pros

    • Kind, compassionate, and attentive staff
    • Effective rehabilitation and physical and occupational therapy
    • Supportive wound care and individualized recovery goals
    • Engaging recreation, activities, music, and celebrations
    • Warm, small-community atmosphere and personalized attention
    • Responsive nursing leadership and resident follow-up
    • Helpful social-services support
    • Resident-focused emotional support and dignity
    • Renovated rooms and attractive outdoor space
    • Convenient location near major hospitals
    • Visitor transportation assistance
    • Positive family experiences with end-of-life support

    Cons

    • Inconsistent housekeeping, sanitation, and odor control
    • Delays in incontinence care and basic personal assistance
    • Inconsistent response to requests for help and mobility support
    • Medication-administration and clinical-monitoring concerns
    • Delays in clinical escalation, appointments, and medical transportation
    • Uneven family communication and limited access to administrators and clinicians
    • Staffing and housekeeping coverage constraints
    • Inconsistent meal quality, temperature, and feeding assistance
    • Aging, cramped interiors with limited privacy and shared amenities
    • Infection-prevention, isolation, and shared-equipment concerns
    • Concerns about staff professionalism and communication tone
    • Pest-control concerns in resident areas
    • Exterior upkeep and visitor seating limitations

    Summary of reviews

    Experiences at Williamsbridge Center are sharply mixed. Positive accounts describe compassionate staff, individualized attention, and a welcoming, close-knit atmosphere. Residents and families praise rehabilitation services, including physical and occupational therapy, wound care, and support with recovery goals. Some former residents and families say staff responded promptly and helped residents feel comfortable and cared for. Other detailed accounts raise concerns about delays in providing basic assistance, incontinence care, and responding to calls for help. Medication administration, clinical monitoring, and the timeliness of escalation to outside medical care are also concerns. One family expressed gratitude for end-of-life support, while other families described serious concerns about care and communication during medically difficult periods.

    Staff and leadership also receive mixed feedback. Several comments praise the Director of Nursing for responsiveness, follow-up, and keeping families informed; others describe difficulty reaching administrators, clinicians, or social services and frustration with delayed callbacks and updates. Concerns about staff tone and professionalism appear alongside praise for courteous, dedicated caregivers. Staffing and housekeeping coverage are cited as challenges. One staff-oriented comment raises allegations of favoritism and unfair personnel decisions, a concern not echoed broadly in the other accounts.

    Reviews differ substantially on the building’s condition. Some describe renovated, clean rooms, attractive outdoor space, and a well-maintained environment. Others report cleanliness and odor concerns, maintenance needs, pest-control concerns, and a dark or cramped layout with limited privacy and shared amenities. Infection-prevention arrangements and the availability of isolation space are also questioned. Dining feedback is mixed, with complaints about meal quality and temperature and about residents needing more help to eat; one resident specifically identified meals as an area for improvement. Recreation is a relative strength, with accounts of organized activities, music, games, and celebrations. The center’s small scale and location near major hospitals are viewed positively by some, while limited visitor seating and exterior upkeep are concerns. Overall, the strong praise for rehabilitation, staff relationships, and community atmosphere sits alongside recurring concerns about consistency in daily care, cleanliness, communication, and facility conditions.

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    Medicare Ratings

    3·/ 5
    • Overall

    • Health Inspection

    • Staffing

    • Quality Measures

    Ratings from the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (Care Compare). View on Medicare.gov

    Location

    Williamsbridge Center is located at 1540 Tomlinson Ave, Bronx, NY, 10461.

    About Williamsbridge Center

    Williamsbridge Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing sits in a quiet neighborhood and offers short-term rehab and long-term care in a building that's been newly renovated with clean rooms and nice hallways, and there's a large yard where residents can get fresh air. The center runs 24 hours, always has someone on site, and is part of Centers Health Care, which is known around the Northeast for helping people recover after illnesses or surgery. The staff there pays a lot of attention to each person's medical history, abilities, goals, and the way they like to live, making care plans to fit what every resident needs, and there's a Resident Council so families and residents can talk honestly with the staff. The nursing home earns an overall CMS rating of three stars, which averages out to about the middle, though it does have a five-star rating for health inspections and for long-stay resident care, but a two-star rating for short-term care and staffing, and the most recent resident satisfaction score is 3.9 out of 5 based on 73 reviews, so people seem fairly satisfied but not everyone's happy.

    Williamsbridge Center offers many types of health services, like post-acute care, urgent care, dialysis, pulmonary support, cardiac rehab, orthopedic therapy, pain management, wound care, hospice, and services for people living with dementia, HIV/AIDS, and those who need ventilator support or are recovering from brain injuries through the TBI/Neurobehavioral Unit. For recovery after injury, illness, or surgery, the staff use new rehab equipment and run programs like RehabStrong™ and the GO Rehab Program to help each resident work on their own plan, and there's physical, occupational, and speech therapy, so someone who needs to get stronger or eat and talk better can work on that every day, too. Williamsbridge Center offers help with swallowing, voice issues, and therapies for movement, working with a team that often gives more therapy minutes each day than other places, but it does have lower overall staffing than most homes.

    The center earns high marks for keeping long-term residents healthy, with pneumonia and flu vaccination rates-99.2% and 98.6%, respectively-that beat state and national averages, and catheter use, urinary tract infections, and emergency department visit rates are all lower than what's commonly seen in other homes. However, rates for pressure ulcers and hospitalizations among long-stay residents come in higher than average, which is something to think about for families. For short-stay residents, vaccination rates are lower than average, but the rate of rehospitalization is lower, which suggests shorter stays may get more stable before they go home.

    Amenities and activities aim to keep life enjoyable, with recreation led by a director, wellness and nutrition programs, comfortable rooms, modern charting technology to help doctors and nurses share updates quickly, and a strong focus on making the atmosphere feel warm, cozy, and a bit like home, plus there's a sense of community because they try to bring people together in safe, simple ways. There are protocols for COVID-19, like visitor tests and health screenings. Williamsbridge Center hasn't had any fines or penalties from federal inspections in three years, but the last health inspection listed six citations, mainly about resident assessment and care planning, which is still average for the industry.

    The business side runs as Williamsburg Manor Nursing Home, LLC, and the center accepts Medicare and Medicaid for its 77 beds. There's expert guidance if someone needs long-term care, and the staff can help families plan for caregiving at home, but there's not the high-level continuous care you'd get from a bigger retirement community or a hospital. If someone needs help recovering, ongoing medical care, or a place to live where people pay attention, Williamsbridge Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing offers a wide mix of services and staff who keep an eye on both medical and personal needs, and it's set up to feel safe, clean, and calm for folks who need it.

    People often ask...

    Williamsbridge Center offers assisted living, memory care, and skilled nursing.

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    The full address for this community is 1540 Tomlinson Ave, Bronx, NY 10461.

    No, Williamsbridge Center does not offer respite care. Respite care in assisted living communities provides temporary, short-term relief for primary caregivers by offering professional care for their loved ones. It allows individuals to stay in an assisted living community for a limited time, giving caregivers a break while ensuring residents receive necessary support and assistance with daily activities.

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