Spring Creek Rehabilitation and Nursing Care Center sits in Brooklyn and provides both nursing care and rehabilitation services, and the primary contact there is Ari Ungar, while Charles C Kanner, M.D., serves as the Director. It's a for-profit center, run by Willoughby Rehabilitation And Health Care Center LLC, with Benjamin Landa owning a 49% stake, and it's licensed under a federal waiver certificate and regulated like other nursing homes. The facility has 188 beds certified for Medicare and Medicaid, though it averages about 181 residents a day and keeps 180 certified beds filled most of the time. People stay for both short and long terms-some are there for more than 100 days, and others are covered by the Medicare Part A SNF benefit. The center can run certain clinical tests, including COVID-19 ANTIGEN and Glucose, because of its CLIA number 33D0666845.
Nursing staff spend about 3.56 hours per resident each day, and the institution reports a nurse turnover rate of 33.7%, which means a good number of nurses leave each year, and that's probably why it's got a staffing star rating of only 1 star, much below average. Its health inspection star rating is 2 stars, a bit below average, and the last fire safety inspection, on September 27, 2018, resulted in one fire safety citation, but the whole place has automatic sprinklers in required spots. Even so, its quality of resident care scores well with a 5-star rating for both long-stay and short-stay residents, and those are both much above average, according to CMS data, but the overall CMS rating still lands at 2 stars, so there's room to improve.
Inspectors found 17 total deficiencies, including 3 related to infections, but the place hasn't gotten any federal fines or penalties in the past three years. They do well with vaccines, since 98.7% of long-stay and 98% of short-stay residents get pneumonia shots and 97.7% of short-stay folks receive an annual flu shot, both scores above the state and national averages. The rate of urinary tract infections among long-term residents is low at 0.2%, compared to state and national levels, and only 0.8% of long-term residents report moderate to severe pain, which is also a better number than most. The rate of major injury falls in long-stay residents sits at 1.4%, and only 10.2% of long-stay folks need help with daily activities, both lower than similar places. Spring Creek does use antipsychotic drugs sparingly, with 0.6% of short-stay residents getting them, which is lower than most places. The facility's hospital readmission rate for short-stay residents is 10.9%, again lower than state and national averages.
But they do have higher than average rates of pressure ulcers, with 9.1% of high-risk long-stay folks and 2.4% of short-stay residents developing new or worse sores, which is a problem lots of others face but still something folks want to know. Residents have a council they can use to speak with the staff and ask for changes or help. The center isn't part of a Continuing Care Retirement Community or a hospital, so it stands alone. All in all, Spring Creek Rehabilitation and Nursing Care Center serves many people and scores high on care quality but deals with challenges in staffing and some inspection areas, and it keeps many residents vaccinated and safe from infections, but has to watch those pressure sore numbers.
