Buffalo Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing

    1014 Delaware Ave, Buffalo, NY 14201
    • 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

    3.29·(274)

    Overall rating

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

      2.2
    • Staff

      3.0
    • Meals

      1.7
    • Amenities

      3.0
    • Value

      1.4

    Pros

    • Strong physical and occupational therapy teams
    • Positive rehabilitation progress and motivating therapists
    • Kind and helpful individual staff members
    • Responsive support with admissions, paperwork, and financial questions
    • Renovated areas and attractive therapy spaces
    • Activities, holiday programming, and therapy-dog visits
    • Positive experiences with resident dignity and family support
    • Reports of a welcoming workplace and supportive team culture

    Cons

    • Inconsistent staffing levels and uneven coverage across shifts
    • Delayed responses to call systems and personal-care requests
    • Inconsistent medication administration and clinical follow-through
    • Gaps in monitoring changes in condition and escalating concerns
    • Inconsistent wound, ostomy, catheter, and other complex care
    • Variable meal quality, portions, and accommodation of dietary needs
    • Cleanliness, odor, linen, and room-maintenance problems
    • Communication gaps, delayed callbacks, and limited access to decision-makers
    • Uneven discharge planning, insurance explanations, and care coordination
    • Limited activity variety and resident engagement outside therapy
    • Laundry, property-handling, and basic-supply availability issues
    • Inconsistent infection-control practices and equipment upkeep

    Summary of reviews

    The reviews present a sharply mixed picture, with recurring concerns about whether residents receive timely, dependable day-to-day care. Families and residents describe delays responding to call systems, toileting and other personal-care needs, and requests for water or assistance. Medication administration, monitoring of changing health conditions, and follow-through on clinical instructions are also questioned. Several accounts raise concerns about care for wounds, ostomies, feeding tubes, and other complex needs. Some reviewers describe serious health declines, hospital transfers, and concerns following resident deaths; these are individual accounts and do not establish cause, but they underscore the importance of independently checking care practices and escalation procedures.

    Staff experiences vary substantially. Some residents and families praise kind, patient, and attentive employees, including rehabilitation staff and particular staff members who helped with questions or paperwork. Other accounts describe uneven professionalism, limited staff availability, and delays in getting assistance, particularly on weekends or during shift changes. Families also report difficulty reaching supervisors and social-work staff, unanswered calls, and unclear or inconsistent information about a resident’s status and care plan.

    Dining is a frequent concern. Reviews describe inconsistent food quality and temperature, small portions, missed meals, and difficulty obtaining help with eating. Some families also question whether dietary restrictions and allergies are consistently accommodated. A few reviews praise meals or special programming, but those comments are much less detailed than the recurring concerns about meal service.

    Rehabilitation is one of the facility’s more consistently praised areas. Residents describe motivating therapists, effective exercise support, and meaningful progress toward mobility goals. Activities receive more varied feedback: some families appreciate holiday events, music, and a therapy dog, while others describe limited options and insufficient engagement for residents who spend much of the day in their rooms.

    Descriptions of the building and environment are also inconsistent. Some visitors praise renovations, attractive areas, and cleanliness; others describe worn or poorly maintained rooms, equipment problems, inadequate linens, and cleanliness or odor concerns. Laundry and handling of personal belongings are additional recurring issues. Families also mention limited availability of basic supplies and difficulty accessing mobility equipment when needed.

    Management and care coordination draw mixed comments. Positive accounts describe helpful admissions or administrative staff, while others cite slow callbacks, difficulty reaching decision-makers, and confusion about insurance coverage, length of stay, and discharge arrangements. Overall, the volume and specificity of negative accounts about routine care contrast with numerous brief, highly positive endorsements, including comments from people identifying as employees. Some reviews allege that ratings may not be authentic; that cannot be verified from the text alone. Prospective residents and families may wish to visit in person, speak with current residents and families, and ask detailed questions about staffing, medication procedures, meal assistance, rehabilitation schedules, and escalation of clinical concerns.

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    Medicare Ratings

    1·/ 5
    • Overall

    • Health Inspection

    • Staffing

    • Quality Measures

    Cited by CMS for abuse, or potential for abuse, on its most recent survey cycle.

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    Location

    Buffalo Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing is located at 1014 Delaware Ave, Buffalo, NY, 14201.

    About Buffalo Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing

    Buffalo Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing sits at 1014 Delaware Avenue in Buffalo and offers both short-term rehabilitation and long-term skilled nursing care under the Centers Health Care network, and you'll find staff there day and night since they're open 24/7, which means you always have someone to turn to if you need help, and they've become known for their collaborative rehab program, which even the Buffalo Sabres trust for their therapy needs, so you know the care is serious; they have the GO Rehab Program which brings some innovative treatments to Buffalo, and they use personalized rehab plans with new technology for things like stroke, orthopedic recovery, TBI/neurobehavioral care, and wound management through their Wound Care program, plus they have special units like the Neurobehavioral Unit focusing on TBI and brain injuries, and also offer specialty medical care for cardiac, pulmonary, HIV/AIDS, dialysis, ventilator support, hospice, COVID-19, dementia, and urgent pain management, with skilled staff who know about different needs-there's even ultra-care and ventilator support services on site; you'll notice their rooms and common spaces are comfortable and welcoming, with a focus on safety and refined amenities, and the place really stresses family, friendship, and community, with activities and wellness programs to help residents stay connected, while the nutrition program and health services cover a lot of ground; the facility uses up-to-date EMR systems so that doctors, nurses, staff, and families can all communicate about each resident's care, and with a large, tight-knit care team there are usually more than one caregiver for each resident, which helps people feel seen and supported; if you look into their RehabStrong™ and GO Rehab programs, you'll see how they try to help people recover and regain their strength, and there's adult day care, assisted living, home health care, and lab services available too if someone needs extra support or different types of care-they also follow strict COVID-19 protocols for visitors, needing a negative test and health screening, but do allow walk-ins and make exceptions for emergency and compassionate cases, following rules from CMS and NYSDOH, all of which led them to earn a CMS Five Star Rating, and being part of Centers Health Care means they follow the standards set by a respected leader in post-acute care in the Northeast, so if you need either short-term rehab, long-term nursing care, or specialized support for things like dialysis or ventilator care, you'll likely find the kind of help you're looking for here, and you can always learn more about the programs or their services by checking out their website at buffalo-center.facilities.centershealthcare.org.

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