King David Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation sits on Cropsey Ave in Brooklyn, New York, and holds 270 certified beds for skilled nursing and rehab. The facility is a for-profit partnership listed as SGRNC LLC. It's operated as a nonprofit Jewish home focused on the physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being of its residents. King David Center offers short-term rehab, long-term care, memory care, and adult day health care. Residents get individualized care plans, skilled nursing, and specialized rehab like cardiac, orthopedic, and neurological programs. There's care for people with dementia, pain management needs, wounds, those needing IV therapies, or respiratory care. For end-of-life support, they provide palliative and hospice care programs.
The center provides a full range of services with a Treat-in-Place model, aiming to reduce the need for hospital transfers by managing care on-site. All rooms are large and either private or semi-private, decorated to feel like a home, and come with complimentary TVs and telephones. Each room has bedside tablets for entertainment, internet, Easycall, and Skype. There's a computer terminal on the unit for residents' use. The facility features a new rehabilitation gym with advanced equipment, a robotics therapy suite, and Brooklyn's first aqua therapy pool. Sunlight fills many common spaces and the gym, and the landscaped Romashka and Longevity Gardens are open for residents to enjoy. The KDC Café offers three home-cooked meals a day, with space for safe dining and conversation.
King David Center runs many activities and events, keeping residents engaged. Staff help with personal care and daily activities, and therapies include physical, occupational, and speech services. Safety features include automatic sprinkler systems in all required areas. The most recent fire inspection showed six citations, higher than average. The staff rating is below average, with 2 out of 5 stars. The overall CMS rating is below average too, with 2 stars, and the health inspection star rating is low at 1 star. However, the long-stay and short-stay resident care ratings are high, at 5 stars each. A Resident Council helps communication between staff and residents.
The center boasts strong vaccine rates: 99.9% of long-stay residents and 94.7% of short-stay residents were vaccinated for pneumonia, which outpaces state and national numbers, and 98.5% of short-stay residents got flu vaccines. The rate of urinary tract infections is low at 1%, and only 0.8% of residents developed new or worsened pressure ulcers, both better than national averages. There were no reports of residents with moderate to severe pain. Falls with major injuries are lower than average at 1.3%, and fewer residents need help with daily activities compared to other places. The use of antipsychotics in short-term residents is above the New York average, though. Re-hospitalization for short stays is at 21.3%, which is better than the national average.
The website for more information is www.kingdavidcenterrehab.com. The center continues to serve Brooklyn's seniors who need different levels of nursing and rehabilitation care in a setting with modern amenities and specialized programs.
