Best nursing homes in Brooklyn, NY
These are the 40 CMS-certified nursing homes in Brooklyn, New York, ranked best-first by the home’s CMS overall star rating. When two homes tie, we break the tie by the health-inspection rating — the domain assigned by independent state surveyors rather than self-reported by the facility. Nothing on this page is sponsored: no home pays to appear or to rank higher.
Check the certification chip before anything else. Most homes here are certified for both Medicare and Medicaid, but CMS certifies some for only one — and a 5-star home that doesn’t take your programme is not an option, however it ranks. Certification is not a quality measure and we don’t rank on it; we label it, because it decides whether the rest of the row matters to you.
How to read this: a high overall star can be lifted by self-reported quality-measure and payroll-staffing scores, so we surface the inspection rating and any serious citations, fines, abuse flags or ownership changes right on the row. A lower-ranked home with a clean inspection record can be the better fit than a higher-ranked one carrying red flags — open each profile.
- 1Medicare & Medicaid certifiedNo major red flags on record40 Heyward Street, Brooklyn, NY
- 2Medicare & Medicaid certifiedNo major red flags on record594 Albany Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
- 3Medicare & Medicaid certifiedNo major red flags on record155 Dean Street, Brooklyn, NY
- 4Medicare & Medicaid certifiedNo major red flags on record2865 Brighton 3rd Street, Brooklyn, NY
- 5Medicare & Medicaid certified1 immediate-jeopardy citation5606 15th Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
- 6Medicare & Medicaid certifiedNo major red flags on record1740 84th Street, Brooklyn, NY
- 7Medicare & Medicaid certifiedNo major red flags on record2107 Ditmas Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
- 8Medicare & Medicaid certified1 serious citation520 Prospect Place, Brooklyn, NY
- 9Medicare & Medicaid certified1 serious citation$8,512 in federal fines2340 Cropsey Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
- 10Medicare & Medicaid certifiedNo major red flags on record2237 Linden Boulevard, Brooklyn, NY
- 11Medicare & Medicaid certifiedNo major red flags on record144 S. Oxford Street, Brooklyn, NY
- 12Medicare & Medicaid certifiedNo major red flags on record2720 Surf Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
- 13Medicare & Medicaid certifiedNo major red flags on record3457 Nostrand Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
- 14Medicare & Medicaid certifiedNo major red flags on record135 Linden Boulevard, Brooklyn, NY
- 15Medicare & Medicaid certifiedNo major red flags on record140 St. Edwards Street, Brooklyn, NY
- 16Medicare & Medicaid certifiedNo major red flags on record1312 Caton Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
- 17Medicare & Medicaid certifiedNo major red flags on record1250 67th Street, Brooklyn, NY
- 18Medicare & Medicaid certifiedNo major red flags on record3035 West 24th Street, Brooklyn, NY
- 19Medicare & Medicaid certifiedSelf-reported scores 2★ above inspection630 E 104TH Street, Brooklyn, NY
- 20Medicare & Medicaid certifiedSelf-reported scores 2★ above inspection380 Henry Street, Brooklyn, NY
- 21Medicare & Medicaid certifiedSelf-reported scores 2★ above inspection1555 Rockaway Parkway, Brooklyn, NY
- 22Medicare & Medicaid certifiedSelf-reported scores 2★ above inspection691 92nd Street, Brooklyn, NY
- 23Medicare & Medicaid certifiedSelf-reported scores 2★ above inspection2266 Cropsey Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
- 24Medicare & Medicaid certifiedSelf-reported scores 2★ above inspection405 Carlton Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
- 25Medicare & Medicaid certifiedSelf-reported scores 2★ above inspection660 Louisiana Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
- 26Medicare & Medicaid certifiedNo major red flags on record835 Herkimer Street, Brooklyn, NY
- 27Medicare & Medicaid certified$141,232 in federal fines2749 Linden Boulevard, Brooklyn, NY
- 28Medicare & Medicaid certifiedNo major red flags on record48 Cedar Street, Brooklyn, NY
- 29Medicare & Medicaid certifiedNo major red flags on record50 Sheffield Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
- 30Medicare & Medicaid certifiedNo major red flags on record2840 Knapp Street, Brooklyn, NY
- 31Medicare & Medicaid certifiedSelf-reported scores 3★ above inspection810 20 St. Marks Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
- 32Medicare & Medicaid certified2 serious citations$55,231 in federal finesSelf-reported scores 3★ above inspection585 Schenectady Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
- 33Medicare & Medicaid certified$15,646 in federal finesSelf-reported scores 3★ above inspection555 Rockaway Parkway, Brooklyn, NY
- 34Medicare & Medicaid certifiedNo major red flags on record615 Avenue C, Brooklyn, NY
- 35Medicare & Medicaid certifiedSelf-reported scores 2★ above inspection4915 10th Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
- 36Medicare & Medicaid certified1 serious citation$9,110 in federal finesSelf-reported scores 2★ above inspection170 Buffalo Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
- 37Medicare & Medicaid certifiedSelf-reported scores 2★ above inspection300 Madison Street, Brooklyn, NY
- 38Medicare & Medicaid certified3 serious citations$8,018 in federal finesSelf-reported scores 4★ above inspection1516 Oriental Boulevard, Brooklyn, NY
- 39Medicare & Medicaid certifiedAbuse icon1 immediate-jeopardy citation$205,607 in federal finesSelf-reported scores 4★ above inspection3015 West 29th Street, Brooklyn, NY
- 40Medicare & Medicaid certified$10,039 in federal fines1485 Dumont Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
Keep looking: read the New York state guides — nursing homes and assisted living — for how the state’s system works, find the closest homes to your ZIP or location, filter every facility by rating, cost and inspection record, or compare any of these side by side. Or see assisted living in Brooklyn, NY. Back to every New York city.
How we rank
We order this list strictly by each home’s CMS overall star rating — the government’s own rating, not a score of our own. When two homes carry the same overall rating we break the tie by the health-inspection rating — the domain scored by independent state surveyors rather than self-reported — and then alphabetically. Homes with no rating on file sink to the bottom.
We should be straight with you about a tension here. The CMS overall star is a blend of three domains, and elsewhere on this site we argue that blend can be misleading: the staffing and quality-measure components lean on data facilities report about themselves, and they can lift a home’s overall star above what inspectors actually found. We still sort by it, for one reason — it is the only ranking of nursing homes the government publishes, and the alternative is us deciding which domain ought to count, which is our opinion dressed up as an official rating. We won’t do that. (It is the same reason we refuse to rank assisted living at all.) So instead of quietly re-sorting to our taste, we un-blend the star on every row: the inspection rating sits next to the overall one, and serious citations, fines and abuse flags are on the row too. Where the two disagree, trust the inspection record and the citations — and treat our sort order as the government’s claim, not ours. See our methodology.
No home pays to appear here or to rank higher. There is no sponsored placement, no paid listing, and no referral fee. The page carries ordinary Google display advertising, sold against the page by Google: it cannot move a home up or down this list, and no advertiser sees who you are. The ratings, citations and fines are assigned by government inspectors (CMS), not by Eldercare Lens.
Common questions
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What does the star rating mean?
Ratings and citations are assigned by government inspectors (CMS), not by Eldercare Lens. The absence of a citation does not guarantee the absence of problems. Always verify with the facility and your state Long-Term Care Ombudsman.