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Optima Care Harborview

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Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Reese

Historical Rating
Grade: B
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178-198 Ogden Ave,
Jersey City NJ 07307

(201) 963-1800

73.05% estimated occupancy 1

Optima Care Harborview is one of five nursing homes located in Jersey City, New Jersey. This nursing home is a very solid facility, with an overall grade of B. The facilities in Jersey City received high grades across the board with a B+ city grade, making this one of the best places in New Jersey to find a nursing home. This facility's impressive report card was highlighted by its inspection grade, which is addressed in the next section.

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Quick Details

  • Accepts Medicare 1
  • Accepts Medicaid 1
  • No CCRC
  • Has Resident Council
  • No Family Council
  • For profit - Limited Liability company
  • Offers Hospice
  • Offers Post-Acute Care 
  • Offers Respite Care
  • Offers Inpatient Rehab

Specialized Services

  • Personal Care
  • Medication Management
  • Home Making
  • Transportation
  • Speech Therapy
  • Stroke Recovery
  • IV Antibiotic Therapy
  • Palliative Care
  • Wound Care
  • Occupational Therapy
  • Cardiac Therapy
  • Tracheotomy Care
  • Physical Therapy
  • Respiratory Therapy
  • Nutritional Counseling
  • Pharmacy
  • Recreational Therapy
  • Pain Management
  • Orthopedic Rehabilitation

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Facility Inspections

Grade: A

To pair with its favorable overall score, we awarded this place an A for our inspections rating. These inspection ratings take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can learn more about each of these factors by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Although this nursing home had some deficiencies on its report, none of them were serious based on CMS' scale. Keep in mind that deficiency-free inspections are rare in the industry.

Short-term Care Quality

Grade: B-plus

Contributing to its profile, this nursing home also received a grade of B+ for its short-term care rating. This is a well above average grade in this area. In computing these short-term care grades, we quantify the facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. Our purpose is to formulate a scale for sizing up the rehabilitation services of different nursing homes. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not every nursing home employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, based on the information they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The last statistic we looked at in this area is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the facility and return home. We discovered that 4.4 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

Nurse Quality

Grade: B

This nursing home also received a strong nursing score. In fact, we awarded it an above average grade of B in this area. Nursing ratings are mostly based on a facility's nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This place performed very well when it comes to avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

Long-term Care Quality

Grade: D

The next area we scored was long-term care. We awarded this nursing home a D for long-term care, rendering this the nursing home's least impressive category grade. For prospective residents looking for a permanent residence as opposed to rehabilitation, long-term care is an important category. After assessing the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we then looked at the facility's vaccination statistics. We were pleased to learn that this nursing home vaccinated 97.97298 percent of its patients for pneumonia. To our surprise, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. With only 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this facility has less hospitalizations than many nursing homes. Unfortunately, a few of its other scores in this category were not as favorable as these.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

FDCB-BB+A-AA+Oct 18Dec 23

Optima Care Harborview Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

Grade: F

In Optima Care Harborview, 16.67% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This indicates the percentage of patients that have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers, also referred to as bed sores, are routinely caused by residents not being moved frequently enough. Better nursing protocols reduces the number of pressure ulcers sustained by residents in a nursing home.

Minimizes Serious Falls

Grade: A

In Optima Care Harborview, 1.35% of Patients had Serious Falls

This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay residents that had a fall which caused severe injury. We use this statistic in computing nursing ratings.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

Grade: B-minus

In Optima Care Harborview, 2.35% of Patients had UTIs

This datapoint gauges the percentage of long-term stay residents that suffered from a UTI. While a higher rate of these infections could reflect poorly on a nursing home's nursing care, it can be problematic to compare different nursing homes due to nursing homes having reporting standards.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

Grade: A

In Optima Care Harborview, 6.84% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This statistic tells you the percentage of long-term patients that were administered antipsychotic drugs. High levels of antipsychotic drug use may suggest a nursing home is using these medications to subdue residents in situations where such drugs aren't medically required. However, some nursing homes may need to rely on these drugs due to an increased number of patients with dementia.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

Grade: A

In Optima Care Harborview, 8.61% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This tells you the percentage of patients who were given antianxiety drugs. Antianxiety drugs are prescribed to residents experiencing anxiety or depression.

Managing Depression Among Residents

Grade: A+

In Optima Care Harborview, 0% of Patients

This datapoint is a measure of the percent of long-term residents exhibiting symptoms of depression. Some experts argue this is a reliable measure of resident quality of life.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

Grade: B-plus

In Optima Care Harborview, 97.91% of Patients

This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term patients that received the flu and pneumonia vaccines.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

Grade: A-minus

In Optima Care Harborview, 10.17% of Patients

This indicates the percentage of patients who needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

Grade: B-minus

In Optima Care Harborview, 13.11% of Residents

This is the percent of residents that retained mobility levels over time. Preserving mobility is usually a great sign for residents' well-being.

Hospitalizations

Grade: B-plus

In Optima Care Harborview, 0.02 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days

This tells you the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of patient care.

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

Grade: B-plus

In Optima Care Harborview, 13.11% of Residents Rehospitalized

Measures the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term resident care.

Short-term Care: ER Visits

Grade: A

In Optima Care Harborview, 7.15% of Patients

Measures the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term patient care.

Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement

Grade: B

In Optima Care Harborview, 78.68% of Resident

This tells you the percent of short-term care residents who saw functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living.

Scores for Jersey City, NJ

  • Overall Rating has a grade of B-plus
  • Nurse Rating has a grade of B-plus
  • Long-term Care Rating has a grade of B
  • Short-term Care Rating has a grade of A-minus
  • Inspection Rating has a grade of A

Looking for more options? Jersey City, New Jersey has 4 other nursing homes

Nearby Hospitals

  • Carepoint Health-Christ HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 0.45 miles away176 Palisade Ave Jersey City New Jersey 07306Voluntary non-profit - Church(201) 795-8200
  • Carepoint Health-Hoboken University Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 0.63 miles away308 Willow Ave Hoboken New Jersey 07030Voluntary non-profit - Church(201) 418-1000
  • Jersey City Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 1.67 miles away355 Grand Street Jersey City New Jersey 07302Voluntary non-profit - Private(201) 915-2000
  • Mount Sinai Beth IsraelAcute Care Hospitals 3.35 miles awayFirst Avenue at 16th Street New York New York 10003Voluntary non-profit - Private(212) 420-2000
  • Bellevue Hospital CenterAcute Care Hospitals 3.59 miles away462 First Avenue New York New York 10016Government - Local(212) 562-4141
  • Mount Sinai WestAcute Care Hospitals 3.68 miles away1000 Tenth Avenue New York New York 10019Voluntary non-profit - Private(212) 523-4000
  • Nyu Langone HospitalsAcute Care Hospitals 3.68 miles away550 First Avenue New York New York 10016Voluntary non-profit - Private(212) 263-7300
  • Hudson Regional HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 3.82 miles away55 Meadowlands Pkwy Secaucus New Jersey 07094Proprietary(201) 392-3200

Nearby Dialysis

  • Hamilton Pk Dialysis Center0.87 miles away328 Ninth Street Jersey City New Jersey 07302CMS Rating: 2 stars Dialysis Stations: 21 (201) 516-7700
  • Davita Jersey City Summit Dialysis1.14 miles away414 Summit Avenue Jersey City New Jersey 07306Dialysis Stations: 21 (201) 420-8431
  • Davita Jersey City Akc No Bergen1.26 miles away1310 5th Street North Bergen New Jersey 07047CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 17 (201) 770-9220
  • Fmc Hoboken Dialysis Ctr1.42 miles away1600 Willow Ave Hoboken New Jersey 07030Dialysis Stations: 16 (201) 656-7500
  • Pershing LLC1.69 miles away422 Grand Street Jersey City New Jersey 07302Dialysis Stations: 4 (201) 332-6413
  • Fmc Jersey City2.27 miles away107-123 Pacific Avenue Jersey City New Jersey 07304CMS Rating: 2 stars Dialysis Stations: 41 (201) 451-3760
  • Fmc Union Hill2.37 miles away508 31st Street Union City New Jersey 07087CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 19 (201) 902-9382
  • New York Dialysis Services, Inc.2.53 miles away510-526 Avenue of the Americas Sub Cellar New York New York 10011CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 26 (212) 675-6880