Madison Center

We want to point out that this facility really outperformed its overall grade in the category of inspections. In fact, it received a nearly flawless government inspection report this year. As a result, it received one of our best grades in that area with an A. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in computing our inspection ratings. One key factor is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of these deficiencies is usually more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some end up being quite minor. This facility was assessed 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none of the deficiencies were considered severe. This indicates that CMS didn't deem any of these deficiencies to pose an imminent risk to resident health or safety. The fact that the deficiencies were relatively minor leaves us less concerned with this inspection report.

We also wanted to note that this facility received an B in the area of nursing. Nursing grades are largely based on a facility's nurse staffing. This nursing home averages 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality-based metrics and this nursing home excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any facility New Jersey in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can generally be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as employing a system of turning a resident even once per day.

The next category we graded was short-term care. In that category, we gave this facility a decent grade of C. Short-term care grades are commonly used to gauge a facility's performance with rehabilitation In order to provide highly rated rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally need to have better levels of skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other licensed professionals. It does not appear that this facility submitted registered nurse or physical therapist staffing data. Lastly, we considered the number of patients who were able to return home from this facility. We found that 4.8 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was quite a bit below average.

This nursing home's worst category is long-term care, which is the final category we assessed. For this category, we awarded this nursing home a grade of D. When nursing homes receive this type of grade in long-term care it is typically a bad sign for patient care and it may mean that the place is not as well-staffed with nurses and aids. Once we concluded our assessment of the quantity of nursing care, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination records. This nursing home vaccinated 92.88991 percent of its residents for pneumonia. To our surprise, this nursing home was actually decent at keeping its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. This is its best feature in this category.