Old Bridge, New Jersey is a medium size city with 39,898 people. The city has just 4 nursing homes, which doesn't give you too many choices. The nursing homes here received a top-notch city grade of A-. Even with just a couple of nursing homes, this is still quite an accomplishment. We also looked at the facilities in the nearby city of Linden, which received a city grade of B. As good as the nursing homes are in Linden, we found Old Bridge to be even better. Even in a state with many excellent cities to find nursing homes, we ranked Old Bridge as one of the twenty five highest rated cities in the state of New Jersey.
In addition to receiving a strong overall grade, this city's nursing homes performed extremely well in our inspection category. In fact, we awarded its facilities a grade of A+ for that category, which is one of our best scores. Inspection grades account for several factors included in a facility's inspection reports. One of the most important criteria we look at is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Facilities with higher grades in this category generally have few of these severe deficiencies. We also wanted to point out that we awarded Old Bridge an A- in our nursing category. Rounding out its first-rate report card, Old Bridge earned grades of A- and B for our long-term care and short-term care categories respectively.