Abingdon Care & Rehabilitation Center

Abingdon Care & Rehabilitation Center is a large facility in Dunellen, New Jersey. We awarded this facility an overall grade of D. A grade in this range typically suggests a few red flags. If you are not satisfied with this facility's pedestrian overall grade, you may have to look in other cities as this is the only nursing home in Dunellen. If you aren't deterred by this facility's report card, you can continue reading to find out about its category scores. We discuss inspections in the next section.

While we were fairly low on this nursing home overall, we awarded it a grade of A for our inspections rating. This score is significantly more impressive than the nursing home's overall score. Inspection scores weigh a host of factors found on a nursing home's inspection report. One key criteria we weigh heavily is the number and severity of deficiencies. You generally want to avoid places with a list of severe deficiencies flagged. While this facility had some minor dings on its government inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you the government inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A few minor deficiencies aren't necessarily the end of the world.

We also want to point out that this facility received a decent grade in our nursing category. We awarded it a grade of C in the area. Our nursing score assesses many components, however, the main one is the number of nurse hours per patient per week. This place provided just 2.8 hours of nursing care per resident each day. This is a relatively low total compared to most nursing homes. Finally, nursing ratings also factor in quality-based assessments, such as preventing major falls. Despite not having the most impressive total nursing hours per resident, this place actually performed admirably in the metric of preventing major falls. This is typically a reliable indicator that a facility has quality controls in place. Some falls could be avoided if a nursing home supplies enough nurses to assist its patients.

Unfortunately, this facility's third best score is short-term care. Nevertheless, with a grade of D in this area, it still fared relatively poorly. In the category of short-term care, we strive to qualify indicators of a nursing home's rehabilitation. We analyze a nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as the ones performed by registered nurses and physical therapists. Given its abysmal grade in this category, we weren't stunned to discover that this facility offered substantially fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most other facilities. Lastly, we considered the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that just 40.3 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

The next category we rated is long-term care. Unfortunately, we gave it a lowly F in this area, which is a bottom of the barrel grade. For prospective residents seeking a permanent place to live rather than skilled nursing, long-term care is an important category. One of the statistics we considered in addition to nursing hours is vaccinations. Fortunately, this facility administered the pneumonia vaccine to 99.81618 percent of its residents. To our surprise, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. With only 1.48 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this nursing home had fewer hospitalizations than the average nursing home. Sadly, a few of its other scores in this category were not as favorable as these.