Alaris Health at the Chateau

To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for our inspections rating. Inspection ratings weigh several factors, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can find more information about each of these issues by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Even some of the best nursing homes receive an occasional ding on their inspection report.

This facility also was awarded a first-rate short-term care score. Indeed, this turned out to be its second best category score. In that category, this facility received a grade of A. With our short-term care category, we seek to create a fair gauge for rehabilitation services. In this process, we look at the facility's scope of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as respiratory therapy. This facility is substantially above average in terms of its quantity of both physical therapy and registered nurse hours offered to its patients. The facility offered approximately 1.5 times as much care per resident from both of these groups of skilled professionals than the average nursing home provided. The final statistic we assessed in this area is the percentage of residents that returned home from the facility. We found that it performed as well as just about any facility in New Jersey in this area with 61.7 percent of its patients returning home.

Adding to its impressive resume, this nursing home also excelled in our nursing category. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A- for that category. Nursing ratings are tied to quality and quantity of nursing care. This facility boasts a really impressive 4.5 hours of nursing care per patient daily, of which a significant portion of those hours were provided by registered nurses. This is one of the most highly highly trained levels of nurses. On top of offering high levels of care, this facility also performed well in several of the quality measures we looked at. In terms of the number of its patients suffering falls leading to serious injury, this facility performed as well as any nursing home the nation.

The last category we rated was long-term care, which is a weak link for this nursing home. We gave this nursing home a grade of D for our long-term care category, making this the nursing home's least impressive category. We'd nevertheless suggest that you consider all of a nursing home's grades. For prospective residents seeking a permanent residence rather than rehabilitation, long-term care is an important category. Due to its grade in this category, we were pleasantly surprised to learn that this facility received good marks in both nursing hours and its vaccination records. In fact, this facility gave the pneumonia vaccine to 99.80916 percent of its residents. This percentage is actually better than most nursing homes. To our surprise, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. While it had 2.49 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, its risk adjusted score was not bad due to it having some more complex patients.