Amboy Care Center is a nursing home in Perth Amboy, New Jersey, which has a total of 53,099 people. We awarded it an overall grade of B-, which is a middle of the pack rating. In our view, this facility is a good fit for quite a few people. More information on this nursing home's category grades may be found below. Its best category was long-term care, which is discussed in the next paragraph.
Amboy Care Center
- Nursing Home
- Memory Care
Updated Sep 1, 2022 by Nick Lata
Please note our records indicate that Amboy Care Center has changed ownership recently and while our data on this page is up-to-date there is a chance that the quality of this facility may change under new management.
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
- Transportation
- Speech Therapy
- Stroke Recovery
- Amputee Recovery
- IV Antibiotic Therapy
- Palliative Care
- Dentistry
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Cardiac Therapy
- Tracheotomy Care
- Podiatry
- Mental Health
- Diabetes Management
- Physical Therapy
- Respiratory Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Pharmacy
- Laboratory
- X-Ray
- Recreational Therapy
- Pain Management
- Orthopedic Rehabilitation
Registered Staff Hours
Long-term Care Quality
This facility performed well in long-term care. In fact, we awarded it an A for that area. In a long-term care environment, the nursing home's primary goal is to keep patients as healthy and safe as possible. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate patients. In addition to considering the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility provided the vaccine to 62.0283 percent of its patients. This is a bit below what we expected. While its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we had hoped, we were pleased to find facility was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.
Facility Inspections
We also wanted to emphasize this place's nearly flawless health inspections in recent years. We awarded them an impressive grade of A- in this category. Inspection ratings take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these issues by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this place had some deficiencies on its government inspection report, none of them were severe based on CMS' scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
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Nurse Quality
One of this facility's better category grades was in the area of nursing care. In that area, we gave this facility a grade of C. Our nursing grade is largely tied to a nursing home's level of nurse staffing. This particular facility provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident daily. This figure is far below the national average. Lastly, nursing grades also consider quality-based assessments, such as preventing major falls. Despite not having the highest total nursing hours, this facility performed admirably in the metric of preventing major falls. This is typically a reliable indicator that a nursing home has sufficient quality controls in place. Some falls can be avoided if a nursing home supplies enough nurses aids to assist its patients.
Short-term Care Quality
This nursing home's weakest area is short-term care, which is the last area we analyzed. Unfortunately, we gave it an F in this area. Despite a few solid grades in other categories, this grade is nevertheless concerning so we wanted to point it out. In determining our short-term care grades, we size up a facility's levels of skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other licensed professionals. This category is typically a solid measure of the nursing home's ability to rehabilitate patients. It appears that this nursing home was subpar in the two key staffing areas we looked at. It provided fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most nursing homes. Finally, we considered the percentage of patients that ultimately were able to return home from this facility. This facility didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 4.5 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Amboy Care Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Amboy Care Center, 9.28% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This tells you the percentage of patients that have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers, which are also called bed sores, are often caused by residents not being moved frequently enough. Better nursing protocols can limit the percentage of residents in a nursing home who sustain pressure ulcers.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Amboy Care Center, 2.53% of Patients had Serious Falls
This datapoint tells you the percent of long-term residents that experienced a fall which caused major injury. This is one of the statistics we use in computing our nursing ratings.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Amboy Care Center, 1.65% of Patients had UTIs
This figure is a measure of the percent of long-term residents which experienced urinary tract infections. While a higher rate of these infections could reflect poorly on a nursing home's nursing care, it is problematic to compare different facilities due to nursing homes having inconsistent reporting standards.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Amboy Care Center, 10.6% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This datapoint tells you the percentage of long-term care patients taking antipsychotic medications. While antipsychotic medications serve an important medical purpose, it is important to make sure these medications are being used appropriately. In limited situations, high levels of antipsychotic drug use may mean that a nursing home is using these drugs to subdue residents.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Amboy Care Center, 17.42% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This statistic measures the percentage of long-term care residents receiving antianxiety drugs.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Amboy Care Center, 5.95% of Patients
This datapoint measures the percentage of long-term stay patients demonstrating depressive symptoms.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Amboy Care Center, 91.97% of Patients
This datapoint measures the percentage of long-term patients who received the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be very dangerous for nursing home patients, making these types of vaccines critical to patient well-being.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Amboy Care Center, 10.68% Percentage of Patients
Measures the percentage of long-term patients who required additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as moving around and continence. Some experts believe this is a measure of a resident's well-being.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Amboy Care Center, 12.9% Percentage of Residents
This datapoint measures the percent of long-term stay patients who were able to retain mobility. Some experts would argue that the ability to move around is vital to patients physical and mental well-being.
Hospitalizations
In Amboy Care Center, 1.68 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This datapoint is a measure of the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of patient care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Amboy Care Center, 12.9 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
This tells you the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Amboy Care Center, 8.37 Percentage of Patients
This datapoint is a measure of the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term care. Staying out of the emergency room is one way to gauge short-term care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Amboy Care Center, 80.92% Percentage of Resident
This tells you the percent of short-term stay patients who experienced functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living.
Nearby Hospitals
- Raritan Bay Medical Center Perth Amboy DivisionAcute Care Hospitals 1.15 miles away530 New Brunswick Ave Perth Amboy New Jersey 08861Voluntary non-profit - Private(732) 442-3700
- Jfk Medical Ctr - Anthony M. Yelencsics CommunityAcute Care Hospitals 3.95 miles away65 James Street Edison New Jersey 08818Voluntary non-profit - Private(732) 321-7000
- Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital at RahwayAcute Care Hospitals 5.43 miles away865 Stone St Rahway New Jersey 07065Voluntary non-profit - Private(732) 381-4200
- Trinitas Regional Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 9.37 miles away225 Williamson Street Elizabeth New Jersey 07207Voluntary non-profit - Private(908) 994-5000
- Saint Peter's University HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 9.66 miles away254 Easton Ave New Brunswick New Jersey 08901Voluntary non-profit - Church(732) 745-8600
- Bayshore Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 10.08 miles away727 N Beers St Holmdel New Jersey 07733Voluntary non-profit - Private(732) 739-5900
- Staten Island University HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 10.64 miles away475 Seaview Avenue Staten Island New York 10305Voluntary non-profit - Private(418) 226-9761
- Richmond University Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 11.51 miles away355 Bard Avenue Staten Island New York 10310Voluntary non-profit - Private(718) 818-1234
Nearby Dialysis
- Ara Garden State Kidney Center1.2 miles away345 Main Street Woodbridge New Jersey 07095Dialysis Stations: 19 (732) 855-2100
- Davita Woodbridge Dialysis Center1.27 miles away541 Main Street Woodbridge New Jersey 07095CMS Rating: 5 stars Dialysis Stations: 19 (732) 750-0639
- Dva Perth Amboy Dialysis Ctr2.01 miles away271 King Street Perth Amboy New Jersey 08861CMS Rating: 2 stars Dialysis Stations: 20 (732) 442-3836
- Fmc Colonia Dialysis Ctr3.7 miles away1250 Route 27 Colonia New Jersey 07067CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 16 (732) 382-7333
- Dva Edison4.44 miles away29 Meridian Road Edison New Jersey 08820CMS Rating: 5 stars Dialysis Stations: 20 (732) 205-9883
- Davita Metuchen Dialysis4.45 miles away319 Lake Avenue Metuchen New Jersey 08840Dialysis Stations: 10 (732) 906-5714
- Knickerbocker Dialysis Inc.5.4 miles away30 Sneden Ave Staten Island New York 10312Dialysis Stations: 16 (718) 356-2678
- Davita Rahway5.78 miles away800 Harrison Street Rahway New Jersey 07065Dialysis Stations: 18 (732) 680-0370