Preferred Care at Hamilton Nursing & Rehabilitation Center is a nursing home located in Trenton, New Jersey. This city has 230,121 people. Featuring an overall grade of B-, this is likely a decent facility. Even in a city with 11 other nursing homes, this nursing home turns out to be a fine choice. One of the major highlights of this facility's report card is its remarkable inspection score, which we will address in the next section.
Preferred Care at Hamilton Nursing & Rehabilitation Center
- Nursing Home
Updated Jun 1, 2022 by Nick Lata
Quick Details
- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- Is 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
- Medication Management
- Speech Therapy
- Stroke Recovery
- Amputee Recovery
- IV Antibiotic Therapy
- Palliative Care
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Cardiac Therapy
- Tracheotomy Care
- Mental Health
- Physical Therapy
- Respiratory Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Pharmacy
- Recreational Therapy
- Pain Management
- Orthopedic Rehabilitation
- Total Parenteral Nutrition
Registered Staff Hours
Facility Inspections
The primary reason this ended up being a decent nursing home is that it received an elite inspection score. In fact, its inspection score was far better than its overall score. In the inspections category, we gave this facility a grade of A+. Our inspection grades weigh several factors found on a facility's inspection reports. One key criteria we weigh heavily is the number and severity of deficiencies. Facilities with better scores in this area usually have few of these severe deficiencies. While this nursing home had some minor dings on its government inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those labeled as categories G through L. This tells you that the inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. The fact that the deficiencies were relatively minor made us feel better about this inspection report.
Short-term Care Quality
This facility also was given an impressive grade in our short-term care category. We gave this facility a better than average grade of B+ in that area. With our short-term care grade, we try to forge a valuable barometer for rehabilitation services. In this process, we assess the facility's level of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not every nursing home employs these types of nurses. However, according to the data they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Finally, we assessed the number of patients that who were able to eventually return home from this nursing home. We found that 6 percent of this facility's residents returned home.
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Nurse Quality
This nursing home's next best category was nursing. We awarded it a grade of B- in this category. This is basically a middle of the road grade in this category. In determining our nursing scores, we factor in both staffing levels and the training levels of those nurses. This nursing home averages just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low figure. Finally, our nursing grades also consider quality-based measures, such as preventing major falls. Despite not having the highest total nursing hours per resident, this facility performed admirably in the area of preventing major falls. This is often an indicator that a facility has sufficient quality controls in place. Some falls can be avoided if a nursing home provides enough nurses to assist its residents.
Long-term Care Quality
The next category we rated is long-term care. Sadly, it received an abysmal F for this category, which is a bottom of the barrel grade. This is clearly a significant concern. For prospective residents seeking a permanent place to live as opposed to rehabilitation, long-term care is an important category. In addition to assessing the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. Thankfully, this nursing home administered the vaccine to 99.267395 percent of its patients, which is a very respectable statistic. Surprisingly, this nursing home was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. It had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. Unfortunately, a few of its other scores in this category weren't as favorable as these.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Preferred Care at Hamilton Nursing & Rehabilitation Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Preferred Care at Hamilton Nursing & Rehabilitation Center, 9.57% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This metric gauges the percent of long-term residents who are suffering from pressure ulcers or bed sores. We consider this statistic when determining our nursing grades.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Preferred Care at Hamilton Nursing & Rehabilitation Center, 2.57% of Patients had Serious Falls
This is the percentage of patients that sustained a fall which caused severe injury.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Preferred Care at Hamilton Nursing & Rehabilitation Center, 1.73% of Patients had UTIs
This figure is a measure of the percent of long-term residents that sustained UTI's. UTI's could be a sign of a facility with lower levels of hygiene. However, this metric can be skewed for some facilities due to inconsistent reporting standards for infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Preferred Care at Hamilton Nursing & Rehabilitation Center, 10.75% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This indicates the percent of residents prescribed antipsychotic medications. These medications are sometimes used to treat a variety of medical conditions, such as Alzheimer's or other dementias.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Preferred Care at Hamilton Nursing & Rehabilitation Center, 17.5% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This metric gauges the percent of long-term residents taking antianxiety drugs.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Preferred Care at Hamilton Nursing & Rehabilitation Center, 5.81% of Patients
This is a measure of the percent of long-term care residents who are showing depressive symptoms. Some would argue this is a reasonable measure of patient quality of care.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Preferred Care at Hamilton Nursing & Rehabilitation Center, 92% of Patients
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term patients that received the flu and pneumonia vaccines.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Preferred Care at Hamilton Nursing & Rehabilitation Center, 10.99% Percentage of Patients
This is the percentage of residents who required increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. High levels of needing for assistance with ADL's could indicate erosion of a patient's well-being.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Preferred Care at Hamilton Nursing & Rehabilitation Center, 14.79% Percentage of Residents
This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term residents who retained mobility levels. Some experts argue that mobility is critical to patients physical and mental well-being.
Hospitalizations
In Preferred Care at Hamilton Nursing & Rehabilitation Center, 1.49 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This metric is a measure of the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of patient care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Preferred Care at Hamilton Nursing & Rehabilitation Center, 14.79 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
This is the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term care.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Preferred Care at Hamilton Nursing & Rehabilitation Center, 8.17 Percentage of Patients
Measures the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term care. Staying out of the emergency room is one way to gauge patient well-being during rehabilitation.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Preferred Care at Hamilton Nursing & Rehabilitation Center, 80.57% Percentage of Resident
This metric is a measure of the percent of short-term stay patients that saw functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. Some experts would argue this is a measure of a nursing home's rehabilitation services.
Scores for Trenton, NJ
- Overall Rating has a grade of B
- Nurse Rating has a grade of B-minus
- Long-term Care Rating has a grade of B-plus
- Short-term Care Rating has a grade of B
- Inspection Rating has a grade of A
Looking for more options? Trenton, New Jersey has 10 other nursing homes
Nearby Hospitals
- St Francis Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 4.53 miles away601 Hamilton Ave Trenton New Jersey 08629Voluntary non-profit - Church(609) 599-5000
- Capital Health System-Fuld CampusAcute Care Hospitals 5.06 miles away750 Brunswick Ave Trenton New Jersey 08638Voluntary non-profit - Private(609) 394-6000
- Lower Bucks HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 13.9 miles away501 Bath Road Bristol Pennsylvania 19007Proprietary(215) 785-9200
- Virtua Willingboro HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 17.21 miles away218a Sunset Road Willingboro New Jersey 08046Voluntary non-profit - Private(609) 835-2900
- Centrastate Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 18.03 miles away901 West Main Street Freehold New Jersey 07728Voluntary non-profit - Private(732) 431-2000
Nearby Dialysis
- Fmc Hamilton Square1.17 miles awayTwo Hamilton Health Place Trenton New Jersey 08690CMS Rating: 2 stars Dialysis Stations: 20 (609) 689-9260
- Fmc Hamilton Home LLC3.05 miles away3836 Quakerbridge Road Suite 208 Trenton New Jersey 08619Dialysis Stations: 4 (609) 586-5001
- Davita Renal Ctr Trenton3.56 miles awayC/O St. Francis Hospital 601 Hamilton Ave 1st Floor Trenton New Jersey 08629Dialysis Stations: 18 (609) 393-2388
- Davita Renal Center Hamilton3.76 miles away1013 Whitehorse Avenue Trenton New Jersey 08610Dialysis Stations: 19 (609) 438-3002
- H. Fuld Capital Health4.55 miles awayDialysis Unit 750 Brunswick Ave Trenton New Jersey 08638CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 31 (609) 394-6000
- Physicians Dialysis Lawrenceville4.87 miles away1840 Princeton Avenue Lawrence Township New Jersey 08648CMS Rating: 5 stars Dialysis Stations: 18 (609) 278-0999
- Fmc Trenton4.95 miles away40 Fuld Street 1st Floor Trenton New Jersey 08638CMS Rating: 2 stars Dialysis Stations: 28 (609) 394-5104
- Davita Princeton Junction Dialysis6.31 miles away88 Princeton Hightstown Road Suite 102 Princeton Junction New Jersey 08550Dialysis Stations: 13 (609) 799-0084