Canterbury at Cedar Grove

With an address in Cedar Grove, New Jersey, Canterbury at Cedar Grove is one of five facilities in this city. Featuring an overall grade of B-, this is likely a decent facility. At the end of the day, this facility should be a good fit for quite a few people. This facility was better in some categories than others, but it didn't have any poor grades in any of our major areas discussed below. More information about these categories can be found below.

While this nursing home's overall grade was not bad, it really excelled in the category of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A for that category, which is one of our best scores. Inspection grades weigh several factors, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can find more information about each of these items by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Fortunately, although this nursing home had some minor dings on its government inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you that CMS didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. We should note that deficiency-free inspection reports are rare in the industry.

This facility's second best category grade came in the area of nursing. In that category, we gave this nursing home a grade of B-. Our nursing grade is largely associated with the nursing home's level of nurse staffing. This facility provides only 3.3 hours of nursing care per patient each day. This is a somewhat concerning figure which is well below the national average. Lastly, our nursing scores also factor in some quality-focused metrics. We like to look at the percentage of patients who experienced pressure ulcers and major falls. Sometimes these datapoints are decent measures of the quality of nursing care, since better care tends to reduce these problems.

The third area we analyzed was long-term care, where this nursing home received a B- in this category. In determining our long-term care scores, we look at the facility's personal care services. In addition to considering the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home vaccinated 93.115944 percent of its residents, which is somewhat below what we were hoping for. Lastly, we looked at its number of hospitalizations. We found that this facility had 2.03 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. Although this figure is quite a bit higher than the national average, this statistic may be skewed for some nursing homes based on the medical complexity of residents.

The final area we scored is short-term care. We gave it a C in that category. This is not a bad grade in this area. In calculating our short-term care grades, we analyze the facility's levels of skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other types of therapists. This rating is typically a reliable assessment of a facility's ability to rehabilitate patients. We were pleased to find that this nursing home employs both registered nurses and physical therapists. The same can't be said for all nursing homes. The final statistic we considered in this area is the percentage of patients that ultimately returned home from the nursing home. We found that just 35.7 percent of this facility's residents returned home. This figure was below the national average.