Care One at Moorestown

Care One at Moorestown is a small facility located in Moorestown, New Jersey. With an overall grade of A+, this facility is one of the most elite nursing homes we looked at. We rated this facility as one of the 100 best facilities in New Jersey, which is a distinguished list. Headlining this facility's stellar report card is its inspection rating, which is addressed in the next section.

One of the many reasons this turned out to be a quality nursing home is that it received an A+ inspection grade. This is simply as good as it gets in this critical category. Perhaps the most significant factor we consider in calculating our inspection ratings is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes with better scores in this area typically avoided the most severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. This place received 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe deficiencies. This indicates that the government inspectors didn't consider any of these deficiencies to create an immediate threat to resident health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This nursing home also was given an A+ for its short-term care score. In determining our short-term care scores, we size up the facility's levels of highly skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other highly skilled individuals. This score is more often than not a solid measure of a nursing home's rehabilitation. This facility is the gold standard when it comes to skilled nursing staffing. The facility supplied about 1.5 times as many registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than a typical nursing home. This is what we like to find when grading a facility in this category. The final datapoint we looked at in this category is the number of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We found that it performed as well as just about any facility in New Jersey in this area with 61.1 percent of its patients returning home. At most nursing homes, fewer than half of their short-term residents are able to return home.

This nursing home also was awarded a impressive long-term care grade. In fact, this turned out to be its third most impressive category grade. In that category, we gave this facility a grade of A. In a long-term care setting, the primary objective 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 residents. After looking at the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination data. Unfortunately, we weren't able to locate information about this nursing home's vaccination rates. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

In the final category, this nursing home also received an impressive nursing grade, with an A-. This finished off a very impressive report card. The nursing rating includes a handful of data points, however, the main one is the number of nurse hours per patient per week. This facility provided 4.8 hours of nursing care per patient daily. This was one of the higher totals we found. In addition, a significant percentage of this care was provided by registered nurses, which are highly skilled nurses. These are both really impressive figures. In addition to offering high levels of care, this place also excelled in the quality measures we looked at. By way of illustration, it performed as well as any nursing home in the country when it comes to avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. We look at these data points as reliable measures of the quality of nursing care offered.