Care One at Wall

Care One at Wall is a facility located in Belmar, New Jersey. This city has 21,538 people. This nursing home was given an A- overall, which is one of our more impressive ratings. In fact, we ranked this facility in the top third of all facilities in the country. The best part of this facility's strong report card was its inspection grade. Inspection grades are discussed in the next paragraph

In addition to being a great overall grade, this facility also received A+ health inspections in recent years. Its inspections were virtually flawless. Perhaps the most critical factor we consider in computing our inspection scores is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes with better scores in this area most likely avoided the more severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. 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 nursing home also performed well in the category of short-term care, where we gave it a score of A. Only a select group of facilities received a better grade in this area. In our short-term care rating, we endeavor to create a valuable gauge for rehabilitation. In doing so, we assess the facility's scope of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as respiratory therapy. This nursing home provides more services with registered nurses and physical therapists than most nursing homes we looked at. The final measure we looked at in this area is the number of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We found that it fared as well as just about any nursing home in New Jersey in this area with 67.8 percent of its residents returning home. For most facilities, fewer than half of their short-term residents are able to return home.

Another strong feature for this facility is that it received an impressive nursing grade. In that area, we awarded this facility a grade of B+. Our nursing score assesses a handful of components, but the main consideration is the level of nurse hours per patient per week. This place boasts a really impressive 4.2 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis, of which a significant percentage was provided by registered nurses. This is one of the more highly trained levels of nurses. On top of providing impressive levels of care, this place also performed well in several of the quality-based metrics we looked at. By way of illustration, in terms of the percentage of its patients suffering falls leading to serious injury, this facility performed as well as any facility New Jersey. Avoiding serious falls is generally a good indicator that a facility has quality controls in place. Major falls can often be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

The next category we scored is long-term care, in which this nursing home received a B-. Although this proved to be its worst category score, this is still not a major area of concern. Long-term care grades focus on a nursing home's assistance with daily living instead of the highly skilled nursing and medical services that are critical to a skilled nursing facility. In addition to impressive nursing hour statistics, this nursing home's vaccination statistics are better than most nursing homes also. Indeed, this facility vaccinated 98.22485 percent of its patients for pneumonia. Lastly, we looked at its number of hospitalizations. Here we found that this place had 2.96 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. While this figure is somewhat concerning, this number may be skewed for some facilities due to the preexisting medical conditions of patients.