Carepoint Health - Bayonne Hospital Center Tcu

Located in Bayonne, New Jersey, Carepoint Health - Bayonne Hospital Center Tcu is the lone nursing home we found in the city. This nursing home made our top 500 list of the top facilities in the nation. With more than 15,000 facilities in the country, this is an impressive subset of nursing homes. In addition, this nursing home is based in a hospital, which often means the facility offers a wider array of healthcare services. As you can find below, this nursing home performed just as well in our category grades. We gave it a straight A report card!

One of the many reasons this place ended up being a great nursing home is that it earned an A+ in our inspections category. This is just about as good as it gets in this area. Inspection ratings account for several factors included in a nursing home's inspection reports. One key criteria we look at is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Facilities with better grades in this area tend to have few severe deficiencies. Unfortunately, we were not able to find deficiency counts for this nursing home. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This facility received superb marks in the area of short-term care. For this reason, it was given one of our most impressive scores in that category with a score of A+. Short-term care grades are important for individuals looking for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically utilizes additional highly-skilled nursing. Skilled nursing means a wide scope of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. This place excelled at the highest level in the two key staffing areas we assessed. In fact, it supplied about 50% more care from physical therapists and registered nurses than the average facility. The last item we assessed in this area is the number of patients who ultimately were able to return home from the facility. We found that it performed as well as just about any facility in New Jersey in this area with 83.9 percent of its patients returning home.

In the next category we analyzed, this nursing home received strong marks in the area of long-term care. Consequently, it was given one of our most impressive scores in that area with a grade of of A+. If you are looking for anything other than short-term rehabilitation, you should take a close look at long-term care ratings. Once we assessed the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination data. We weren't able to find information on vaccination rates. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

Turning to the fourth category, this facility was given a high-end nursing grade. We awarded it an A- in that category, giving this facility straight A's. In determining a facility's nursing grade, we look at the quantity of hours nurses are caring for patients and the level of licensure of the nurses. This nursing home provided 7 hours of nursing care per patient each day, which is among the better figures in the country. A significant percentage of those hours were provided by registered nurses, which are one of the most highly skilled levels of nurses. We are very impressed by both of these figures. On top of offering impressive levels of care, this facility also excelled in the quality-based metrics we assessed. It performed as well as any nursing home in the nation in the area of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers.