Chestnut Hill Convalescent Center
360 Chestnut Street, Passaic NJ 07055 · (973) 777-7800 · 68.82% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Sara Levinsohn
Chestnut Hill Convalescent Center is one of just a couple available nursing homes in Passaic, New Jersey. With an A- overall grade, we ranked this facility in the top third of all facilities in the country. This is really as good of a facility as you'll find. More information on this nursing home's category grades is available below. Its best category is short-term care, which is addressed in the next paragraph.
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Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 111 Beds
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Short-term Care Quality
We also found that this nursing home excelled at short-term care. We gave them an elite grade of A+ in this area. Short-term care grades are commonly employed to assess a nursing home's rehabilitation services. In order to have high-end rehabilitation services, facilities generally need to have better levels of highly skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other types of therapists. This nursing home provided more physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most facilities. This is what we like to find when assessing a nursing home in this category. The final datapoint we assessed in this area is the percentage of patients who eventually returned home from the facility. We found that it performed as well as just about any facility in New Jersey in this area with 64.2 percent of its residents returning home.
Facility Inspections
Adding to its impressive category grades, this facility also excelled in the area of inspections, where it received an A. Our inspection scores account for several factors found on a nursing home's inspection reports. One of the most important criteria we rely on is the number and severity of deficiencies. Nursing homes with higher grades in this area tend to have very few severe deficiencies. Fortunately, although this nursing home had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means that CMS did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
Long-term Care Quality
Compounding its fine resume, this facility also received a superb long-term care grade, with a grade of A-. When nursing homes receive a score in this range in long-term care it generally means it has plenty of staff and is an overall good place to live on a permanent basis. After we finished looking at the amount of care provided by nurses, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination statistics. This facility vaccinated 100 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which is what we like to see. Pneumonia tragically can be a life threatening condition for nursing home residents so we prefer when a nursing home does not take any chances. Lastly, we looked at its number of hospitalizations. Here we found that this nursing home had 2.35 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days.
Nurse Quality
The final category we graded was nursing. In that area, we awarded this facility a decent grade of B-. This was this nursing home's worst category. In determining our nursing ratings, we assess both staffing levels and the training levels of the nurses. This particular facility provided just 3.1 hours of nursing care per resident each day. This is quite a bit below average. However, more than one fourth of this care was provided by registered nurses, which are highly skilled nurses. This is a high percentage of skilled nursing care. We weight these hours heavily in determining our scores. Finally, our nursing ratings also factor in some quality-focused metrics. We look at the percentage of patients who sustained pressure ulcers and major falls. These data points are measures of the quality of nursing care, since superior care can reduce these issues.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Chestnut Hill Convalescent Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This is the percentage of residents who sustained a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers, which are also called bed sores, are routinely caused by patients not being moved frequently enough. Better nursing protocols minimizes the percentage of residents in a nursing home who sustain pressure ulcers.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This is the percentage of residents who sustained a major fall. Falls leading to major injury are often the result of lower levels of patient supervision. More supervision can limit the percentage of residents in a nursing home who sustain major falls.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This is the percentage of residents who sustained a urinary tract infection. These infections are sometimes associated with insufficient hygiene.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This statistic measures the percentage of long-term care patients receiving antipsychotic medications. While antipsychotic drugs serve an important medical purpose, it is important to make sure these drugs are being used appropriately. In limited cases, high levels of antipsychotic drug use may mean a nursing home is using these medications to control patient behavior.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This tells you the percent of patients who were given antianxiety drugs. These drugs are commonly prescribed to residents suffering from anxiety or depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This indicates the percentage of residents demonstrating depressive symptoms. High levels of depression could be an indicator worse patient care.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This tells you the percentage of patients who were given the pneumonia and flu vaccines. High vaccination rates should be the norm at this point.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term care residents who needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as dressing and taking a bath.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This datapoint measures the percent of long-term stay patients who retained mobility levels.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
Measures the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of patient care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This indicates the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term care. There is typically a correlation between reduced hospitalizations and a nursing home's quality of short-term rehabilitation.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This metric is a measure of the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term patient care. Avoiding medical emergencies is one way to assess patient care during rehabilitation.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This indicates the percent of short-term residents who saw functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. High levels of performance with ADL's often correlates with successful rehabilitation services.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better