Cranbury Center

Cranbury Center is located in Monroe Township, New Jersey. This facility is among the most impressive facilities we found. This nursing home received one of the highest ratings we offer. You flat out can not do any better than this nursing home. We also gave this facility phenomenal scores in all of the major categories. More information about these categories can be found below.

We also wanted to emphasize the fact that this facility has received near flawless health inspections recently. We awarded them an impressive grade of A+ in this area. Inspection scores weigh several factors, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these factors by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this nursing home had a few minor dings on its inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you that the inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

To complement its top-shelf accomplishments in other areas, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A for its short-term care score. In the area of short-term care, we endeavor to evaluate measures of a nursing home's rehabilitation services. We analyze a facility's skilled nursing services, including the ones performed by registered nurses and physical and occupational therapists. This nursing home employs both physical therapists and registered nurses. Not all facilities employ these skilled professionals. Lastly, we considered the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home, which as an area this nursing home performed much more favorably. It outperformed the vast majority of nursing homes with 59.8 percent of its residents returning home. This is a significantly higher rate than most nursing homes.

This facility also was elite in the category of long-term care, where we gave it a grade of A-. Only a select group of facilities fared better in this area. Long-term care ratings of this caliber generally require both around the clock care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine medical care. On top of looking at the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home administered the vaccine to 99.7619 percent of its patients, which is what we like to see. Pneumonia is often a life threatening condition for nursing home residents so we like it when a nursing home doesn't take any chances. This place was also able to keep its patients out of the hospital. It had just 1.51 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days.

In the final area, we gave this facility an A+ for our nursing grade. This rounded out an elite profile. Our nursing score features a number of factors. The most important one is the number of hours nurses spent with residents. This particular nursing home provided 3.6 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also looked at certain nursing quality measures in computing our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We view these data points as good measures of the caliber of nursing care provided, since better care tends to reduce these problems.