Greenwood House Home for the Jewish Aged is a facility in Trenton, New Jersey, a city with 230,121 people. This nursing home proved to be a grade A facility, which is a very elite grade. In fact, we ranked this nursing home as the second best facility in Trenton. Scroll down to find this facility's category ratings, which also impressed us. You really can't do much better than a straight A profile.
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Greenwood House Home for the Jewish Aged
- Nursing Home
- Home Health Agency
- Assisted Living
- Memory Care
Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Lata
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- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- Non profit - Church related
- Secure Memory Care
- Offers Hospice
- Offers Post-Acute Care
- Offers Respite Care
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
- Offers Outpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Medication Management
- Meal Delivery
- Home Making
- Transportation
- Medical Transportation
- Speech Therapy
- Stroke Recovery
- Amputee Recovery
- IV Antibiotic Therapy
- Palliative Care
- Dentistry
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Cardiac Therapy
- Podiatry
- Mental Health
- Physical Therapy
- Respiratory Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Pharmacy
- Recreational Therapy
- Pain Management
- Orthopedic Rehabilitation
- Catheter Care
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Awards
Registered Staff Hours
Facility Inspections
To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for our inspections rating. Our inspection grades are based on many datapoints located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that receive favorable grades in this category typically have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these facilities should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. 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.
Nurse Quality
This nursing home also received a very impressive nursing grade. In fact, this turned out to be its second best category grade. In that area, we awarded this facility a grade of A. Nursing ratings are primarily tied to the facility's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality measures and this place excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any place the country in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can often be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as employing a protocol of moving patients at least once a day.
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Short-term Care Quality
Moving on our next category, we gave this nursing home a grade of A- for its short-term care grade. This is a dominant rating. Short-term care grades are often used to measure a nursing home's performance with rehabilitation In order to have highly rated rehabilitation services, facilities generally need to feature better levels of skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other highly skilled individuals. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not every facility employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the data this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The final item we considered in this category is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that 4.9 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.
Long-term Care Quality
In our last area, this facility also was awarded an excellent long-term care grade, with an A-. This finished off an elusive straight A profile. Nursing homes that receive this type of grade in this category typically provide consistent 24/7 care to ensure patients are kept in good health. Once we looked at the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination records. This facility vaccinated 100 percent of its residents for pneumonia. Vaccines are critical to keeping patients healthy. Finally, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Greenwood House Home for the Jewish Aged Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Greenwood House Home for the Jewish Aged, 11.97% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This tells you the percent of residents that have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers, also called bed sores, are often caused by patients not being moved frequently enough. Better nursing protocols limits the percentage of residents in a nursing home who sustain pressure ulcers.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Greenwood House Home for the Jewish Aged, 2.35% of Patients had Serious Falls
This tells you the percentage of patients who have had a fall which resulted in serious injury.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Greenwood House Home for the Jewish Aged, 0.91% of Patients had UTIs
This is the percent of patients who sustained a urinary tract infection. Urinary tract infections are often the result of poor nursing care. Better hygiene protocols can reduce the number likelihood of residents sustaining infections. Note that this metric is affected by by the fact that nursing homes have incongruent reporting standards for urinary tract infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Greenwood House Home for the Jewish Aged, 12.01% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This datapoint measures the percent of long-term patients who are prescribed antipsychotic medication. Increased usage of these drugs may suggest that a facility is using these drugs to subdue residents in scenarios where such medications aren't medically indicated. However, some facilities need to rely on these drugs due to an increased number of patients with dementia.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Greenwood House Home for the Jewish Aged, 18.51% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This statistic indicates the percent of long-term stay residents who were given antianxiety drugs. These medications are commonly given to residents suffering from depression or anxiety.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Greenwood House Home for the Jewish Aged, 9.69% of Patients
Measures the percentage of long-term patients who are showing symptoms of depression. Many would argue that this is a measure of patient quality of life.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Greenwood House Home for the Jewish Aged, 100% of Patients
This tells you the percent of patients that were given the pneumonia and flu vaccines. High vaccination rates should be demanded by residents.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Greenwood House Home for the Jewish Aged, 9.24% of Patients
This tells you the percentage of patients that needed increased assistance with activities of daily living over time.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Greenwood House Home for the Jewish Aged, 10.84% of Residents
This indicates the percentage of patients who maintained mobility over time. Optimizing mobility is usually a great sign for residents' health.
Hospitalizations
In Greenwood House Home for the Jewish Aged, 0.03 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This datapoint is a measure of the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of patient care. Avoiding the hospital is critical to the physical well-being of nursing home residents.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Greenwood House Home for the Jewish Aged, 10.84% of Residents Rehospitalized
This is the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term care.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Greenwood House Home for the Jewish Aged, 11.85% of Patients
This datapoint measures the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Greenwood House Home for the Jewish Aged, 94.82% of Resident
This is the percent of short-term patients that saw functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living.
Scores for Trenton, NJ
- Overall Rating has a grade of B
- Nurse Rating has a grade of B
- Long-term Care Rating has a grade of B-plus
- Short-term Care Rating has a grade of B-minus
- Inspection Rating has a grade of A-minus
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Nearby Dialysis
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