Homestead Rehabilitation & Health Care Center is one of four available nursing homes in Newton, New Jersey. This facility received an overall grade of B+, which is a well above average rating. Impressively, the nursing homes in Newton received high grades across the board, making this one of the better places in New Jersey to find a nursing home. The best aspect of this nursing home's strong profile was its inspection rating. We discuss inspections in the next section
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Homestead Rehabilitation & Health Care Center
- Nursing Home
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
- For profit - Limited Liability company
- Offers Hospice
- Offers Post-Acute Care
- Offers Respite Care
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Medication Management
- Meal Delivery
- Home Making
- Transportation
- Speech Therapy
- IV Antibiotic Therapy
- Palliative Care
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Cardiac Therapy
- Tracheotomy Care
- Mental Health
- Physical Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Recreational Therapy
- Pain Management
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Facility Inspections
One of the reasons this turned out to be a quality facility is that it received a very impressive inspection rating. Inspections is its best category. In this area, we gave it a grade of A. Inspection ratings take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these items by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Although this facility had a few deficiencies on its report, none were severe based on CMS' scale. Keep in mind that deficiency-free inspections are rare in this industry.
Short-term Care Quality
This facility performed well in our short-term care category. In fact, we gave it a grade of A- for that category, which turns out to be one of our most dominant grades. Short-term care grades are commonly used to assess a nursing home's rehabilitation services. To provide high-end rehabilitation services, facilities generally must offer higher levels of skilled nursing. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other licensed professionals. It does not appear that this facility submitted information about its staffing of registered nurses or physical therapists. The final metric we assessed in this area is the percentage of residents who ultimately were able to return home from the facility. We found that 5.9 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.
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Nurse Quality
This facility is also strong in the area of nursing, where it received a grade of B. It outperformed most nursing homes in this category. Nursing ratings are largely associated with the facility's nurse staffing. This particular nursing home provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed 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 nursing home the state in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can typically be avoided by providing better nursing care, such as having a policy of turning residents more frequently.
Long-term Care Quality
The final area we looked at was long-term care, in which this nursing home received a grade of B-. This actually is this facility's worst area. This is nevertheless not a bad grade. In a long-term care environment, the facility's primary objective is to keep patients healthy and safe. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate patients. In addition to assessing the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility gave the vaccine to 99.53917 percent of its residents, which is more than most nursing homes. This place keeps its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Homestead Rehabilitation & Health Care Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Homestead Rehabilitation & Health Care Center, 6.98% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This is the percent of patients who suffered from a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers, also referred to as bed sores, are often the result of residents staying in one position for too long. Better nursing care minimizes the number of pressure ulcers sustained by residents in a nursing home.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Homestead Rehabilitation & Health Care Center, 4.15% of Patients had Serious Falls
This metric measures the percent of long-term patients that suffered falls which caused severe injury. Falls can arise for a variety of reasons, but excessive numbers of falls may be a sign of lower quality nursing care.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Homestead Rehabilitation & Health Care Center, 0.5% of Patients had UTIs
This indicates the percentage of patients who have had a urinary tract infection. These infections are linked to insufficient hygiene.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Homestead Rehabilitation & Health Care Center, 12.94% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This indicates the percentage of residents who were given antipsychotic medications. While antipsychotic drugs may be vital to many residents, it is important to ensure these medications are being used appropriately. In some situations, excessive reliance on these medications may suggest that a nursing home is using these medications to subdue residents.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Homestead Rehabilitation & Health Care Center, 12.81% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This indicates the percent of residents who were given antianxiety medications. These medications are used to treat residents suffering from depression or anxiety.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Homestead Rehabilitation & Health Care Center, 0.97% of Patients
This is the percentage of residents demonstrating symptoms of depression.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Homestead Rehabilitation & Health Care Center, 98.98% of Patients
This datapoint is a measure of the percent of long-term stay patients that were given the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be deadly for nursing home patients, making these types of vaccines vital to patient care.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Homestead Rehabilitation & Health Care Center, 5.05% of Patients
This tells you the percent of patients that required additional assistance with activities of daily living over time.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Homestead Rehabilitation & Health Care Center, 4.52% of Residents
This is a measure of the percent of long-term care residents that retained mobility levels. Many in the industry would argue that mobility is critical to residents' physical and mental health.
Hospitalizations
In Homestead Rehabilitation & Health Care Center, 0.01 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This is the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of patient care. There is typically a correlation between staying out of the hospital and the overall quality of care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Homestead Rehabilitation & Health Care Center, 4.52% of Residents Rehospitalized
This metric is a measure of the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term care.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Homestead Rehabilitation & Health Care Center, 7.5% of Patients
This is the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Homestead Rehabilitation & Health Care Center, 88.99% of Resident
This metric measures the percent of short-term patients who experienced functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. Some argue this is a measure of a nursing home's rehabilitation services.
Scores for Newton, NJ
- Overall Rating has a grade of A-minus
- Nurse Rating has a grade of B-plus
- Long-term Care Rating has a grade of B-plus
- Short-term Care Rating has a grade of A-minus
- Inspection Rating has a grade of A
Looking for more options? Newton, New Jersey has 3 other nursing homes
Nearby Hospitals
- Newton Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 4.84 miles away175 High St Newton New Jersey 07860Voluntary non-profit - Private(973) 579-8300
- Bon Secours Community HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 17.47 miles away160 East Main Street Port Jervis New York 12771Voluntary non-profit - Church(845) 856-5351
- Hackettstown Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 18.64 miles away651 Willow Grove St Hackettstown New Jersey 07840Voluntary non-profit - Church(908) 852-5100
Nearby Dialysis
- Davita Renal Ctr Newton4.65 miles awayRenal Center of Newton 7 East Clinton Street Newton New Jersey 07860CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 21 (973) 940-0965
- Davita - Delaware Valley Dialysis Center13.94 miles away102 Davita Drive Milford Pennsylvania 18337Dialysis Stations: 16 (570) 491-9210
- Physicians Dialysis Hackettstown18.59 miles away657 Willow Grove Street Suite 202 West Wing Medical Plaza Hackettstown New Jersey 07840Dialysis Stations: 14 (908) 684-0630
- Fmc Dover19.07 miles away400 West Blackwell Street 2 West Dover New Jersey 07801Dialysis Stations: 13 (973) 328-1812
- Davita Renal Ctr Succasunna19.14 miles away175 Righter Road Succasunna New Jersey 07876Dialysis Stations: 12 (973) 584-3294