Majestic Rehab and Nursing Center at Red Bank

In addition to being a first rate facility overall, this facility also fared well in our long-term care category, where it received a grade of A. Nursing homes that excel in long-term care typically are well-staffed and offer extensive hands on care to residents. In addition to assessing the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility provided the vaccine to 97.07447 percent of its patients. Vaccines are vital to keeping residents healthy. Finally, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

One of the other reasons we graded this facility so highly is that it earned a very impressive nursing grade. In that category, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A. There are several factors included in this grade. Most of the factors relate to the quantity and quality of nurse staffing. This facility provided 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality-based metrics and this nursing home 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 nation in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can often be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as by employing a policy of turning residents more frequently.

Moving on to another of this facility's strengths, it also earned a very impressive inspection score. In that area, we gave this facility a grade of B+. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in determining our inspection scores. One key factor is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of the deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some deficiencies end up being quite insignificant. Fortunately, although this facility had a few minor dings on its inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you that CMS didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A few relatively minor dings are not necessarily something to panic about.

The fourth area we scored is short-term care, where this facility was given a B+. This completed an elite profile. Few nursing homes received a B+ or better in every single category. With our short-term care assessment, we attempt to create a sound barometer for rehabilitation services. In this process, we analyze a facility's scope of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. Unfortunately, it doesn't appear that this nursing home submitted information on registered nurse or physical therapist staffing. The final datapoint we looked at in this category is the percentage of residents who ultimately were able to return home from the facility. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.