Mcauley Hall Health Care Cente

Mcauley Hall Health Care Cente is a small non-profit facility located in Watchung, New Jersey. Sporting an overall grade of A, this facility is one of the most elite nursing homes we looked at. In fact, we ranked this facility in the top fifth of all facilities in the nation. Headlining this place's exemplary profile is its inspection grade, which you can find in the next section.

To pair with a favorable overall grade, we gave this place an A+ for inspections. Arguably the most important factor we consider in calculating our inspection ratings is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes with better grades in this category typically avoided the most severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. This place was hit with 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe deficiencies. This means that CMS did not deem any of these deficiencies to pose an imminent threat to resident health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

One of the other reasons we rated this facility so highly is that it received a very impressive nursing grade. Nursing proved to be its second best category grade. In that category, we awarded this nursing home an A+. The nursing grade features a number of subcategories. The most heavily weighted factor is the number of hours nurses spent with patients. This facility offers extremely high levels of nursing care, averaging 4.3 hours per resident each day. This is more nursing care than nearly any other facility offers. Lastly, this nursing home also excelled in several of the quality-based metrics we assessed. With less than five percent of its residents experiencing pressure ulcers, this place performed as well as any nursing home the nation in this category. This is usually an indicator that a place has reliable quality controls. Many pressure ulcers can be avoided by providing better nursing care and a policy of moving residents more frequently.

Moving on our next category, this facility was awarded a top-shelf long-term care score. In fact, we gave it a grade of A in that area. Nursing homes that do well in long-term care tend to be well-staffed and provide extensive hands on care to patients. One of the criteria we considered on top of nurse's aid hours was vaccines. This nursing home provided the pneumonia vaccination to 94.62366 percent of its patients. This is a great way to minimize unnecessary deaths for the aged 65 and up population. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.54 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

The next category we assessed is this nursing home's poorest category. However, even in its worst category we still gave it an acceptable grade of B- in our short-term care category. In the category of short-term care, we seek to evaluate indicators of a nursing home's rehabilitation. We assess the facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses and physical, occupational and other therapists. One of this nursing home's strength is that it offers more hours of care from registered nurses to its residents. The final datapoint we assessed in this category is the number of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that just 38 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home, which is below average.