Meridian Nursing and Rehabilitation at Brick
415 Jack Martin Blvd, Brick NJ 08724 · (732) 206-8000 · 88.83% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Lata
With an address in Brick, New Jersey, Meridian Nursing and Rehabilitation at Brick is one of four facilities in the city. This nursing home has the distinction of being the top rated nursing home in New Jersey. In our view, this place ought to be a great choice for just about anybody. Headlining this nursing home's remarkable profile is its inspection grade, which is addressed in the next section.
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Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 137 Beds
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Non profit - Corporation
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
We also wanted to point out the fact that this facility has received near flawless health inspections recently. We awarded them an A+ in this category. Our inspection grades are tied to pieces of information found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that score well in this area typically have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these facilities generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. It does not look like we have information on deficiency's for this nursing home. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
Long-term Care Quality
This top-shelf facility also fared very well in the category of long-term care, where we awarded it a grade of A+. Only a small group of nursing homes performed better in this category. Facilities that do well in long-term care typically provide residents with closer supervision and stay on top of routine medical care. On top of elite nursing hour statistics, this facility's vaccination record was as good as it gets also. Indeed, this facility vaccinated 100 percent of its patients for pneumonia. The last datapoint we looked at is its hospitalization rate. We found that this nursing home had 2.11 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days.
Nurse Quality
This nursing home also received an A+ for its nursing grade. Nursing scores are tied to quantity of nursing care available. This particular facility provided 4.3 hours of nursing care per patient per day. This was one of the more impressive figures we found. In addition, a significant percentage of this care was provided by registered nurses, which are highly skilled nurses. In addition to providing impressive levels of care, this facility also excelled in the quality-based metrics we assessed. It performed as well as any facility in New Jersey in terms of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers.
Short-term Care Quality
In the final category, this nursing home received another A+ for its short-term care score, completing a truly spectacular profile of straight A+'s in all four categories. In determining these short-term care ratings, we look at the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. The purpose is to devise a tool for comparing the rehabilitation services of different facilities. This nursing home is above the national average in terms of both its quantity of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its residents. The last measure we looked at in this category is the number of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We found that it performed as well as just about any facility in New Jersey in this area with 66.9 percent of its patients returning home.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Meridian Nursing and Rehabilitation at Brick Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This is a measure of the percent of long-term residents which developed pressure ulcers . We factor in this statistic in computing both nursing and long-term care grades.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This is the percent of patients that sustained a fall which resulted in severe injury.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This indicates the percentage of patients that suffered from a urinary tract infection. UTI's are routinely caused by lower quality nursing care. Closer supervision can limit the number of UTI's sustained by residents in a nursing home. Note that this datapoint is affected by by the fact that facilities have varying reporting standards for UTI's.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This indicates the percentage of patients who were given antipsychotic drugs. While antipsychotic drugs may be vital to many patients, it is important to ensure these medications are being used only where medically required. In limited cases, excessive reliance on these medications may mean that a nursing home is using these drugs to subdue residents.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This indicates the percentage of residents given antianxiety medications. These medications are commonly used to treat residents experiencing depression or anxiety.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This tells you the percentage of patients demonstrating depressive symptoms.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This is the percentage of patients that were given the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be demanded by residents.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This datapoint measures the percent of long-term care patients who required more assistance with activities of daily living over time. Activities of daily living include activities such as moving around and eating. Many argue that this is a reasonable measure of a resident's well-being.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This is the percent of patients who retained mobility levels over time. Optimizing mobility is often a good sign for residents' well-being.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This tells you the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of care. There is usually a correlation between avoiding hospitalizations and the quality of nursing home care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This metric measures the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This indicates the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This is a measure of the percent of short-term patients who experienced functional improvements.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better