Hackensack Meridian Nursing and Rehab Shrewsbury

In addition to being a great overall grade, this facility also received A+ health inspections in recent years. Its inspections were virtually flawless. Our inspection grades are tied to items located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that receive favorable grades in this category have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these facilities should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. It doesn't look like we were able to find deficiency data for this nursing home. We would like to have more information about this nursing home. Without complete deficiency data, it is challenging to fully grade this nursing home in this area.

This nursing home also was given a very impressive short-term care score. This actually turned out to be its second strongest category grade. In that category, we gave this facility a grade of A. Our short-term care grades are meaningful for residents in need of rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally mandates more skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes a vast spectrum of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other types of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the data this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last datapoint we assessed in this area is the number of patients who ultimately returned home from the nursing home. We found that 6 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.

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. When calculating a facility's nursing grade, we weigh the amount of time nurses are with patients and the skill levels of the nurses. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality measures 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 state 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 policy of moving a resident more frequently.

In the final category we scored, this nursing home received a very favorable grade of B+ in our long-term care category. With this grade, the nursing home topped off a very favorable report card. Nursing homes that receive this type of score in this category tend to provide consistent 24/7 care to ensure residents are kept in good health. Once we concluded our assessment of the volume of care provided by nurses, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination record. This nursing home vaccinated 99.176956 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which is very impressive. Pneumonia is often a deadly illness for nursing home patients so we like it when a nursing home doesn't leave this to chance. Lastly, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.