New Community Extended Care Facility
266 S Orange Ave, Newark NJ 07103 · (973) 624-2020 · 41.77% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Lata
New Community Extended Care Facility is a large non-profit nursing home located in Newark, New Jersey. Featuring an overall score of A+, this nursing home is among the top nursing homes we looked at. We can't find many negative things to say about this facility. Its ratings are as good as they get. Keep reading to find this nursing home's category ratings, which also impressed us. You really can't do any better than a straight A profile.
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Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 180 Beds
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Non profit - Corporation
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Nurse Quality
In addition to being a first rate nursing home overall, this facility also excelled in the area of nursing, where it received a grade of A+. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. The nursing score is based on a host of datapoints. The most important factor is the quantity of hours nurses spent with patients. This place offers extremely high levels of nursing care, averaging 5.2 hours per patient daily. This is more nursing care than nearly any other facility offers. Lastly, this facility also performed well in several of the quality-based metrics we looked at. In terms of the percentage of its patients suffering falls leading to serious injury, this place performed as well as any nursing home in the country.
Long-term Care Quality
We also awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for its long-term care grade. Facilities that excel in long-term care typically are well-staffed and provide extensive hands on care to residents. In addition to offering very impressive levels of nursing care, this facility provided the pneumonia vaccine to 100 percent of its patients. Vaccines are critical to keeping residents healthy. Finally, 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 figure.
Short-term Care Quality
This facility also received a strong short-term care grade. This actually ended up being this nursing home's third best category score. In that area, we gave this facility a grade of A. In our short-term care assessment, we endeavor to forge a valuable gauge for rehabilitation. In doing so, we analyze a nursing home's offerings of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. This nursing home elevated its grade in this category by offering more care from registered nurses to its residents than the average facility. The last metric we assessed in this category is the number of residents that ultimately returned home from the nursing home. It fared as well as just about any facility in New Jersey with 56.9 percent of its residents returning home.
Facility Inspections
Turning to our inspection category, this nursing home excelled in that area, which is based on the facility's recent government inspections. We gave it an impressive grade of A for that category. This completed its straight A report card. Arguably the most important factor we look at in computing our inspection scores is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places with higher scores in this area most likely avoided the more severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. This place received 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none were considered to be severe deficiencies. This tells you that the inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies to create an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
New Community Extended Care Facility Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This is the percentage of residents who have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are skin damage resulting from remaining in one position for an excessive period of time.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This is the percentage of residents who sustained a major fall. Falls leading to major injuries are considered to be a barometer of nursing care . Major falls are often caused by lower quality nursing care.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This figure indicates the percentage of long-term stay patients who suffered from a UTI. While more of these infections may reflect poorly on a nursing home's nursing care, it can be difficult to compare different nursing homes due to reporting standards.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This is a measure of the percentage of long-term care patients receiving antipsychotic medications. While antipsychotic medications serve an important medical purpose, it is important to make sure these drugs are being used only where medically required. In limited cases, high levels of antipsychotic drug use may mean a nursing home is using these drugs to subdue residents.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This is the percentage of patients prescribed antianxiety medications. Antianxiety drugs are prescribed to residents suffering from anxiety and depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term patients showing depressive symptoms.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay patients who received the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be deadly for nursing home patients, making these types of vaccines critical to patient care.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term patients who required additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. Activities of daily living include activities such as moving around and using the bathroom.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This metric tracks the percentage of long-term stay residents that retained mobility levels. Some believe that the ability to move around is vital to patients physical and mental well-being.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This tells you the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term patient care. There is generally a correlation between reduced hospitalizations and a nursing homes short-term rehabilitation performance.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This is the number of emergency room visits per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better