New Jersey Veterans Memorial Home Menlo

To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for its nursing grade. The nursing grade weighs numerous datapoints. The most heavily weighted factor is the number of hours nurses spend with residents. This nursing home averages 0.6 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This nursing home performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a place has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can typically be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

Adding to its impressive category grades, this nursing home also excelled in the category of inspections, where it earned an A. Our inspection grades are based on many pieces of information located in the a nursing home's inspections. Nursing homes that excel in this category tend to have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. Amazingly, this was one of the few nursing homes in the country that had no deficiencies whatsoever on its inspection report. This is very impressive. You really can not do much better than a deficiency-free inspection report.

The third area we analyzed was short-term care. Contributing to its superb resume, this nursing home also excelled in this category. In fact, we gave it a of A in that area. In computing our short-term care scores, we quantify the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. Our objective is to create a measure for comparing the rehabilitation services of different facilities. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, according to the information this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The final metric we considered in this area is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.

Switching gears to the fourth area, this nursing home also performed well in our long-term care category. We gave it a grade of B+ in that area. This wrapped up a first-rate profile. When facilities receive this type of score in long-term care it is a good sign for resident care and suggests that the place is well-staffed with nurses aids. On top of considering the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home gave the vaccine to 97.967476 percent of its patients, which is what we like to see. Pneumonia is too frequently a dangerous illness for nursing home patients so we prefer when a facility doesn't take any chances. Lastly, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.