Peace Care St Joseph's is in Jersey City, New Jersey. This city has a total of 247,530 people. We awarded this facility an elite overall grade of A. Indeed, it is the number one rated nursing home in Jersey City. Based on our analysis, this place is really as good as it gets. Headlining this nursing home's remarkable report card is its inspection grade, which you can find in the next paragraph.
Peace Care St Joseph's
- Nursing Home
Updated Sep 1, 2022 by Nick Reese
Quick Details
- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- Non profit - Corporation
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Speech Therapy
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Physical Therapy
- Pain Management
Registered Staff Hours
Facility Inspections
We also wanted to emphasize the fact that this nursing home earned near flawless government inspections recently. We gave them an A+ in this category. These inspection ratings take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these factors by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. 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. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
Long-term Care Quality
Adding to its elite resume, this nursing home also performed well in our long-term care area. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A in the category. When nursing homes receive this kind of grade in long-term care it is a good sign for resident care and indicates that the nursing home is well-staffed with nurses and aids. After we finished assessing the quantity of care provided by nurses, we next considered the facility's vaccination statistics. This nursing home vaccinated 99.65636 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which is very impressive. Pneumonia can be a life threatening condition for nursing home patients so we like it when a facility doesn't roll the dice on this issue. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.
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Short-term Care Quality
Turning the page to our next area, we gave this facility a score of A for its short-term care score. This is a very impressive score. Short-term care scores are based in part on a facility's quantity of skilled highly skilled professionals. This includes a vast scope of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other types of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not every nursing home employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the information this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The final measure we assessed in this category is the number of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We found that 5.4 percent of this nursing home's residents were able to return home.
Nurse Quality
In the final area, we gave this facility an A+ for our nursing rating. This wrapped up a very favorable profile. When determining a nursing home's nursing rating, we look at the amount of time nurses commit to patients and the levels of training of those nurses. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality-based metrics and this place excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any facility New Jersey in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can many times be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as by having a protocol of turning residents even once per day.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Peace Care St Joseph's Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Peace Care St Joseph's, 9.28% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This tells you the percentage of residents that have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are damage to the skin resulting from remaining in one position for an excessive period of time.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Peace Care St Joseph's, 2.53% of Patients had Serious Falls
This tells you the percentage of long-term care patients who had falls which caused severe injury. Falls can arise for a variety of reasons, but excessive numbers of falls may be an indicator of lower quality nursing care.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Peace Care St Joseph's, 1.65% of Patients had UTIs
This statistic gauges the percent of long-term care residents which suffered from a UTI. While a higher rate of these infections may reflect poorly on a nursing home's nursing care, it is problematic to compare different facilities due to inconsistent reporting standards.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Peace Care St Joseph's, 10.6% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This indicates the percent of patients given antipsychotic drugs. These medications may be used for several medical conditions, including cognitive disorders.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Peace Care St Joseph's, 17.42% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This is the percent of patients who were given antianxiety medications. These drugs are commonly prescribed to residents experiencing depression or anxiety.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Peace Care St Joseph's, 5.95% of Patients
This indicates the percent of residents who are showing depressive symptoms.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Peace Care St Joseph's, 91.97% of Patients
This tells you the percent of residents who have received the flu and pneumonia vaccines. High vaccination rates should be the norm at this point.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Peace Care St Joseph's, 10.68% Percentage of Patients
This indicates the percent of residents that required increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of needing for assistance with activities of daily living may indicate the erosion of a patient's well-being.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Peace Care St Joseph's, 12.9% Percentage of Residents
This indicates the percent of residents who maintained mobility over time. Retaining mobility is usually a good sign for residents' health.
Hospitalizations
In Peace Care St Joseph's, 1.68 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This is the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of patient care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Peace Care St Joseph's, 12.9 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
This indicates the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term care.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Peace Care St Joseph's, 8.37 Percentage of Patients
This datapoint measures the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term patient care. Staying out of the emergency room is one way to gauge patient care during rehabilitation.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Peace Care St Joseph's, 80.92% Percentage of Resident
Measures the percent of short-term residents who saw functional improvements.
Scores for Jersey City, NJ
- Overall Rating has a grade of B-plus
- Nurse Rating has a grade of B
- Long-term Care Rating has a grade of B-minus
- Short-term Care Rating has a grade of A-minus
- Inspection Rating has a grade of A-plus
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Nearby Hospitals
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Nearby Dialysis
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- Fmc Hoboken Dialysis Ctr2.32 miles away1600 Willow Ave Hoboken New Jersey 07030Dialysis Stations: 16 (201) 656-7500
- Chinatown Dialysis Center Inc3.16 miles away213 Hester St. 2nd Floor New York New York 10013CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 45 (212) 925-0404
- New York Dialysis Services, Inc.3.19 miles away510-526 Avenue of the Americas Sub Cellar New York New York 10011CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 26 (212) 675-6880