ProMedica Skilled Nursing And Rehabilitation - Piscataway

We gave this facility one of our better scores in short-term care, where it earned an A+. This is notably better than its overall score, which was certainly not elite. In calculating our short-term care scores, we analyze the nursing home's levels of skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other highly skilled individuals. This category is typically a reliable assessment of a facility's rehabilitation services. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not every nursing home employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, based on the data they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The final item we considered in this area is the number of residents who ultimately were able to return home from the facility. We found that 6.7 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.

Turning to another strength for this facility, it also received an elite nursing grade. In fact, we gave this facility a grade of A-. Nursing grades are primarily tied to the facility's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality measures 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 place the country in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can typically be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as by employing a policy of turning patients even once per day.

Turning to an additional strength for this nursing home, we awarded it a high-end long-term care grade. Indeed, we awarded this facility a grade of A-. For prospective residents in need of a permanent residence as opposed to rehabilitation, long-term care is an important category. After assessing the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then looked at the facility's vaccination records. This facility vaccinated 86.81319 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which happens to be a bit lower than we expected but still a reasonably acceptable percentage. Although its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we had hoped, we were pleased to find place 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.

Turning the final category of inspections, this facility did not fare well. It received an F in our inspection category. This dragged this nursing home's overall grade down as we heavily weight this category. With nursing homes that received this poor of an inspection grade, we would scrutinize any severe deficiencies on its inspection report. This facility was assessed 4 deficiencies by CMS. The only positive thing we found is that none of the deficiencies were in the categories that suggest they caused a threat to patient health or safety. Finally, we also would like to draw your attention to the fact that this facility was assessed large government fines in recent years of over $100,000. This typically means that a facility's poor track record has been an issue for more than one year.