Princeton Care Center

Although we were not high on this nursing home overall, we gave it a B+ for long-term care. This score is far more impressive than the nursing home's overall score. Without this grade, this place's profile would have been even worse. Facilities that excel in this category tend to be well-staffed and provide extensive hands on care to patients. In addition to assessing the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility gave the vaccine to 100 percent of its residents, which is higher than the vast majority of nursing homes. Finally, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

This nursing home's short-term care grade is one of its more favorable scores. The facility was given a grade of C in this area. Our short-term care ratings are likely more meaningful for patients requiring rehabilitation from their nursing home. Rehabilitation typically requires additional skilled nursing services. This means not merely nursing, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other types of therapy. In this nursing home's case, we were surprised to learn that it actually provides less registered nurse and physical therapist hours per patient than the average facility. The hope is always that this does not adversely affect the quality of care. The last metric we assessed in this area is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that just 4.9 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home, which is actually below average.

This nursing home received mediocre inspections in recent years. We awarded them a C in this category. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in computing these inspection scores. One critical factor is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of deficiencies is usually more meaningful than the quantity of deficiencies, as some of these end up being quite insignificant. This place was assessed 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were category G through L deficiencies. This means that this facility avoided the more serious classes of deficiencies. Unfortunately, we also need to draw your attention to the fact that this facility received some government fines in recent years.

Moving on to our fourth category, this facility really didn't perform well here either. Due to an abysmal grade of F in nursing, this is really as as uninspiring as it gets. We scrutinized the levels of nurses at the facility, as well as the number of hours the nurses spent with residents, in calculating our score in this area. This place provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient per day. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. Unfortunately, this place also had abysmal scores in some of the quality-based measures to go along with its weak nursing hour totals. We looked at the percent of patients suffering pressure ulcers and we were very disappointed. This nursing home was at approximately 150 percent of the national average in this metric.