Reformed Church Home is a senior living facility located in Old Bridge, New Jersey, which has a total of 39,898 people. After receiving an overall score of A, this nursing home is ranked among the highest-rated facilities we assessed. Based on our assessment, this nursing home is just about as as good as it gets. If you scroll down, you can see this nursing home's category grades, which are also strong.
Reformed Church Home
- Nursing Home
- Assisted Living
Updated Jun 1, 2022 by Nick Reese
Quick Details
- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- Has Family Council
- Non profit - Church related
- Offers Post-Acute Care
- Offers Respite Care
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Medication Management
- Home Making
- Transportation
- Medical Transportation
- Speech Therapy
- Stroke Recovery
- Dentistry
- Occupational Therapy
- Cardiac Therapy
- Podiatry
- Mental Health
- Physical Therapy
- Respiratory Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Recreational Therapy
- Optometry
- Orthopedic Rehabilitation
Registered Staff Hours
Facility Inspections
We also wanted to emphasize the fact that this facility earned near flawless inspections recently. We gave them an A+ in this area. Inspection grades take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these items by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this facility had a few deficiencies on its inspection report, none of them were major deficiencies based on CMS' deficiency scale. Remember that deficiency-free inspections are rare in the industry.
Nurse Quality
We also awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for its nursing grade. We scrutinized the levels of nurses employed by the nursing home, in addition to the number of hours the nurses were with residents, in computing our rating in this category. 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 place New Jersey in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can frequently be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as by having a system of turning residents more often.
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Short-term Care Quality
Turning the page to our next category, this nursing home was given a top-shelf short-term care grade. In fact, we awarded it a score of A in that category. Short-term care scores are based in part on a facility's quantity of highly-skilled skilled healthcare professionals. This means a broad range of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, not to mention other types of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. However, based on the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The final statistic we looked at in this category is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We found that 5.7 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.
Long-term Care Quality
Turning to our next area, this nursing home received a high-end long-term care grade. Even though this wasn't nearly as impressive as a few of its other scores, this is still one of the more favorable grades a facility can receive. Nursing homes that receive this kind of score in this category tend to provide consistent around the clock care to make sure residents are well cared for. In addition to looking at the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home administered the vaccine to 94.57365 percent of its residents. Vaccines are vital to keeping residents out of the hospital. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Reformed Church Home Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Reformed Church Home, 9.57% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This tells you the percentage of patients that have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are damage to the skin due to staying in one position for an excessive period of time.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Reformed Church Home, 2.57% of Patients had Serious Falls
This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term residents who have suffered falls resulting in severe injury. This is one of the statistics we use in calculating nursing ratings.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Reformed Church Home, 1.73% of Patients had UTIs
This statistic indicates the percentage of long-term care residents who have sustained a urinary tract infection. Although a higher rate infections could reflect poorly on a nursing home's hygiene protocols, it can be difficult to compare between facilities due to reporting standards.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Reformed Church Home, 10.75% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This tells you the percentage of residents prescribed antipsychotic drugs. Antipsychotic drugs are given to patients for many medical conditions, such as cognitive disorders. Sadly, in some cases, increased usage of these drugs may indicate that a facility is using these drugs to subdue residents.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Reformed Church Home, 17.5% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This is the percentage of patients who were given antianxiety drugs. These drugs are generally prescribed to patients experiencing anxiety or depression.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Reformed Church Home, 5.81% of Patients
This tells you the percent of patients who are showing depressive symptoms. Increased rates of depression could be a sign a lower level of care.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Reformed Church Home, 92% of Patients
This is the percent of patients who have received the flu and pneumonia vaccines. High vaccination rates should be standard at this point.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Reformed Church Home, 10.99% Percentage of Patients
This is the percent of patients that needed additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. High levels of needing for assistance with ADL's may indicate the deterioration of a patient's medical condition.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Reformed Church Home, 14.79% Percentage of Residents
This is the percentage of patients that maintained mobility over time. Retaining mobility is usually a good sign for residents' well-being.
Hospitalizations
In Reformed Church Home, 1.49 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This indicates the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of patient care. There is generally a correlation between staying out of the hospital and the overall quality of nursing home care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Reformed Church Home, 14.79 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
This is the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term care.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Reformed Church Home, 8.17 Percentage of Patients
This indicates the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Reformed Church Home, 80.57% Percentage of Resident
This metric measures the percent of short-term care residents that experienced functional improvements.
Scores for Old Bridge, NJ
- Overall Rating has a grade of A-minus
- Nurse Rating has a grade of A-minus
- Long-term Care Rating has a grade of A-minus
- Short-term Care Rating has a grade of B-plus
- Inspection Rating has a grade of A-plus
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Nearby Dialysis
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