BERGEN REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER - PARAMUS, NJ

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Address

230 E RIDGEWOOD AVE
PARAMUS, NJ, 07652

Phone (make sure to verify first before calling): (201) 967-4000

Number of Certified Beds: 574
Total Number of Residents: 559
Percent of Occupied Beds: 97%
Sprinkler Status: Fully Sprinklered
Program Participation: Medicare and Medicaid
Type of Ownership: Government - County
Located Within a Hospital?: Yes
Multi Nursing Home Ownership?: No
Resident and Family Councils: Both
Continuing Care Retirement Community?: No
Quality Indicator Survey?: No
Special Focus Facility?: No
Type: Skilled Nursing Facilities

Overall Star Rating: 1 Star
Health Inspections Star Rating: 1 Star
Nurse Staffing Star Rating: 3 Stars
Quality Measures Star Rating: 3 Stars
RN Only Star Rating: 4 Stars

Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) - Medicare Provider Charge Data

Alcohol/Drug Abuse or Dependence without Rehabilitation Therapy without Major Complications

Average Covered Charges

This Nursing Home:	$15,955
State:	$33,450

Average Total Payments

This Nursing Home:	$6,333
State:	$5,495

Number of discharges: 156

Here:	40.63%
New Jersey:	0.40%

Cellulitis without Major Complications

Average Covered Charges

Here:	$42,658
New Jersey:	$40,596

Average Total Payments

This Nursing Home:	$8,103
New Jersey:	$6,234

Number of discharges: 14

This Nursing Home:	3.65%
New Jersey:	2.40%

Chest Pain

Average Covered Charges

Here:	$23,906
New Jersey:	$32,970

Average Total Payments

Here:	$5,433
New Jersey:	$4,276

Number of discharges: 20

This Nursing Home:	5.21%
New Jersey:	1.82%

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease with Major Complications

Average Covered Charges

This Nursing Home:	$47,483
New Jersey:	$62,346

Average Total Payments

Here:	$11,432
New Jersey:	$8,879

Number of discharges: 11

Here:	2.86%
New Jersey:	2.07%

Esophagitis, Gastroent and Miscellaneous Digestive Disorders without Major Complications

Average Covered Charges

Here:	$27,296
New Jersey:	$37,750

Average Total Payments

Here:	$7,037
New Jersey:	$5,392

Number of discharges: 12

This Nursing Home:	3.13%
New Jersey:	3.49%

Heart Failure and Shock with Major Complications

Average Covered Charges

Here:	$52,303
New Jersey:	$75,197

Average Total Payments

Here:	$13,796
State:	$11,417

Number of discharges: 11

Here:	2.86%
State:	2.96%

Kidney and Urinary Tract Infections without Major Complications

Average Covered Charges

This Nursing Home:	$38,127
New Jersey:	$40,335

Average Total Payments

This Nursing Home:	$7,702
State:	$5,798

Number of discharges: 14

This Nursing Home:	3.65%
New Jersey:	2.97%

Misc Disorders of Nutrition, Metabolism, Fluids or Electrolytes without Major Complications

Average Covered Charges

Here:	$21,449
State:	$37,551

Average Total Payments

Here:	$6,755
State:	$5,216

Number of discharges: 30

Here:	7.81%
State:	2.13%

Poisoning and Toxic Effects of Drugs without Major Complications

Average Covered Charges

Here:	$21,825
State:	$39,732

Average Total Payments

This Nursing Home:	$5,965
New Jersey:	$4,888

Number of discharges: 12

This Nursing Home:	3.13%
State:	0.29%

Renal Failure with Complications

Average Covered Charges

Here:	$42,803
State:	$52,443

Average Total Payments

Here:	$9,916
New Jersey:	$7,686

Number of discharges: 14

Here:	3.65%
New Jersey:	2.07%

Septicemia or Severe Sepsis without Mechanical Ventilation 96+ Hours with Major Complications

Average Covered Charges

Here:	$67,347
New Jersey:	$88,530

Average Total Payments

Here:	$17,628
New Jersey:	$14,676

Number of discharges: 34

This Nursing Home:	8.85%
State:	4.36%

Signs and Symptoms without Major Complications

Average Covered Charges

This Nursing Home:	$25,231
New Jersey:	$36,661

Average Total Payments

Here:	$6,691
State:	$5,269

Number of discharges: 11

Here:	2.86%
New Jersey:	0.63%

Simple Pneumonia and Pleurisy with Complications

Average Covered Charges

This Nursing Home:	$46,915
New Jersey:	$51,726

Average Total Payments

Here:	$9,852
New Jersey:	$7,544

Number of discharges: 19

Here:	4.95%
New Jersey:	2.50%

Simple Pneumonia and Pleurisy without Complications

Average Covered Charges

Here:	$29,974
New Jersey:	$37,623

Average Total Payments

This Nursing Home:	$6,793
State:	$5,339

Number of discharges: 12

This Nursing Home:	3.13%
New Jersey:	0.88%

Syncope and Collapse

Average Covered Charges

This Nursing Home:	$26,112
New Jersey:	$40,180

Average Total Payments

Here:	$6,840
New Jersey:	$5,402

Number of discharges: 14

This Nursing Home:	3.65%
New Jersey:	2.82%

Employment Full-Time Equivalent

Administrative Staff - Full Time: 13.37
Certified Nurse Aides - Full Time: 206.26
Certified Nurse Aides - Part Time: 53.49
Dietitians - Under Contract: 4.57
Food Service Personnel - Full Time: 91.20
Food Service Personnel - Part Time: 9.41
Housekeeping Personnel - Full Time: 76.57
Licensed Practical/ Vocational Nurses - Full Time: 19.06
Licensed Practical/ Vocational Nurses - Part Time: 5.37
Mental Health Services Personnel - Under Contract: 0.34
Nurses With Administrative Duties - Full Time: 15.26
Persons Not Included In Any Other Categories - Full Time: 38.23
Physical Therapists - Under Contract: 4.04
Registered Nurses - Full Time: 54.26
Rn Director Of Nursing - Full Time: 0.80
Social Workers - Full Time: 4.16
Activities Professionals - Full Time: 6.69
Activities Professionals - Part Time: 0.27
Dentists - Under Contract: 0.34
Medical Directors - Part Time: 0.11
Nurses With Administrative Duties - Part Time: 1.20
Occupational Therapists - Under Contract: 0.89
Pharmacists - Under Contract: 0.50
Food Service Personnel - Under Contract: 11.23
Persons Not Included In Any Other Categories - Under Contract: 20.21
Speech Pathologists - Under Contract: 1.20
Housekeeping Personnel - Under Contract: 9.14
Registered Nurses - Under Contract: 4.11
Registered Nurses - Part Time: 18.03
Occupational Therapy Assistants - Under Contract: 1.84
Housekeeping Personnel - Part Time: 2.00
Licensed Practical/ Vocational Nurses - Under Contract: 2.86
Physical Therapy Aide - Under Contract: 3.40
Podiatrists - Part Time: 0.46

Provided Services

Activities Services Are Provided Onsite To Residents
Administration And Storage Of Blood Services Are Provided Onsite To Residents
Clinical Laboratory Services Are Provided Onsite To Residents
Dental Services Are Provided Onsite To Residents
Diagnostic Xray Services Are Provided Onsite To Residents
Dietary Services Are Provided Onsite To Residents
Housekeeping Services Are Provided Onsite To Residents
Mental Health Services Are Provided Onsite To Residents
Nursing Services Are Provided Onsite To Residents
Occupational Therapy Services Are Provided Onsite To Residents
Pharmacy Services Are Provided Onsite To Residents
Physical Therapy Services Are Provided Onsite To Residents
Physician Services Are Provided Onsite To Residents
Podiatry Services Are Provided Onsite To Residents
Social Work Services Are Provided Onsite To Residents
Speech/Language Pathology Services Are Provided Onsite To Residents
Therapeutic Recreation Specialist Services Are Provided Onsite To Residents

Process of Care

Heart Attack

Percent of Patients Given Aspirin at Arrival

Here:	93.0%
New Jersey:	99.3%

Heart Failure

Percent of patients who were given an evaluation of Left Ventricular Systolic Dysfunction (LVSD)

Here:	100.0%
New Jersey:	99.7%

Percent of Patients Given Discharge Instructions

Here:	42.0%
New Jersey:	96.1%

Pneumonia

Percent of Patients Given Initial Antibiotic(s) within 6 Hours After Arrival

Here:	95.0%
State:	97.9%

Percent of Patients Whose Initial ER Blood Culture Was Performed Prior To Administration Of First Dose Of Antibiotics

This Nursing Home:	98.0%
State:	98.3%

Percent of Patients Given Smoking Cessation Advice/Counseling

Here:	90.0%
State:	99.8%

Percent of Patients Given the Most Appropriate Initial Antibiotic(s)

Here:	96.0%
New Jersey:	97.0%

Percent of Patients Assessed and Given Influenza Vaccination

This Nursing Home:	81.0%
State:	96.5%

Percent of Patients Assessed and Given Pneumococcal Vaccination

This Nursing Home:	89.0%
State:	97.7%

Surgery

Percent of Surgery Patients given an antibiotic at the right time (within one hour before surgery) to help prevent infection

This Nursing Home:	100.0%
State:	98.6%

Percent of Surgery Patients whose preventive antibiotics were stopped at the right time (within 24 hours after surgery)

This Nursing Home:	100.0%
New Jersey:	97.6%

Percent of Surgery Patients who were given the right kind of antibiotic to help prevent infection

This Nursing Home:	94.0%
New Jersey:	98.4%

Percent of Surgery Patients who got treatment at right time (within 24 hours before or after surgery) to help prevent blood clot

Here:	95.0%
State:	97.5%

Percent of Surgery Patients whose doctors ordered treatments to prevent blood clots after certain types of surgeries

This Nursing Home:	95.0%
State:	98.2%

Percent of Surgery Patients needing hair removed from the surgical area before surgery who had hair removed using a safer method

This Nursing Home:	100.0%
State:	99.9%

Percent of Surgery Patients whose urinary catheters were removed on the first or second day after surgery

This Nursing Home:	87.0%
State:	95.3%

Surgery patients who were taking heart drugs called beta blockers before coming to the hospital, who were kept on them

This Nursing Home:	100.0%
New Jersey:	96.9%

Patients having surgery who were actively warmed in the operating room or whose body temperature was near normal

This Nursing Home:	100.0%
New Jersey:	99.7%

Outcome of Care

30-Day Mortality Rates from Heart Attack

This Nursing Home:	15.5%
New Jersey:	14.7%

30-Day Mortality Rates from Heart Failure

Here:	13.1%
New Jersey:	10.7%

30-Day Mortality Rates from Pneumonia

This Nursing Home:	16.0%
New Jersey:	11.0%

30-Day Readmission Rates from Heart Attack

Here:	19.0%
New Jersey:	21.0%

30-Day Readmission Rates from Heart Failure

Here:	23.9%
New Jersey:	26.5%

30-Day Readmission Rates from Pneumonia

This Nursing Home:	20.1%
State:	19.5%

Hospital Acquired Conditions

Falls and injuries

Here:	1.377%
New Jersey:	0.485%

Severe pressure sores (bed sores)

Here:	0.689%
State:	0.331%

Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers

Number of Completed Surveys: Between 100 and 299
Survey Response Rate: 11%

How often did nurses communicate well with patients?

Sometimes or never

Here:	18%
New Jersey:	7%

Usually

Here:	22%
State:	19%

Always

Here:	60%
State:	74%

How often did doctors communicate well with patients?

Sometimes or never

This Nursing Home:	14%
New Jersey:	6%

Usually

This Nursing Home:	20%
State:	17%

Always

Here:	66%
State:	77%

How often did patients receive help quickly from hospital staff?

Sometimes or never

Here:	35%
New Jersey:	15%

Usually

Here:	24%
State:	27%

Always

Here:	41%
State:	58%

How often was patients' pain well controlled?

Sometimes or never

Here:	29%
New Jersey:	9%

Usually

Here:	24%
State:	24%

Always

Here:	47%
New Jersey:	67%

How often did staff explain about medicines before giving them to patients?

Sometimes or never

This Nursing Home:	38%
State:	24%

Usually

This Nursing Home:	21%
New Jersey:	18%

Always

This Nursing Home:	41%
New Jersey:	58%

How often were the patients' rooms and bathrooms kept clean?

Sometimes or never

Here:	31%
New Jersey:	11%

Usually

This Nursing Home:	26%
State:	21%

Always

Here:	43%
State:	68%

How often was the area around patients' rooms kept quiet at night?

Sometimes or never

This Nursing Home:	20%
New Jersey:	16%

Usually

Here:	27%
New Jersey:	32%

Always

Here:	53%
State:	52%

Were patients given information about what to do during their recovery at home?

Yes

This Nursing Home:	71%
State:	79%

Here:	29%
New Jersey:	21%

How do patients rate the hospital overall on a scale from 0 (lowest) to 10 (highest)?

6 or lower

Here:	32%
State:	12%

7 or 8

Here:	32%
State:	26%

9 or 10

This Nursing Home:	36%
State:	62%

Would patients recommend the hospital to friends and family?

This Nursing Home:	25%
New Jersey:	7%

Yes, probably

This Nursing Home:	25%
State:	28%

Yes, definitely

Here:	50%
New Jersey:	65%

Use of Medical Imaging

Outpatients who had a follow-up mammogram or ultrasound within 45 days after a screening mammogram.

This Nursing Home:	11.800%
New Jersey:	11.744%

Outpatient CT scans of the chest that were combination (double) scans.

Here:	0.022%
State:	0.027%

Staff Information

Number of Registered Nurses Hours Per Resident Per Day

This Nursing Home:	0.770
New Jersey:	0.818

Number of Licensed Practical and Licensed Vocational Nurses Hours Per Resident Per Day

Here:	0.380
New Jersey:	0.741

Total Number of Licensed Staff Hours Per Resident Per Day

This Nursing Home:	1.140
State:	1.555

Number of ,Certified Nurse Assistant Hours Per Resident Per Day

Here:	0.030
New Jersey:	0.123

Number Therapy Hours Per Resident Per Day

This Nursing Home:	0.030
New Jersey:	0.125

Quality Measures

Percent of long-stay residents whose need for help with daily activities has increased

This Nursing Home:	15.9%
State:	15.2%

Percent of long-stay residents who self-report moderate to severe pain

This Nursing Home:	10.6%
State:	6.3%

Percent of long-stay high-risk residents with pressure ulcers

Here:	10.8%
New Jersey:	9.0%

Percent of long-stay residents who lose too much weight

Here:	5.0%
State:	7.4%

Percent of long-stay low-risk residents who lose control of their bowels or bladder

Here:	31.4%
State:	32.4%

Percent of long-stay residents who have had a catheter inserted and left in their bladder

Here:	3.2%
State:	3.1%

Percent of long-stay residents with a urinary tract infection

This Nursing Home:	5.9%
New Jersey:	6.8%

Percent of long-stay residents who have depressive symptoms

Here:	1.0%
State:	7.4%

Percent of long-stay residents who were physically restrained

This Nursing Home:	1.5%
New Jersey:	2.7%

Percent of long-stay residents experiencing one or more falls with major injury

Here:	2.3%
New Jersey:	2.7%

Percent of long-stay residents assessed and given, appropriately, the seasonal influenza vaccine

This Nursing Home:	98.1%
State:	95.8%

Percent of long-stay residents assessed and given, appropriately, the pneumococcal vaccine

Here:	97.6%
State:	95.5%

Percent of short-stay residents who self-report moderate to severe pain

This Nursing Home:	29.6%
State:	17.0%

Percent of short-stay residents with Pressure ulcers that are new or worsened

This Nursing Home:	3.7%
State:	1.8%

Percent of short-stay residents assessed and given, appropriately, the seasonal influenza vaccine

This Nursing Home:	90.1%
State:	88.2%

Percent of short-stay residents assessed and given, appropriately, the pneumococcal vaccine

This Nursing Home:	74.2%
State:	87.5%

Percent of short-stay residents who newly received an antipsychotic medication

Here:	7.1%
New Jersey:	1.9%

Percent of long-stay residents who received an antipsychotic medication

Here:	27.9%
State:	18.1%

Complaint Deficiency

An approved installation, maintenance and testing program for fire alarm systems: Few (Minimal harm or potential for actual harm)

Properly installed electrical wiring and equipment: Few (Minimal harm or potential for actual harm)

Exits that are accessible at all times: Few (Minimal harm or potential for actual harm)

Follow policies and procedures to convey the resident's personal funds to the appropriate party responsible after the resident's death: Few (Minimal harm or potential for actual harm)

Give the resident's representative the ability to exercise the resident's rights: Few (Minimal harm or potential for actual harm)

Properly installed electrical wiring and equipment: Few (Minimal harm or potential for actual harm)

Properly hold, secure and manage each resident's personal money which is deposited with the nursing home: Some (Potential for minimal harm)

Exit doors that are held open by devices that will automatically close on the activation of a fire alarm or smoke detectors: Few (Minimal harm or potential for actual harm)

Automatic sprinkler systems that have been maintained in working order: Few (Minimal harm or potential for actual harm)

Properly installed electrical wiring and equipment: Few (Minimal harm or potential for actual harm)

Protect each resident from all abuse, physical punishment, and being separated from others: Few (Minimal harm or potential for actual harm)

Provide housekeeping and maintenance services: Some (Potential for minimal harm)

Make sure services provided by the nursing facility meet professional standards of quality: Few (Minimal harm or potential for actual harm)

Provide necessary care and services to maintain the highest well being of each resident : Few (Minimal harm or potential for actual harm)

Give residents proper treatment to prevent new bed (pressure) sores or heal existing bed sores: Few (Immediate jeopardy to resident health or safety)

Make sure that the nursing home area is free from accident hazards and risks and provides supervision to prevent avoidable accidents: Some (Minimal harm or potential for actual harm)

Keep the rate of medication errors (wrong drug, wrong dose, wrong time) to less than 5%: Some (Minimal harm or potential for actual harm)

Store, cook, and serve food in a safe and clean way: Many (Minimal harm or potential for actual harm)

Give or get emergency care by a doctor 24 hours a day: Few (Minimal harm or potential for actual harm)

Safely provide drugs and other similar products available, which are needed every day and in emergencies, by a licensed pharmacist: Few (Minimal harm or potential for actual harm)

Make sure that the nursing home area is safe, easy to use, clean and comfortable for residents, staff and the public: Some (Minimal harm or potential for actual harm)

Keep accurate, complete and organized clinical records on each resident that meet professional standards: Few (Minimal harm or potential for actual harm)

Resident room doors of proper design and width: Few (Minimal harm or potential for actual harm)

Did not have a written emergency evacuation plan: Few (Minimal harm or potential for actual harm)

A fire alarm system that can be heard throughout the facility: Few (Minimal harm or potential for actual harm)

Posted No-smoking signs in areas where smoking is not permitted or did not provide ashtrays where smoking was allowed: Some (Potential for minimal harm)

Tell the resident completely about his or her health status, care and treatments: Some (Minimal harm or potential for actual harm)

Develop a complete care plan that meets all of a resident's needs, with timetables and actions that can be measured: Some (Minimal harm or potential for actual harm)

Evaluate a residents decrease in social interaction and increase in depressive behaviors, and if the behavior was avoidable if these problems did not exist before: Some (Minimal harm or potential for actual harm)

Make sure that the nursing home area is free from accident hazards and risks and provides supervision to prevent avoidable accidents: Some (Minimal harm or potential for actual harm)

Give each resident enough fluids to keep them healthy and prevent dehydration: Some (Minimal harm or potential for actual harm)

1) Make sure that each resident's drug regimen is free from unnecessary drugs; 2) Each resident's entire drug/medication is managed and monitored to achieve highest well being: Few (Minimal harm or potential for actual harm)

Store, cook, and serve food in a safe and clean way: Many (Minimal harm or potential for actual harm)

Provide routine and 24-hour emergency dental care for each resident: Few (Minimal harm or potential for actual harm)

Maintain drug records and properly mark/label drugs and other similar products according to accepted professional standards: Few (Minimal harm or potential for actual harm)

Have a program that investigates, controls and keeps infection from spreading: Few (Minimal harm or potential for actual harm)

Keep all essential equipment working safely: Some (Potential for minimal harm)

Make sure that the nursing home area is safe, easy to use, clean and comfortable for residents, staff and the public: Some (Minimal harm or potential for actual harm)

Keep accurate, complete and organized clinical records on each resident that meet professional standards: Some (Minimal harm or potential for actual harm)

Construction that can resist fire for one hour or an approved fire extinguishing system: Few (Minimal harm or potential for actual harm)

Provide housekeeping and maintenance services: Some (Potential for minimal harm)

Develop a complete care plan that meets all of a resident's needs, with timetables and actions that can be measured: Few (Minimal harm or potential for actual harm)

Make sure services provided by the nursing facility meet professional standards of quality: Few (Minimal harm or potential for actual harm)

Store, cook, and serve food in a safe and clean way: Many (Minimal harm or potential for actual harm)

Make sure that doctors see a resident's plan of care at every visit and make notes about progress and orders in writing: Few (Minimal harm or potential for actual harm)

Have a program that investigates, controls and keeps infection from spreading: Few (Minimal harm or potential for actual harm)

Make sure that the nursing home area is safe, easy to use, clean and comfortable for residents, staff and the public: Many (Minimal harm or potential for actual harm)

Other nearby hospitals and nursing homes

DELLRIDGE HEALTH AND REHABILITATION CENTER (1.98 miles)
N J VETERANS MEM HOME PARAMUS (1.68 miles)
PARAMUS CARE CENTER (0.43 miles)
RIDGEWOOD CENTER (RIDGEWOOD, 1.65 miles)
THE VALLEY HOSPITAL RENAL CARE CENTER (RIDGEWOOD, 1.12 miles)
VALLEY HOSPITAL (RIDGEWOOD, 1.12 miles)
VAN DYK MANOR OF RIDGEWOOD (RIDGEWOOD, 0.89 miles)

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