Nursing home
Alameda Center for Rehabilitation and Healthcare
303 Elm Street, Perth Amboy, NJ 08861 · Map
For profit - Limited Liability company · 250 certified beds
Alameda Center for Rehabilitation and Healthcare is a Medicare-certified nursing home in Perth Amboy, New Jersey. CMS rates it 4 out of 5 stars overall (3/5 for staffing, 3/5 for health inspections). Nurse staffing is 3.44 hours per resident per day, below the New Jersey average of 3.86. Its most recent inspection on Jul 3, 2025 cited 10 deficiencies.
CMS quality ratings
Ratings from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), updated monthly. 5 stars is the highest quality.
How Alameda Center for Rehabilitation and Healthcare compares
This facility vs. the New Jersey and national averages, from CMS data. For staffing, higher is generally better; for turnover and deficiencies, lower is better.
| Metric | This facility | New Jersey avg | National avg | Compared with the state |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total nurse staffing (hrs/resident/day) | 3.44 | 3.86 | 3.89 | below avg |
| RN staffing (hrs/resident/day) | 0.22 | 0.69 | 0.68 | below avg |
| Aide staffing (hrs/resident/day) | 2.18 | 2.23 | 2.34 | below avg |
| Nursing staff turnover | 45.1% | 40.9% | 46.4% | above avg |
| Deficiencies cited, last inspection | 10.0 | 8.5 | 9.5 | above avg |
Staffing
Hours per resident per day as reported to CMS. Higher numbers indicate more direct care time.
Staff turnover
Lower turnover typically indicates better working conditions and continuity of care. National average for nursing staff is 46.4%.
Recent health inspection
CMS inspects nursing facilities regularly. Deficiencies are categorized by severity.
- Every deficiency from the December 29, 2025 inspection was corrected by February 14, 2026
What inspectors found at Alameda Center for Rehabilitation and Healthcare
Specific deficiencies cited in recent CMS health inspections, most recent first. Severity follows the CMS scope/severity scale. Source: CMS Care Compare.
- Potential for harm
Provide care and assistance to perform activities of daily living for any resident who is unable.
Quality of Life and Care Deficiencies · Dec 29, 2025 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Honor the resident's right to a safe, clean, comfortable and homelike environment, including but not limited to receiving treatment and supports for daily living safely.
Resident Rights Deficiencies · Jul 3, 2025 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Ensure services provided by the nursing facility meet professional standards of quality.
Resident Assessment and Care Planning Deficiencies · Jul 3, 2025 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Procure food from sources approved or considered satisfactory and store, prepare, distribute and serve food in accordance with professional standards.
Nutrition and Dietary Deficiencies · Jul 3, 2025 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Ensure drugs and biologicals used in the facility are labeled in accordance with currently accepted professional principles; and all drugs and biologicals must be stored in locked compartments, separately locked, compartments for controlled drugs.
Pharmacy Service Deficiencies · Jul 3, 2025 · Full report (PDF)
Show all 12 deficiencies
- Potential for harm
Ensure that residents are free from significant medication errors.
Pharmacy Service Deficiencies · Jul 3, 2025 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Provide safe and appropriate respiratory care for a resident when needed.
Quality of Life and Care Deficiencies · Jul 3, 2025 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Provide appropriate care for a resident to maintain and/or improve range of motion (ROM), limited ROM and/or mobility, unless a decline is for a medical reason.
Quality of Life and Care Deficiencies · Jul 3, 2025 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Develop the complete care plan within 7 days of the comprehensive assessment; and prepared, reviewed, and revised by a team of health professionals.
Resident Assessment and Care Planning Deficiencies · Jul 3, 2025 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Ensure each resident receives an accurate assessment.
Resident Assessment and Care Planning Deficiencies · Jul 3, 2025 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Have enough backup water supply for essential areas of the nursing home.
Environmental Deficiencies · Dec 21, 2023 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Procure food from sources approved or considered satisfactory and store, prepare, distribute and serve food in accordance with professional standards.
Nutrition and Dietary Deficiencies · Dec 21, 2023 · Full report (PDF)
Read the full inspection reports on Medicare.gov Each inspection there has a “Read the full report” link with the inspectors’ written findings.
About this facility
- Address
- 303 Elm Street
Perth Amboy, NJ 08861 - CMS certification #
- 315180
- Ownership
- For profit - Limited Liability company
- Certified beds
- 250
- Avg residents/day
- 223.5
- Provider type
- Medicare and Medicaid
- First certified
- 1982-01-01
- Setting
- Urban
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Location and nearby
Explore the area around Alameda Center for Rehabilitation and Healthcare using Google Maps.
Other public records
- Website says Nurse 24 hours a day, diabetes care, staff speak gujarati, hindi
- Staff pay 1 federal wage case with violations found, since 2004
- Workplace safety 4 OSHA workplace safety inspections since 2020, 7 violations cited
- Emergency In hurricane evacuation zone Middlesex-F2
Full public records, with dates and sources
Care and services
From the community’s website
What Alameda Center for Rehabilitation and Healthcare says about itself, quoted from its own site. We have not checked these claims against licensing records. Ask about each one on a tour.
- Nurse on site: 24 hours a day.
With 24/7 nursing care, on-site therapies, and specialized support services, our team empowers residents to heal, recover, and thrive.
(page, checked Oct 12, 2026) - Offers diabetes care.
IV Therapy & Diabetes Management
(page, checked Oct 12, 2026) - Staff speak Gujarati, Hindi.
The first of its kind in the region, this program offers a certified vegetarian kitchen, traditional Indian meals, Indian religious services, staff fluent in Gujarati and Hindi, and in-room access to 400+ multilingual TV channels.
(page, checked Oct 12, 2026)
Staff pay and workplace safety
Federal records about how the employer here treats its staff.
Federal wage and hour cases
The Department of Labor checks that staff are paid minimum wage and overtime as the law requires.
- Findings for Aug 1, 2004 to Apr 1, 2005. Violations found: Overtime. Back wages: $7,533 owed to 12 employees. Employer as DOL recorded it: Alameda Care Center (Oak Park LLC). Case 1389808.
Source: U.S. Department of Labor, Wage and Hour Division enforcement data, loaded Oct 15, 2026. Concluded cases only. The dates are the period in which DOL found violations, not when the case opened or closed. Back wages are what the employer agreed to pay; penalties are what DOL assessed. DOL does not publish a page for each case, so search the dataset by case number.
OSHA workplace safety inspections
OSHA inspects workplaces for staff safety, such as lifting, needles, chemicals and workplace violence. It does not inspect resident care.
- May 6, 2021: 2 follow-up inspections, partial (health). Case closed Nov 5, 2021. No violations cited. OSHA records 1, 2. OSHA recorded the employer as Alameda Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation.
- Sep 23, 2020: fatality or catastrophe inspection, partial (health). Case closed Mar 28, 2023. 4 violations cited (4 serious). Penalties: $12,145 proposed, $7,000 now. OSHA record. OSHA recorded the employer as Alameda Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation.
Details
- Serious: Respiratory protection (respirators, N95 fit testing) (1910.134(c)(1)). Penalty $12,145 proposed, $7,000 now. To be fixed by Nov 12, 2020. Contested by the employer.
- Serious: Respiratory protection (respirators, N95 fit testing) (1910.134(e)(1)). Penalty $0 proposed, $0 now. To be fixed by Nov 12, 2020. Contested by the employer.
- Serious: Respiratory protection (respirators, N95 fit testing) (1910.134(f)(2)). Penalty $0 proposed, $0 now. To be fixed by Nov 12, 2020. Contested by the employer.
- Serious: Respiratory protection (respirators, N95 fit testing) (1910.134(k)(1)). Penalty $0 proposed, $0 now. To be fixed by Nov 12, 2020. Contested by the employer.
- Sep 23, 2020: fatality or catastrophe inspection, partial (health). Case closed Mar 28, 2023. 3 violations cited (3 serious). Penalties: $12,145 proposed, $7,000 now. OSHA record. OSHA recorded the employer as Alameda Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation.
Details
- Serious: Respiratory protection (respirators, N95 fit testing) (1910.134(e)(1)). Penalty $12,145 proposed, $7,000 now. To be fixed by Nov 12, 2020. Contested by the employer.
- Serious: Respiratory protection (respirators, N95 fit testing) (1910.134(f)(2)). Penalty $0 proposed, $0 now. To be fixed by Nov 12, 2020. Contested by the employer.
- Serious: Respiratory protection (respirators, N95 fit testing) (1910.134(k)(1)). Penalty $0 proposed, $0 now. To be fixed by Nov 12, 2020. Contested by the employer.
Source: U.S. Department of Labor OSHA enforcement data, as of Oct 15, 2026, inspections since 2016. Penalties can change while a case is open or contested.
Location and nearby care
- Nearest hospital with an emergency room
- Raritan Bay Medical Center, Perth Amboy. 0.7 miles away, straight line. CMS overall hospital rating: 4 of 5 stars.
- Nearest Medicare nursing home
- Spring Creek Healthcare Center, Perth Amboy. 1.7 miles away, straight line.
- Nearest home health agency office
- Hackensack Meridian Jfk At Home, Iselin. 4.7 miles away, straight line. Agencies travel to clients, so ask which ones serve this address.
- Nearest pharmacy
- Amboy Pharmacy. 0.2 miles away, straight line. From OpenStreetMap, which does not list every pharmacy, so one may be closer.
- Area
- USDA classes ZIP code 08861 as metropolitan (metropolitan core).
- Dialysis within 15 miles
- Davita Perth Amboy Dialysis, Perth Amboy, 0.4 miles away, straight line (CMS rating 4 of 5 stars)
Davita Woodbridge Dialysis Center, Woodbridge, 2.8 miles away, straight line (CMS rating 5 of 5 stars)
Davita Garden State Dialysis, Woodbridge, 2.9 miles away, straight line (CMS rating 4 of 5 stars) - Hospice
- 21 Medicare hospices tell CMS they serve ZIP code 08861.
Caring Hospice Services Of Central Jersey, office in Edison, 3.7 miles away, straight line (CMS family survey rating 2 of 5 stars)
Grace Healthcare Services LLC, office in Edison, 3.7 miles away, straight line (CMS family survey rating 2 of 5 stars)
Seasons Hospice & Palliative Care Of New Jersey Ll, office in Edison, 6.0 miles away, straight line (CMS family survey rating 3 of 5 stars) - Nearest geriatric medicine practice
- Hackensack Meridian Health Medical Group - Primary Care PC, Edison. 2.8 miles away, straight line. 1 geriatric medicine doctor listed there.
Distances are straight lines from the community, not driving distance. Hospitals, home health, dialysis, hospice and doctors come from CMS provider data (CMS, hospital list updated Jul 22, 2026). Star ratings are CMS’s own.
Emergency and natural hazard risk
Public hazard maps for this location. Ask the community about its emergency plan, its generator and where residents would go in an evacuation.
- Hurricane evacuation zone
- Middlesex-F2 (Zone F: Captures the additional flood areas from Green Brook and Rahway River should flooding be catastrophic.) on the New Jersey hurricane evacuation zones (2020 hurricane evacuation study). (FEMA Region 2 / New Jersey Office of Emergency Management, map updated Jan 8, 2024)
- Flood zone
- Outside the high and moderate risk flood areas on FEMA's flood map (Zone X, minimal flood hazard, or not studied). (FEMA flood map)
- FEMA National Risk Index
- Overall: relatively low. By hazard: hurricane relatively low, inland flooding relatively low, coastal flooding relatively low, tornado relatively moderate, heat wave relatively moderate, earthquake relatively moderate. These are FEMA’s ratings for the census tract, compared with tracts nationwide. (FEMA, December 2025)
A flood zone describes the map at this point, not the building's elevation. In an emergency, follow the local emergency management agency.
What we checked
Every public source we searched for this community. “Nothing on record” means we found no record that matched it. A record can be missed when a name or address differs.
| Source | Data as of | What we found |
|---|---|---|
| U.S. Department of Labor wage and hour cases | Oct 15, 2026 | See above |
| OSHA workplace safety inspections since 2016 | Oct 15, 2026 | See above |
| Hurricane evacuation zone maps | See above | |
| FEMA flood map | See above | |
| USDA wildfire risk | Apr 15, 2026 | Not shown: no FEMA wildfire rating of moderate or higher here |
| FEMA National Risk Index | See above | |
| CMS hospitals, home health, dialysis, hospice and doctors; OpenStreetMap pharmacies | See above | |
| HUD Multifamily Properties - Assisted | Jul 6, 2026 | Nothing on record |
| State Veterans Homes (NASVH directory) | Sep 20, 2026 | Nothing on record |
| CMS Hospice - General Information | Aug 19, 2026 | Nothing on record |
| CMS Home Health Care Agencies | May 27, 2026 | Nothing on record |
| The community’s own website | See above |
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Frequently asked questions
Is Alameda Center for Rehabilitation and Healthcare a good nursing home?
CMS gives Alameda Center for Rehabilitation and Healthcare an overall rating of 4 out of 5 stars, including 3/5 for staffing and 3/5 for health inspections. These ratings come from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and are updated monthly.
How is Alameda Center for Rehabilitation and Healthcare staffed?
Alameda Center for Rehabilitation and Healthcare reports 3.44 total nurse hours per resident per day, compared with the New Jersey average of 3.86.
Has Alameda Center for Rehabilitation and Healthcare had inspection problems?
Its most recent CMS inspection cited 10 deficiencies.
How many beds does Alameda Center for Rehabilitation and Healthcare have?
Alameda Center for Rehabilitation and Healthcare is certified for 250 beds.