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Arnold Walter Nursing & Rehabilitation Center

622 S Laurel Avenue, Hazlet, NJ 07730 · Map
For profit - Partnership · Part of Excelsior Care Group (33 facilities) · 202 certified beds

Medicare and Medicaid certified
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Arnold Walter Nursing & Rehabilitation Center is a Medicare-certified nursing home in Hazlet, New Jersey. CMS rates it 4 out of 5 stars overall (2/5 for staffing, 3/5 for health inspections). Nurse staffing is 3.37 hours per resident per day, below the New Jersey average of 3.86. Its most recent inspection on Jan 24, 2025 cited 11 deficiencies.

4 out of 5Overall CMS rating
3 out of 5Health inspections
2 out of 5Staffing
202 bedsCertified beds

CMS quality ratings

Ratings from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), updated monthly. 5 stars is the highest quality.

Overall rating4/5
Health inspections3/5
Staffing2/5
Quality measures5/5
Long-stay quality5/5
Short-stay quality5/5

How Arnold Walter Nursing & Rehabilitation Center 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.

MetricThis facilityNew Jersey avgNational avgCompared with the state
Total nurse staffing (hrs/resident/day)3.373.863.89below avg
RN staffing (hrs/resident/day)0.550.690.68below avg
Aide staffing (hrs/resident/day)1.792.232.34below avg
Nursing staff turnover52.6%40.9%46.4%above avg
Deficiencies cited, last inspection11.08.59.5above avg

Staffing

Hours per resident per day as reported to CMS. Higher numbers indicate more direct care time.

3.37Total nurse hrs/resident/day
0.55RN hrs/resident/day
1.02LPN hrs/resident/day
1.79Aide hrs/resident/day
3.45Weekend nurse hrs/resident/day

Staff turnover

Lower turnover typically indicates better working conditions and continuity of care. National average for nursing staff is 46.4%.

Total nursing staff52.6%
Registered nurses75.0%
Administrator changes0 in last year

Recent health inspection

CMS inspects nursing facilities regularly. Deficiencies are categorized by severity.

Jan 24, 2025Most recent inspection
11Deficiencies found
68Health inspection score
0Fines

What inspectors found at Arnold Walter Nursing & Rehabilitation Center

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

    Ensure services provided by the nursing facility meet professional standards of quality.

    Resident Assessment and Care Planning Deficiencies · Oct 30, 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 · Jan 24, 2025 · Full report (PDF)
  • Potential for harm

    Provide safe, appropriate pain management for a resident who requires such services.

    Quality of Life and Care Deficiencies · Jan 24, 2025 · Full report (PDF)
  • Potential for harm

    Provide safe and appropriate respiratory care for a resident when needed.

    Quality of Life and Care Deficiencies · Jan 24, 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 · Jan 24, 2025 · Full report (PDF)
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  • Potential for harm

    Have a policy regarding use and storage of foods brought to residents by family and other visitors.

    Nutrition and Dietary Deficiencies · Jan 24, 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 · Jan 24, 2025 · Full report (PDF)
  • Potential for harm

    Provide pharmaceutical services to meet the needs of each resident and employ or obtain the services of a licensed pharmacist.

    Pharmacy Service Deficiencies · Jan 24, 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 · Jan 24, 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 · Jan 24, 2025 · Full report (PDF)
  • Potential for harm

    Honor the resident's right to a dignified existence, self-determination, communication, and to exercise his or her rights.

    Resident Rights Deficiencies · Jan 24, 2025 · Full report (PDF)
  • Potential for harm

    Provide appropriate treatment and care according to orders, resident’s preferences and goals.

    Quality of Life and Care Deficiencies · Dec 14, 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
622 S Laurel Avenue
Hazlet, NJ 07730
CMS certification #
315119
Ownership
For profit - Partnership
Certified beds
202
Avg residents/day
140.2
Provider type
Medicare and Medicaid
First certified
1975-10-02
Chain
Excelsior Care Group (33 facilities)
Setting
Urban

Part of Excelsior Care Group

Excelsior Care Group operates 33 nursing facilities across the United States. View all Excelsior Care Group facilities →

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Location and nearby

Explore the area around Arnold Walter Nursing & Rehabilitation Center using Google Maps.

Other public records

  • Website says Respite stays, nurse 24 hours a day
  • Workplace safety 1 OSHA workplace safety inspection since 2020, 5 violations cited
  • Emergency In hurricane evacuation zone Monmouth-D
Full public records, with dates and sources

Care and services

From the community’s website

What Arnold Walter Nursing & Rehabilitation Center says about itself, quoted from its own site. We have not checked these claims against licensing records. Ask about each one on a tour.

  • Offers respite or short-term stays. Respite Care (page, checked Oct 12, 2026)
  • Nurse on site: 24 hours a day. 24/7 Nursing Care (page, checked Oct 15, 2026)
  • Apartment types named: semi-private room. Our premier rehabilitation unit features private and semi-private spacious rooms with free WIFI and the comforts of home. (page, checked Oct 15, 2026)

Staff pay and workplace safety

Federal records about how the employer here treats its staff.

OSHA workplace safety inspections

OSHA inspects workplaces for staff safety, such as lifting, needles, chemicals and workplace violence. It does not inspect resident care.

  • Aug 3, 2020: fatality or catastrophe inspection, partial (health). Case closed Jun 22, 2022. 5 violations cited (3 serious, 2 other). Penalties: $22,555 proposed, $13,533 now. OSHA record. OSHA recorded the employer as Arnold Walter Nursing Rehabilitation Center.
    Details
    • Serious: Respiratory protection (respirators, N95 fit testing) (1910.134(c)(1)). Penalty $12,145 proposed, $7,287 now. To be fixed by Dec 11, 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 Dec 11, 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 Dec 11, 2020. Contested by the employer.
    • Other than serious: Recording work-related injuries and illnesses (1904.4(a)). Penalty $1,735 proposed, $1,041 now. To be fixed by Dec 11, 2020. Contested by the employer.
    • Other than serious: Reporting a death, hospitalization, amputation or eye loss to OSHA (1904.39(a)(1)). Penalty $8,675 proposed, $5,205 now. To be fixed by Dec 4, 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
Bayshore Medical Center, Holmdel. 2.9 miles away, straight line. CMS overall hospital rating: 4 of 5 stars.
Nearest Medicare nursing home
Laurel Bay Health & Rehabilitation Center, Keansburg. 1.8 miles away, straight line.
Nearest home health agency office
Seabrook Home Health Agency, Tinton Falls. 13.3 miles away, straight line. Agencies travel to clients, so ask which ones serve this address.
Nearest pharmacy
CVS Pharmacy. 1.0 mile away, straight line. From OpenStreetMap, which does not list every pharmacy, so one may be closer.
Area
USDA classes ZIP code 07730 as metropolitan (metropolitan core).
Dialysis within 15 miles
Davita Holmdel Dialysis, Hazlet, 1.9 miles away, straight line (CMS rating 4 of 5 stars)
Davita Middletown Dialysis Center, Red Bank, 4.2 miles away, straight line (CMS rating 2 of 5 stars)
Davita Matawan Dialysis, Matawan, 5.4 miles away, straight line (CMS rating 5 of 5 stars)
Hospice
18 Medicare hospices tell CMS they serve ZIP code 07730.
Dove Hospice Services Of New Jersey, LLC, office in Manalapan, 12.0 miles away, straight line (CMS family survey rating 4 of 5 stars)
Caring Hospice Services Of Central Jersey, office in Edison, 12.2 miles away, straight line (CMS family survey rating 2 of 5 stars)
Grace Healthcare Services LLC, office in Edison, 12.4 miles away, straight line (CMS family survey rating 2 of 5 stars)
Nearest geriatric medicine practice
Jersey Shore Geriatrics Inc, Holmdel. 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
Monmouth-D (Evacuation Zones mirror Surge Maps from FEMA but remove islands of higher elevations surrounded by lower elevations.) 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 moderate. By hazard: hurricane relatively moderate, inland flooding relatively moderate, coastal flooding very low, wildfire relatively low, tornado very low, heat wave relatively high, earthquake relatively low. 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.

SourceData as ofWhat we found
U.S. Department of Labor wage and hour casesOct 15, 2026Only cases that look tied to an earlier operator (not shown)
OSHA workplace safety inspections since 2016Oct 15, 2026See above
Hurricane evacuation zone mapsSee above
FEMA flood mapSee above
USDA wildfire riskApr 15, 2026Not shown: FEMA rates wildfire risk here relatively low
FEMA National Risk IndexSee above
CMS hospitals, home health, dialysis, hospice and doctors; OpenStreetMap pharmaciesSee above
HUD Multifamily Properties - AssistedJul 6, 2026Nothing on record
State Veterans Homes (NASVH directory)Sep 20, 2026Nothing on record
CMS Hospice - General InformationAug 19, 2026Nothing on record
CMS Home Health Care AgenciesMay 27, 2026Nothing on record
The community’s own websiteSee above

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Frequently asked questions

Is Arnold Walter Nursing & Rehabilitation Center a good nursing home?

CMS gives Arnold Walter Nursing & Rehabilitation Center an overall rating of 4 out of 5 stars, including 2/5 for staffing and 3/5 for health inspections. These ratings come from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and are updated monthly.

How is Arnold Walter Nursing & Rehabilitation Center staffed?

Arnold Walter Nursing & Rehabilitation Center reports 3.37 total nurse hours per resident per day, compared with the New Jersey average of 3.86.

Has Arnold Walter Nursing & Rehabilitation Center had inspection problems?

Its most recent CMS inspection cited 11 deficiencies.

How many beds does Arnold Walter Nursing & Rehabilitation Center have?

Arnold Walter Nursing & Rehabilitation Center is certified for 202 beds.