Nursing home
Avalon Rehab and Care Center
2020 Route 23 North, Wayne, NJ 07470 · Map
For profit - Limited Liability company · Part of Accela Healthcare (4 facilities) · 170 certified beds
Avalon Rehab and Care Center is a Medicare-certified nursing home in Wayne, New Jersey. CMS rates it 3 out of 5 stars overall (2/5 for staffing, 4/5 for health inspections). Nurse staffing is 3.15 hours per resident per day, below the New Jersey average of 3.86. Its most recent inspection on Dec 19, 2024 cited 4 deficiencies.
CMS quality ratings
Ratings from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), updated monthly. 5 stars is the highest quality.
How Avalon Rehab and Care 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.
| Metric | This facility | New Jersey avg | National avg | Compared with the state |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total nurse staffing (hrs/resident/day) | 3.15 | 3.86 | 3.89 | below avg |
| RN staffing (hrs/resident/day) | 0.36 | 0.69 | 0.68 | below avg |
| Aide staffing (hrs/resident/day) | 2.02 | 2.23 | 2.34 | below avg |
| Nursing staff turnover | 61.8% | 40.9% | 46.4% | above avg |
| Deficiencies cited, last inspection | 4.0 | 8.5 | 9.5 | below 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.
What inspectors found at Avalon Rehab and Care 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 residents have reasonable access to and privacy in their use of communication methods.
Resident Rights Deficiencies · Oct 22, 2025 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Notify the resident or the resident’s representative in writing how long the nursing home will hold the resident’s bed in cases of transfer to a hospital or therapeutic leave.
Resident Rights Deficiencies · Dec 19, 2024 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Provide timely notification to the resident, and if applicable to the resident representative and ombudsman, before transfer or discharge, including appeal rights.
Resident Rights Deficiencies · Dec 19, 2024 · 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 · Dec 19, 2024 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Ensure menus must meet the nutritional needs of residents, be prepared in advance, be followed, be updated, be reviewed by dietician, and meet the needs of the resident.
Nutrition and Dietary Deficiencies · May 17, 2024 · Full report (PDF)
Show all 12 deficiencies
- 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 · May 17, 2024 · 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 · May 17, 2024 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Timely report suspected abuse, neglect, or theft and report the results of the investigation to proper authorities.
Freedom from Abuse, Neglect, and Exploitation Deficiencies · May 17, 2024 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program.
Infection Control Deficiencies · Dec 13, 2022 - Potential for harm
Post nurse staffing information every day.
Nursing and Physician Services Deficiencies · Dec 13, 2022 - Potential for harm
Ensure services provided by the nursing facility meet professional standards of quality.
Resident Assessment and Care Planning Deficiencies · Dec 13, 2022 - Minimal
Ensure the facility is licensed under applicable State and local law and operates and provides services in compliance with all applicable Federal, State, and local laws, regulations, and codes, and with accepted professional standards.
Administration Deficiencies · Dec 13, 2022
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
- 2020 Route 23 North
Wayne, NJ 07470 - CMS certification #
- 315291
- Ownership
- For profit - Limited Liability company
- Certified beds
- 170
- Avg residents/day
- 153.9
- Provider type
- Medicare and Medicaid
- First certified
- 1990-01-24
- Chain
- Accela Healthcare (4 facilities)
- Setting
- Urban
Part of Accela Healthcare
Accela Healthcare operates 4 nursing facilities across the United States. View all Accela Healthcare facilities →
Not SLA enrolled. This facility hasn’t enrolled in resident survey verification. Learn about enrollment →
Location and nearby
Explore the area around Avalon Rehab and Care Center using Google Maps.
Other public records
- Website says Transportation
- Emergency In hurricane evacuation zone Passaic-C
Full public records, with dates and sources
Care and services
From the community’s website
What Avalon Rehab and Care 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.
Location and nearby care
- Nearest hospital with an emergency room
- Chilton Medical Center, Pompton Plains. 2.0 miles away, straight line. CMS overall hospital rating: 5 of 5 stars. Location approximate.
- Nearest Medicare nursing home
- Careone at Wayne, Wayne. 0.6 miles away, straight line.
- Nearest home health agency office
- Cedar Crest Village, Inc Home Health Department, Pompton Plains. 3.6 miles away, straight line. Agencies travel to clients, so ask which ones serve this address.
- Nearest pharmacy
- CVS Pharmacy. 0.6 miles away, straight line. From OpenStreetMap, which does not list every pharmacy, so one may be closer.
- Area
- USDA classes ZIP code 07470 as metropolitan (metropolitan core).
- Dialysis within 15 miles
- Davita St. Joseph'S Wayne Dialysis, Wayne, 4.4 miles away, straight line (CMS rating 5 of 5 stars)
Davita North Haledon Dialysis, North Haledon, 4.5 miles away, straight line (CMS rating 4 of 5 stars)
Davita West Paterson, Paterson, 4.8 miles away, straight line (CMS rating 2 of 5 stars) - Hospice
- 24 Medicare hospices tell CMS they serve ZIP code 07470.
Faith Hospice Care LLC, office in Fairfield, 4.8 miles away, straight line
Vhs Hospice Services Of New Jersey, office in Woodland Park, 6.2 miles away, straight line (CMS family survey rating 3 of 5 stars)
Hospice Of New Jersey, LLC, office in Bloomfield, 9.1 miles away, straight line (CMS family survey rating 2 of 5 stars) - Nearest geriatric medicine practice
- Nagwa Hafez, MD, Wayne. 3.6 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
- Passaic-C (Zone C: Pompton Lakes flood risk.) 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 low, inland flooding relatively high, wildfire very low, tornado relatively low, heat wave relatively moderate, 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.
| Source | Data as of | What we found |
|---|---|---|
| U.S. Department of Labor wage and hour cases | Oct 15, 2026 | Nothing on record |
| OSHA workplace safety inspections since 2016 | Oct 15, 2026 | Nothing on record |
| Hurricane evacuation zone maps | See above | |
| FEMA flood map | See above | |
| USDA wildfire risk | Apr 15, 2026 | Not shown: FEMA rates wildfire risk here very low |
| 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 Avalon Rehab and Care Center a good nursing home?
CMS gives Avalon Rehab and Care Center an overall rating of 3 out of 5 stars, including 2/5 for staffing and 4/5 for health inspections. These ratings come from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and are updated monthly.
How is Avalon Rehab and Care Center staffed?
Avalon Rehab and Care Center reports 3.15 total nurse hours per resident per day, compared with the New Jersey average of 3.86.
Has Avalon Rehab and Care Center had inspection problems?
Its most recent CMS inspection cited 4 deficiencies.
How many beds does Avalon Rehab and Care Center have?
Avalon Rehab and Care Center is certified for 170 beds.