Nursing home
Cornell Hall Care & Rehabilitation Center
234 Chestnut Street, Union, NJ 07083 · Map
For profit - Limited Liability company · Part of Autumn Lake Healthcare (60 facilities) · 177 certified beds
Cornell Hall Care & Rehabilitation Center is a Medicare-certified nursing home in Union, New Jersey. CMS rates it 2 out of 5 stars overall (2/5 for staffing, 2/5 for health inspections). Nurse staffing is 3.53 hours per resident per day, below the New Jersey average of 3.86. Its most recent inspection on Apr 16, 2025 cited 5 deficiencies.
- 17 fines totaling $182,251In CMS records: 17 total penalties.
CMS quality ratings
Ratings from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), updated monthly. 5 stars is the highest quality.
How Cornell Hall Care & 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.
| Metric | This facility | New Jersey avg | National avg | Compared with the state |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total nurse staffing (hrs/resident/day) | 3.53 | 3.86 | 3.89 | below avg |
| RN staffing (hrs/resident/day) | 0.67 | 0.69 | 0.68 | below avg |
| Aide staffing (hrs/resident/day) | 2.25 | 2.23 | 2.34 | above avg |
| Nursing staff turnover | 30.3% | 40.9% | 46.4% | below avg |
| Deficiencies cited, last inspection | 5.0 | 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.
- Every deficiency from the April 16, 2025 inspection was corrected by May 30, 2025
Penalties in CMS records: 17 fines totaling $182,251, 17 total penalties.
What inspectors found at Cornell Hall Care & 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 that residents are free from significant medication errors.
Pharmacy Service Deficiencies · Apr 16, 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 · Apr 16, 2025 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Respond appropriately to all alleged violations.
Freedom from Abuse, Neglect, and Exploitation Deficiencies · Apr 16, 2025 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program.
Infection Control Deficiencies · Apr 16, 2025 · Full report (PDF) - Minimal
Assess the resident when there is a significant change in condition
Resident Assessment and Care Planning Deficiencies · Apr 16, 2025 · Full report (PDF)
Show all 12 deficiencies
- Potential for harm
Ensure services provided by the nursing facility meet professional standards of quality.
Resident Assessment and Care Planning Deficiencies · Oct 25, 2024 · Full report (PDF) - Actual harm
Provide enough food/fluids to maintain a resident's health.
Quality of Life and Care Deficiencies · Jan 24, 2024 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Provide enough nursing staff every day to meet the needs of every resident; and have a licensed nurse in charge on each shift.
Nursing and Physician Services Deficiencies · Jan 24, 2024 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Electronically submit to CMS complete and accurate direct care staffing information, based on payroll and other verifiable and auditable data.
Administration Deficiencies · Jan 24, 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 · Jan 24, 2024 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program.
Infection Control Deficiencies · Jan 24, 2024 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Ensure a licensed pharmacist perform a monthly drug regimen review, including the medical chart, following irregularity reporting guidelines in developed policies and procedures.
Pharmacy Service Deficiencies · Jan 24, 2024 · 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
- 234 Chestnut Street
Union, NJ 07083 - CMS certification #
- 315104
- Ownership
- For profit - Limited Liability company
- Certified beds
- 177
- Avg residents/day
- 114.5
- Provider type
- Medicare and Medicaid
- First certified
- 1969-06-28
- Chain
- Autumn Lake Healthcare (60 facilities)
- Setting
- Urban
Part of Autumn Lake Healthcare
Autumn Lake Healthcare operates 60 nursing facilities across the United States. View all Autumn Lake Healthcare facilities →
Not SLA enrolled. This facility hasn’t enrolled in resident survey verification. Learn about enrollment →
Location and nearby
Explore the area around Cornell Hall Care & Rehabilitation Center using Google Maps.
Other public records
- Staff pay 1 federal wage case with violations found, since 2023
- Emergency In hurricane evacuation zone Union-C
Full public records, with dates and sources
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 Mar 4, 2023 to Mar 1, 2025. Violations found: Overtime. Back wages: $75,009 owed to 52 employees. Employer as DOL recorded it: Cornell Hall Care & Rehab Center (Cornell Hall Care & Rehab Center LLC). Case 2001726.
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.
Location and nearby care
- Nearest hospital with an emergency room
- Trinitas Regional Medical Center, Elizabeth. 2.9 miles away, straight line. CMS overall hospital rating: 3 of 5 stars.
- Nearest Medicare nursing home
- Birchwood Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center, Cranford. 1.3 miles away, straight line.
- Nearest home health agency office
- Bayada Home Health Care, Inc., Cranford. 2.0 miles away, straight line. Agencies travel to clients, so ask which ones serve this address.
- Nearest pharmacy
- Rite Aid. 0.4 miles away, straight line. From OpenStreetMap, which does not list every pharmacy, so one may be closer.
- Area
- USDA classes ZIP code 07083 as metropolitan (metropolitan core).
- Dialysis within 15 miles
- Fmc Kenilworth, Kenilworth, 0.8 miles away, straight line (CMS rating 4 of 5 stars)
Trinitas Cranford Dialysis, Cranford, 1.3 miles away, straight line (CMS rating 3 of 5 stars)
Fmc Hillside, Union, 2.0 miles away, straight line (CMS rating 2 of 5 stars) - Hospice
- 24 Medicare hospices tell CMS they serve ZIP code 07083.
Homeside Hospice LLC, office in Cranford, 1.9 miles away, straight line (CMS family survey rating 4 of 5 stars)
Ascend Hospice, office in Cranford, 1.9 miles away, straight line (CMS family survey rating 3 of 5 stars)
Center For Hope Hospice And Palliative Care, office in Scotch Plains, 6.2 miles away, straight line (CMS family survey rating 3 of 5 stars) - Nearest geriatric medicine practice
- Practice Associates Medical Group, Union. 0.2 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
- Union-C (Zone C: Captures the remaining surge risk areas.) 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 very low, 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 | See above |
| 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 | Could not read the site |
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Frequently asked questions
Is Cornell Hall Care & Rehabilitation Center a good nursing home?
CMS gives Cornell Hall Care & Rehabilitation Center an overall rating of 2 out of 5 stars, including 2/5 for staffing and 2/5 for health inspections. These ratings come from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and are updated monthly.
How is Cornell Hall Care & Rehabilitation Center staffed?
Cornell Hall Care & Rehabilitation Center reports 3.53 total nurse hours per resident per day, compared with the New Jersey average of 3.86.
Has Cornell Hall Care & Rehabilitation Center had inspection problems?
Its most recent CMS inspection cited 5 deficiencies.
How many beds does Cornell Hall Care & Rehabilitation Center have?
Cornell Hall Care & Rehabilitation Center is certified for 177 beds.