Nursing home
Forest Hills Center for Rehabilitation and Healing
497 Mt Prospect Ave, Newark, NJ 07104 · Map
For profit - Limited Liability company · Part of Infinite Care (20 facilities) · 120 certified beds
Forest Hills Center for Rehabilitation and Healing is a Medicare-certified nursing home in Newark, New Jersey. CMS rates it 2 out of 5 stars overall (3/5 for staffing, 1/5 for health inspections). Nurse staffing is 3.47 hours per resident per day, below the New Jersey average of 3.86. Its most recent inspection on Aug 5, 2025 cited 17 deficiencies.
- 1 fine totaling $37,580In CMS records: 1 total penalty.
CMS quality ratings
Ratings from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), updated monthly. 5 stars is the highest quality.
How Forest Hills Center for Rehabilitation and Healing 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) | 3.47 | 3.86 | 3.89 | below avg |
| RN staffing (hrs/resident/day) | 0.59 | 0.69 | 0.68 | below avg |
| Aide staffing (hrs/resident/day) | 2.18 | 2.23 | 2.34 | below avg |
| Nursing staff turnover | 40.7% | 40.9% | 46.4% | below avg |
| Deficiencies cited, last inspection | 17.0 | 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 August 5, 2025 inspection was corrected by October 15, 2025
Penalties in CMS records: 1 fine totaling $37,580, 1 total penalty.
What inspectors found at Forest Hills Center for Rehabilitation and Healing
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
Dispose of garbage and refuse properly.
Nutrition and Dietary Deficiencies · Aug 5, 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 · Aug 5, 2025 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Ensure each resident receives and the facility provides food that accommodates resident allergies, intolerances, and preferences, as well as appealing options.
Nutrition and Dietary Deficiencies · Aug 5, 2025 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Ensure food and drink is palatable, attractive, and at a safe and appetizing temperature.
Nutrition and Dietary Deficiencies · Aug 5, 2025 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program.
Infection Control Deficiencies · Aug 5, 2025 · Full report (PDF)
Show all 12 deficiencies
- Potential for harm
Ensure medication error rates are not 5 percent or greater.
Pharmacy Service Deficiencies · Aug 5, 2025 · 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 · Aug 5, 2025 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Provide enough food/fluids to maintain a resident's health.
Quality of Life and Care Deficiencies · Aug 5, 2025 · Full report (PDF) - 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 · Aug 5, 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 · Aug 5, 2025 · 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 · Aug 5, 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 · Aug 5, 2025 · 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
- 497 Mt Prospect Ave
Newark, NJ 07104 - CMS certification #
- 315375
- Ownership
- For profit - Limited Liability company
- Certified beds
- 120
- Avg residents/day
- 111.0
- Provider type
- Medicare and Medicaid
- First certified
- 1997-12-01
- Chain
- Infinite Care (20 facilities)
- Setting
- Urban
Part of Infinite Care
Infinite Care operates 20 nursing facilities across the United States. View all Infinite Care facilities →
Not SLA enrolled. This facility hasn’t enrolled in resident survey verification. Learn about enrollment →
Location and nearby
Explore the area around Forest Hills Center for Rehabilitation and Healing using Google Maps.
Other public records
- Website says Respite stays
- Workplace safety 1 OSHA workplace safety inspection since 2022, 1 violation cited
- Emergency In hurricane evacuation zone Essex-F
Full public records, with dates and sources
Care and services
From the community’s website
What Forest Hills Center for Rehabilitation and Healing 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 Stays
(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.
- May 26, 2022: monitoring inspection, partial (health). Case closed Jan 15, 2026. 1 violation cited (1 other). Penalties: $1,865 proposed, $1,400 now. OSHA record. OSHA recorded the employer as Forest Hill Healthcare Nursing Home.
Details
- Other than serious: Electronic submission of injury and illness records (1904.41(a)(2)). Penalty $1,865 proposed, $1,400 now. To be fixed by Sep 26, 2022.
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
- Clara Maass Medical Center, Belleville. 1.2 miles away, straight line. CMS overall hospital rating: 3 of 5 stars.
- Nearest Medicare nursing home
- New Vista Nursing & Rehabilitation CTR, Newark. 0.5 miles away, straight line.
- Nearest home health agency office
- Promise Care Nj, East Orange. 2.9 miles away, straight line. Agencies travel to clients, so ask which ones serve this address.
- Nearest pharmacy
- MT. Prospect Pharmacy. 0.4 miles away, straight line. From OpenStreetMap, which does not list every pharmacy, so one may be closer.
- Area
- USDA classes ZIP code 07104 as metropolitan (metropolitan core).
- Dialysis within 15 miles
- Fmc North Newark, Newark, 0.5 miles away, straight line (CMS rating 3 of 5 stars)
Vistacare Dialysis Center, Newark, 0.5 miles away, straight line (CMS rating 1 of 5 stars)
Davita Newark Mt Pleasant, Newark, 1.1 miles away, straight line (CMS rating 2 of 5 stars) - Hospice
- 13 Medicare hospices tell CMS they serve ZIP code 07104.
Compassionate Care Hospice Of Clifton, LLC, office in Bloomfield, 3.0 miles away, straight line (CMS family survey rating 3 of 5 stars)
Barnabas Health Home Care And Hospice, office in West Orange, 3.7 miles away, straight line (CMS family survey rating 3 of 5 stars)
Hospice Of New Jersey, LLC, office in Bloomfield, 4.9 miles away, straight line (CMS family survey rating 2 of 5 stars) - Nearest geriatric medicine practice
- Roland Losos, MD, Lyndhurst. 3.5 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
- Essex-F (Zone F: Geographically split at the Garden State Parkway.) 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, tornado relatively 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.
| 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 | 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 Forest Hills Center for Rehabilitation and Healing a good nursing home?
CMS gives Forest Hills Center for Rehabilitation and Healing an overall rating of 2 out of 5 stars, including 3/5 for staffing and 1/5 for health inspections. These ratings come from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and are updated monthly.
How is Forest Hills Center for Rehabilitation and Healing staffed?
Forest Hills Center for Rehabilitation and Healing reports 3.47 total nurse hours per resident per day, compared with the New Jersey average of 3.86.
Has Forest Hills Center for Rehabilitation and Healing had inspection problems?
Its most recent CMS inspection cited 17 deficiencies.
How many beds does Forest Hills Center for Rehabilitation and Healing have?
Forest Hills Center for Rehabilitation and Healing is certified for 120 beds.