Nursing home
Lincoln Park Care Center
499 Pine Brook Road, Lincoln Park, NJ 07035 · Map
For profit - Corporation · Part of Center Management Group (17 facilities) · 547 certified beds
Lincoln Park Care Center is a Medicare-certified nursing home in Lincoln Park, New Jersey. CMS rates it 3 out of 5 stars overall (3/5 for staffing, 4/5 for health inspections). Nurse staffing is 3.41 hours per resident per day, below the New Jersey average of 3.86. Its most recent inspection on Aug 26, 2024 cited 5 deficiencies.
CMS quality ratings
Ratings from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), updated monthly. 5 stars is the highest quality.
How Lincoln Park 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) | 3.41 | 3.86 | 3.89 | below avg |
| RN staffing (hrs/resident/day) | 0.44 | 0.69 | 0.68 | below avg |
| Aide staffing (hrs/resident/day) | 2.11 | 2.23 | 2.34 | below avg |
| Nursing staff turnover | 48.0% | 40.9% | 46.4% | above 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 March 24, 2026 inspection was corrected by March 24, 2026
What inspectors found at Lincoln Park Care Center
Specific deficiencies cited in recent CMS health inspections, most recent first. Severity follows the CMS scope/severity scale. Source: CMS Care Compare.
- Immediate jeopardy
Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to prevent accidents.
Quality of Life and Care Deficiencies · Mar 24, 2026 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program.
Infection Control Deficiencies · Dec 5, 2025 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program.
Infection Control Deficiencies · Aug 26, 2024 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Develop and implement policies and procedures for flu and pneumonia vaccinations.
Infection Control Deficiencies · Aug 26, 2024 · 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 26, 2024 · 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 · Aug 26, 2024 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Provide safe, appropriate dialysis care/services for a resident who requires such services.
Quality of Life and Care Deficiencies · Aug 9, 2022 - Potential for harm
Ensure services provided by the nursing facility meet professional standards of quality.
Resident Assessment and Care Planning Deficiencies · Aug 9, 2022 - Potential for harm
Arrange for the provision of hospice services or assist the resident in transferring to a facility that will arrange for the provision of hospice services.
Administration Deficiencies · Aug 9, 2022 - 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 9, 2022 - 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 9, 2022 - Potential for harm
Provide safe and appropriate respiratory care for a resident when needed.
Quality of Life and Care Deficiencies · Aug 9, 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
- 499 Pine Brook Road
Lincoln Park, NJ 07035 - CMS certification #
- 315249
- Ownership
- For profit - Corporation
- Certified beds
- 547
- Avg residents/day
- 531.3
- Provider type
- Medicare and Medicaid
- First certified
- 1987-12-01
- Chain
- Center Management Group (17 facilities)
- Setting
- Urban
Part of Center Management Group
Center Management Group operates 17 nursing facilities across the United States. View all Center Management Group facilities →
Not SLA enrolled. This facility hasn’t enrolled in resident survey verification. Learn about enrollment →
Location and nearby
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Other public records
- Website says Works with hospice
- Staff pay 1 federal wage case with violations found, since 2007
Full public records, with dates and sources
Care and services
From the community’s website
What Lincoln Park 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.
- Offers hospice care on site or works with hospice providers.
Hospice and Palliative Care
(page, checked Oct 15, 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 Nov 7, 2007 to Apr 11, 2009. Violations found: Overtime. Back wages: $632 owed to 7 employees. Civil money penalties assessed: $385. DOL marked the employer as a repeat violator. Employer as DOL recorded it: Lincoln Park Care Center (Lincoln Park Care Center, LLC). Case 1540844.
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
- Chilton Medical Center, Pompton Plains. 3.5 miles away, straight line. CMS overall hospital rating: 5 of 5 stars. Location approximate.
- Nearest Medicare nursing home
- Lincoln Park Renaissance, Lincoln Park. 0.1 miles away, straight line.
- Nearest home health agency office
- Cedar Crest Village, Inc Home Health Department, Pompton Plains. 4.9 miles away, straight line. Agencies travel to clients, so ask which ones serve this address.
- Nearest pharmacy
- CVS 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 07035 as metropolitan (metropolitan core).
- Dialysis within 15 miles
- Davita St. Joseph'S Wayne Dialysis, Wayne, 3.5 miles away, straight line (CMS rating 5 of 5 stars)
Innovative Renal Care Woodland Park, Woodland Park, 5.1 miles away, straight line (CMS rating 4 of 5 stars)
Davita West Paterson, Paterson, 6.2 miles away, straight line (CMS rating 2 of 5 stars) - Hospice
- 12 Medicare hospices tell CMS they serve ZIP code 07035.
Vhs Hospice Services Of New Jersey, office in Woodland Park, 6.6 miles away, straight line (CMS family survey rating 3 of 5 stars)
Hospice Of New Jersey, LLC, office in Bloomfield, 8.4 miles away, straight line (CMS family survey rating 2 of 5 stars)
Compassionate Care Hospice Of Clifton, LLC, office in Bloomfield, 9.7 miles away, straight line (CMS family survey rating 3 of 5 stars) - Nearest geriatric medicine practice
- Nagwa Hafez, MD, Wayne. 5.6 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.
- 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 high. By hazard: hurricane relatively low, inland flooding very high, wildfire very 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 | Nothing on record |
| Hurricane evacuation zone maps | Not in a mapped zone | |
| 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 Lincoln Park Care Center a good nursing home?
CMS gives Lincoln Park Care Center an overall rating of 3 out of 5 stars, including 3/5 for staffing and 4/5 for health inspections. These ratings come from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and are updated monthly.
How is Lincoln Park Care Center staffed?
Lincoln Park Care Center reports 3.41 total nurse hours per resident per day, compared with the New Jersey average of 3.86.
Has Lincoln Park Care Center had inspection problems?
Its most recent CMS inspection cited 5 deficiencies.
How many beds does Lincoln Park Care Center have?
Lincoln Park Care Center is certified for 547 beds.