Nursing home · Top rated by CMS
Regency Heritage Nursing and Rehabilitation Center
380 Demott Lane, Somerset, NJ 08873 · Map
For profit - Individual · 265 certified beds
Regency Heritage Nursing and Rehabilitation Center is a Medicare-certified nursing home in Somerset, New Jersey. CMS rates it 5 out of 5 stars overall (4/5 for staffing, 4/5 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 Jun 27, 2025 cited 7 deficiencies.
CMS quality ratings
Ratings from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), updated monthly. 5 stars is the highest quality.
How Regency Heritage Nursing and 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) | 3.37 | 3.86 | 3.89 | below avg |
| RN staffing (hrs/resident/day) | 1.00 | 0.69 | 0.68 | above avg |
| Aide staffing (hrs/resident/day) | 2.02 | 2.23 | 2.34 | below avg |
| Nursing staff turnover | 43.5% | 40.9% | 46.4% | above avg |
| Deficiencies cited, last inspection | 7.0 | 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 Regency Heritage Nursing and 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
Implement a program that monitors antibiotic use.
Infection Control Deficiencies · Jun 27, 2025 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program.
Infection Control Deficiencies · Jun 27, 2025 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Have the Quality Assessment and Assurance group have the required members and meet at least quarterly
Administration Deficiencies · Jun 27, 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 · Jun 27, 2025 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Ensure each resident receives an accurate assessment.
Resident Assessment and Care Planning Deficiencies · Jun 27, 2025 · Full report (PDF)
Show all 11 deficiencies
- Potential for harm
Assess the resident when there is a significant change in condition
Resident Assessment and Care Planning Deficiencies · Jun 27, 2025 · Full report (PDF) - Minimal
Safeguard resident-identifiable information and/or maintain medical records on each resident that are in accordance with accepted professional standards.
Resident Assessment and Care Planning Deficiencies · Apr 28, 2025 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Immediately tell the resident, the resident's doctor, and a family member of situations (injury/decline/room, etc.) that affect the resident.
Resident Rights Deficiencies · Apr 26, 2024 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
PASARR screening for Mental disorders or Intellectual Disabilities
Resident Assessment and Care Planning Deficiencies · Apr 26, 2024 · 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 25, 2022 - Potential for harm
Provide safe and appropriate respiratory care for a resident when needed.
Quality of Life and Care Deficiencies · Jan 25, 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
- 380 Demott Lane
Somerset, NJ 08873 - CMS certification #
- 315367
- Ownership
- For profit - Individual
- Certified beds
- 265
- Avg residents/day
- 188.7
- Provider type
- Medicare and Medicaid
- First certified
- 1997-08-04
- Setting
- Urban
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Location and nearby
Explore the area around Regency Heritage Nursing and Rehabilitation Center using Google Maps.
Other public records
- Website says A memory care unit, respite stays, works with hospice, diabetes care
- Staff pay 1 federal wage case with violations found, since 2020
- Emergency In hurricane evacuation zone Somerset-B1
Full public records, with dates and sources
Care and services
From the community’s website
What Regency Heritage Nursing and 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.
- Has a separate memory care unit, wing or neighborhood.
Does Regency offer a dedicated Alzheimer's unit and does Regency additionally feature “lockdown units?
(page, checked Oct 15, 2026) - Offers respite or short-term stays.
Respite Care
(page, checked Oct 15, 2026) - Offers hospice care on site or works with hospice providers.
Hospice Care
(page, checked Oct 15, 2026) - Offers diabetes care.
Diabetes 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 May 2, 2020 to May 1, 2022. Violations found: Overtime. Back wages: $29,292 owed to 42 employees. Employer as DOL recorded it: Heritage Jewish Nursing Home (Regency Heritage Nursing & Rehabilitation Cen). Case 1963341.
DOL also concluded 1 case here with no violations found, most recently for a period ending Oct 22, 2016.
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
- Saint Peter'S University Hospital, New Brunswick. 3.0 miles away, straight line. CMS overall hospital rating: 3 of 5 stars.
- Nearest Medicare nursing home
- Parker at Somerset, INC, Somerset. 1.4 miles away, straight line.
- Nearest home health agency office
- Robert Wood Johnson Visiting Nurses, Inc, North Brunswick. 4.3 miles away, straight line. Agencies travel to clients, so ask which ones serve this address.
- Nearest pharmacy
- Pharmacy. 2.4 miles away, straight line. From OpenStreetMap, which does not list every pharmacy, so one may be closer.
- Area
- USDA classes ZIP code 08873 as metropolitan (metropolitan core).
- Dialysis within 15 miles
- Davita Somerset Dialysis Center, Somerset, 1.3 miles away, straight line (CMS rating 4 of 5 stars)
Fmc Piscataway, Somerset, 1.8 miles away, straight line (CMS rating 3 of 5 stars)
Davita Hamilton Street Dialysis, Somerset, 2.0 miles away, straight line (CMS rating 4 of 5 stars) - Hospice
- 30 Medicare hospices tell CMS they serve ZIP code 08873.
Martin And Edith Stein Hospice, The, office in Somerset, 0.1 miles away, straight line (CMS family survey rating 3 of 5 stars)
Gentiva, office in Piscataway, 4.2 miles away, straight line (CMS family survey rating 3 of 5 stars)
Robert Wood Johnson Visiting Nurse, Inc, office in North Brunswick, 4.3 miles away, straight line (CMS family survey rating 3 of 5 stars) - Nearest geriatric medicine practice
- Mukesh Singh, MD, Somerset. 2.1 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
- Somerset-B1 (Zone B: Captures the majority of residents who may cut off due to widespread flooding as well as susceptible to some localized flood hazards.) 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, 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 | See above |
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Frequently asked questions
Is Regency Heritage Nursing and Rehabilitation Center a good nursing home?
CMS gives Regency Heritage Nursing and Rehabilitation Center an overall rating of 5 out of 5 stars, including 4/5 for staffing and 4/5 for health inspections. These ratings come from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and are updated monthly.
How is Regency Heritage Nursing and Rehabilitation Center staffed?
Regency Heritage Nursing and Rehabilitation Center reports 3.37 total nurse hours per resident per day, compared with the New Jersey average of 3.86.
Has Regency Heritage Nursing and Rehabilitation Center had inspection problems?
Its most recent CMS inspection cited 7 deficiencies.
How many beds does Regency Heritage Nursing and Rehabilitation Center have?
Regency Heritage Nursing and Rehabilitation Center is certified for 265 beds.