Nursing home
Sinai Post-Acute Nursing & Rehab Center
65 Jay Street, Newark, NJ 07103 · Map
For profit - Corporation · Part of Paramount Care Centers (9 facilities) · 430 certified beds
Sinai Post-Acute Nursing & Rehab Center is a Medicare-certified nursing home in Newark, New Jersey. CMS rates it 1 out of 5 stars overall (3/5 for staffing, 1/5 for health inspections). Nurse staffing is 2.94 hours per resident per day, below the New Jersey average of 3.86. Its most recent inspection on Jun 16, 2025 cited 15 deficiencies.
- 1 fine totaling $329,910In 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 Sinai Post-Acute Nursing & Rehab 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) | 2.94 | 3.86 | 3.89 | below avg |
| RN staffing (hrs/resident/day) | 0.30 | 0.69 | 0.68 | below avg |
| Aide staffing (hrs/resident/day) | 1.83 | 2.23 | 2.34 | below avg |
| Nursing staff turnover | 35.9% | 40.9% | 46.4% | below avg |
| Deficiencies cited, last inspection | 15.0 | 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.
Penalties in CMS records: 1 fine totaling $329,910, 1 total penalty.
What inspectors found at Sinai Post-Acute Nursing & Rehab 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
Provide or obtain dental services for each resident.
Quality of Life and Care Deficiencies · Jun 16, 2025 · Full report (PDF) - 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 · Jun 16, 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 · Jun 16, 2025 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Keep all essential equipment working safely.
Environmental Deficiencies · Jun 16, 2025 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program.
Infection Control Deficiencies · Jun 16, 2025 · Full report (PDF)
Show all 12 deficiencies
- 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 · Jun 16, 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 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 · Jun 16, 2025 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Develop and implement a complete care plan that meets all the resident's needs, with timetables and actions that can be measured.
Resident Assessment and Care Planning Deficiencies · Jun 16, 2025 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Ensure the transfer/discharge meets the resident's needs/preferences and that the resident is prepared for a safe transfer/discharge.
Resident Rights Deficiencies · Jun 16, 2025 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Reasonably accommodate the needs and preferences of each resident.
Resident Rights Deficiencies · Jun 16, 2025 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Ensure each resident must receive and the facility must provide necessary behavioral health care and services.
Quality of Life and Care Deficiencies · May 27, 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
- 65 Jay Street
Newark, NJ 07103 - CMS certification #
- 315236
- Ownership
- For profit - Corporation
- Certified beds
- 430
- Avg residents/day
- 391.2
- Provider type
- Medicare and Medicaid
- First certified
- 1986-12-01
- Chain
- Paramount Care Centers (9 facilities)
- Setting
- Urban
Part of Paramount Care Centers
Paramount Care Centers operates 9 nursing facilities across the United States. View all Paramount Care Centers facilities →
Not SLA enrolled. This facility hasn’t enrolled in resident survey verification. Learn about enrollment →
Location and nearby
Explore the area around Sinai Post-Acute Nursing & Rehab Center using Google Maps.
Other public records
- Staff pay 1 federal wage case with violations found, since 2015
- Workplace safety 3 OSHA workplace safety inspections since 2020, 7 violations cited
- Emergency In hurricane evacuation zone Essex-F
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 Oct 11, 2015 to Oct 7, 2017. Violations found: Overtime. Back wages: $130,000 owed to 174 employees. Employer as DOL recorded it: Sinai Post-Acute Nursing and Rehab Center LLC. Case 1828470.
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.
OSHA workplace safety inspections
OSHA inspects workplaces for staff safety, such as lifting, needles, chemicals and workplace violence. It does not inspect resident care.
- Mar 23, 2023: unprogrammed, related to another inspection inspection, partial (health). Case closed Aug 26, 2023. No violations cited. OSHA record. OSHA recorded the employer as Shiftster LLC. Matched by street address; the name OSHA recorded differs from the community's.
- Feb 21, 2023: follow-up inspection, partial (health). Case closed May 24, 2024. 1 violation cited (1 other). Penalties: $9,822 proposed, $8,000 now. OSHA record. OSHA recorded the employer as Sinai Center for Rehabilitation and Healthcare LLC.
Details
- Other than serious: Respiratory protection (respirators, N95 fit testing) (1910.134(e)(1)). Penalty $9,822 proposed, $8,000 now. To be fixed by Jun 15, 2023.
- May 6, 2020: fatality or catastrophe inspection, partial (health). Case closed Jun 22, 2026. 6 violations cited (2 serious, 4 other). Penalties: $23,133 proposed, $14,000 now. OSHA record. OSHA recorded the employer as Sinai Center for Rehabilitation and Healthcare LLC.
Details
- Other than serious: Respiratory protection (respirators, N95 fit testing) (1910.134(d)(1)(ii)). Penalty $13,494 proposed, $8,200 now. To be fixed by Apr 1, 2021. Contested by the employer.
- Other than serious: Respiratory protection (respirators, N95 fit testing) (1910.134(e)(1)). Penalty $0 proposed, $0 now. To be fixed by Apr 1, 2021. Contested by the employer.
- Other than serious: Respiratory protection (respirators, N95 fit testing) (1910.134(f)(2)). Penalty $0 proposed, $0 now. To be fixed by Apr 1, 2021. Contested by the employer.
- Serious: Respiratory protection (respirators, N95 fit testing) (1910.134(h)(2)(i)). Penalty $0 proposed, $0 now. To be fixed by Apr 1, 2021. Contested by the employer.
- Serious: Respiratory protection (respirators, N95 fit testing) (1910.134(k)(1)). Penalty $0 proposed, $0 now. To be fixed by Apr 1, 2021. Contested by the employer.
- Other than serious: Reporting a death, hospitalization, amputation or eye loss to OSHA (1904.39(a)(1)). Penalty $9,639 proposed, $5,800 now. Contested by the employer.
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
- Saint Michael'S Medical Center, Newark. 0.6 miles away, straight line. CMS overall hospital rating: 4 of 5 stars.
- Nearest Medicare nursing home
- New Community Extended Care Facility, Newark. 0.9 miles away, straight line.
- Nearest home health agency office
- Promise Care Nj, East Orange. 2.3 miles away, straight line. Agencies travel to clients, so ask which ones serve this address.
- Nearest pharmacy
- Pharmacy. 0.3 miles away, straight line. From OpenStreetMap, which does not list every pharmacy, so one may be closer.
- Area
- USDA classes ZIP code 07103 as metropolitan (metropolitan core).
- Dialysis within 15 miles
- Fmc Newark University, Newark, 0.3 miles away, straight line (CMS rating 3 of 5 stars)
Davita Newark Mt Pleasant, Newark, 0.8 miles away, straight line (CMS rating 2 of 5 stars)
Innovative Renal Care East Orange, East Orange, 1.0 mile away, straight line (CMS rating 5 of 5 stars) - Hospice
- 11 Medicare hospices tell CMS they serve ZIP code 07103.
Barnabas Health Home Care And Hospice, office in West Orange, 3.7 miles away, straight line (CMS family survey rating 3 of 5 stars)
Compassionate Care Hospice Of Clifton, LLC, office in Bloomfield, 4.3 miles away, straight line (CMS family survey rating 3 of 5 stars)
Hospice Of New Jersey, LLC, office in Bloomfield, 6.3 miles away, straight line (CMS family survey rating 2 of 5 stars) - Nearest geriatric medicine practice
- Nicholas Guittari, MD, Newark. 3.0 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 low. By hazard: hurricane relatively low, inland flooding relatively moderate, tornado relatively low, heat wave relatively high, 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 | 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 |
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Frequently asked questions
Is Sinai Post-Acute Nursing & Rehab Center a good nursing home?
CMS gives Sinai Post-Acute Nursing & Rehab Center an overall rating of 1 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 Sinai Post-Acute Nursing & Rehab Center staffed?
Sinai Post-Acute Nursing & Rehab Center reports 2.94 total nurse hours per resident per day, compared with the New Jersey average of 3.86.
Has Sinai Post-Acute Nursing & Rehab Center had inspection problems?
Its most recent CMS inspection cited 15 deficiencies.
How many beds does Sinai Post-Acute Nursing & Rehab Center have?
Sinai Post-Acute Nursing & Rehab Center is certified for 430 beds.