Nursing home
Stratford Manor Rehabilitation and Care Center
787 Northfield Ave, West Orange, NJ 07052 · Map
For profit - Limited Liability company · Part of Mb Healthcare (11 facilities) · 131 certified beds
Stratford Manor Rehabilitation and Care Center is a Medicare-certified nursing home in West Orange, New Jersey. CMS rates it 4 out of 5 stars overall (3/5 for staffing, 3/5 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 Sep 22, 2025 cited 6 deficiencies.
CMS quality ratings
Ratings from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), updated monthly. 5 stars is the highest quality.
How Stratford Manor Rehabilitation and 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) | 0.59 | 0.69 | 0.68 | below avg |
| Aide staffing (hrs/resident/day) | 2.07 | 2.23 | 2.34 | below avg |
| Nursing staff turnover | 25.2% | 40.9% | 46.4% | below avg |
| Deficiencies cited, last inspection | 6.0 | 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 September 22, 2025 inspection was corrected by October 24, 2025
What inspectors found at Stratford Manor Rehabilitation and Care 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 the required documentation or notification related to the resident's needs, appeal rights, or bed-hold policies.
Resident Rights Deficiencies · Sep 22, 2025 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
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 · Sep 22, 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 · Sep 22, 2025 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Ensure that the resident and his/her doctor meet face-to-face at all required visits.
Nursing and Physician Services Deficiencies · Sep 22, 2025 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Assess the resident completely in a timely manner when first admitted, and then periodically, at least every 12 months.
Resident Assessment and Care Planning Deficiencies · Sep 22, 2025 · Full report (PDF)
Show all 12 deficiencies
- Potential for harm
Develop and implement policies and procedures to prevent abuse, neglect, and theft.
Freedom from Abuse, Neglect, and Exploitation Deficiencies · Sep 22, 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 · Apr 24, 2024 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Ensure each resident’s drug regimen must be free from unnecessary drugs.
Pharmacy Service Deficiencies · Apr 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 · Apr 24, 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 · Apr 24, 2024 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Ensure the resident's doctor reviews the resident's care, writes, signs and dates progress notes and orders, at each required visit.
Nursing and Physician Services Deficiencies · Apr 24, 2024 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program.
Infection Control Deficiencies · Apr 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
- 787 Northfield Ave
West Orange, NJ 07052 - CMS certification #
- 315066
- Ownership
- For profit - Limited Liability company
- Certified beds
- 131
- Avg residents/day
- 124.5
- Provider type
- Medicare and Medicaid
- First certified
- 1970-10-15
- Chain
- Mb Healthcare (11 facilities)
- Setting
- Urban
Part of Mb Healthcare
Mb Healthcare operates 11 nursing facilities across the United States. View all Mb Healthcare facilities →
Not SLA enrolled. This facility hasn’t enrolled in resident survey verification. Learn about enrollment →
Location and nearby
Explore the area around Stratford Manor Rehabilitation and Care Center using Google Maps.
Other public records
- Website says Respite stays, nurse 24 hours a day, works with hospice
- Staff pay 2 federal wage cases with violations found, since 2006
- Emergency In hurricane evacuation zone Essex-G
Full public records, with dates and sources
Care and services
From the community’s website
What Stratford Manor Rehabilitation and 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 respite or short-term stays.
Stratford Manor is a full service nursing home and rehabilitation facility offering short term rehabilitation, sub-acute care, long term care with skilled nursing, respite care and hospice.
(page, checked Oct 12, 2026) - Nurse on site: 24 hours a day.
There is an RN on premises 24 hours a day, a medical physician on call, and a dedicated staff trained to provide outstanding care 24/7.
(page, checked Oct 12, 2026) - Offers hospice care on site or works with hospice providers.
Stratford Manor is a full service nursing home and rehabilitation facility offering short term rehabilitation, sub-acute care, long term care with skilled nursing, respite care and hospice.
(page, checked Oct 12, 2026) - Apartment types named: private room, semi-private room.
Attractive, immaculate private and semi-private rooms equipped with cable television
(page, checked Oct 12, 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 Dec 31, 2017 to Dec 28, 2019. Violations found: Overtime. Back wages: $40,743 owed to 72 employees. Employer as DOL recorded it: Stratford Manor Rehab & Care Center (Health Care Centers of NJ LLC). Case 1896314.
- Findings for May 15, 2006 to Sep 3, 2008. Violations found: Overtime. Back wages: $5,595 owed to 3 employees. Employer as DOL recorded it: Stratford Manor Nursing Home (Stratford Manor Care & Rehab Center LLC). Case 1504130.
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
- Cooperman Barnabas Medical Center, Livingston. 0.4 miles away, straight line. CMS overall hospital rating: 3 of 5 stars.
- Nearest Medicare nursing home
- Livingston Post Acute Care, Livingston. 0.3 miles away, straight line.
- Nearest home health agency office
- Patient Care, West Orange. 2.0 miles away, straight line. Agencies travel to clients, so ask which ones serve this address.
- Nearest pharmacy
- Rite Aid. 2.7 miles away, straight line. From OpenStreetMap, which does not list every pharmacy, so one may be closer.
- Area
- USDA classes ZIP code 07052 as metropolitan (metropolitan core).
- Dialysis within 15 miles
- Fmc West Essex, Livingston, 0.2 miles away, straight line (CMS rating 5 of 5 stars)
Innovative Renal Care West Orange, West Orange, 2.0 miles away, straight line (CMS rating 5 of 5 stars)
Davita West Orange Dialysis, West Orange, 2.4 miles away, straight line (CMS rating 4 of 5 stars) - Hospice
- 24 Medicare hospices tell CMS they serve ZIP code 07052.
Barnabas Health Home Care And Hospice, office in West Orange, 3.2 miles away, straight line (CMS family survey rating 3 of 5 stars)
Vitas Healthcare Corporation Atlantic, office in Livingston, 3.4 miles away, straight line (CMS family survey rating 4 of 5 stars)
Life Hospice, office in Livingston, 3.4 miles away, straight line - Nearest geriatric medicine practice
- Rwjbh Primary Care Services, Livingston. 0.4 miles away, straight line. 2 geriatric medicine doctors 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-G (Zone G: 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 moderate, 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 | 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: 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 Stratford Manor Rehabilitation and Care Center a good nursing home?
CMS gives Stratford Manor Rehabilitation and Care Center an overall rating of 4 out of 5 stars, including 3/5 for staffing and 3/5 for health inspections. These ratings come from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and are updated monthly.
How is Stratford Manor Rehabilitation and Care Center staffed?
Stratford Manor Rehabilitation and Care Center reports 3.41 total nurse hours per resident per day, compared with the New Jersey average of 3.86.
Has Stratford Manor Rehabilitation and Care Center had inspection problems?
Its most recent CMS inspection cited 6 deficiencies.
How many beds does Stratford Manor Rehabilitation and Care Center have?
Stratford Manor Rehabilitation and Care Center is certified for 131 beds.