Nursing home · Top rated by CMS
Winchester Gardens Health Care Center
333 Elmwood Avenue, Maplewood, NJ 07040 · Map
Non profit - Corporation · Part of Springpoint Senior Living (8 facilities) · 30 certified beds
Winchester Gardens Health Care Center is a Medicare-certified nursing home in Maplewood, New Jersey. CMS rates it 5 out of 5 stars overall (5/5 for staffing, 4/5 for health inspections). Nurse staffing is 5.57 hours per resident per day, above the New Jersey average of 3.86. Its most recent inspection on Sep 5, 2025 cited 4 deficiencies.
CMS quality ratings
Ratings from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), updated monthly. 5 stars is the highest quality.
How Winchester Gardens Health 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) | 5.57 | 3.86 | 3.89 | above avg |
| RN staffing (hrs/resident/day) | 1.86 | 0.69 | 0.68 | above avg |
| Aide staffing (hrs/resident/day) | 2.45 | 2.23 | 2.34 | above avg |
| Nursing staff turnover | 32.1% | 40.9% | 46.4% | below avg |
| Deficiencies cited, last inspection | 4.0 | 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 February 20, 2026 inspection was corrected by March 20, 2026
What inspectors found at Winchester Gardens Health 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
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 · Feb 20, 2026 · 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 · Sep 5, 2025 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Educate residents and staff on COVID-19 vaccination, offer the COVID-19 vaccine to eligible residents and staff after education, and properly document each resident and staff member's vaccination status.
Infection Control Deficiencies · Sep 5, 2025 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Provide the appropriate treatment and services to a resident who displays or is diagnosed with dementia.
Quality of Life and Care Deficiencies · Sep 5, 2025 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Encode each resident’s assessment data and transmit these data to the State within 7 days of assessment.
Resident Assessment and Care Planning Deficiencies · Sep 5, 2025 · Full report (PDF)
Show all 11 deficiencies
- 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 · May 31, 2024 · 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 · May 31, 2024 · 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 · May 31, 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 · Oct 4, 2022 - Potential for harm
Give residents notice of Medicaid/Medicare coverage and potential liability for services not covered.
Resident Rights Deficiencies · Oct 4, 2022 - Potential for harm
Honor the resident's right to request, refuse, and/or discontinue treatment, to participate in or refuse to participate in experimental research, and to formulate an advance directive.
Resident Rights Deficiencies · Oct 4, 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
- 333 Elmwood Avenue
Maplewood, NJ 07040 - CMS certification #
- 315527
- Ownership
- Non profit - Corporation
- Certified beds
- 30
- Avg residents/day
- 24.2
- Provider type
- Medicare and Medicaid
- First certified
- 2018-05-29
- Chain
- Springpoint Senior Living (8 facilities)
- Setting
- Urban
Part of Springpoint Senior Living
Springpoint Senior Living operates 8 nursing facilities across the United States. View all Springpoint Senior Living 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
- Staff pay 1 federal wage case with violations found, since 2017
- Emergency In hurricane evacuation zone Essex-G
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 31, 2017 to Oct 30, 2019. Violations found: Overtime. Back wages: $7,792 owed to 2 employees. Employer as DOL recorded it: Winchester Gardens Health Care Center (Springpoint Senior Living, Inc). Case 1895576.
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
- Newark Beth Israel Medical Center, Newark. 2.4 miles away, straight line. CMS overall hospital rating: 2 of 5 stars.
- Nearest Medicare nursing home
- Alliance Care Rehabilitation and Nursing Center, Irvington. 0.6 miles away, straight line.
- Nearest home health agency office
- Promise Care Nj, East Orange. 2.8 miles away, straight line. Agencies travel to clients, so ask which ones serve this address.
- Nearest pharmacy
- Walgreen's. 0.6 miles away, straight line. From OpenStreetMap, which does not list every pharmacy, so one may be closer.
- Area
- USDA classes ZIP code 07040 as metropolitan (metropolitan core).
- Dialysis within 15 miles
- Fmc Irvington, Irvington, 0.5 miles away, straight line (CMS rating 2 of 5 stars)
Alaris Health At Essex, Irvington, 0.6 miles away, straight line (CMS rating 1 of 5 stars)
Fmc Maplewood, Maplewood, 1.5 miles away, straight line (CMS rating 4 of 5 stars) - Hospice
- 13 Medicare hospices tell CMS they serve ZIP code 07040.
Barnabas Health Home Care And Hospice, office in West Orange, 3.8 miles away, straight line (CMS family survey rating 3 of 5 stars)
Homeside Hospice LLC, office in Cranford, 5.7 miles away, straight line (CMS family survey rating 4 of 5 stars)
Ascend Hospice, office in Cranford, 5.7 miles away, straight line (CMS family survey rating 3 of 5 stars) - Nearest geriatric medicine practice
- Nicholas Guittari, MD, Newark. 2.5 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-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 low, 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 | 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 |
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Frequently asked questions
Is Winchester Gardens Health Care Center a good nursing home?
CMS gives Winchester Gardens Health Care Center an overall rating of 5 out of 5 stars, including 5/5 for staffing and 4/5 for health inspections. These ratings come from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and are updated monthly.
How is Winchester Gardens Health Care Center staffed?
Winchester Gardens Health Care Center reports 5.57 total nurse hours per resident per day, compared with the New Jersey average of 3.86.
Has Winchester Gardens Health Care Center had inspection problems?
Its most recent CMS inspection cited 4 deficiencies.
How many beds does Winchester Gardens Health Care Center have?
Winchester Gardens Health Care Center is certified for 30 beds.