Essex Center for Rehabilitation and Healthcare: Staffing, Turnover, and Inspection Record
Essex Center for Rehabilitation and Healthcare is a 100-bed for-profit nursing home in Elizabethtown, New York, part of Centers Health Care. In the CMS August 2026 release it reported 1.98 nurse aide hours per resident per day, 8% below the New York average of 2.15, and 81.9% nursing staff turnover (New York average 40.3%).
Essex Center for Rehabilitation and Healthcare
81 Park StreetElizabethtown, NY 12932
Essex County
CMS Care Compare, August 2026 release
How many staff hours residents get
CMS reports staffing as hours per resident per day, from the payroll records each home submits. At Essex Center for Rehabilitation and Healthcare, nurse aides logged 1.98 hours per resident per day, 8% below the New York average. With about 96 residents a day, that works out to roughly 190 aide hours a day, or about 24 eight-hour aide shifts across day, evening, and night. On weekends, total nursing hours per resident ran 8% below the all-days figure.
| Hours per resident per day | This home | New York avg | US avg |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nurse aides (CNAs) | 1.98 | 2.15 | 2.32 |
| Licensed practical nurses | 0.81 | 0.76 | 0.86 |
| Registered nurses | 0.46 | 0.71 | 0.69 |
| All nursing staff | 3.25 | 3.62 | 3.86 |
| All nursing staff, weekends | 2.98 | 3.18 | 3.42 |
CMS Care Compare, August 2026 release: reported staffing hours from Payroll-Based Journal data, and CMS state and US averages.
Staff turnover
81.9% of nursing staff at Essex Center for Rehabilitation and Healthcare left over the year CMS measured, against a New York average of 40.3% and a US average of 45.8%. Registered nurse turnover was 60.0%. No administrators left over the same period.
Inspections and penalties
State inspectors last completed a standard health inspection on Nov 13, 2024. The most recent inspection cycle, which also counts complaint and infection-control inspections from the past 12 months, found 5 health deficiencies (New York average 8.0). CMS lists no fines or payment denials for this home in the last three years.
CMS star ratings
CMS rates every nursing home from one to five stars overall and on health inspections, staffing, and quality measures. Essex Center for Rehabilitation and Healthcare holds 3 of 5 overall; the New York average is 3.0.
About Essex Center for Rehabilitation and Healthcare
- Ownership: For profit - Limited Liability company
- Chain: Centers Health Care, 36 homes
- Legal name: Essex Operations Associates LLC
- Medicare and Medicaid certified since: Dec 1, 1975
- Councils: resident council
- Area: rural
Nursing homes near Essex Center for Rehabilitation and Healthcare
The closest homes by distance, with the same CMS figures. Select a column to sort.
| Elderwood of Uihlein at Lake Placid Lake Placid | 19.3 | 156 | 1.43 | 2.62 | 61.3% | 2 | None |
| Wake Robin-Linden Nursing Home Shelburne · staffing data not validated | 19.8 | 33 | — | — | 58.5% | 4 | None |
| Helen Porter Healthcare & Rehab Middlebury | 25.8 | 98 | 2.81 | 4.92 | 33.3% | 5 | None |
| Elderwood at Burlington Burlington | 26.3 | 150 | 2.21 | 3.80 | 67.9% | 2 | $220,961 |
| Elderwood at Ticonderoga Ticonderoga | 26.5 | 84 | 1.85 | 3.01 | 48.6% | 2 | $4,516 |
| Premier Rehab and Healthcare at Burlington Burlington · SFF candidate | 26.6 | 164 | 2.54 | 4.16 | 70.4% | 1 | $137,679 |
| Birchwood Terrace Rehab & Healthcare Burlington | 26.6 | 160 | 2.31 | 4.01 | 56.8% | 3 | $127,834 |
| Clinton Rehabilitation and Nursing Center Plattsburgh | 32.9 | 80 | 1.99 | 3.30 | 74.4% | 2 | None |
Aide hrs and all nurse hrs are staff hours per resident per day. Fines are the CMS total for the last three years. Turnover is the share of nursing staff who left over a year. All figures from CMS Care Compare.
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Source: CMS Care Compare Provider Information, State and US Averages, and Penalties files, August 2026 release. Figures are as CMS publishes them; check Medicare Care Compare for the latest. Methodology.