Nursing Homes in New Jersey: Staffing, Turnover, and Penalties
New Jersey has 348 Medicare- or Medicaid-certified nursing homes in 191 cities. On CMS's September 2026 figures, nurse aides there log 2.23 hours per resident per day, 4% below the US average of 2.32, and 39.7% of nursing staff leave in a year (US 45.8%).
New Jersey averages
Aide hours per resident per day is the nurse aide time a home logged for each resident across a whole day, from the payroll records every home submits to CMS. More hours per resident means more hands on the floor for the same number of residents. Turnover is the share of nursing staff who left over a year. Fines and payment denials are CMS penalties from the last three years.
CMS Care Compare State and US Averages, September 2026 release
Nursing homes by city
The most nursing homes are in Toms River (9), Wayne (8), Voorhees (7). Each city page compares every home on staffing, turnover, CMS stars, and fines.
- Absecon (1)
- Allendale (1)
- Allenwood (1)
- Atco (1)
- Atlantic City (1)
- Atlantic Highlands (1)
- Barnegat (1)
- Basking Ridge (1)
- Bayonne (1)
- Bayville (2)
- Berkeley Heights (2)
- Berlin (1)
- Blackwood (1)
- Blairstown (1)
- Bloomfield (1)
- Bloomingdale (1)
- Boonton (1)
- Bound Brook (1)
- Brick (4)
- Bridgeton (2)
- Bridgewater (4)
- Burlington (3)
- Caldwell (1)
- Califon (1)
- Camden (2)
- Cape May Court House (3)
- Carneys Point (1)
- Cedar Grove (5)
- Chatham (1)
- Cherry Hill (6)
- Cinnaminson (1)
- Clark (1)
- Clarksboro (1)
- Clifton (1)
- Collingswood (1)
- Columbia (1)
- Cranbury (1)
- Cranford (2)
- Cresskill (1)
- Denville (1)
- Deptford (1)
- Dover (2)
- East Brunswick (1)
- East Hanover (1)
- East Orange (4)
- East Windsor (1)
- Eatontown (2)
- Edison (6)
- Egg Harbor Township (1)
- Elizabeth (4)
- Emerson (1)
- Englewood (2)
- Ewing (1)
- Fairlawn (1)
- Flemington (1)
- Florham Park (2)
- Freehold (5)
- Galloway Township (3)
- Green Brook (1)
- Hackensack (3)
- Hackettstown (1)
- Hamilton (3)
- Hamilton Square (1)
- Hamilton Township (1)
- Hammonton (1)
- Haskell (2)
- Hazlet (2)
- Hillsborough (2)
- Hoboken (1)
- Holmdel (2)
- Irvington (1)
- Jackson (1)
- Jersey City (5)
- Keansburg (1)
- Kearny (2)
- Lafayette (1)
- Lakewood (5)
- Lawrenceville (3)
- Lebanon (1)
- Lincoln Park (2)
- Lincroft (1)
- Linden (1)
- Linwood (1)
- Little Egg Harbor TW (2)
- Livingston (3)
- Long Branch (1)
- Lumberton (1)
- Madison (1)
- Manahawkin (2)
- Manalapan (1)
- Manchester (1)
- Maple Shade (1)
- Maplewood (1)
- Marlton (2)
- Matawan (2)
- Maywood (1)
- Medford (2)
- Mendham (1)
- Millville (1)
- Monmouth Junction (1)
- Monroe Township (3)
- Montclair (2)
- Moorestown (4)
- Morristown (3)
- Mountainside (2)
- Mount Laurel (1)
- Neptune (3)
- Neptune City (1)
- Newark (5)
- New Brunswick (1)
- New Milford (1)
- New Providence (2)
- Newton (4)
- North Bergen (3)
- North Cape May (2)
- Northfield (1)
- North Haledon (1)
- Norwood (1)
- Oakland (1)
- Ocean City (1)
- Ocean Grove (1)
- Ocean View (1)
- Old Bridge (4)
- Oradell (1)
- Orange (2)
- Oxford (1)
- Paramus (4)
- Park Ridge (1)
- Parsippany (1)
- Parsippany Troy Hill (1)
- Passaic (2)
- Paterson (3)
- Pemberton (1)
- Pennsauken (1)
- Penns Grove (1)
- Perth Amboy (2)
- Phillipsburg (3)
- Piscataway (1)
- Pitman (1)
- Pittsgrove (1)
- Pittstown (1)
- Plainfield (3)
- Plainsboro (1)
- Pleasantville (1)
- Pompton Plains (1)
- Princeton (1)
- PT Pleasant (1)
- Rahway (2)
- Raritan (1)
- Red Bank (2)
- Ridgewood (2)
- Riverton (1)
- Rochelle Park (1)
- Rockleigh (1)
- Salem (1)
- Scotch Plains (1)
- Secaucus (1)
- Sewell (3)
- Shrewsbury (1)
- Skillman (1)
- Somerset (3)
- South Amboy (1)
- South Plainfield (1)
- Stratford (1)
- Succasunna (1)
- Teaneck (2)
- Tenafly (1)
- Tinton Falls (2)
- Toms River (9)
- Trenton (5)
- Union (1)
- Union City (2)
- Vauxhall (1)
- Vineland (3)
- Voorhees (7)
- Wall (4)
- Watchung (1)
- Wayne (8)
- West Caldwell (2)
- West Deptford (1)
- Westfield (1)
- West Milford (1)
- West Orange (5)
- Westwood (1)
- Whippany (1)
- Whiting (4)
- Williamstown (1)
- Woodbridge (1)
- Woodbury (1)
- Woodcliff Lake (1)
- Wyckoff (1)
Largest nursing home chains in New Jersey
CMS links 187 of New Jersey's homes to these 15 chains. A chain is a group of homes under common ownership or management, as CMS records it.
| Chain | Homes in NJ | Homes nationwide |
|---|---|---|
| Complete Care | 43 | 85 |
| Careone | 20 | 37 |
| Marquis Health Services | 17 | 90 |
| Atlas Healthcare | 12 | 30 |
| Genesis Healthcare | 12 | 184 |
| Autumn Lake Healthcare | 11 | 59 |
| Ocean Healthcare | 11 | 11 |
| MB Healthcare | 10 | 12 |
| Alaris Health | 8 | 8 |
| Allaire Health Services | 8 | 21 |
| Family of Caring Healthcare | 8 | 8 |
| Aristacare | 7 | 9 |
| Preferred Care | 7 | 13 |
| Springpoint Senior Living | 7 | 8 |
| Center Management Group | 6 | 17 |
Chain as recorded in the CMS Provider Information file, September 2026 release