Park Crescent Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center

    480 N Walnut St, East Orange, NJ 07017
    • Assisted Living
    • Memory Care
    • Skilled Nursing

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    Amenities

    Healthcare services

    • Activities of daily living assistance
    • Assistance with bathing
    • Assistance with dressing
    • Assistance with transfers
    • Medication management
    • Mental wellness program

    Healthcare staffing

    • 12-16 hour nursing
    • 24-hour call system
    • 24-hour supervision

    Meals and dining

    • Diabetes diet
    • Meal preparation and service
    • Restaurant-style dining
    • Special dietary restrictions

    Room

    • Air-conditioning
    • Cable
    • Fully furnished
    • Housekeeping and linen services
    • Kitchenettes
    • Private bathrooms
    • Telephone
    • Wifi

    Transportation

    • Community operated transportation
    • Transportation arrangement
    • Transportation arrangement (non-medical)

    Common areas

    • Beauty salon
    • Computer center
    • Dining room
    • Fitness room
    • Gaming room
    • Garden
    • Outdoor space
    • Small library
    • Wellness center

    Community services

    • Concierge services
    • Fitness programs
    • Move-in coordination

    Activities

    • Community-sponsored activities
    • Planned day trips
    • Resident-run activities
    • Scheduled daily activities

    Reviews

    4.17·(381)

    Overall rating

    1. 5
    2. 4
    3. 3
    4. 2
    5. 1
    • Care

      4.0
    • Staff

      4.0
    • Meals

      3.2
    • Amenities

      3.7
    • Value

      2.5

    Pros

    • Warm, compassionate, and respectful nursing and aide staff
    • Rehabilitation services associated with meaningful functional improvement
    • Attentive personal care and support with hygiene
    • Helpful social workers and admissions staff
    • Family communication and care-plan meetings when requested
    • Clean, welcoming rooms and common areas
    • Engaging activities and a homelike atmosphere
    • Responsive support for individual, cultural, and dietary preferences
    • Positive experiences with respite and repeat stays

    Cons

    • Variable staffing coverage and workload
    • Inconsistent call-light response and assistance with daily needs
    • Uneven staff communication across shifts and limited proactive family updates
    • Variable rehabilitation frequency and intensity
    • Inconsistent meal temperature, flavor, variety, and dietary accuracy
    • Uneven room and bathroom cleaning, with occasional odor concerns
    • Gaps in bathing, skin-care routines, and support for individual care needs
    • Weak tracking of laundry and personal belongings
    • Inconsistent resident supervision and safety practices
    • Gaps in clinical coordination, care planning, and discharge communication

    Summary of reviews

    Experiences at Park Crescent vary, but many residents and families describe kind, attentive staff and satisfactory care. Positive accounts highlight nurses and aides who are approachable, respectful, and helpful with daily needs; some families also describe staff as providing a reassuring, family-like environment. Several residents say they felt clean and comfortable, and families have praised the facility’s support during rehabilitation, respite stays, and longer-term care. A few accounts also describe culturally familiar or individualized support, including efforts to accommodate personal preferences.

    Rehabilitation is a recurring strength. Residents and families describe helpful physical and occupational therapy, encouragement during sessions, and progress with walking, balance, and recovery after illness or surgery. Other accounts raise concerns that therapy may not occur as often as expected, may be limited on weekends, or may not provide enough challenge or feedback about progress. Families considering rehabilitation may wish to ask about the anticipated schedule, goals, and how progress will be shared.

    Communication is notably inconsistent. Some families praise regular calls, clear meetings, and responsive social workers or admissions staff. Others say they need to initiate contact repeatedly, receive limited updates, or encounter staff who cannot readily answer questions. Reviews also identify communication gaps between shifts and during care transitions. Although some concerns were resolved after escalation to management, families may benefit from confirming who their main contact is and how urgent questions will be handled.

    Dining receives mixed feedback and is one of the most frequent areas for improvement. Some residents enjoy the meals, appreciate alternatives, or find that food is suited to their needs. Others describe meals as bland, unappealing, cold, or limited in variety. Families also raise concerns about adherence to prescribed diets and allergies. Asking how meal preferences and dietary instructions are documented and checked may help clarify whether the menu will meet an individual’s needs. Activities are viewed positively in several accounts, including organized events and opportunities for social engagement, though participation depends on each resident’s interest and ability.

    The facility is often described as clean, welcoming, and comfortable, with positive comments about room upkeep and the general atmosphere. However, accounts also point to uneven bathroom and room-cleaning follow-through, occasional odors, noise, and a need for updates in some areas. Staffing capacity is another recurring concern: families and residents describe delays in call-light responses or help with personal needs, and some perceive units as busy or short-staffed. Other operational concerns include inconsistent bathing or skin-care routines, difficulty tracking clothing and personal items, and questions about safety supervision or access to call buttons. A small number of accounts raise concerns about medication management and coordination of clinical care.

    Overall, the reviews portray a facility with many positive experiences centered on staff warmth, rehabilitation, and a clean, supportive environment, alongside meaningful variation in day-to-day service. Families may want to discuss staffing coverage, response expectations, therapy schedules, dietary requirements, personal-care routines, and communication plans before or during a stay. It may also be useful to confirm how care plans, medications, personal belongings, and discharge arrangements are coordinated.

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    Medicare Ratings

    4·/ 5
    • Overall

    • Health Inspection

    • Staffing

    • Quality Measures

    Ratings from the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (Care Compare). View on Medicare.gov

    Location

    Park Crescent Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center is located at 480 N Walnut St, East Orange, NJ, 07017.

    About Park Crescent Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center

    Park Crescent Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center, also called a nursing home, sits over on 480 North Walnut Street in East Orange, New Jersey, and looks after its residents with a kind and practical approach, focusing both on short-term rehab and longer-term nursing care for older adults and those needing extra medical help, and you'll notice that the place itself looks modern and clean, with high-end touches and comfortable semi-private rooms where folks can settle in, plus outdoor and indoor areas so people have a little space to roam or visit with family. Nurses, therapists, and doctors come around on a regular schedule for care-physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech therapy, wound care, and even visits from podiatrists-and there's always an on-call medical doctor plus behavioral psychiatrists if someone needs extra support, and the staff is described as friendly and attentive, always working with family members for admission, follow-up, and questions, since they know how complicated healthcare and insurance can get, especially when you're already not feeling your best. They can handle things like IVs, post-surgical care, rehab after strokes or heart problems, heart-focused services under the Heart SMART program, wound care, tracheotomy or feeding tubes, and high-acuity nursing, and the SMART Rehab Unit gives focused rehab for folks bouncing back from surgeries or accidents, which they developed as part of the Ocean Healthcare Network's programs. There's a good set of activities going on-religious services, outings, education, games, and special events-because the staff there believes people do better when they have something to look forward to and aren't just sitting around, and even though it's a busy place with about 190 beds and up close to 1,000 employees, the motto "one heart many hands" seems to capture how they try to treat each person like family, which you'll sense in the atmosphere and the way the place runs day to day, especially with their attention to privacy, safety, and careful oversight with bed systems and front desk sign-ins for visitors. Amenities include free WiFi, good meals, snack stations, family-style areas for eating and relaxing, plus a big, state-of-the-art gym for physical therapy, and there are language and communication supports including American Sign Language for those needing different ways to connect. They have a Notice of Privacy Practices, an opt-out form for heath information exchange if that matters to you, and specialized care plans so each person gets just the support they need and nothing more. The place can admit folks seven days a week, works with Medicare, Medicaid, private insurance, and private pay, and in addition to skilled nursing, they offer palliative, dementia, respite, and long-term care-all under one roof-so whether someone's recovering for just a short while or settling in for the foreseeable future, they handle both with experience and a steady hand, aiming to help everyone thrive in their own way in a safe and peaceful place.

    People often ask...

    Park Crescent Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center offers assisted living, memory care, and skilled nursing.

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    The full address for this community is 480 N Walnut St, East Orange, NJ 07017.

    No, Park Crescent Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center does not offer respite care. Respite care in assisted living communities provides temporary, short-term relief for primary caregivers by offering professional care for their loved ones. It allows individuals to stay in an assisted living community for a limited time, giving caregivers a break while ensuring residents receive necessary support and assistance with daily activities.

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