Complete Care at Regent

    50 Polifly Rd, Hackensack, NJ, 07601
    • Assisted living
    • Memory care
    • Skilled nursing
    AnonymousCurrent/former resident
    2.0

    Caring staff but severe understaffing

    I had a mixed but ultimately disappointing experience. Therapy, social workers and many nurses/aides were professional, caring, and the rehab and admissions staff were excellent, but chronic understaffing meant ignored call buttons, long waits, delayed meds and wound care, soiled/dirty linens, safety concerns and poor accountability. I would not recommend this facility unless you can provide your own aide and closely monitor care.

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    4.20 · 204 reviews

    Overall rating

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

      3.1
    • Staff

      3.8
    • Meals

      3.2
    • Amenities

      3.0
    • Value

      1.0

    Pros

    • Compassionate, attentive nurses and aides (many named staff praised)
    • Strong physical and occupational therapy programs
    • Professional and helpful reception/front-desk service
    • Clean and well-maintained common areas reported by many reviewers
    • Comfortable, well-designed communal spaces that encourage socializing
    • Engaging activity programming and varied daily activities
    • Nutritious and appetizing meals for some residents with dietary accommodations
    • Supportive, personalized rehabilitation and care plans for many patients
    • Friendly, responsive frontline staff and coordinators
    • Visible moments of dignity, warmth, and family-like treatment
    • Efficient admission/checkout and check-in experiences reported
    • Social workers and some staff going above and beyond (in many cases)
    • Housekeeping and some staff praised for cleanliness and room upkeep
    • Consistent, high-quality short-term rehab outcomes for many patients
    • Administration and some managers described as warm and capable
    • Prompt, clear explanations and good communication from some clinicians
    • Overall atmosphere described as welcoming and comfortable by many
    • Several long-term residents reported stability and satisfaction

    Cons

    • Chronic understaffing and short-staffed shifts (nights/weekends highlighted)
    • Long delays or no response to call buttons (30+ minutes reported)
    • Inconsistent quality of aides; some unresponsive or inattentive
    • Neglect and reports of patients left in soiled linens or wet for hours
    • Poor wound care and development of bedsores/pressure injuries
    • Medication errors including a serious insulin overdose incident
    • Reports of physical mistreatment, rough handling, or abuse allegations
    • Poor cleanliness in some rooms: urine smell, moth-eaten sheets, dirty laundry
    • Inconsistent laundry management and lost or mishandled belongings
    • Management accountability concerns; perceived passing-the-buck
    • Rude or unprofessional staff behavior reported in many accounts
    • Erratic communication from staff and social workers not returning calls
    • Agency/inexperienced staff used frequently with low skill reports
    • Weekend/after-hours unavailability and long phone wait times
    • Retaliation or fear of retaliation reported by reviewers
    • Food quality and portion inconsistency reported by multiple reviewers
    • Dated or uneven facility conditions in some rooms (old furniture, flooding)
    • Conflicting or unclear clinical instructions (e.g., weight-bearing)
    • Safety incidents requiring ER transfers and reports of monitoring lapses
    • Polarized experiences leading to highly inconsistent care quality

    Summary review

    The reviews for Complete Care at Regent are highly polarized, producing a mixed but urgent picture. Many reviewers highlight exemplary aspects of the facility: a strong therapy program (PT/OT) that delivers good rehab outcomes, numerous named nurses and aides praised for compassion and skill, a friendly and efficient front desk, and well-designed communal spaces that promote socialization. Several families and long-term residents describe a warm, family-like atmosphere, personalized care plans, clean common areas, and positive interactions with social workers and coordinators. In short stays for rehabilitation, multiple accounts indicate attentive care, clear treatment communication, and successful recoveries.

    Counterbalancing these positive reports is a consistent and serious cluster of negative themes. Understaffing is one of the most frequently cited problems — especially nights and weekends — and is linked to long call-bell response times (instances of 30+ minute waits are described), residents being left in soiled linens for extended periods, delayed medication administration, and missed basic care tasks. Several reviews document neglect that led to bedsores, urinary tract infections, untreated wounds, and emergency room transfers. There are also reports of medication errors including a documented insulin overdose that resulted in a critical event. These safety-related complaints are acute and repeated enough to indicate systemic risk rather than isolated incidents.

    Cleanliness and laundry management are addressed in conflicting ways: while many reviewers praise the housekeeping and odor-free common areas, a substantial number report dirty rooms, urine smells, moth-eaten sheets, wet linens left on beds, lost laundry, and poor infection-control practices. This suggests inconsistency in environmental services across units, shifts, or patient cohorts. Food and dining also elicit mixed feedback — some find meals appetizing and well-timed with appropriate accommodations, while others report small portions, unappetizing food, and improper handling.

    Staff quality appears bimodal. Numerous reviewers single out specific caregivers, nurses, therapists, and administrative staff by name (e.g., Unice, Leatha, Michelle, Anna, Iris, Maribel, Josette, Gabby, Luz, and others) as compassionate, professional, and instrumental in positive experiences. At the same time, there are frequent reports of rude, inattentive, or unprofessional aides—some observed using personal phones, not wearing masks, or speaking about patients — and accounts of agency or inexperienced staff who are not comfortable with basic geriatric care tasks. This variation suggests uneven hiring, training, or retention practices that create pockets of excellence alongside areas of concern.

    Communication and leadership are recurring concerns. Families report difficulty reaching social workers, long phone wait times, conflicting clinical information (for example on weight-bearing instructions), and a perceived lack of managerial accountability when problems arise. Multiple reviews call out management for being slow to act or dismissive of complaints, and some reviewers allege retaliation after raising issues. Yet other reviews praise administration and the director of nursing, pointing to competent leadership in certain interactions. The coexistence of both viewpoints implies inconsistent managerial responses dependent on who is contacted and when.

    Serious safety allegations — abuse, bruises, unattended patients in hallways, and accounts of severe neglect leading to death in some cases — appear among the most alarming feedback. These reports, combined with documented clinical errors and delayed response times, warrant immediate attention from facility leadership and external oversight. However, it is important to note that many families explicitly attribute positive outcomes to close family involvement; several negative experiences were mitigated only when family members visited frequently and intervened.

    Overall, Complete Care at Regent demonstrates strengths in rehabilitation services, pockets of highly compassionate and skilled staff, and an environment that can be pleasant and well-run for many residents. Simultaneously, persistent patterns — understaffing, inconsistent caregiver competence, delayed responses to call bells, wound-care and medication safety issues, cleanliness lapses in some units, and problematic communication/management accountability — produce a significant number of negative and potentially dangerous experiences. The reviews suggest urgent priorities: stabilize staffing levels (especially nights/weekends), standardize training and supervision of aides and agency staff, implement stricter medication and wound-care protocols with transparent incident reporting, audit laundry/housekeeping and infection control practices, and improve family communication and complaint handling with an actionable improvement plan. Addressing these areas could help shift the facility toward the positive experiences many families have reported, and reduce the serious safety and quality concerns raised by other reviewers.

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    About Complete Care at Regent

    Complete Care at Regent, located at 50 Polifly Rd in Hackensack, New Jersey, is a skilled nursing facility offering both long-term and subacute care, and while they're not accepting new patients at this moment, there's a number folks can call to ask about the next opening, and the staff speaks English and sometimes other languages, which can be real helpful for residents and their families, and when you walk in you'll notice a helpful receptionist up front and friendly folks throughout the building, and all the rooms, whether common areas or private spaces, are spacious, modern, comfortable, and always very clean, with an atmosphere many call gorgeous and with air that stays marvelously fresh. The staff includes nurses, aides, secretaries, and physical therapists-all caring and skilled, and they work as an interdisciplinary team focused on each resident's unique needs, so every person gets a care plan that fits them just right, whether they're there for rehabilitation, long-term care, or one of the specialized services like Cardiac Care, Orthopedic Rehab, Renal Care with on-site dialysis, Stroke Recovery, Respiratory Care, Wound Care, or Hospice Care, and there's an effort to keep folks as healthy and independent as possible, encouraging them to take part in a recreation program or use the state-of-the-art gym for therapy and other activities, and there are always plenty of amenities to support the social, mental, and even spiritual side of living there, which helps make it feel more like a community and less like an institution. The owners run the place independently even though they use the Complete Care name, and they make sure to hire people who really do care, with a strong focus on compassion, dignity, and respect, and they even partner with outside specialists and hospitals so residents get comprehensive support without having to travel elsewhere. The facility's got a solid reputation for immaculate spaces and for making sure the environment stays healthy and welcoming, with staff who treat every patient kindly and make sure their needs come first, and there's always a clear effort to deliver the best results for each individual, whether they're recovering from surgery, living with long-term conditions, or needing end-of-life care.

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