Green Hill Senior Living and Rehabilitation

    103 Pleasant Valley Way, West Orange, NJ, 07052
    • Assisted living
    • Memory care
    • Skilled nursing
    AnonymousCurrent/former resident
    3.0

    Great rehab but inconsistent overall

    I experienced excellent clinical care - kind nurses, attentive CNAs and outstanding PT/rehab that produced rapid progress - and the campus and many staff were welcoming. However administration and communication were poor (I went 27 days with no discharge update, social work hard to reach), weekend/night staffing was thin, call bells often slow or broken, and food and some cleanliness/management issues were recurring. Some employees were exemplary; others were rude or lazy, so care quality felt inconsistent. I'd recommend Green Hill for rehab but only with strong caveats about administration, staffing and meals.

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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

    Memory care community services

    • Mild cognitive impairment
    • Specialized memory care programming

    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

    4.01 · 247 reviews

    Overall rating

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

      3.6
    • Staff

      4.0
    • Meals

      3.2
    • Amenities

      3.5
    • Value

      2.7

    Pros

    • Compassionate, kind and personable nursing and aide staff
    • Strong physical, occupational and speech therapy teams with good outcomes
    • Some individual caregivers and aides singled out for excellence
    • Clean, well-kept or recently renovated private rooms in many reports
    • Spacious rooms and well-appointed bathrooms in parts of the facility
    • Active, coordinated activities program (bingo, arts & crafts, outings)
    • Convenient campus and pleasant outdoor spaces with pet/therapy animals
    • Continued care options (independent, assisted living, nursing home)
    • Helpful front desk, admissions and some administrative staff
    • Timely medical updates and proactive nursing communication in many cases
    • Transportation to appointments and coordination with doctors
    • Good COVID/pandemic precautions reported by some reviewers
    • Positive aftercare and discharge planning experienced by several families
    • Meal variety and high-quality food reported by numerous reviewers
    • Warm, home-like atmosphere reported by long-term residents
    • Helpful social services and smooth admissions for many patients
    • High nurse-to-patient ratio reported on some day shifts
    • Hotel-like common areas and attractive dining spaces in some units
    • Residents report feeling safe, comfortable and well-cared-for in many accounts
    • Medicaid transition and 'care for life' policy appreciated by some families

    Cons

    • Chronic understaffing on many shifts (especially nights, evenings, weekends)
    • Long call-bell response times and unattended residents
    • Wide variability in staff skill and professionalism (agency vs regular staff)
    • Reports of neglect: patients left on floor or in soiled garments
    • Inconsistent nursing care and medication errors (including insulin mistakes)
    • Dirty common areas, urine smell, soiled linens and poor hygiene reports
    • Outdated, depressing facility areas (dated decor, rickety elevators)
    • Inconsistent or poor food quality / meals often cold or repetitive
    • Dietary restrictions not always followed and lack of healthy options
    • Missed, rescheduled or chaotic rehab scheduling despite good therapy team
    • Poor non-medical communication from administration and discharge delays
    • Perceived pressure to stay/pay out-of-pocket and billing concerns
    • Allegations of withheld medical records or antagonistic intake practices
    • Safety concerns including wandering, inadequate fall/prevention care
    • Night/evening staff often newly graduated or agency with lower skill levels
    • Management issues: disorganization, nepotism, rude supervisors reported
    • Inconsistent housekeeping / shortages of clean linens and towels
    • Some residents experienced severe wounds or poorly treated injuries
    • Memory/dementia care concerns and isolated incidents of failing care
    • Mixed reviews about activities — some units active, others minimal
    • Inconsistent admissions experience and occasional unprepared transfers
    • High admission fees and uncertainty about private-pay duration
    • HIPAA, medication consent and professional-standards concerns alleged
    • Facility maintenance issues (missing handles, dirty elevator, small TVs)
    • Polarized overall experience — reports range from top-notch to horrific

    Summary review

    Overall sentiment for Green Hill Senior Living and Rehabilitation is highly polarized. Many reviewers report outstanding clinical outcomes, especially from the therapy teams (PT/OT/Speech), and repeatedly praise individual caregivers, nurses, and aides who provide compassionate, personalized care. Those positive accounts describe spacious or recently renovated private rooms, well-kept grounds and common areas, an engaging activities program (bingo, arts & crafts, resident store, animal/therapy visits), and smooth admissions or discharge experiences. Families frequently singled out specific staff members and therapy professionals for exemplary work and rapid recovery gains, and several reviewers highlighted the benefit of Green Hill’s continuum of care (independent living through nursing care) and Medicaid transition policies.

    However, an equally large set of reviews documents systemic problems that materially affect resident safety and quality of life. The most consistent negative theme is understaffing: many accounts describe long call-bell wait times, residents left unattended, and lower staffing levels on nights, evenings and weekends. Reviewers repeatedly contrasted capable daytime staff and therapy teams with inexperienced, agency, or newly graduated personnel on off shifts, which they say leads to inconsistent care, missed medications, and poor adherence to universal precautions. Multiple reports describe serious incidents (residents left on the floor for extended periods, unclean wounds, insulin dosing errors, and medication administration concerns) that point to lapses in oversight and clinical consistency.

    Facility condition and housekeeping show a split profile. Some rooms and corridors are described as recently renovated, immaculately clean and hotel-like, while other areas are called dated, dark, and depressing (banana-colored walls, old wood paneling, rickety elevators). Several reviewers mention soiled linens, smells of urine in common areas, and shortages of towels — issues that, when present, compound worries about neglect. Meals and dining also generate mixed feedback: a number of families praise tasty, varied and professionally prepared meals and attractive dining rooms, while others report cold, inedible food served repetitively and dietary restrictions not honored.

    Therapy and rehabilitation emerge as a relative strength but with operational challenges. Many reviewers credit therapists with excellent, even transformational, progress and name therapists and aides who were central to recovery. Simultaneously, some families report chaotic rehab scheduling — missed or rescheduled appointments and little progress — which often correlates with staff shortages or poor coordination. This pattern suggests that when core therapy staff are present and scheduled properly, outcomes are strong; when staffing is inconsistent, rehab delivery and progress suffer.

    Administration, communication and management are areas of frequent contention. Positive reviews note responsive admissions teams, proactive nursing calls, helpful social services, and administrators who facilitate family events and aftercare. Conversely, negative reviews allege poor communication (long stretches without updates), adversarial intake encounters, withheld paperwork or medical records, pressure to pay privately, billing confusion, and reports of rude supervisors or alleged nepotism. These management inconsistencies appear to amplify frontline staffing problems and produce a sense among some families that the facility is disorganized or profit-driven.

    Safety, dementia care and end-of-life support are other critical themes. Several families praise dignified, compassionate end-of-life and dementia care, while others report worrying incidents involving wandering, falls after being deemed a fall risk, or residents left in soiled conditions. Memory care is sometimes noted as a separate building with good offerings, yet there are also allegations of failed dementia care and inappropriate transfers. These conflicting reports indicate variability in the quality and oversight of specialized care units.

    Taken together, the reviews indicate that Green Hill can provide excellent, compassionate clinical care and rehabilitation under the right conditions — especially during well-staffed daytime shifts with experienced therapists and engaged aides. However, persistent staffing shortages (notably nights/weekends), inconsistent housekeeping, variable management communication, and serious safety-related complaints from multiple families create substantial risk. Prospective families should weigh the strong therapy reputation and some consistently praised staff against the frequency and severity of reported neglect and organizational issues. If considering Green Hill, ask detailed questions about current staffing ratios across all shifts, turnover and agency staff usage, specific unit cleanliness and upgrade plans, protocols for medication safety and incident reporting, and get names of the therapy staff you will be working with. Also request recent inspection reports, written policies on dietary accommodations and discharge procedures, and contact information for specific clinical leads so you can monitor care continuity and responsiveness promptly.

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    About Green Hill Senior Living and Rehabilitation

    Green Hill Senior Living and Rehabilitation, sometimes called Green Hill Retirement Community, is a place where older adults can live in different ways depending on their needs, with modern independent living in senior apartments, regular assisted living, special memory care, and a nursing home area. The community uses its own program names and has houses and private rooms that feel homelike and comfortable, and people get to enjoy a quiet, tree-lined property. Green Hill makes daily life easier with services like housekeeping, linen help, and three meals a day prepared and served onsite to keep everyone healthy. There's scheduled transportation for doctor's appointments and trips to religious services, and staff can help with things like bathing, dressing, and moving around, especially for people who need extra help all day and all night. Special staff like physical therapists, respiratory therapists, and nurse technicians are available, and the facility is known for helping people recover from sickness or injury with programs for rebuilding strength and restoring daily skills. Green Hill plans group activities every day, with extra options for community events, day trips, and resident-run gatherings, so it's easy to stay social if that's what you like. Residents who need memory care get support from programs for dementia and mild cognitive impairment, along with other mental wellness activities. The community sets strict safety rules, sometimes using lockdowns to protect residents during health problems in the area, and nurses are on-site for up to 16 hours a day with medication help and daily living support. Green Hill has been given a five-star rating and is meant for people who want to stay in one place even if their health changes, which is what people call "age in place." There's help for both short-term rehab and long-term care, and Green Hill has skilled nursing staff around the clock, but public details about the facility are limited except for its broad range of senior care and focus on comfort, safety, and daily living.

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