Anchor Care and Rehabilitation Center

    3325 Hwy 35, Hazlet, NJ 07730
    • 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

    4.73·(100)

    Overall rating

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

      4.6
    • Staff

      4.6
    • Meals

      3.7
    • Amenities

      4.1
    • Value

      4.7

    Pros

    • Compassionate, attentive nursing and caregiving staff
    • Strong rehabilitation and physical therapy services
    • Clean, well-maintained facility and grounds
    • Friendly, welcoming admissions and front-desk staff
    • Personalized, patient-centered care
    • Effective housekeeping and maintenance
    • Engaging daily activities and entertainment program
    • Family-oriented, homelike atmosphere
    • Responsive issue-resolution and accessible management
    • Nutritious and well-prepared meals
    • Skilled therapy producing measurable recovery outcomes
    • Supportive social-work and family emotional support
    • Renovated and updated amenities with secure environment
    • Spacious meeting and quiet lounge areas
    • Professional hospice and end-of-life support
    • Celebratory community and family event support
    • Smooth admission and discharge processes

    Cons

    • Inconsistent staff accountability and follow-through
    • Sanitation and odor concerns in some areas
    • Gaps in clinical oversight and safety practices
    • Inconsistent meal quality across stays
    • Limited resident room size and guest seating
    • Parking and access constraints
    • Personal-property management lapses
    • Variable communication responsiveness from staff and management
    • Inconsistent overnight monitoring and urgent-response capacity
    • Allegations of unsafe care and staff misconduct

    Summary of reviews

    Overall impression: Anchor Care and Rehabilitation Center is frequently praised for its clinical rehabilitation capabilities and for having a largely compassionate, patient-focused staff. Many families highlight strong physical and occupational therapy programs, with documented functional improvements and successful discharges. Housekeeping, grounds maintenance, and visible renovation efforts contribute to a generally clean and well-kept campus that many describe as homelike and welcoming.

    Care and staff: Nursing, therapy, and direct-care teams receive abundant positive comments for professionalism, patience, and individualized attention. Reviewers often name individual staff who went beyond expectations, and social-work and hospice personnel are cited for providing emotional support to families during difficult transitions. At the same time, a pattern of concerns appears in a subset of feedback: inconsistent staff accountability, variable responsiveness (including overnight or urgent needs), and at least some allegations of misconduct or unsafe care. These indicate potential gaps in supervision, follow-through, and clinical oversight that prospective families should probe during a tour.

    Dining and activities: Dining receives mixed but generally favorable remarks—many families describe meals as tasty and sufficient, while other accounts suggest meal quality may vary between stays. Activity programming is a clear strength: daily offerings, arts-and-crafts, bingo, entertainers, and faith-based or social groups are regularly noted and contribute to a sense of community and engagement.

    Facilities and amenities: The facility is frequently described as clean, attractive, and undergoing updates in public areas; there are comfortable meeting and lounge rooms and secure entry features. Conversely, some operational limitations recur: resident rooms are sometimes characterized as small, guest seating and common-area capacity can be limited, and parking/access constraints have been noted. There are also isolated sanitation and odor concerns reported in certain areas that warrant attention despite the overall positive cleanliness ratings.

    Management and communication: Several reviewers commend an open-door approach, straightforward communication about clinical issues, and proactive admissions and discharge handling. However, other accounts point to variable communication responsiveness and personal-property management lapses (lost or mishandled items). These mixed signals suggest that management responsiveness may differ by shift or by issue type, so families should ask about escalation processes, property controls, and staffing patterns when evaluating the facility.

    Recommendation guidance: Prospective residents and families will find strong rehabilitation resources, attentive clinicians, and an active social program here, along with generally high marks for housekeeping and front-desk hospitality. At the same time, it is prudent to investigate operational weaknesses noted above—ask about staffing ratios, overnight response protocols, medication and property controls, and how sanitation or safety concerns are documented and remediated. Combining a walk-through with direct questions about these topics will help determine whether the facility’s strengths align with a particular resident’s clinical and personal needs.

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    Medicare Ratings

    5·/ 5
    • Overall

    • Health Inspection

    • Staffing

    • Quality Measures

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

    Location

    Anchor Care and Rehabilitation Center is located at 3325 Hwy 35, Hazlet, NJ, 07730.

    About Anchor Care and Rehabilitation Center

    Anchor Care And Rehabilitation Center sits over on Route 35 in Hazlet, New Jersey, sharing ties with Excelsior Care Group, and it's been helping seniors for more than twenty-five years now with both short-term rehab for those who need a step between hospital and home plus long-term care for the frail and elderly who can't do without full-time nursing help, and when someone needs mental health services, they've got those too. The place covers everything from specialized therapies like cardiopulmonary rehab, pulmonary rehab, peritoneal dialysis, and spinal rehab, to regular help with personal care, medication, mobility, and meal needs around the clock, so folks don't have to worry about getting left alone or not having someone nearby in case they need a hand, plus there's always a Nursing Manager on site making sure trained nurses, doctors, therapists, and healthcare staff can keep up with each person's needs.

    The center has a good number of staff, somewhere between 51 and 200 people, with a reported nurse turnover rate of 56.5%, and a nurse spends about 3.33 hours a day with each resident, who usually number about 153 out of 170 available beds on any regular day. People stay in two-bedroom apartments or shared rooms, with their own bathrooms and things like internet, cable TV, air conditioning, kitchenettes, and phones, so conditions are meant to be both safe and a bit like home, and security measures keep people from wandering off - which helps a lot when memory or mental troubles are a concern.

    Amenities try to make life comfortable, with daily activities like music therapy, art classes, and group projects such as pumpkin painting, and when it comes to getting around or joining community events, transportation options are available. Dietary needs get managed too, even special ones like diabetes, and help comes for handling every daily need, big or small, any time of day or night. The place tries to mix a warm, caring atmosphere with steady professional medical care in a way that keeps residents engaged and as independent as possible.

    Anchor Care's history does include documented deficiencies, with 18 total violations found in past inspections, including infection control concerns, issues with safeguarding medical records, and gaps in both nursing services and care planning. Some inspection delays have happened, with the last big checkup more than two years ago, which is longer than usual rules call for. The company runs for profit and stays open about its ups and downs, trying to improve over time, and plenty of testimonials from residents talk about compassionate care, though the public record does show both strong efforts and areas to keep working on.

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