The home failed to make sure food was safely sourced, stored, prepared, and served according to professional standards. Cited April 2025 — widespread issue, potential for harm.
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F-Tag 812 — 42 CFR §483.60(i) — S/S: F
Nursing home report
DWELLING PLACE AT ST CLARES
DOVER, NJ · Medicare-certified · 28 beds
In good standing
For-profitChain member
4 of 5 overall
DWELLING PLACE AT ST CLARES (DOVER, NJ) has a 4-star overall rating, with 4-star health inspection and quality measures ratings and a 3-star staffing rating. It reports 5.74 nurse staffing hours per resident per day versus the 4.1 federal benchmark, with $0 in fines over the last 24 months; recent inspection citations included food safety, infection prevention and control, and feeding tube care.
Facility ratings
Health inspections
Staffing
5.7448 hrs/resident/day
Quality measures
Last inspection: April 10, 2025Penalties, last 24 months: $0
Federal guidance recommends at least 4.1 nursing hours per resident each day. This facility reports 5.7448.
Staffing detail
- Registered nurses
- 3.39
- Licensed practical nurses
- 0.35
- Nurse aides
- 2.01
- Weekend nursing
- 5.38
Hours per resident per day.
Total staff turnover: 24%
Registered nurse turnover: 11%
Resident outcomes
How often residents experience these outcomes, with the direction over the past year.
Long-stay residents on antipsychotic medication
3.8%Steady
Residents with a fall causing major injury
3.8%Steady
Residents with pressure ulcers (bedsores)
6.2%Improving
Residents with a urinary tract infection
0%Steady
Residents who lost too much weight
1%Steady
Residents who were physically restrained
0%Steady
Residents needing more help with daily activities
23.8%Steady
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Long-stay residents on antianxiety or sleep medication
22.1%Improving
Residents with a long-term catheter
6.9%Steady
Residents with new or worsening incontinence
2%Steady
Residents with depressive symptoms
4.8%Worsening
Long-stay residents given the seasonal flu vaccine
100%Steady
Long-stay residents given the pneumonia vaccine
78.8%Steady
Short-stay residents given the pneumonia vaccine
19%Steady
What the inspectors found
The nursing home failed to provide and carry out an infection prevention and control program to help keep residents from getting or spreading infections. Cited April 2025 — limited pattern, potential for harm.
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F-Tag 880 — 42 CFR §483.80(a) — S/S: E
The home failed to make sure feeding tubes were used only when medically needed and that residents with feeding tubes received proper care. Cited November 2023 — limited pattern, potential for harm.
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F-Tag 693 — 42 CFR §483.25 — S/S: E
The home failed to provide pharmacy services and a licensed pharmacist needed to meet each resident’s medication needs. Cited April 2025 — isolated incident, potential for harm.
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F-Tag 755 — 42 CFR §483.45 — S/S: D
The nursing home failed to provide services that met professional standards of quality. Cited November 2023 — isolated incident, potential for harm.
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F-Tag 658 — 42 CFR §483.21(b)(3) — S/S: D
Recent history
- STAFFING
Reported nurse staffing met or exceeded the federal recommendation.
- INSPECTION
Health inspection found 3 health deficiencies.
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- INSPECTION
Health inspection found 2 health deficiencies.
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- INSPECTION
Health inspection found 1 health deficiency.
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Operator & ownership
- Ownership
- For profit - Corporation
- Chain
- Part of PRIME HEALTHCARE · 6 homes · 3.3 stars avg
- Occupancy
- 27.3 residents on an average day (98% of 28 beds)
- Medicare history
- Certified for 59 years
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Source: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services — public records, updated monthly. GoodStanding presents official records with plain-language summaries. Always visit a facility in person.