The nursing home failed to ensure nurse aides were properly trained and competent to provide safe care. Cited January 2024 — limited pattern, potential for harm.
View the original federal record
F-Tag 728 — 42 CFR §483.35(e) — S/S: E
Nursing home report
MERRY HEART NURSING HOME
SUCCASUNNA, NJ · Medicare-certified · 113 beds
In good standing
For-profit
5 of 5 overall
Merry Heart Nursing Home in Succasunna, NJ has an overall 5-star rating, with 4 stars for health inspections and quality measures and 5 stars for staffing. It reported 3.94 nurse staffing hours per resident per day versus the 4.1-hour federal benchmark, had $0 in fines in the last 24 months, and recent inspection citations included staff training, resident rights, and privacy of records.
Facility ratings
Health inspections
Staffing
3.9443 hrs/resident/day
Quality measures
Last inspection: January 16, 2025Penalties, last 24 months: $0
Federal guidance recommends at least 4.1 nursing hours per resident each day. This facility reports 3.9443.
Staffing detail
- Registered nurses
- 1.19
- Licensed practical nurses
- 0.24
- Nurse aides
- 2.51
- Weekend nursing
- 3.49
Hours per resident per day.
Total staff turnover: 24%
Registered nurse turnover: 17%
Resident outcomes
How often residents experience these outcomes, with the direction over the past year.
Long-stay residents on antipsychotic medication
11.5%Worsening
Residents with a fall causing major injury
1.3%Improving
Residents with pressure ulcers (bedsores)
3.2%Improving
Residents with a urinary tract infection
7.4%Steady
Residents who lost too much weight
5.9%Steady
Residents who were physically restrained
0%Steady
Residents needing more help with daily activities
21.6%Worsening
Residents whose ability to walk got worse
19.1%Worsening
Show all measures
Long-stay residents on antianxiety or sleep medication
17.5%Worsening
Short-stay residents newly given an antipsychotic
0.4%Improving
Residents with a long-term catheter
0.4%Steady
Residents with new or worsening incontinence
15.5%Improving
Residents with depressive symptoms
0%Steady
Long-stay residents given the seasonal flu vaccine
95.6%Steady
Long-stay residents given the pneumonia vaccine
95.4%Worsening
Short-stay residents given the seasonal flu vaccine
96.8%Steady
Short-stay residents given the pneumonia vaccine
94.5%Improving
What the inspectors found
The home failed to ensure residents were treated with dignity and could make their own choices and communicate freely. Cited January 2025 — isolated incident, potential for harm.
View the original federal record
F-Tag 550 — 42 CFR §483.10(a) — S/S: D
The home failed to keep residents’ personal and medical records private and confidential. Cited January 2025 — isolated incident, potential for harm.
View the original federal record
F-Tag 583 — 42 CFR §483.10 — S/S: D
The home failed to properly label and securely store medications and biologicals. Cited January 2025 — isolated incident, potential for harm.
View the original federal record
F-Tag 761 — 42 CFR §483.45(g) — S/S: D
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 January 2025 — isolated incident, potential for harm.
View the original federal record
F-Tag 880 — 42 CFR §483.80(a) — S/S: D
Recent history
- STAFFING
Reported nurse staffing was below the federal recommendation of 4.1 hours per resident per day.
- INSPECTION
Health inspection found 5 health deficiencies.
See what inspectors found
- INSPECTION
Health inspection found 6 health deficiencies.
See what inspectors found
- INSPECTION
Health inspection found 1 health deficiency.
See what inspectors found
Operator & ownership
- Ownership
- For profit - Corporation
- Occupancy
- 101.4 residents on an average day (90% of 113 beds)
- Resident voice
- Resident council
- Medicare history
- Certified for 59 years
Things at a nursing home change — inspections, staffing, ownership, news.
Source: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services — public records, updated monthly. GoodStanding presents official records with plain-language summaries. Always visit a facility in person.