New Jersey Nursing Home Inspection Reports & Survey Activity — 2026
Track CMS survey activity across the 348 skilled nursing facilities in New Jersey. Facilities have 7,398 recorded deficiency citations, averaging 21.3 per facility, with 1 reporting zero deficiencies, including 242 at Immediate Jeopardy severity. The most-cited categories and F-Tags below highlight what New Jersey surveyors are flagging most, drawn from official CMS Health Deficiency data.
Most-Cited Deficiency Categories in New Jersey
- Quality of Life and Care Deficiencies — 1,542 citations
- Resident Assessment and Care Planning Deficiencies — 1,442 citations
- Resident Rights Deficiencies — 873 citations
- Pharmacy Service Deficiencies — 870 citations
- Nutrition and Dietary Deficiencies — 752 citations
- Infection Control Deficiencies — 687 citations
Most-Cited F-Tags in New Jersey
- F-Tag F0880: Infection Prevention & Control — 522 citations
- F-Tag F0812: Food Procurement Store/Prepare/Serve-Sanitary — 464 citations
- F-Tag F0658: Services Provided Meet Professional Standards — 431 citations
- F-Tag F0755: Pharmacy Services/Procedures/Pharmacist/Records — 286 citations
- F-Tag F0695: Respiratory/Tracheostomy Care and Suctioning — 282 citations
- F-Tag F0656: Develop/Implement Comprehensive Care Plan — 238 citations
- F-Tag F0761: Label/Store Drugs and Biologicals — 235 citations
- F-Tag F0689: Free of Accident Hazards/Supervision/Devices — 234 citations
- F-Tag F0641: Accuracy of Assessments — 200 citations
- F-Tag F0584: Safe/Clean/Comfortable/Homelike Environment — 195 citations
More New Jersey Compliance Data
- New Jersey Nursing Home Scorecard
- New Jersey Compliance Benchmark
- New Jersey State Compliance Guide
- Best Nursing Homes in New Jersey
Explore POCDesk — Free Nursing Home Compliance Tools
- SNF Scorecard — look up any facility's inspection record
- Nursing Home Compare Tool — side-by-side comparisons
- Skilled Nursing Near Me — find facilities by city & state
- Best Nursing Homes by State — ranked by inspection results
- Survey Tracker — recent CMS survey activity
- F-Tag Reference Guide — every CMS deficiency tag
- Plan of Correction (POC) Complete Guide
- Free AI POC Generator
- Plan of Correction Examples
- CMS Survey Preparation Guide
- SNF Compliance Guides
- What Is Skilled Nursing Care?
Official Sources
POCDesk analyzes official government data. Verify any facility's record or read the underlying regulations at these primary sources:
- Medicare.gov Care Compare — CMS's official nursing home comparison tool
- CMS Provider Data Catalog — the raw nursing home inspection & deficiency datasets
- CMS Nursing Home Certification & Compliance — enforcement policy and the Special Focus Facility program
- 42 CFR Part 483 (eCFR) — the federal requirements of participation behind every F-Tag
- National Long-Term Care Ombudsman Resource Center — free advocacy help for residents and families