Morris County Nursing Home Coronavirus Cases, Deaths Released

Russ Crespolini
Updated ·4 min read

MORRIS COUNTY, NJ — Beginning Monday, state officials began breaking down the impact of the new coronavirus, or COVID-19, pandemic in nursing home and long-term care facilities. In Morris County, that means 865 cases.

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Those are some of the numbers revealed Monday when the state Department of Health released information on all nursing facilities in New Jersey who have reported at least one case of the coronavirus.

The listing comes after weeks of requests for the information and repeated warnings from the state to the owners and managers of long-term care facilities about their need to report that information to patients, employees and patients' families, Health Commissioner Judith Persichilli said Monday.

The state has a dashboard set up that tracks the number of cases statewide, including how many cases and fatalities involve long-term care facilities. The 865 cases are spread among 36 facilities. There have been 156 deaths at these facilities as reported by the New Jersey Department of Health on Monday.

The largest outbreak in Morris County was at the Lincoln Park Care Center. The report shows that 116 cases were logged there and out of those there were 29 deaths. According to Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services records, the Lincoln Park Care Center carries an overall four star above average rating. The facility holds an average health inspection rating with lower citations than the New Jersey average and an average staffing rating. Their quality measures rating earned top marks with five stars. They were last fined $8,297 in March of 2019.

Here are the facilities in Morris County that have patients positive for the coronavirus, along with deaths (in parentheses) that have happened at those facilities. The list of facilities was provided by the state Department of Health; there may be discrepancies due to a delay in communications between the facilities and the state:

  • Pine Acres Healthcare and Rehab/Convalescent Center: 36 (0)

  • Merry Heart Nursing Home: 9 (0)

  • Cheshire Home: 8 (0)

  • Brookdale Florham Park: 4 (0)

  • Spring Hills of Morristown: 3 (0)

  • The Villa at Florham Park: 34 (1)

  • The Oaks at Denville: 14 (1)

  • Regency Grande Nursing and Rehabilitation Center: 12 (1)

  • Sunrise of Madison: 9 (1)

  • Lincoln Park Renaissance and Villas at JDT: 20 (2)

  • Mt. Arlington Senior Living: 17 (2)

  • Cedar Crest Senior Living Community: 11 (2)

  • Cedar Crest/Mountainview Gardens: 9 (2)

  • Country Home: 2 (2)

  • Brightview Randolph LLC: 9 (3)

  • Victoria Mews Assisted Living: 44 (4)

  • Chatham Hills Subacute Care Center: 30 (4)

  • Cardinal Village Assisted Living: 24 (4)

  • Troy Hills Center: 19 (4)

  • Fox Trail Memory Care Living Montville: 11 (4)

  • Fox Trail Memory Care Living Chester: 10 (4)

  • Juniper Village at Chatham: 45 (5)

  • CareOne at Madison Avenue: 41 (5)

  • CareOne at Morris: 47 (6)

  • Holly Manor Center: 22 (6)

  • Weston Assisted Living Residence: 15 (7)

  • Morris View Healthcare Center: 40 (10)

  • New Jersey Firemen's Home: 29 (11)

  • Morristown Post Acute Rehabilitation and Nursing Center: 69 (15)

  • Brighton Gardens of Florham Park: 54 (18)

  • Lincoln Park Care Center: 116 (29)

  • The Chelsea At Montville: 8

  • Sunrise of Randolph: 5

  • Arden Courts of Whippany: 3

  • *Paragon Village: 8 (1)

  • *Heath Village: 28 (2)

*Hackettstown location, Morris County mailing address.

Statewide, 10,500 cases of the coronavirus have been identified at 420 long-term care facilities. There have been 1,730 deaths at these facilities, or about 17 percent, with the most egregious case documented at the Andover Subacute & Rehab Center Two, where police removed 17 bodies from the facility last week. Read more here:'Makeshift Morgue' Nursing Home In NJ Had Violations, Complaints

Out of 782 residents at veterans homes statewide, there have been 145 positive cases, with 57 deaths and 32 hospitalizations. Seventy of the 1,331 staff at veterans homes have tested positive for the virus. There have been seven deaths at psychiatric hospitals statewide.

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This article originally appeared on the Parsippany Patch