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Nursing Homes in New Jersey

New Jersey has 349 licensed nursing homes listed on ElderCareCosts across 700 cities. The median estimated cost statewide is $12,775/mo. Pick a city below for local pricing and provider listings.

346 of them have a CMS star rating.

Cost of nursing homes in New Jersey

Median monthly price, New Jersey

$12,775/mo

Estimated range $12,195 – $14,448

● New Jersey $12,775 ○ National median $10,205

Source: CareScout Cost of Care Survey 2025

Nursing Homes cost comparison (2025)
Nursing HomesNew JerseyNational
25th percentile$12,195/mo$8,951/mo
Median$12,775/mo$10,205/mo
75th percentile$14,448/mo$12,642/mo

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Medicare generally does not cover long-term custodial care. Families usually combine private pay, long-term care insurance, VA Aid and Attendance, or a Medicaid waiver where they qualify. See paying for care and the state Medicaid guides.

CMS rating distribution in New Jersey

CMS overall star ratings for 346 nursing homes in New Jersey. We do not re-rank these scores.

CMS star ratings in New Jersey
CMS starsProviders
5 stars93
4 stars90
3 stars73
2 stars61
1 star29

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What federal inspectors recorded in New Jersey

New Jersey has 348 facilities certified by Medicare or Medicaid, as of the CMS penalty file published October 1, 2026. CMS publishes what it fined them, when it stopped paying for new admissions, how many nursing hours they staffed, and what its inspectors wrote up. These are those records counted. A penalty is an enforcement action on a date, not a verdict on the care a resident receives today.

Facilities with a federal penalty

43%150 of 348 (43%)

A civil money penalty, a payment denial, or both, among the penalties CMS recorded between July 17, 2023 and September 23, 2026.

Facilities where CMS stopped paying for new admissions

2%8 of 348 (2%)

A payment denial is CMS refusing to pay for newly admitted Medicare and Medicaid residents until the facility corrects the problem it cited.

Median penalty total, among facilities that were fined

$48,825in fines · 139 facilities

The middle facility's total across every civil money penalty CMS recorded for it in this window, not the amount of a single fine.

Median nurse staffing hours per resident day

3.66hours · 347 facilities

0.06 hours below the national median of 3.72 hours.

Total nurse hours per resident per day from payroll records CMS collects, quarter Q2 2026. Staffing is an input, not an outcome.

Facilities with an inspection citation in the last 12 months

53%186 of 348 (53%)

Counts facilities with at least one deficiency CMS inspectors wrote up in the last 365 days. The most recent one here is dated September 2, 2026. A facility inspected and found compliant records no citation, so this is not a survey date.

These figures cover nursing homes only. CMS keeps these penalty, staffing and inspection records for Medicare and Medicaid certified nursing homes. Assisted living, memory care and home care agencies are licensed by each state under different rules, so their records are not comparable.

Each share above shows how many facilities it is based on. Where there are too few for a percentage to mean much, we show the count instead. More in our methodology.

New Jersey licensing & regulation

State-by-state licensing agency details and how to check a facility's complaint history for New Jersey are coming soon.

Medicaid & local resources in New Jersey

Long-Term Care Ombudsman

New Jersey Long-Term Care Ombudsman Program helps residents of nursing homes, assisted living, and similar settings in New Jersey resolve concerns about care and rights.

Find your local ombudsman

Medicaid programs for care at home

  • Managed Long Term Services and Supports (MLTSS). New Jersey has no active 1915(c) elderly HCBS waiver on the Medicaid.gov factsheet; elderly / disabled LTSS is delivered through NJ FamilyCare MLTSS under the Comprehensive Demonstration (1115).

National helplines

Cities in New Jersey

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Counties in New Jersey

Nursing Homes by county in New Jersey

Nursing Homes providers in New Jersey

Some of the licensed nursing homes in New Jersey. Open a city page for the full local list.

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Frequently asked questions

Which cities in New Jersey have nursing homes listings?

New Jersey has nursing homes listings in 700 cities and towns. Find yours in the city list on this page, or search for it by name.

Past 60 days in New Jersey: 1,030 updated. Most recent change Nov 3. Counts come from our ingestion diffs, not confirmed licensing actions.

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