Nursing Homes in Union County, NJ
County directory of licensed nursing homes providers, cities in Union County, and real Area Agency on Aging / state Medicaid contacts. We never invent county Medicaid offices.
Licensed nursing homes providers: 23
A note on counting: we show 23 licensed nursing homes listed for Union County proper. Other sites show bigger numbers when they count a wide radius. Nearby options are linked below, labeled by city.
Aristacare at Norwood Terrace
Mountainside Skilled Nursing and Rehab
Complete Care at Clark LLC
Cranford Park Care
Complete Care at Plainfield LLC
Birchwood Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center
Complete Care at Westfield, LLC
Complete Care at Woodlands
Spring Grove Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center
Continuing Care at Lantern Hill
Autumn Lake Healthcare at Berkeley Heights
Runnells Center for Rehabilitation & Healthcare
Elizabeth Nursing and Rehab Center
Trinitas Hospital
Elmora Hills Health & Rehabilitation Center
Plaza Healthcare & Rehabilitation Center
South Mountain HC
Childrens Specialized Hospital Mountainside
Adroit Care Rehabilitation and Nursing Center
Care Connection Rahway
Cornell Hall Care & Rehabilitation Center
Ashbrook Care & Rehabilitation Center
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Cities in Union County
- Elizabeth · 4
- Plainfield · 3
- Berkeley Heights · 2
- Cranford · 2
- Mountainside · 2
- New Providence · 2
- Rahway · 2
- Clark · 1
- Linden · 1
- Scotch Plains · 1
- Union · 1
- Vauxhall · 1
- Westfield · 1
What federal inspectors recorded here
Union County, NJ has 23 facilities certified by Medicare or Medicaid, as of the CMS penalty file published August 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%10 of 23 (43%)
A civil money penalty, a payment denial, or both, among the penalties CMS recorded between July 17, 2023 and July 29, 2026.
- Facilities where CMS stopped paying for new admissions
9%2 of 23 (9%)
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
$23,699in fines · 8 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
3.54hours · 23 facilities
0.06 hours below the New Jersey median of 3.60 hours.
Total nurse hours per resident per day from payroll records CMS collects, quarter Q1 2026. Staffing is an input, not an outcome.
- Facilities with an inspection citation in the last 12 months
52%12 of 23 (52%)
Counts facilities with at least one deficiency CMS inspectors wrote up in the last 365 days. The most recent one here is dated May 26, 2026. A facility inspected and found compliant records no citation, so this is not a survey date.
These figures cover nursing homes and nothing else on this site. Penalties, payroll staffing and inspection citations in this form are federal records that CMS keeps for Medicare and Medicaid certified nursing homes. Assisted living, memory care and in-home agencies are licensed by each state under different rules, and the state penalty files we hold are not comparable to these. We would rather show one honest set of numbers than a national-looking figure stitched from regulators that do not measure the same thing.
Every share above is printed with the number of facilities behind it. Where a place has too few facilities for a share to mean anything, we print the count and say so rather than a percentage. How we count, and what we will not count, is in our methodology.
Local aging & Medicaid contacts
Area Agency on Aging
Union County Division on Aging · (908) 527-4870
Source: State aging agency.GOVAging & Disability Resource Center
New Jersey Aging and Disability Resource Connection · 1-877-222-3737
Source: Aging & disability resource center.GOVNew Jersey Medicaid HCBS / LTSS programs
State-level Medicaid waiver contacts (not invented county Medicaid offices). Official agency pages only.
- 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).
Questions families ask
How many nursing homes are listed in Union County, NJ?
We currently list 23 licensed nursing homes in Union County, NJ.
Which cities in Union County have nursing homes listings?
We track 13 cities in Union County with nursing homes. See the city list on this page.
Who is the Area Agency on Aging for Union County?
Union County Division on Aging is the Area Agency on Aging covering Union County. Contact details on this page come from official aging-network sources.
How do families in Union County learn about Medicaid long-term care options?
New Jersey publishes named Medicaid HCBS / LTSS waiver programs. We link official state pages on this county page and do not invent county Medicaid office contacts.
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