Merry Heart Assisted Living

• Have generator or other power source capable of supplying service within 10 seconds.

  Severity F of L: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, widespreadCorrected Feb 7, 2025

• Have an enclosure around a vertical opening shaft.

  Severity F of L: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, widespreadCorrected Feb 20, 2025

• Have approved installation, maintenance and testing program for fire alarm systems.

  Severity F of L: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, widespreadCorrected Jan 31, 2025

• Install an approved automatic sprinkler system.

  Severity F of L: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, widespreadCorrected Feb 6, 2025

• Inspect, test, and maintain automatic sprinkler systems.

  Severity F of L: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, widespreadCorrected Feb 6, 2025

• Ensure that waiting areas, nurse’s stations, gift shops, and cooking facilities, open to the corridor are properly protected.

  Severity F of L: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, widespreadCorrected Feb 20, 2025

• Ensure receptacles at patient bed locations and where general anesthesia is administered, are tested after initial installation, replacement or servicing.

  Severity F of L: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, widespreadCorrected Jan 20, 2025

• Honor the resident's right to a dignified existence, self-determination, communication, and to exercise his or her rights.

  Severity D of L: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, isolatedCorrected Feb 5, 2025

• Ensure drugs and biologicals used in the facility are labeled in accordance with currently accepted professional principles; and all drugs and biologicals must be stored in locked compartments, separately locked, compartments for controlled drugs.

  Severity D of L: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, isolatedCorrected Feb 5, 2025

• Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program.

  Severity D of L: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, isolatedCorrected Jan 31, 2025

• Keep residents' personal and medical records private and confidential.

  Severity D of L: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, isolatedCorrected Feb 6, 2025

• Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to prevent accidents.

  Severity D of L: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, isolatedFound during a complaint inspectionCorrected Feb 5, 2025

• Ensure that nurse aides who have worked more than 4 months, are trained and competent; and nurse aides who have worked less than 4 months are enrolled in appropriate training.

  Severity E of L: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, patternCorrected Jan 31, 2024

• Timely report suspected abuse, neglect, or theft and report the results of the investigation to proper authorities.

  Severity D of L: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, isolatedFound during a complaint inspectionCorrected Jan 31, 2024

• Provide care and assistance to perform activities of daily living for any resident who is unable.

  Severity D of L: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, isolatedCorrected Jan 31, 2024

• Provide safe and appropriate respiratory care for a resident when needed.

  Severity D of L: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, isolatedCorrected Jan 31, 2024

• Procure food from sources approved or considered satisfactory and store, prepare, distribute and serve food in accordance with professional standards.

  Severity D of L: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, isolatedCorrected Jan 31, 2024

• Ensure services provided by the nursing facility meet professional standards of quality.

  Severity D of L: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, isolatedCorrected Jan 31, 2024

• Ensure that special areas are constructed so that walls can resist fire for one hour or have an approved fire extinguishing system.

  Severity E of L: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, patternCorrected Jan 13, 2022

• Have generator or other power source capable of supplying service within 10 seconds.

  Severity E of L: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, patternCorrected Nov 17, 2021

• Ensure proper usage of power strips and extension cords.

  Severity D of L: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, isolatedCorrected Nov 13, 2021

• Procure food from sources approved or considered satisfactory and store, prepare, distribute and serve food in accordance with professional standards.

  Severity D of L: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, isolatedCorrected Nov 24, 2021

• Install emergency lighting that can last at least 1 1/2 hours.

  Severity D of L: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, isolatedCorrected Nov 13, 2021

Merry Heart Assisted Living offers Assisted Living and Skilled Nursing / Long Term Care.

Merry Heart Assisted Living is located at 200 Rt 10 West in Succasunna, New Jersey.

Merry Heart Nursing Home is a long-standing skilled nursing and long-term care community in Succasunna, New Jersey, that has served Morris County families for six decades. Reviewers consistently praise the compassionate, attentive staff, clean facility, varied activities, and quality of meals, with several highlighting the on-site dietician and therapy team.

Merry Heart Assisted Living had 5 government inspection visits in the last three years, with 23 citations on file according to CMS Care Compare data. The full history, including what each citation was for and whether it was corrected, is in the inspection section on this page.

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