Fonteum Care Compare · Massachusetts · Worcester
Nursing homes in Worcester, Massachusetts: 16 Medicare-certified facilities.
CMS overall star rating, staffing rating, health inspection rating, and ownership type for every Medicare-certified nursing home in Worcester — every column traced to the CMS Care Compare NH Provider Information dataset (4pq5-n9py).
Average CMS overall rating in Worcester: 3.2 / 5
How Worcester compares
Worcester vs the Massachusetts state average
Overall ★ — this city
3.2
State avg 3.1 / 5
+0.1 vs state
Staffing ★ — this city
3.3
State avg 3.0 / 5
+0.3 vs state
Facilities — this city
16
341 statewide
State averages are CMS-published per-state means from the same snapshot; the city figure is the mean across the 16 rated facilities above.
Where Worcester sits
All 16 Medicare-certified nursing homes in Worcester sit in Worcester County, Massachusetts. County is the geographic unit CMS uses for staffing-desert and access analysis.
All Medicare-certified nursing homes in Worcester, Massachusetts
Knollwood Nursing Center
87 Briarwood Circle · CCN 225016 · Non profit - Corporation
82 certified beds · 76.3 avg daily residents · 4.25 total nurse hrs/resident-day · QM 5 / 5 · Last standard survey December 15, 2025
5
Overall
3
Staffing
4 / 5
Health Insp.
Jewish Healthcare Center
629 Salisbury Street · CCN 225173 · Non profit - Corporation
141 certified beds · 131.9 avg daily residents · 4.48 total nurse hrs/resident-day · QM 5 / 5 · Last standard survey January 21, 2026
5
Overall
3
Staffing
4 / 5
Health Insp.
Lutheran Rehabilitation And Skilled Care Center
26 Harvard Street · CCN 225379 · Non profit - Corporation
150 certified beds · 102 avg daily residents · 4.38 total nurse hrs/resident-day · QM 4 / 5 · Last standard survey December 22, 2025
5
Overall
4
Staffing
5 / 5
Health Insp.
Holy Trinity Eastern Orthodox N & R Center
300 Barber Avenue · CCN 225648 · Non profit - Corporation
113 certified beds · 101.5 avg daily residents · 3.95 total nurse hrs/resident-day · QM 4 / 5 · Last standard survey January 6, 2026
5
Overall
3
Staffing
5 / 5
Health Insp.
St Francis Rehabilitation & Nursing Center
101 Plantation Street · CCN 225438 · For profit - Limited Liability company
137 certified beds · 116.4 avg daily residents · 4.03 total nurse hrs/resident-day · QM 5 / 5 · Last standard survey November 24, 2025
4
Overall
3
Staffing
3 / 5
Health Insp.
West Side House Ltc Facility
35 Fruit Street · CCN 225500 · For profit - Corporation
91 certified beds · 53.4 avg daily residents · 4.02 total nurse hrs/resident-day · QM 4 / 5 · Last standard survey December 30, 2024
4
Overall
4
Staffing
4 / 5
Health Insp.
Notre Dame Long Term Care Center
559 Plantation Street · CCN 225577 · Non profit - Corporation
123 certified beds · 118.1 avg daily residents · 3.57 total nurse hrs/resident-day · QM 4 / 5 · Last standard survey February 12, 2025
4
Overall
3
Staffing
4 / 5
Health Insp.
Christopher House Of Worcester
10 Mary Scano Drive · CCN 225385 · Non profit - Corporation
156 certified beds · 141.7 avg daily residents · 4.24 total nurse hrs/resident-day · QM 2 / 5 · Last standard survey August 29, 2025
3
Overall
4
Staffing
3 / 5
Health Insp.
Blaire House Of Worcester
116 Houghton Street · CCN 225443 · For profit - Corporation
75 certified beds · 69.5 avg daily residents · 3.95 total nurse hrs/resident-day · QM 3 / 5 · Last standard survey August 29, 2025
3
Overall
3
Staffing
3 / 5
Health Insp.
Hermitage Healthcare (The)
383 Mill Street · CCN 225009 · For profit - Corporation
101 certified beds · 91.7 avg daily residents · 3.57 total nurse hrs/resident-day · QM 1 / 5 · Last standard survey August 20, 2025
2
Overall
3
Staffing
3 / 5
Health Insp.
Worcester Rehabilitation & Health Care Center
119 Providence Street · CCN 225199 · For profit - Partnership
160 certified beds · 135.4 avg daily residents · 3.31 total nurse hrs/resident-day · QM 3 / 5 · Last standard survey May 20, 2025
2
Overall
3
Staffing
2 / 5
Health Insp.
St Mary Health Care Center
39 Queen Street · CCN 225305 · Non profit - Corporation
172 certified beds · 110.9 avg daily residents · 3.60 total nurse hrs/resident-day · QM 4 / 5 · Last standard survey December 18, 2024
2
Overall
4
Staffing
2 / 5
Health Insp.
Parsons Hill Rehabilitation & Health Care Center
1350 Main Street · CCN 225390 · For profit - Limited Liability company
162 certified beds · 149.2 avg daily residents · 3.19 total nurse hrs/resident-day · QM 4 / 5 · Last standard survey March 25, 2025
2
Overall
2
Staffing
2 / 5
Health Insp.
Odd Fellows Home Of Massachusetts
104 Randolph Road · CCN 225439 · Non profit - Corporation
100 certified beds · 93.8 avg daily residents · 3.68 total nurse hrs/resident-day · QM 2 / 5 · Last standard survey December 10, 2024
2
Overall
3
Staffing
2 / 5
Health Insp.
Regalcare At Worcester
25 Oriol Drive · CCN 225467 · For profit - Corporation
160 certified beds · 106.5 avg daily residents · 3.83 total nurse hrs/resident-day · QM 1 / 5 · Last standard survey April 17, 2025
2
Overall
4
Staffing
3 / 5
Health Insp.
Vantage At Worcester Llc
59 Acton Street · CCN 225219 · For profit - Limited Liability company
173 certified beds · 113.4 avg daily residents · 4.90 total nurse hrs/resident-day · QM 2 / 5 · Last standard survey November 19, 2024
1
Overall
4
Staffing
1 / 5
Health Insp.
Reading the data
What these CMS ratings mean
Every star column on this page comes straight from CMS’s Five-Star Quality Rating System. Fonteum re-publishes the federal numbers without re-scoring them — the definitions below are CMS’s, not ours.
- Overall star rating
- A 1-to-5 summary CMS derives from the health-inspection, staffing, and quality-measure ratings. It is a relative ranking, not an absolute score — roughly the top fifth of facilities earn 5 stars and the bottom fifth earn 1.
- Health inspection rating
- Based on the three most recent state standard surveys plus any complaint investigations, weighted toward recency. More and more severe deficiencies lower the rating.
- Staffing rating
- Built from payroll-based (PBJ) nurse staffing hours per resident day, case-mix adjusted, including registered-nurse hours and weekend coverage.
- Quality-measure (QM) rating
- Drawn from a set of MDS- and claims-based clinical measures (e.g. pressure ulcers, falls, hospitalisation, antipsychotic use) across short- and long-stay residents.
- Special Focus Facility (SFF)
- A separate CMS program flagging facilities with a persistent pattern of serious health-inspection problems. “SFF” marks an active designation; “SFF Candidate” marks a facility on the candidate list.
Full methodology: how Fonteum sources and signs CMS nursing-home data.
Other Massachusetts cities with nursing homes
Compare Worcester with nearby markets — facility counts from the same CMS snapshot.
Fonteum research on nursing-home quality
Star ratings vs actual resident harm
Where CMS overall stars diverge from documented harm-level deficiencies.
Nursing-home staffing deserts by county
Counties where reported nurse hours per resident day fall furthest behind.
Nursing-home ownership networks
How chain ownership concentrates across Medicare-certified facilities.
Facilities banned from new Medicare admissions
Payment-denial enforcement actions and the facilities they hit.