Fonteum Care Compare · Massachusetts · Boston
Nursing homes in Boston, Massachusetts: 11 Medicare-certified facilities.
CMS overall star rating, staffing rating, health inspection rating, and ownership type for every Medicare-certified nursing home in Boston — every column traced to the CMS Care Compare NH Provider Information dataset (4pq5-n9py).
Average CMS overall rating in Boston: 3.4 / 5
How Boston compares
Boston vs the Massachusetts state average
Overall ★ — this city
3.4
State avg 3.1 / 5
+0.3 vs state
Staffing ★ — this city
3.5
State avg 3.0 / 5
+0.4 vs state
Facilities — this city
11
341 statewide
State averages are CMS-published per-state means from the same snapshot; the city figure is the mean across the 11 rated facilities above.
Where Boston sits
All 11 Medicare-certified nursing homes in Boston sit in Suffolk County, Massachusetts. County is the geographic unit CMS uses for staffing-desert and access analysis.
All Medicare-certified nursing homes in Boston, Massachusetts
Spaulding Nursing And Therapy Center - Brighton
100 N Beacon Street · CCN 225014 · Non profit - Corporation
123 certified beds · 93.4 avg daily residents · 7.86 total nurse hrs/resident-day · QM 3 / 5 · Last standard survey March 12, 2025
5
Overall
5
Staffing
4 / 5
Health Insp.
Boston Home, Inc (The)
2049 Dorchester Avenue · CCN 225434 · Non profit - Corporation
96 certified beds · 93.1 avg daily residents · 6.08 total nurse hrs/resident-day · QM 4 / 5 · Last standard survey April 23, 2025
5
Overall
5
Staffing
5 / 5
Health Insp.
Laurel Ridge Rehab And Skilled Care Center
174 Forest Hills Street · CCN 225469 · Non profit - Corporation
120 certified beds · 107 avg daily residents · 4.36 total nurse hrs/resident-day · QM 5 / 5 · Last standard survey May 21, 2025
5
Overall
4
Staffing
4 / 5
Health Insp.
German Center For Extended Care
2222 Centre Street · CCN 225540 · Non profit - Corporation
133 certified beds · 128 avg daily residents · 3.81 total nurse hrs/resident-day · QM 5 / 5 · Last standard survey September 4, 2025
5
Overall
3
Staffing
4 / 5
Health Insp.
Recuperative Services Unit-Hebrew Rehab Center
1200 Centre Street · CCN 225759 · Non profit - Corporation
50 certified beds · 31.6 avg daily residents · 4.56 total nurse hrs/resident-day · QM 5 / 5 · Last standard survey July 24, 2025
5
Overall
3
Staffing
4 / 5
Health Insp.
Armenian Nursing & Rehabilitation Center
431 Pond Street · CCN 225417 · Non profit - Corporation
83 certified beds · 79.1 avg daily residents · 3.82 total nurse hrs/resident-day · QM 3 / 5 · Last standard survey December 11, 2025
4
Overall
3
Staffing
4 / 5
Health Insp.
Sherrill House
135 South Huntington Avenue · CCN 225201 · Non profit - Corporation
196 certified beds · 165.3 avg daily residents · 3.75 total nurse hrs/resident-day · QM 4 / 5 · Last standard survey January 16, 2025
2
Overall
4
Staffing
2 / 5
Health Insp.
Presentation Rehab And Skilled Care Center
10 Bellamy Street · CCN 225486 · Non profit - Corporation
122 certified beds · 113.5 avg daily residents · 4.17 total nurse hrs/resident-day · QM 2 / 5 · Last standard survey April 28, 2025
2
Overall
4
Staffing
2 / 5
Health Insp.
Benjamin Healthcare Center
120 Fisher Avenue · CCN 225654 · Non profit - Other · SFF Candidate
205 certified beds · 80.2 avg daily residents · 3.50 total nurse hrs/resident-day · QM 5 / 5 · Last standard survey April 30, 2025
2
Overall
2
Staffing
1 / 5
Health Insp.
Care Village At Parkway
1190 Vfw Parkway · CCN 225497 · For profit - Limited Liability company
141 certified beds · 129.3 avg daily residents · 2.98 total nurse hrs/resident-day · QM 2 / 5 · Last standard survey February 13, 2025
1
Overall
2
Staffing
1 / 5
Health Insp.
North End Rehabilitation And Healthcare Center
70 Fulton Street · CCN 225506 · For profit - Limited Liability company
100 certified beds · 89.1 avg daily residents · 4.58 total nurse hrs/resident-day · QM 4 / 5 · Last standard survey May 9, 2025
1
Overall
3
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 Boston 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.