Caroline Nursing and Rehab

    520 Kerr Ave, Denton, MD 21629
    • Assisted Living
    • Memory Care
    • Skilled Nursing
    3.7ยท23 reviews

    Seamless intake compassionate personalized care

    I'm very pleased with our experience: intake was seamless, staff were compassionate, knowledgeable, and treated my mother like family, with excellent communication (weekly updates and calls) and personalized care that kept her happy and comfortable. The facility is beautiful and clean, offers warm hospitality and activities like bingo and animal visits, and overall gave us a great experience.

    Loved one of resident
    Jul 2026

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    Amenities

    Healthcare services

    • Activities of daily living assistance
    • Assistance with bathing
    • Assistance with dressing
    • Assistance with transfers
    • Medication management
    • Mental wellness program

    Healthcare staffing

    • 12-16 hour nursing
    • 24-hour call system
    • 24-hour supervision

    Meals and dining

    • Diabetes diet
    • Meal preparation and service
    • Restaurant-style dining
    • Special dietary restrictions

    Room

    • Air-conditioning
    • Cable
    • Fully furnished
    • Housekeeping and linen services
    • Kitchenettes
    • Private bathrooms
    • Telephone
    • Wifi

    Transportation

    • Community operated transportation
    • Transportation arrangement
    • Transportation arrangement (non-medical)

    Common areas

    • Beauty salon
    • Computer center
    • Dining room
    • Fitness room
    • Gaming room
    • Garden
    • Outdoor space
    • Small library
    • Wellness center

    Community services

    • Concierge services
    • Fitness programs
    • Move-in coordination

    Activities

    • Community-sponsored activities
    • Planned day trips
    • Resident-run activities
    • Scheduled daily activities

    Reviews

    3.65ยท(23)

    Overall rating

    1. 5
    2. 4
    3. 3
    4. 2
    5. 1
    • Care

      2.3
    • Staff

      3.0
    • Meals

      2.0
    • Amenities

      2.0
    • Value

      1.0

    Pros

    • Compassionate frontline caregivers
    • Knowledgeable and helpful nursing staff
    • Friendly, welcoming staff and hospitality
    • Clean resident rooms and common areas
    • On-site activities (bingo and animal/pet visits)
    • Healthy snack options and resident refreshments
    • Regular COVID-19 and status communication
    • Responsive admissions and intake process
    • Residents treated with familial warmth

    Cons

    • Inconsistent climate control and delayed maintenance
    • Frequent leadership turnover
    • Chronic understaffing and staff shortages
    • Slow response to resident calls and assistance requests
    • Gaps in medication administration and treatment timeliness
    • Weak fall-prevention and bed-monitoring systems
    • Inconsistent meal quality and dining service
    • Poor family communication and update practices
    • Limited corporate responsiveness and resource support
    • Inconsistent therapy and rehabilitation availability

    Summary of reviews

    The reviews present a mixed picture of care at this facility, with clear strengths at the frontline level but recurrent operational and systems-level concerns. Several families described compassionate, attentive individual caregivers and staff members who provided a warm, family-like atmosphere. Reviewers also noted helpful admissions staff, organized COVID-19 status updates, on-site activities such as bingo and animal visits, and generally clean resident rooms. These elements contribute to positive daily experiences for some residents and families.

    At the clinical and operational level there is notable variability. Positive accounts describe knowledgeable nursing staff, timely intake, and satisfactory therapy when it was available. Conversely, other accounts describe delayed medication administration, missed or late treatments, and inconsistent therapy provision for rehabilitationโ€”indicating gaps in clinical workflows and continuity of care. Fall-prevention measures and bed-monitoring systems were cited as unreliable in several accounts, suggesting opportunities to strengthen safety protocols and monitoring technology.

    Staffing and staff conduct emerged as a central theme. While individual caregivers were frequently praised for compassion and dedication, multiple reviews described chronic understaffing, long wait times for assistance, and examples of unprofessional or brusque interactions. Frequent leadership turnover and a high rate of administrative changeover were also highlighted; these organizational instabilities can affect staff morale, supervision, and operational consistency.

    Facility infrastructure and maintenance are recurring concerns. Reviews referenced inconsistent heating and air conditioning, unresolved maintenance issues over extended periods, and a perception of limited facility resources. Dining impressions were mixed: some families appreciated healthy snacks and activity-centered refreshments, while others characterized core meal quality as poor or unappetizing. Cleanliness of rooms was often noted positively, but there were isolated sanitation and maintenance concerns that merit attention.

    Communication and management practices show a pattern of strengths and weaknesses. Positive comments highlight weekly communications and responsive intake problem-solving. However, there are consistent reports of gaps in family updatesโ€”particularly related to medication issues, test results, and hospital transfersโ€”and descriptions of corporate-level responses that seem formulaic rather than locally accountable. Several reviewers connected these communication gaps to broader concerns about underfunding and limited local authority to resolve problems.

    Taken together, the notable pattern is one of uneven performance: committed, personable frontline staff and engaging activities juxtaposed with systemic challenges in staffing levels, clinical consistency, environmental maintenance, and management stability. Prospective residents and families should prioritize an in-person tour that tests climate control, asks about current staffing ratios and leadership stability, inquires about medication-administration protocols and fall-prevention systems, and requests examples of recent family-communication practices. These checks can help determine whether the facilityโ€™s strong interpersonal culture is matched by reliable operational safeguards and consistent clinical care.

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    Medicare Ratings

    2ยท/ 5
    • Overall

    • Health Inspection

    • Staffing

    • Quality Measures

    Ratings from the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (Care Compare). View on Medicare.gov

    Location

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    Caroline Nursing and Rehab is located at 520 Kerr Ave, Denton, MD, 21629.

    About Caroline Nursing and Rehab

    Caroline Nursing and Rehab sits over in Denton, Maryland, known also as Alterwood Healthcare, and folks say it feels like a close-knit little community with a shared family feeling, where residents and staff look out for each other and where people can find both long-term and short-term care in a warm and familiar environment that promotes comfort and safety, and you've got both private rooms with baths and handicapped-accessible showers for those who need them, and it's been recognized before-for instance, it was ranked #1 out of over 200 nursing facilities in Maryland's Pay for Performance program in 2014, so there's a history of some pretty good results in care and inspections. People living there can join regular activities and outings, including bus trips that help folks stay active and social, and Caroline's staff offer plenty of chances for making friends and staying engaged with different programs to support a vibrant life, and the place takes meal times seriously with wholesome choices and menus that match up with what residents need and want.

    The care team includes nurses, psychiatrists, podiatrists, and in-house dieticians, and they all work together to make customized care plans for each person-care covers things like skilled nursing, memory care for those who need it, help with daily activities, wound care, intravenous therapy, hospice support, and all kinds of rehabilitation, like physical, occupational, and speech therapy, along with medication management, laundry service, and linen support, and Caroline Nursing and Rehab also provides help for people recovering from hospital stays, as well as respite care and end-of-life support with a focus on comfort and dignity. The staff always keep a close watch on best practices and adjust care for things like pressure ulcers and catheter use, and their focus is on clinical excellence, accountability, and teamwork, and people say residents get respectful, personal attention with careful efforts to limit antipsychotic use and use no physical restraints at all.

    Caroline offers a homey atmosphere, and residents benefit from above-average fire safety, a low number of pressure ulcers and urinary tract infections, and fewer signs of pain and depression than you'd find in many places, with a zero percent restraint rate and higher-than-average flu and pneumonia vaccination rates. Medicare rates them above average in both health inspections and the quality of care, and while their staffing levels are average, their results are often better than the state and national averages, and there haven't been federal fines or payment denials in recent years. You'll find a mix of short-stay and long-term residents, and the place works with several Medicare Advantage plans, including Alterwood Advantage Select, Choice, and Freedom, as well as Dual Secure and Dual Value, which helps folks manage payment options a bit more easily.

    All in all, while Caroline Nursing and Rehab isn't perfect-they've had health inspection reports pointing out some areas that needed improvement, such as following resident wishes on tests and keeping up with some care assessments-it's a nonprofit skilled nursing facility with 90 beds, operating under Aurora Mid-Atlantic LLC, that tries to give people a safe, caring, and supportive place to live and recover, and their attention to detail, community engagement, and variety of care programs makes them a steady choice for folks looking for long-term or rehabilitation care on Maryland's Eastern Shore.

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    Caroline Nursing and Rehab offers assisted living, memory care, and skilled nursing.

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    The full address for this community is 520 Kerr Ave, Denton, MD 21629.

    No, Caroline Nursing and Rehab does not offer respite care. Respite care in assisted living communities provides temporary, short-term relief for primary caregivers by offering professional care for their loved ones. It allows individuals to stay in an assisted living community for a limited time, giving caregivers a break while ensuring residents receive necessary support and assistance with daily activities.

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