Chelsea Skilled Nursing and Rehabilitation sits in Chelsea, Massachusetts and serves seniors who need skilled nursing care and help after a hospital stay, illness, or surgery, and the place has 82 beds approved for Medicare and Medicaid, but lately about 63 and a half beds are taken, and that's how they do it now, since it's a place that's both a skilled nursing facility and part of a larger continuing care retirement community where folks can move between different levels of care without leaving the campus, and the corporation that owns it changed hands in the past couple years. It offers basic things like skilled nursing services, rehabilitation, help with medication, bathing, dressing, moving around, dealing with diabetes, incontinence, or other needs, and there's a 24-hour call system for those who can't get around on their own, plus special care for Alzheimer's disease and orthopedic rehab, so they handle both ShortStay and LongTerm care.
The staff spends about 0.32 hours per resident for general staffing, with nurses handling around 4.32 hours per resident each day, and the staff ratings stand at a decent 4 out of 5, while the quality of clinical care sits at 3 out of 5, but health inspections have brought it down with a 1 out of 5 in that area, and overall the place ranks 2 out of 5 when you add up the scores for health, safety, and everything else. The building is fully sprinklered for safety, has a valid business license checked every month, and keeps up with required health and safety inspections, and it's been accepting Medicaid since 1993.
Chelsea Skilled Nursing and Rehabilitation doesn't have any online reviews yet, but as far as rankings go, it holds the 300th spot out of 395 in Massachusetts, which puts it in the top 24% statewide, and 502nd out of 620 within a hundred miles, which counts as being in the top 19% in that range, though within Chelsea's own list of nursing homes, it lands at 311th out of 382, also in the top 19% for similar facilities of that size.
The place comes with meal plans and a dining room, restaurant-style service from a professional chef, and meals for people with allergies and diabetes; rooms are furnished with private bathrooms, little kitchenettes, cable TV, Wi-Fi, phones, and air conditioning, which is handy for keeping comfortable; you'll find both indoor and outdoor common spaces, a fitness room, walking paths, a garden, and a movie theater; the usual bridge games, arts room, scheduled exercise, library, recreation activities, spa/wellness room, and resident-led programs also show up on the calendar. Transportation, parking, housekeeping, laundry, dry cleaning, and move-in coordination are there, too, for when people need a hand settling in or just keeping up with chores.
Residents get regular activities, devotional programs, music, art, and family support, plus there's both on-site and offsite options to keep busy. Chelsea Skilled Nursing and Rehabilitation accepts both Medicare and Medicaid, so while it's a for-profit, corporate-run community, it sticks to offering the basic comforts and help that folks might look for when they need skilled nursing or rehab care.
