Our Lady's Haven

    71 Center St, Fairhaven, MA 02719
    • Assisted Living
    • Memory Care
    • Skilled Nursing

    Friendly staff, kind nursing care

    I'm very pleased with the friendly front desk, kind nursing care, and hardworking, helpful staff - they interact warmly with residents and create a genuine family atmosphere in a nice facility. I recommend it.

    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

    3.75·(8)

    Overall rating

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

      3.3
    • Staff

      3.0
    • Meals

      3.8
    • Amenities

      2.0
    • Value

      3.8

    Pros

    • Friendly front-desk reception
    • Kind, helpful nursing staff
    • Hardworking caregiving team
    • Positive staff–resident interactions
    • Family-like atmosphere
    • Well-maintained facility appearance
    • Supportive staff engagement

    Cons

    • Small, cramped resident rooms
    • Crowded and noisy common areas
    • Supply shortages affecting basic care
    • Inconsistent staff professionalism and responsiveness
    • Gaps in fall-prevention and incident follow-up
    • Variable overall care quality
    • Limited communal/activity space layout

    Summary of reviews

    Overview: Reviews present a mixed picture of the facility. Many families emphasize a warm, family-like culture and positive interpersonal interactions between staff and residents, while other comments raise operational concerns about room size, crowding, supply availability, and aspects of clinical oversight. Prospective residents and families should weigh the relationship-centered strengths against these operational limitations.

    Care quality and safety: Feedback suggests variability in clinical care. Several comments praise kind nursing attention, but other remarks point to inconsistent care outcomes and specific safety concerns such as an unclear cause following a resident fall. These indicate potential gaps in fall-prevention practices, incident investigation, and timely communication with families. Families evaluating the facility should ask about staffing ratios, fall-prevention protocols, and how the facility communicates and documents clinical incidents.

    Staff and management: Staff are commonly described as friendly, hardworking, and supportive; front-desk and caregiving personnel receive particular praise for interpersonal engagement. Contrastingly, there are repeated notes about inconsistent professionalism and responsiveness, and about basic supply shortages that suggest management-level challenges in resourcing or oversight. Those concerns point to potential variability in everyday operational reliability rather than uniformly poor or uniformly excellent management.

    Dining and activities: Review data provide little consistent information about dining services. Social engagement appears supported by positive staff–resident interactions and a family atmosphere, but physical constraints limit programming: communal areas are described as crowded or poorly configured (for example, a small community room), and small resident rooms may restrict in-room activities. Prospective residents should inquire about activity schedules, group sizes, and how the facility adapts programming to limited space.

    Facilities and environment: The building and public areas are often called "nice," but many reviewers highlight small resident rooms and a sense of crowding in shared spaces. Layout and room size are recurring practical issues that can affect privacy, noise levels, and day-to-day comfort. Visiting the specific unit and comparing room dimensions and common-area configurations is advisable.

    Notable patterns and recommendations: The dominant pattern is a split between strong, compassionate staff interactions and operational weaknesses that affect consistency of care and comfort. Key topics to investigate during a visit include staffing levels and schedules, supply-management practices, fall-prevention and incident-response procedures, noise control, and how activities are scheduled given space constraints. Asking for recent quality metrics, family communication examples, and a walk-through of a typical day can help families determine whether the facility’s strengths align with their priorities.

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    Medicare Ratings

    5·/ 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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    Our Lady's Haven is located at 71 Center St, Fairhaven, MA, 02719.

    About Our Lady's Haven

    Our Lady's Haven Skilled Nursing & Rehabilitative Care sits in the historic Tabitha Inn in Fairhaven, MA, and folks there focus on long-term care, short-term rehabilitation, and skilled nursing for men and women, offering help for many health needs. The staff includes nurses and therapy assistants who provide skilled nursing care, medication management, and therapies like physical, occupational, speech, and respiratory therapy right on site, and they shape the care to fit each resident's needs, which means people get an individualized plan made for them after they're assessed. Residents with memory issues, including Alzheimer's disease and dementia, receive specialized care, and there's a focus on safety, comfort, and well-being in every part of the building, which has a lobby, chapel, shared dining room, family sitting area for visitors, and common spaces for resting or socializing.

    People come for different reasons, such as recovering from an illness or injury with the help of skilled rehabilitative care, staying a little while for respite care to give caregivers a break, or needing long-term, ongoing support. For those dealing with pain, the pain management program holds accreditation from the American Academy of Pain Management, and folks facing a serious illness can access palliative and hospice care, all tailored to meet what they need physically, emotionally, and spiritually, which the facility calls a holistic approach. The center holds Joint Commission and Medicare and Medicaid certifications, and it accepts most insurance plans and contracts with the Department of Veteran Affairs, so there's a good bit of flexibility for admission.

    Services there cover everything from helping with medicine and wellness activities to home safety checks and supporting families with discharge planning if someone is heading home. The staff also runs spiritual programs and activities, communal dining, and organized social events, making space for both solitude and visiting with others. For Portuguese-speaking residents, bilingual staff help meet communication needs. With a rating of 3.6 out of 5 from a small number of online reviews, the center continues to support up to 117 adults, keeping the mission on fostering independence and overall health. Members of the Diocesan Health Facilities group manage it, and the building, with its old charm, settles quietly within the town, bringing together experience, care, and a bit of history all at once.

    People often ask...

    Our Lady's Haven offers assisted living, memory care, board and care, and skilled nursing.

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    The full address for this community is 71 Center St, Fairhaven, MA 02719.

    No, Our Lady's Haven 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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