Fitchburg Rehabilitation and Nursing Center

    94 Summer St, Fitchburg, MA 01420
    • Assisted Living
    • Memory Care
    • Skilled Nursing

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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

    4.37·(75)

    Overall rating

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

      4.4
    • Staff

      4.5
    • Meals

      3.2
    • Amenities

      3.0
    • Value

      4.4

    Pros

    • Compassionate nursing and care-aide staff
    • Responsive social-work and case-management services
    • Assistance with insurance, benefits, and transportation
    • Strong inpatient rehabilitation and physical therapy
    • Warm, home-like environment and resident-centered care
    • Friendly and accessible administration and reception
    • Engaging activity programs and quality activity space
    • High-quality dining experience in dining areas
    • Prompt responsiveness to resident needs
    • Effective short-term/post-acute care services
    • Routine housekeeping on many units
    • Supportive roommate and family-centered arrangements

    Cons

    • Sanitation and kitchen-hygiene concerns in some areas
    • Aging facility and uneven maintenance
    • Unreliable phone and call-button systems
    • Inconsistent meal quality across units
    • Variability in staff conduct and care consistency
    • Crowded units and limited bed/room space
    • Gaps in clinical-incident response and family communication
    • Safety and maintenance hazards (broken fixtures, heating issues)
    • Inconsistent housekeeping standards across shifts

    Summary of reviews

    Overall impression: Reviewers present a mixed but clear pattern: many families and patients praise the staff, rehabilitation services, and certain communal amenities, while other comments raise persistent operational concerns. Strengths most often cited include compassionate direct care, a strong rehabilitation program, supportive social-work and business-office assistance, and pleasant activity and dining spaces. At the same time, multiple accounts point to variability in facility condition, communication systems, and some aspects of daily operations.

    Care and staff: The facility receives frequent positive mention for the quality of bedside care delivered by nurses, CNAs, therapists, and aides. Reviewers commonly describe staff as caring, attentive, and willing to go beyond baseline duties; several highlighted individual employees and administrators as particularly helpful. The rehabilitation and physical-therapy teams are repeatedly described as effective in rebuilding strength and promoting independence, and short-term/post-acute care pathways are generally viewed favorably. However, other reviews describe uneven staff conduct and responsiveness, suggesting variability in staffing performance or supervision across shifts.

    Dining and activities: Dining rooms and activity spaces are often singled out positively — reviewers used terms that indicate a strong communal dining experience and engaging programming in dedicated activity rooms. At the same time, there are inconsistent remarks about food quality and meal-service continuity; some families report substandard meals or limited condiments. The facility appears to offer an active calendar and spaces that some residents find top-notch, even when opinions about dining and food vary.

    Facilities and cleanliness: Comments about the physical plant diverge sharply. Several reviewers praise clean, renovated areas and good housekeeping; others raise sanitation concerns in parts of the building, cite broken bathroom fixtures, a worn appearance in older sections, and reference kitchen-hygiene issues. Crowding and limited bed/room space are also noted, along with occasional odor or housekeeping lapses. These mixed observations indicate the facility may have renovated or well-maintained zones alongside older, less-updated areas.

    Management and communication: Administrative and front-desk staff receive favorable remarks for accessibility and engagement from numerous families. Social workers and the business office are repeatedly credited for helping with insurance, benefits, housing placement, and transportation. Conversely, communication weaknesses emerge as a recurring operational issue: unreliable phone and call-button systems, delayed callbacks, and inconsistent family communication about resident incidents or needs. These communication gaps are associated in some reports with frustrations about clinical-incident follow-up and perceived delays in addressing emergent concerns.

    Notable patterns and cautionary notes: Infection-control practices were explicitly described as strict during the COVID-19 period, and at least one account referenced no facility-level COVID fatalities. Nevertheless, a small number of strongly negative accounts raise serious concerns about sanitation, clinical response, and outcomes following a resident's death; these items represent individual severe criticisms that merit follow-up and verification. Taken together, the reviews suggest a facility with many committed and effective staff and strong therapy resources, but with operational inconsistencies in maintenance, sanitation, communication systems, and night/shift-to-shift service reliability. Prospective residents and families should prioritize an in-person tour of both renovated and older areas, ask about recent maintenance and infection-control audits, test call-button/phone responsiveness, and discuss staffing patterns for the shifts most relevant to their needs.

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    Medicare Ratings

    1·/ 5
    • Overall

    • Health Inspection

    • Staffing

    • Quality Measures

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

    Location

    Fitchburg Rehabilitation and Nursing Center is located at 94 Summer St, Fitchburg, MA, 01420.

    About Fitchburg Rehabilitation and Nursing Center

    Fitchburg Rehabilitation and Nursing Center sits at 94 Summer Street in Fitchburg, Massachusetts, and folks around here know it's been serving the Fitchburg, Leominster, Lunenburg, and Westminster areas for over 40 years, which says a bit about how much it's part of the community. The building can hold up to 72 people and has 87 certified beds, and all sorts of care happen here, from short-term rehab to long-term nursing, with skilled nurses on hand and therapy services available for folks recovering from a hospital stay or dealing with chronic conditions. You'll find things like occupational therapy, physical therapy, respite care, and end-of-life hospice support, and there are programs meant to help residents move smoothly from hospital back to home or into the facility itself so no one falls through the cracks. They take part in projects like the Fight the Flu Campaign and Sepsis Smart, aiming to stop infections and prevent falls, and they work on reducing how often antipsychotics get prescribed when other treatments might do. With 2.92 nurse hours per resident each day and a nurse turnover rate of 44.7%, the staff do their best, though state and federal inspections have uncovered 42 total deficiencies, with some relating to infection control, timely lab work, and making sure care plans are thorough and followed. Owned equally by Ephram Lahasky and Akiva Horowitz, the facility's a for-profit business managed by the same folks since January 2019, and like other skilled nursing facilities, it's got to meet federal care standards, so if issues come up, they get recorded and must be dealt with to keep residents safe. Fitchburg Rehabilitation and Nursing Center isn't the newest place and doesn't claim to be fancy, but it focuses on providing the basic nursing and rehab people need, with some attention to changing culture in elder care, and plays a quiet but steady role in the local healthcare scene.

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