Somerset Ridge Center

    455 Brayton Ave, Somerset, MA 02726
    • Assisted Living
    • Memory Care
    • Skilled Nursing
    3.8ยท90 reviews

    Warm, professional, clean, compassionate care

    I felt completely supported by a warm, professional team-nurses, aides, therapists and admissions staff who knew my needs, answered questions, and made my loved one feel at home. Amy Lawrence in the business office went above and beyond with MassHealth and coordination with our case worker. I found the facility very clean, secure, and active with regular therapy, engaging activities and responsive, compassionate management.

    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
    • Coordination with health care providers
    • Medication management
    • Mental wellness program

    Healthcare staffing

    • 24-hour call system
    • 24-hour supervision

    Meals and dining

    • Diabetes diet
    • Meal preparation and service
    • Special dietary restrictions

    Room

    • Cable
    • Fully furnished
    • Housekeeping and linen services
    • Kitchenettes
    • Telephone
    • Wifi

    Transportation

    • Transportation arrangement (medical)
    • Transportation to doctors appointments

    Common areas

    • Beauty salon
    • Dining room
    • Garden
    • Outdoor space

    Community services

    • Move-in coordination

    Activities

    • Community-sponsored activities
    • Scheduled daily activities

    Reviews

    3.80ยท(90)

    Overall rating

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

      3.1
    • Staff

      3.6
    • Meals

      1.6
    • Amenities

      4.0
    • Value

      2.0

    Pros

    • Dedicated, compassionate nursing and aide staff
    • Strong physical and occupational therapy services
    • Engaging activities and social programming
    • Supportive admissions and business-office assistance
    • Clean, well-maintained, home-like interior
    • Family-focused events and community engagement
    • Responsive social services and care coordination
    • Secure building and safety measures
    • Regular therapy frequency to support rehabilitation
    • Timely admissions and discharge coordination

    Cons

    • Inconsistent staffing levels and high staff turnover
    • Slow call-button response and delayed resident assistance
    • Gaps in medication-timing and medication management
    • Inadequate clinical oversight and incident-response coordination
    • Inconsistent bathing and incontinence-care processes
    • Limited dining variety and uneven meal quality
    • Equipment maintenance and supply-availability issues
    • Poor internal communication and family communication practices
    • Administrative instability and uneven management responsiveness
    • Potential gaps in transfer and fall-prevention practices

    Summary of reviews

    The reviews depict a facility with a mixed performance profile: many families and residents praise individual caregivers, therapy staff, and certain administrative employees for compassionate, attentive service, while other accounts describe operational weaknesses that have adversely affected care continuity. Strengths most consistently referenced include a skilled therapy department (PT/OT), an active activities program, and individual staff members in nursing, admissions, and business-office roles who provide effective assistance and coordination. Multiple reviewers emphasized a clean, well-decorated, home-like environment and examples of family-centered events and social engagement that contribute positively to resident quality of life.

    Care quality descriptions vary widely. Positive reports highlight dedicated nurses and aides, frequent therapy sessions (including six-days-per-week programs), and staff who anticipate resident needs and communicate clearly. Conversely, a number of accounts raise concerns about delayed assistance for basic needs, wound-management and bathing/incontinence-care inconsistencies, and episodes that required hospital transfer. These contrasting narratives suggest unevenness in clinical oversight and responsiveness: while some residents receive attentive, timely care, others experienced delays in medication administration, prolonged response times to requests for help, and problems with equipment or supplies that interfered with planned therapies or respiratory support.

    Staffing and management emerge as central drivers of both praise and criticism. Positive mentions of individual employeesโ€”especially in admissions, social services, and select nursing rolesโ€”indicate that committed staff can deliver strong family communication and coordination. However, recurring themes of staffing instability, turnover, shift no-shows, and management layoffs correlate with reports of delayed care, inconsistent handoffs, and morale issues. Reviewers also describe uneven administrative responsiveness: some families experienced quick resolutions, while others found communication and follow-up to be lacking.

    Dining and daily-living services are described inconsistently. A number of reviewers cited nutritious meals and attentive service, but many others noted repetitive menus and limited variety. Housekeeping and the facilityโ€™s general maintenance receive largely positive remarks for cleanliness and decor, although isolated sanitation and odor concerns are mentioned alongside equipment failures (for example, respiratory equipment or oxygen devices) and occasional supply shortages.

    Notable patterns across reviews include strong therapy and activities programming and the presence of highly regarded individual staff, contrasted with operational gaps that affect timeliness and clinical reliability. Families considering placement should weigh the facilityโ€™s capacity for rehabilitation and social engagement against the risk of inconsistent staffing, delayed responses to resident needs, and variable administrative follow-through. Prospective residents and families may benefit from asking about current staffing ratios, recent turnover, call-button response metrics, medication-administration protocols, equipment-maintenance procedures, and examples of how management addresses adverse clinical events to assess present conditions rather than relying solely on past accounts.

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    Medicare Ratings

    4ยท/ 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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    Somerset Ridge Center is located at 455 Brayton Ave, Somerset, MA, 02726.

    About Somerset Ridge Center

    Somerset Ridge Center sits over on Brayton Avenue in Somerset, MA, and you'll notice it's a skilled nursing and rehab facility with 135 beds, so there's room for a good number of people, and you'll find that their care team includes highly regarded physicians who are around to admit residents, plan treatment, check in on progress, and build real relationships with folks living there, which folks seem to appreciate, and the admissions department steps in to help with picking a doctor if you want; meanwhile, there's a social services department that's ready to explain what's needed for admission and help with arranging extra help, support, or equipment for home if you need it after a stay. This place covers different types of care, including short-term rehab stays, skilled nursing, and long-term care, with therapy services handled by their in-house rehab department for physical, occupational, and speech needs, and they use some advanced equipment in their therapy gym. You'll see they pay attention to quality by working on wellness projects, like fall prevention and smart ways to handle sepsis, and they do things to help with care transitions, culture change, end of life care, and safer use of medicines. Residents get three well-balanced meals a day, put together with help from an on-site registered dietitian, while the kitchen staff tries to make sure the meals are both healthy and enjoyable. There's also daily activities like live music, special dining events, regular newspaper delivery, and weekly dog-therapy visits to keep folks engaged, plus amenities like free cable, wireless internet, air conditioning, big dayrooms, and on-site beauty salon services. If you like to be outside, there's a nice patio to use when the weather's good. On top of all that, the staff's known for being caring, well-trained, and pretty compassionate, so you're likely to notice a warm, home-like feeling overall, which they try to keep up by encouraging family involvement and open communication, and for anyone interested, the staff is happy to give tours and answer questions through their secure contact form, which can make things easier for new residents and their families.

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