Pheasant Wood Center

    50 Pheasant Rd, Peterborough, NH, 03458
    4.2 · 43 reviews
    • Assisted living
    • Memory care
    • Skilled nursing
    AnonymousLoved one of resident
    3.0

    Caring staff but facility issues

    I'm torn: the staff and nurses were kind, attentive, and often went above and beyond - the team created a warm, family-like atmosphere that improved my mother's quality of life. However, the building is old and sometimes unsanitary, meals are limited/small, memory care wasn't available, and staffing inconsistencies led to neglect (weight loss, lost clothes, transfer delays) and uneven care. I'd go back because of the wonderful team, but I have serious concerns about facility upkeep and reliability of care.

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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

    4.16 · 43 reviews

    Overall rating

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

      4.0
    • Staff

      4.3
    • Meals

      2.8
    • Amenities

      1.5
    • Value

      1.0

    Pros

    • Compassionate, kind and dedicated staff
    • Multiple staff members and administrators singled out by name for excellent care
    • Supportive admissions and business office staff
    • Nursing staff praised as attentive and communicative
    • Therapy staff praised in some reports for good rehab
    • Family-like, welcoming atmosphere with familiar faces
    • Active programming: resident-led activities, outings, holiday events
    • Staff facilitating family contact (e.g., Zoom visits) and special requests
    • Accessible outdoor/communal space and ample room for activities
    • Some reports of clean areas, efficient operations, and attractive artwork
    • Religious services resumed (Communion) and community spiritual support
    • Front desk and specific employees (e.g., Donna) noted as helpful

    Cons

    • Reports of neglect and inconsistent care quality
    • Allegations of dehydration, starvation, weight loss, and delayed help
    • Serious claims including death attributed to facility
    • Unsanitary conditions: filthy floors, stains, rust-stained toilets
    • Old, outdated, damaged furniture and facility infrastructure
    • Inadequate housekeeping: beds not changed, missing pillowcases, cluttered halls
    • Understaffing and staff disarray leading to delays in care
    • Poor or inconsistent dining: terrible food for some, limited choices/small portions for others
    • Inadequate or delayed therapy/rehab and discharge/homecare planning issues
    • Lost or destroyed clothing and personal belongings
    • Third-floor/memory care problems and lack of memory care availability
    • Unprofessional behaviors reported (e.g., LNA's sitting on nurse's desk)
    • 14-day quarantine/isolation and limited resources during isolation
    • For-profit operation concerns and calls to shut down the facility

    Summary review

    Overall sentiment in the reviews is highly mixed and polarized: many reviewers describe exceptionally compassionate and attentive staff and positive experiences, while a substantial number report serious deficiencies in cleanliness, consistency of care, and facility conditions. Positive comments often single out individual employees and departments — nursing, admissions, therapy, and business office — for going above and beyond, communicating well with families, and creating a family-like, welcoming atmosphere. Conversely, negative reports include severe accusations of neglect, delayed or inadequate personal care, nutrition problems, and even death attributed by a reviewer to the facility. This divergence suggests significant variability in resident experience across time, staff shifts, or different units/floors.

    Staff and care quality emerge as the most frequently discussed theme and the source of the greatest contrast. Many reviews praise nurses, aides, therapists, and administrators (several staff members named repeatedly) for compassion, competence, and individualized attention — accommodating food preferences, facilitating virtual visits, proactively updating families, and creating social opportunities. Multiple reviewers explicitly say nursing and therapy exceeded expectations and improved residents’ quality of life. At the same time, other reviewers report understaffing, unprofessional behavior, delayed responses to calls for help, neglect of personal hygiene needs, unexplained weight loss, and in extreme cases claim dehydration, starvation, and death. These opposing accounts point to inconsistent staffing levels, training, supervision, or unit-level management as likely contributors to variable care outcomes.

    Facility condition and housekeeping are another clear area of split experience but lean toward concern. Numerous reviewers call the building old, outdated, and in need of repairs or decluttering: stained carpets, rust-stained toilets, broken or unusable recliners and beds, cluttered hallways, and lost or destroyed clothing are repeatedly described. Several reviews explicitly state poor housekeeping practices — beds not being changed, missing pillowcases, filthy floors — while a smaller set say the building is clean with attractive artwork. The coexistence of these reports again implies inconsistency, possibly by wing or floor; a particular focus was noted on a problem area described as a "3rd floor disaster zone" and limited or non-existent memory care availability.

    Dining and nutrition receive mixed feedback: some residents/families praise the food and the staff’s willingness to accommodate preferences, while others rate meals as terrible, too small, or limited in choices (Plan A/B). Reports of inadequate diet or improper nutrition are particularly concerning when paired with comments about weight loss and dehydration. Therapy and rehabilitation are similarly split — a number of reviewers commend effective therapy staff and good rehab outcomes, while others say therapy was inadequate or delayed and that discharge planning and home healthcare coordination were poor or missing.

    Activities, community life, and administration generally receive positive notes. Many reviewers highlight an inviting environment, resident-led projects (for example, caring for chickens), holiday activities, weekly outings, and resumed faith services — all contributing to reduced loneliness and improved mental wellbeing for some residents. Admissions staff and the business office are repeatedly described as helpful and responsive, and at least one administrator (named in reviews) is credited with caring leadership. However, praise for management and administration exists alongside urgent calls from other reviewers for facility closure and stronger oversight, indicating serious trust gaps with a subset of families.

    In summary, the reviews paint a facility with strong, caring individuals and programs that can and do provide excellent care — but also with recurring operational problems and safety concerns that significantly affect other residents. The dominant themes are inconsistency: some residents experience compassionate, competent care and an engaging community, while others experience neglect, poor sanitation, lost property, and serious care lapses. These patterns point toward the need for more consistent staffing, stronger housekeeping and maintenance protocols, improved accountability and supervision, clearer discharge/homecare processes, and transparent communication with families to address both the highly positive practices and the serious negative incidents documented by reviewers.

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    About Pheasant Wood Center

    Pheasant Wood Center serves adults needing different types of care in a suburban setting, and you'll find that they keep registered nurses on staff around the clock, offer short-term stays, long-term care, and skilled nursing care for people coming right out of the hospital or people needing rehabilitation after joint replacement, injuries, or amputation, and you'll also see that they have services for adults with memory loss, mental health needs, high medical needs, and non-ambulatory conditions, and all that happens under the direction of a Medical Director, Dr. Haris Bilal, and an administrator named Nicholas Labrie who has public health and psychology degrees and aims to keep care quality high. There are private and semi-private rooms, most have private bathrooms, and rooms can come with bathtubs or wheelchair-accessible showers, and you'll notice the center's got a spa and wellness center, activity and fitness rooms, cable TV, wireless internet, and phones, with common spaces like living rooms, sunrooms, gardens, and courtyards. People staying there can eat in a main dining room, in-room, or set up family gatherings in private dining rooms, and you'll see they handle mail, newspapers, housekeeping, free laundry, and beauty salon/barber services right on-site, while pharmaceutical delivery, podiatry, vision care, wound care, X-rays, pain management, hospice care, and mental health services get worked into the care plans depending on what folks need. Therapies are available, including physical, occupational, and speech therapies, and there's respiratory therapy too, and folks can get medication managed, incontinence and colostomy care, IV therapy, bariatric care, and specialized orthopedic rehabilitation. People get involved in activity programs offering golf cart rides, bingo, day trips, arts and crafts, painting, movies, ice cream socials, musical events, and worship or devotional activities, and the center has a library, computer stations, and interpreter services for those who need help with language. Transportation is available at cost, though some rides don't cost anything, and there's parking for residents. For those who want to bring their pets, there's pet therapy, and for anyone who needs a break or temporary care, the community offers respite and short-term stays. The facility accepts Medicare, Medicaid, and most private insurances, and the VA contracts with them as well. They won an AHCA Bronze Quality Award and are listed with the National Alliance for Care at Home and other provider directories, so you can find more information about them on their webpage. The community's equipped with security features like alarm systems for residents with cognitive problems, and staff offers discharge planning and personal support to help people manage medication, nutrition, and daily care routines. There's a focus on making life comfortable, safe, and as social as people want, with options for community events, religious activities, and personal care, and you'll see that everything centers around meeting practical needs with attention to detail, whether that's personal care, special diets, or just a friendly environment to spend the day.

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