Rochester Manor

    40 Whitehall Rd, Rochester, NH 03867
    • Assisted Living
    • Memory Care
    • Skilled Nursing

    Compassionate, attentive care and communication

    I am very pleased with the care my 93-year-old mother receives here. Staff across nursing, therapy, dining, recreation and the front desk are attentive, professional, compassionate and truly go above and beyond. Therapy helped my dad regain independence, social services guided our discharge plan, and communication - including COVID safety and family-visit planning - has been excellent. The community feels warm and home-like, with engaging activities, good food, and a team that genuinely cares.

    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

    4.11·(62)

    Overall rating

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

      3.9
    • Staff

      4.2
    • Meals

      3.5
    • Amenities

      2.4
    • Value

      4.1

    Pros

    • Compassionate, attentive nursing staff
    • Strong staff–family communication
    • Engaging social and recreational programming
    • On-site rehabilitation services with documented successes
    • Collaborative hospice and palliative partnerships
    • Infection-control and pandemic safety measures
    • Welcoming front-desk and admissions interactions
    • Transportation for community outings
    • Personalized, above-and-beyond care
    • Family-like, supportive community atmosphere

    Cons

    • Inconsistent quality of clinical care
    • Variability in staff qualifications and continuity
    • Uneven rehabilitation program delivery
    • Incontinence-care and personal-care responsiveness issues
    • Sanitation and housekeeping gaps
    • Aging physical plant and deferred maintenance
    • Inconsistent dining quality and meal-service continuity
    • Restrictive or inconsistently applied visitation policies
    • Gaps in incident response and family communication
    • Admission and care-planning process deficiencies
    • Potential medication-management and safety-process weaknesses

    Summary of reviews

    Overall impression: Reviews portray a facility with many strengths in day-to-day resident engagement and nursing-level compassion, alongside operational and facility-level inconsistencies. Families frequently highlight warm, dedicated caregivers and a welcoming atmosphere, but also describe variability in clinical performance, rehabilitation delivery, and building maintenance. This pattern suggests strong interpersonal culture among many staff members combined with organizational gaps that can affect care consistency.

    Care and staff: Nursing staff, CNAs, and frontline caregivers are repeatedly described as compassionate, attentive, and willing to provide individualized support. Several families emphasize strong communication from nurses and social services, and many note effective collaboration with hospice and palliative providers. At the same time, reviews indicate variability in clinical consistency and staff qualifications across shifts or units. Specific concerns include delayed attention to personal-care needs, inconsistent follow-through on clinical issues, and instances where family communication around critical events was perceived as inadequate. Rehabilitation services also show mixed results: some families report meaningful functional gains, while others describe poor or insensitive therapy interactions and incomplete rehab delivery.

    Dining, activities, and resident life: The facility offers an active calendar with transportation to restaurants, bingo, live music, holiday events, and other social programming; these offerings are frequently praised and contribute to a sense of community. Food quality is described positively by many residents, though several families point to inconsistent meal quality and occasional service problems. Laundry and timely meal-service continuity were mentioned as operational pain points in some accounts.

    Facilities and management: Physical plant issues appear repeatedly—outdated rooms, broken fixtures, drafty windows, and general maintenance needs are common observations. Housekeeping and sanitation practices are a recurring concern in a subset of accounts. Several reviewers describe an uneven admission experience and difficulties during ownership or management transitions; families referenced a perceived decline in care quality following an ownership change. Visitation policies during infection-control events were handled with apparent care by some staff, but other accounts cite restrictive or inconsistently applied visiting rules and gaps in end-of-life communication. Additionally, a few reviews raise concerns about medication- and safety-related processes, suggesting a need for clearer protocols and improved incident-response communication.

    Notable patterns and advice for prospective families: Strengths center on the facility’s relational culture—many staff are described as caring, communicative, and community-oriented, and recreational programming is a clear positive. Areas to probe during a tour include current staffing stability and qualifications (particularly on the unit where a prospective resident would live), rehabilitation program structure and success metrics, housekeeping and sanitation routines, maintenance plans for rooms, and specific medication-safety and incident-response protocols. Ask management for recent staffing ratios, examples of how they handle adverse events and family notification, and how visitation policies are implemented during heightened infection-control periods. These focused questions can help families reconcile the facility’s strong interpersonal environment with the documented operational inconsistencies.

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    Medicare Ratings

    2·/ 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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    Rochester Manor is located at 40 Whitehall Rd, Rochester, NH, 03867.

    About Rochester Manor

    Rochester Manor sits in a quiet suburban area with lovely gardens, sunrooms, a fireplace in the living room, and scenic views, and it's designed for people who need nursing home care, assisted living, memory care, or help for advanced medical conditions. People stay at Rochester Manor for different reasons like short-term rehab after the hospital, long-term care for illnesses such as heart disease, Alzheimer's, stroke, or even acute care, and the place offers a safe and comfortable spot for end-of-life hospice care with private hospice rooms and spiritual support from clergy and social workers when needed. People can get respite care if families need a break or extra help for a short while, and Rochester Manor also serves those who want to recover at home through their home health care, home care, and palliative care services.

    This facility is part of Genesis HealthCare and belongs to the New Hampshire Health Care Association, and it partners with the National Alliance for Care at Home and the We Honor Veterans community, and it's been given the AHCA Bronze Quality Award. Rochester Manor has a team of registered nurses, therapists, and attending physicians who offer skilled nursing, physical, speech, occupational, respiratory, and contract rehabilitation therapies, including for orthopedic injuries, neurological conditions, and joint replacements, along with wound, psychiatric, and bariatric care, colostomy support, pain, diabetic, incontinence management, and special dementia services, plus help for those who need non-ambulatory or heparin therapy.

    You'll find private and semi-private apartments, each with spacious rooms, private bathrooms, tubs, and wheelchair accessible showers, plus climate control and air conditioning-some rooms even have internet, phone, and in-room dining. The facility stays smoke-free and offers laundry, housekeeping, recreation and cultural programs, spiritual and grief counseling, and pet therapy, and there's always something to do with their activity rooms, wellness and fitness spaces, music, religious, social events, and visiting options both on and off site. Residents eat meals served daily, with vegetarian choices, restaurant-style dining, and a café that always has menu items, plus hospitality like spa and beauty salon/barber services.

    Rochester Manor takes care of daily needs like help with bathing, meals, getting around, medical needs, medication management, pharmacy delivery, dietary planning, pain control, and wound care, and it has emergency systems, transportation, and plenty of resident parking. Because some folks need special services, there's language help with French spoken, VA contracted care, and Medicare, Medicaid, and most private insurance are accepted. People regularly hold care conferences to update plans so each resident gets their own attention. Recent reviews from around 27 families or residents rate Rochester Manor about 4.5 out of 5 stars, which speaks to the steady, thoughtful care you'll find if you visit or stay.

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    Rochester Manor offers assisted living, memory care, and skilled nursing.

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    The full address for this community is 40 Whitehall Rd, Rochester, NH 03867.

    No, Rochester Manor 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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