Cra-Mar Meadows

    575 Seven Mile Rd, Cranston, RI 02831
    • Assisted Living
    • Memory Care
    • Skilled Nursing
    3.7ยท14 reviews

    Family owned, caring, clean, recommended

    I'm pleased with my experience: the family-owned staff are polite and professional, they treat residents like family, and the facility is light, clean, and pleasant. I'd 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

    • 24-hour call system
    • 24-hour supervision

    Meals and dining

    • Diabetes diet
    • Meal preparation and service
    • Restaurant-style dining
    • Special dietary restrictions

    Room

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

    Common areas

    • Beauty salon
    • Dining room
    • Garden
    • Outdoor space
    • Small library

    Community services

    • Move-in coordination

    Activities

    • Community-sponsored activities
    • Resident-run activities
    • Scheduled daily activities

    Reviews

    3.71ยท(14)

    Overall rating

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

      1.0
    • Staff

      2.8
    • Meals

      3.7
    • Amenities

      4.0
    • Value

      3.7

    Pros

    • polite, professional staff
    • clean, pleasant facility
    • bright, light-filled environment
    • family-owned and operated
    • staffโ€“resident familial rapport

    Cons

    • Inconsistent medication-management controls
    • Gaps in clinical-incident response and family communication
    • Workplace-culture and staff-conduct concerns
    • Staffing cohesion and training deficiencies
    • Equitable treatment and discrimination

    Summary of reviews

    The reviews present a mixed picture. Positive comments emphasize a well-maintained, bright facility with courteous and professional frontline staff. The centerโ€™s family-owned status and descriptions of staff treating residents โ€œlike familyโ€ are recurring strengths that likely contribute to a pleasant daily environment for many residents. At the same time, several summaries describe operational weaknesses that could affect resident safety and satisfaction.

    Care quality appears uneven. The most serious theme is medication-management and clinical oversight gaps: summaries reference missing medications, problems with administration of critical medications, and at least one rapid return to hospital after a short stay. These items indicate weaknesses in medication inventory controls, handoff processes, and the facilityโ€™s ability to respond to acute changes in residentsโ€™ conditions. Miscommunication between clinical staff and families is also highlighted, suggesting the need for clearer incident-notification and care-transition protocols.

    Staff strengths and tensions are both evident. Multiple summaries praise polite, professional caregivers and a familial rapport with residents, which are positive indicators for dayโ€‘toโ€‘day resident experience. However, other comments describe workplace-culture problemsโ€”tensions between longer-tenured and newer aides, concerns about staff conduct, and reports of unequal treatment or discrimination. These accounts point to potential gaps in supervisory oversight, staff training, and inclusivity practices that could influence teamwork and consistency of care.

    The summaries provide limited information about dining and activities. No consistent praise or criticism of meal quality, menu variety, or programmed social and recreational offerings appears in the provided material. Prospective families should ask the facility for sample menus, activity calendars, and opportunities to observe or attend an activity to evaluate those domains directly.

    Facility appearance and management impressions are generally positive: cleanliness, a pleasant atmosphere, and a light-filled interior are noted. Management is family-operated, which reviewers associate with a personal touch. At the same time, operational patternsโ€”medication control lapses, communication breakdowns, and workforce culture issuesโ€”suggest priorities for improvement. Prospective residents and families should confirm current protocols for medication accountability, clinical escalation and hospital-transfer procedures, staff training and supervision policies, and the facilityโ€™s efforts to address equity and workplace conduct during tours or meetings with administrators.

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    Medicare Ratings

    3ยท/ 5
    • Overall

    • Health Inspection

    • Staffing

    • Quality Measures

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

    Location

    Map showing location of Cra-Mar Meadows

    Cra-Mar Meadows is located at 575 Seven Mile Rd, Cranston, RI, 02831.

    About Cra-Mar Meadows

    Cra-Mar Meadows, a family-owned and operated nursing home, sits on Seven Mile Road in scenic Western Cranston. The facility is a single-story building with 41 certified beds and an average of 35 residents per day. Residents can enjoy well-kept grounds, walking paths, garden spaces, and modern amenities like spacious rooms, telephones, and various furnishing options. The facility provides both short-term and long-term skilled nursing and rehabilitation services. Staff offers help with transfers, bathing, dressing, medication management, and other daily living tasks, and there's always 24-hour supervision and a call system in place. Residents can also get help with laundry and dry cleaning, housekeeping, and meal services tailored to special diets including diabetes and allergies. The community includes an arts room, a barber/salon, emergency alert systems, and spaces for resident-run activities and community-sponsored events.

    Cra-Mar Meadows has a nurse turnover rate of 42.4%, which is close to the state average, and staff spend about 3.40 hours per resident per day, which is slightly below the state's 3.8-hour average. The facility accepts Medicaid and focuses on providing personal and holistic care, aiming for a home-like setting that feels more intimate than some larger nursing homes. However, Cra-Mar Meadows has received multiple inspection reports and citations, including 24 documented deficiencies. These include violations in infection control, medication management, and behavioral health training, and reports have highlighted medication errors and infection-related issues. The facility is a for-profit corporation owned directly by Shirley Grzych, Scott Grzych, and Thomas Grzych. There's no detailed information about managerial controls or indirect owners. Cra-Mar Meadows emphasizes support from a dedicated team and provides services meant to match each person's needs, but the history of deficiencies and inspection findings is something to consider when looking at this facility. Directions are straightforward, with access from Route 295, Plainfield Pike, Comstock Parkway, or Scituate Avenue, and the facility's photo gallery helps give a sense of its surroundings and amenities.

    People often ask...

    Cra-Mar Meadows offers assisted living, memory care, and skilled nursing.

    The full address for this community is 575 Seven Mile Rd, Cranston, RI 02831.

    No, Cra-Mar Meadows 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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