Barre Gardens

    378 Prospect St, Barre, VT 05641
    • Assisted Living
    • Memory Care
    • Skilled Nursing

    Attentive caring rehab helped mom

    I placed my mom at Barre Gardens for rehab and was impressed. The facility was spotless, meals were good, and the doctors, nurses and therapists were knowledgeable, kind and attentive - medication and blood-sugar checks, regular check-ins and social-work assistance were handled smoothly. Staff were genuinely caring, warm and fun; they helped my mom go home and gave personal attention and hugs when needed. I'm grateful and would return.

    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

    • 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

    3.32·(19)

    Overall rating

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

      3.7
    • Staff

      3.6
    • Meals

      2.8
    • Amenities

      3.3
    • Value

      1.0

    Pros

    • Compassionate, patient-centered caregiving
    • Attentive medication administration and blood-glucose verification
    • Supportive rehabilitation and physical-therapy services
    • Accommodating meal options and dietary accommodations
    • Friendly, pleasant nursing and support staff
    • Clean, well-maintained common areas
    • Regular resident check-ins and personal attention
    • Engaged social-work support (assistance with powers of attorney)
    • Welcoming admissions and intake process
    • Accessible physicians and clinical staff
    • Effective discharge planning and home transition support
    • Positive staff–resident rapport and emotional support

    Cons

    • Inconsistent cleanliness and sanitation practices
    • Mold and facility maintenance concerns
    • Delays in staff responsiveness to resident needs
    • Inconsistent medication-timing and administration controls
    • Weak staff training and onboarding processes
    • High staff workload and staffing shortages
    • Weak leadership accountability and management responsiveness
    • Handling and security of resident belongings, including alleged theft
    • Gaps in family communication and emergency-notification processes
    • Unprofessional workplace culture and internal conflict
    • Inconsistent meal quality and perceived poor value
    • Inconsistent laundry and personal-care service delivery
    • Potential compliance and documentation gaps

    Summary of reviews

    Overall impression: Reviews describe a facility with a strongly polarized set of experiences. Many families and residents praise the caregiving staff for being compassionate, attentive, and effective—particularly in medication management, blood-sugar checks, rehabilitation therapy, and discharge planning. Multiple accounts highlight warm, personable interactions, regular check-ins, and social-work support for navigating legal and care transitions. At the same time, other families describe serious operational and clinical concerns that have led to markedly different outcomes for some residents.

    Care quality and clinical operations: Positive accounts emphasize individualized care, reliable medication administration, and successful short-term rehabilitation stays. Conversely, other accounts indicate delays in attending to basic needs, missed meals, late medications, and significant unintended weight loss in specific cases. These patterns suggest inconsistent implementation of clinical protocols and monitoring—strength in some shifts or units, but gaps in others. Concerns about documentation and medication timing were commonly described alongside praise for individual nurses who provided strong care.

    Staff and workplace culture: Staff are frequently described as warm, affectionate, and dedicated; many reviewers singled out nurses, therapists, and support staff for their kindness. However, serious concerns about training, supervision, and workplace dynamics also appear. Descriptions of gossip, biased management behavior, insufficient onboarding, and ignored internal complaints point to weaknesses in leadership accountability and staff development. Staffing shortages and long hours were cited as contributors to burnout and variability in performance.

    Dining, laundry, and activities: Several reviewers were satisfied with meals, accommodations for special diets, and a generally pleasant dining experience. Other reviewers found meal quality inconsistent and the overall value poor. Laundry and personal-care services were likewise inconsistent, with isolated reports of missed laundry days. Activity programming and outings received less detailed commentary overall; recreational and social interaction were noted positively when present but described as limited in some accounts.

    Facilities and maintenance: Many reviewers described the facility as clean and well-maintained, particularly common spaces. At the same time, there are specific concerns about mold and other maintenance issues that warrant attention. There are also multiple accounts indicating problems with storage, safeguarding, and return of personal belongings.

    Management, communication, and safety concerns: A recurrent theme is inconsistent family communication and problems with emergency notifications—examples include failures to notify families in a timely manner and concerns following a resident's death. More serious are allegations concerning missing personal items and possible financial misconduct; these issues suggest a need for clearer property-handling policies and stronger inventory controls. Reviewers also described management responses as insufficient when staff misconduct or inter-staff conflicts were raised, indicating gaps in accountability and complaint resolution.

    Patterns and takeaways: Prospective residents and families should note the bifurcated nature of feedback: many positive, person-centered care experiences coexist with operational inconsistencies that have, in some cases, led to significant harm or distress. If considering this facility, ask for written policies on staffing ratios and overtime, medication administration and documentation practices, maintenance and mold remediation records, procedures for handling resident belongings, emergency-notification protocols, and evidence of staff training and supervision. Arrange an on-site visit across multiple shifts to observe responsiveness, cleanliness, meal service, and staff interactions firsthand, and request references from recent families whose needs align with your own priorities.

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    Medicare Ratings

    1·/ 5
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    • 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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    Barre Gardens is located at 378 Prospect St, Barre, VT, 05641.

    About Barre Gardens

    Barre Gardens sits at 378 Prospect Street in Barre, Vermont, and has 96 beds for skilled nursing care, long-term care, and memory care, with all staff speaking English, and folks there say it feels calm and quiet because of the outdoor gardens and courtyard, and they've got communal areas that make it easier to spend time with friends or family, since they want to keep everyone connected and involved whenever possible. The team includes skilled healthcare workers, nurse practitioners who handle wound care, and they're there for 12 to 16 hours every day, with 24-hour supervision for extra support, keeping people safe and cared for even through the night. Barre Gardens covers a wide range of care needs, like rehabilitation after surgery through physical, occupational, and speech therapy, and there's help with all daily living activities, medication management, and custodial care, and care options also include hospice, respite stays, dialysis help, and assisted living services, plus memory care, so the facility can cover a lot of different health conditions. Their nurses and other team members offer advanced services, such as IV therapy, wound vac, BiPAP/CPAP, pain management, infection treatments, oxygen and suctioning, tube feeding, bariatric care, and help with more complex medical needs like trach and ostomy. They provide transportation to doctor's appointments, dialysis or cancer centers, and community events or recreational outings, so folks aren't stuck inside or missing needed treatments. Activities help with emotional support, and the nonprofit facility says it's centered on personalized and compassionate care for everyone, working to make each day meaningful, and they've earned a five-star CMS rating, with community reviews showing a 5.0 average, though each visit and experience might be a little different depending on individual needs.

    People often ask...

    Barre Gardens offers assisted living, memory care, and skilled nursing.

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    The full address for this community is 378 Prospect St, Barre, VT 05641.

    No, Barre Gardens 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.

    Safety & Compliance

    In Vermont, the DAIL Division of Licensing & Protection licenses residential and assisted living care homes, posting health, investigation, and revisit survey findings.

    License numberbarre-gardens-nursing-and-rehab
    Facility typeNursing Home

    Inspection Reports

    10

    Reports

    17

    Citations

    0

    Complaints

    1

    Years

    27 May 2026Investigation
    Investigated a complaint and found no regulatory violations related to the allegations.
    20 Apr 2026Investigation
    Found deficiencies in maintaining a safe, clean, homelike environment due to dirty air vents and dusty sprinkler heads.
    • CFR 483.10(i)(1)-(7)Safe/Clean/Comfortable/Homelike Environment
    24 Mar 2026Revisit
    Verified substantial compliance after a revisit.
    02 Feb 2026Revisit
    Identified major deficiencies in the living environment, food safety, medical director responsibilities, infection prevention, and quality improvement processes, including immediate jeopardy related to infection control.
    • CFR 483.10(i)Environment
    • CFR 483.60Food Safety/Procurement
    • CFR 483.70(g)(1)-(2)Responsibilities of the Medical Director
    • CFR 483.75(a)-(f)QAPI Program/Plan, Disclosure/Good Faith Attempt
    • CFR 483.80Infection Prevention and Control
    30 Dec 2025Investigation
    Found no deficiencies.
    13 Nov 2025Investigation
    Identified multiple deficiencies across resident rights, environment, infection control, medical oversight, and care delivery, including poor cleanliness, inadequate staffing, and gaps in regulatory oversight.
    • 42 CFR 483.10Resident rights and exercise of rights
    • 42 CFR 483.10(i)Safe environment; maintenance of a homelike environment
    • 42 CFR 483.25(b)(2)Foot care
    • 42 CFR 483.30(c)(1)-(4)Physician visits
    • 42 CFR 483.40(b)(3)Dementia care
    • 42 CFR 483.45(g)(1)-(2); 483.45(h)Labeling or storage of drugs and biologics
    • 42 CFR 483.60(i)(1)-(2)Procurement and storage of food; sanitary practices
    • 42 CFR 483.70(g)(1)-(2)Medical director oversight and responsibilities
    • 42 CFR 483.80(a)(1)-(4), (o), (f)Infection prevention and control program
    • 42 CFR 483.80(d)(3)COVID-19 vaccination and related policies
    • 42 CFR 483.95(g)(1)-(4)In-service training for nurse aides
    15 Sept 2025Investigation
    Found no deficiencies. An onsite investigation determined there were no regulatory violations.
    18 Aug 2025Revisit
    Verified substantial compliance with participation requirements. No deficiencies were cited.
    12 Aug 2025Revisit
    Verified substantial compliance with participation requirements after a follow-up visit.
    21 Jul 2025Investigation
    Found no deficiencies after investigating a complaint about regulatory compliance.

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