The Center for Living and Rehabilitation

    160 Hospital Dr, Bennington, VT 05201
    • Assisted Living
    • Memory Care
    • Skilled Nursing

    Caring staff, excellent rehab, welcoming

    I was very pleased with my loved one's stay - the facility is bright, spotless and welcoming, and the staff are consistently friendly, caring and attentive (Mary and Eric stood out). Therapy/rehab and follow-up were excellent and helped rebuild strength; check-in was smooth and rooms comfortable. Dining had era-appropriate music and a warm, happy vibe with residents tapping their toes - a very good, family-focused rehab option, not five-star luxury but highly recommended.

    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

    4.46·(131)

    Overall rating

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

      4.1
    • Staff

      4.4
    • Meals

      1.4
    • Amenities

      3.4
    • Value

      4.5

    Pros

    • Compassionate and attentive caregiving staff
    • Skilled physical and occupational therapy programs
    • Supportive rehab environment focused on return-to-home goals
    • Bright, spacious rooms and common areas
    • Responsive admissions and administrative staff
    • Attentive and effective night-shift nursing in some cases
    • Pleasant dining ambiance and era-appropriate music
    • Heart-failure care certification
    • Timely follow-up after discharge
    • Efficient check-in and visitor support
    • Clean and comfortable rooms reported by many visitors
    • Personalized attention and family involvement in care planning

    Cons

    • Inconsistent cleanliness and odor control
    • Staffing shortages and variable staff experience
    • Delays in medication administration and clinical response
    • Inconsistent meal delivery and dietary-management practices
    • Gaps in personal property and prosthetic tracking
    • Weak transfer and lift-safety practices
    • Inconsistent infection-control and isolation practices
    • Limited or inconsistent activities and enrichment programming
    • Maintenance and ventilation shortcomings
    • Care coordination and discharge-process delays
    • Inconsistent staff communication and family outreach
    • Concerns following a resident's death and end-of-life communication

    Summary of reviews

    The Center for Living and Rehabilitation elicits a strongly mixed set of impressions. Many families and residents describe a bright, comfortable physical environment with spacious rooms and welcoming common areas; several reviewers praised skilled physical and occupational therapy programs, a rehabilitation focus that facilitated return-to-home goals, and particular staff members and admission teams who provided clear communication and individualized planning. Positive accounts frequently highlight compassionate caregiving, effective night nursing on some shifts, thoughtful dining ambiance (including era-appropriate music), and certification for specific clinical programs such as heart-failure care.

    Counterbalancing those positive reports are recurring operational concerns. Cleanliness and odor control are inconsistent across reviews, with multiple accounts describing sanitation concerns in rooms and common areas and uneven housekeeping follow-through. Staffing levels and staff experience appear variable; reviewers described long waits for assistance, limited availability of experienced clinicians at times, and uneven conduct or tone from some front-line employees. Those staffing issues are commonly linked with delays in clinical response and medication administration, inconsistent meal delivery and dietary oversight, and coordination lapses during discharge planning.

    Safety and process issues are also noted. Several reviewers raised concerns about transfer and lift procedures, and others described problems tracking personal property, prosthetics, and assistive devices. Infection-control and isolation practices were described as inconsistent in some accounts, and building maintenance and ventilation were identified as areas needing attention. A small number of reviewers raised serious concerns about end-of-life communication and the handling of a resident's death, which points to the need for clearer protocols and family engagement in those situations.

    Management and communication show variability: some families found admissions and administrative staff responsive and helpful, while others experienced delayed or unanswered calls and dissatisfaction with leadership follow-up. Therapy and rehabilitation services are a clear strength for many patients, but inconsistent scheduling and referral timing were reported. Dining received mixed feedback — several praised the atmosphere and occasional meals, while others experienced dietary errors, missed meal orders, or food quality issues.

    Overall, the facility demonstrates meaningful strengths in rehabilitative care, individual staff members' dedication, and aspects of the physical environment. However, prospective residents and families should be aware of variability in day-to-day operations driven largely by staffing, maintenance, and process-control gaps. A focused tour and targeted questions about current staffing ratios, infection-control protocols, medication-administration checks, property-tracking procedures, lift/transfer training, and activities programming will help assess whether the facility’s strengths align with an individual’s needs.

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    Medicare Ratings

    2·/ 5
    Cited by CMS for abuse, or potential for abuse, on its most recent survey cycle.
    • 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 The Center for Living and Rehabilitation

    The Center for Living and Rehabilitation is located at 160 Hospital Dr, Bennington, VT, 05201.

    About The Center for Living and Rehabilitation

    The Center for Living and Rehabilitation sits at 160 Hospital Drive in Old Bennington, Vermont, right on the Southwestern Vermont Medical Center campus, and offers both long-term care for residents who need a place to stay and heal and short-term sub-acute care for folks who are getting back on their feet after a hospital stay, and you know, they really seem to care about helping people recover and get home again without all those repeat trips back to the hospital, and they do this by having their nurse practitioner, hospitalist team, and other staff see each new patient when they arrive whether they're there for rehab or long-term needs, and the medical director oversees how things run clinically, so things don't get disjointed, and because they're part of Southwestern Vermont Health Care, there's nice coordination if someone needs to move from the hospital to the center or vice versa, which helps keep track of things and cuts down on confusing paperwork or delays.

    The rooms come furnished, and you'll find little touches like private bathrooms, kitchenettes, cable TV, phones, air conditioning, and strong Wi-Fi, and the apartments are even set up with working kitchens, bedrooms, and laundry for people who want to do a bit for themselves, though of course the staff will help out with bathing, dressing, getting up and about, and making sure medications are sorted, and there's round-the-clock supervision and a call system if somebody needs something in the night. The place provides daily housekeeping and laundry, and for those special needs-maybe someone's got allergies or is living with diabetes-meals, prepared by a chef, can be made just right, and the restaurant-style dining room lets people eat together if they like, or take advantage of meal services and all-day dining options when they're hungry.

    People living there or just staying awhile for sub-acute rehab can use outdoor spaces, gardens, walking paths, movie nights, music programs, arts and crafts, a game room, a fitness area, a movie theater, and a spa and wellness room, and they really try to make life comfortable and social, with community and resident-run activities, and plenty of places to relax or join in. Every day there are scheduled programs, and the team even coordinates transportation and parking for outings or appointments, so nobody's left out if they want to go somewhere. The center runs as a nonprofit, accepting Medicaid and Medicare, and has information on insurance and family caregiving support, which can help loved ones understand all the steps in long-term care.

    Therapy is a big focus, too, with physical, occupational, and speech therapists running sessions right on site, along with specialized programs for stroke and cardiac recovery, orthopedic issues, wound care, IV therapies, pain and pulmonary management, and even peritoneal dialysis, and the goal is always to help people build strength, regain skills, and get the right medical support, all with the hope of not needing to go back to the hospital unless it's absolutely needed. The on-site team works closely with local medical professionals and specialists, and the place is built for older adults needing everything from help with daily living up to skilled nursing, which is available at least 12 to 16 hours a day, so if something does go wrong unexpectedly, there's help close by.

    Having run since 1981 under Mount Anthony Housing Corporation and now as part of Allaire Health Services across several states, the Center for Living and Rehabilitation keeps up with both care and comfort for seniors and those needing a place between hospital and home, and they really do their best to keep things feeling like more of a community than a clinic, which, for some folks, makes all the difference when they're healing or settling in for the long haul.

    People often ask...

    The Center for Living and Rehabilitation offers assisted living, memory care, and skilled nursing.

    There are 13 photos of The Center for Living and Rehabilitation on Mirador.

    The full address for this community is 160 Hospital Dr, Bennington, VT 05201.

    No, The Center for Living and Rehabilitation 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 numbercenters-living
    Facility typeNursing Home

    Inspection Reports

    9

    Reports

    8

    Citations

    0

    Complaints

    1

    Years

    26 May 2026Revisit
    Verified substantial compliance with participation requirements.
    11 May 2026Revisit
    Verified substantial compliance with participation requirements after a follow-up visit.
    08 Apr 2026Inspection
    Found supervision lapses related to smoking and failure to monitor the storage of a resident's lighter and cigarettes.
    • §483.25(d)(1)(2)Free of Accident Hazards/Supervision/Devices
    04 Mar 2026Investigation
    Found no deficiencies. The inquiry concluded compliance with federal participation requirements.
    30 Dec 2025Investigation
    Identified deficiencies in resident rights, pain management, and the resident call system.
    • §483.10(a)(1)(2); §483.10(b)(2)Resident Rights/Exercise of Rights
    • §483.25(k)Pain Management
    • §483.25(k)Pain Management
    • §483.90(g)(1)(2)Resident Call System
    16 Dec 2025Investigation
    Found that residents were exposed to physical and verbal abuse by another resident, and care plans were not updated to address ongoing risk or separate the residents after incidents.
    • 42 CFR 483.12Free from Abuse and Neglect
    • 42 CFR 483.21(b)(2)(i)-(iii)Care Plan Timing and Revision
    25 Nov 2025Revisit
    Verified substantial compliance with participation requirements.
    13 Aug 2025Revisit
    Verified substantial compliance after a revisit; previous deficiencies were corrected.
    30 Jun 2025Investigation
    Found an avoidable pressure ulcer in a resident due to inadequate prevention and documentation of skin care.
    • §483.25(b)(1)(i)(ii); §483.25(b)(1)Skin Integrity and Pressure Ulcers

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