Highland Health and Rehabilitation

    2400 Samish Way, Bellingham, WA 98229
    • Assisted Living
    • Memory Care
    • Skilled Nursing

    Compassionate professional care highly recommended

    I stayed here for post-hospital rehab and longer-term care and felt completely supported - the staff were compassionate, professional, and treated me like family. Nurses listened, leadership was trustworthy, and the skilled nursing and end-of-life care were exceptional; I highly recommend this facility.

    Current/former 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

    4.43·(7)

    Overall rating

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

      5.0
    • Staff

      5.0
    • Meals

      4.4
    • Amenities

      4.4
    • Value

      4.4

    Pros

    • Caring, compassionate staff
    • Cohesive, professional team
    • Attentive and good listeners
    • Exceptional nursing care
    • Strong end-of-life care
    • Resident-focused care
    • Highly recommended for post-hospital rehab
    • Appropriate for long-term care
    • Positive staff attitudes and happy environment
    • Skilled nursing and rehabilitation success
    • Staff feel like family
    • Effective leadership and trustworthy management
    • Well-regarded facility

    Cons

    • Pet-related safety incident resulting in injury

    Summary of reviews

    Overall sentiment across the reviews is strongly positive. Multiple reviewers emphasize the facility as a compassionate, professional environment where staff consistently place residents' needs first. The dominant themes are high-quality clinical care (especially nursing and rehabilitation), a cohesive and attentive staff culture, and leadership that inspires trust. Several reviewers explicitly recommend Highland Health and Rehabilitation for both post-hospitalization rehab and longer-term care, and they use phrases like "best place," "highly recommended," and "staff like family," indicating deep satisfaction with the experience.

    Care quality emerges as a clear strength. Reviewers repeatedly note exceptional nursing and skilled-nursing capabilities, with specific praise for the facility's rehabilitation outcomes and the quality of clinical oversight. End-of-life care is singled out as compassionate and well handled, suggesting staff are comfortable providing both restorative and palliative services. The repeated recommendation for post-hospital rehab implies competent physical and occupational therapy programs and successful transitions from hospital to skilled nursing care.

    Staff culture and daily interactions are also central positives. Descriptors such as "caring," "cohesive," "professional," "attentive," and "happy environment" recur throughout the reviews. Commenters emphasize that staff listen to residents and families and form close, family-like relationships with those in their care. This combination of professional skill and personal warmth appears to be a key contributor to high satisfaction: reviewers mention both good attitudes among staff and tangible clinical results, a pairing that supports both resident well-being and family confidence.

    Information about facilities, dining, and activities is limited in the provided summaries. Reviewers describe the site as a "great facility," but do not provide detailed comments about amenities, meal quality, social programming, or recreational offerings. Because those topics are not covered in the summaries, no firm conclusions can be drawn about the breadth or quality of nonclinical services — prospective residents and families would need to request specifics about menus, activity schedules, and recreational engagement when evaluating the facility.

    Management and leadership receive explicit praise. Comments about "amazing leadership" and trusting management suggest effective administrative oversight, which likely reinforces the positive staff culture and consistent care delivery noted elsewhere. Strong leadership can correlate with better staffing consistency, clearer policies, and more responsive family communication, and the reviews imply these elements are present at Highland Health and Rehabilitation.

    The main negative item raised is an isolated safety concern: a dog-related incident that resulted in injury. This is the only specific negative event mentioned among the summaries provided. While it appears to be an exception in an otherwise positive set of reviews, it does highlight the importance of asking about pet visitation policies, staff supervision of visitors and pets, and safety protocols to prevent similar incidents. Beyond that isolated incident, reviewers do not report recurring complaints about staff, care quality, or facility management.

    In summary, the reviews depict Highland Health and Rehabilitation as a well-run, resident-centered facility with strong clinical capabilities in skilled nursing and rehab, a compassionate approach to end-of-life care, and a warm, family-like staff culture supported by trusted leadership. The primary caution from the available comments is a single pet-related safety incident; otherwise, reviewers consistently endorse the facility for both short-term rehabilitation and long-term care. For a thorough evaluation, prospective residents and families should verify details not covered in these summaries — such as dining, activity programming, staffing ratios, infection-control practices, and visitor/pet policies — but based on the reviews provided, Highland Health and Rehabilitation performs strongly on the elements most commonly cited by families and former patients: clinical skill, compassion, and reliable leadership.

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    Medicare Ratings

    3·/ 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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    Highland Health and Rehabilitation is located at 2400 Samish Way, Bellingham, WA, 98229.

    About Highland Health and Rehabilitation

    Highland Health and Rehabilitation, also known as Highland Health and Rehab of Cascadia, sits in Bellingham, Washington, and offers a range of healthcare services for people who need skilled nursing or help recovering from illness or surgery, and you'll find it provides specialized care units for different needs, so whether someone's needing memory care, palliative care, long-term care, or short-term rehabilitation, this place has a way to help. The center has 44 licensed beds, with both private and semi-private rooms, and they've carved out 20 quiet private suites set aside for folks who want a calmer recovery. They keep things comfortable with amenities like phones, televisions, wi-fi, electric beds, and daily bathing help, and you'll see rehabilitation services like physical, occupational, and speech therapy happening seven days a week. Highland Health and Rehabilitation is part of Cascadia Healthcare and the EmpRes family, and people often say the staff know the residents well since it's small enough to let them build those kinds of relationships. There's 24-hour skilled nursing care here and patient-centered rehabilitation, and they set up custom treatment plans for each person, which means residents get help that's right for them. The center offers a full line-up of services-skilled nursing, transitional care, short-stay rehab, memory care, respite care, and a set of activities to suit different interests, so folks have something to do if they're feeling up to it. Highland Health and Rehabilitation holds a Medicare designation and is licensed as a Skilled Nursing Facility, and while it's got the healthcare things you'd hope for, it also tries to make the place warm and welcoming, keeping comfort in mind along with health.

    People often ask...

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    The full address for this community is 2400 Samish Way, Bellingham, WA 98229.

    No, Highland Health 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.

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