Cadia Rehabilitation Renaissance

    26002 John J Williams Hwy, Millsboro, DE 19966
    • Skilled Nursing

    Clean facility, outstanding staff, caring

    I'm very pleased with my experience at Cadia. The facility is clean, the nurses and therapists are outstanding, and staff are consistently friendly, helpful, and caring. Communication is excellent with proactive updates and meetings to keep us informed, the meals are good, and I would recommend Cadia to family and friends.

    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

    • 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

    4.33·(18)

    Overall rating

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

      4.6
    • Staff

      4.3
    • Meals

      4.0
    • Amenities

      5.0
    • Value

      4.3

    Pros

    • Outstanding nursing staff
    • Excellent therapy and rehabilitation services
    • Helpful, courteous, and friendly staff
    • Proactive and clear communication with families
    • Regular informative updates and scheduled meetings
    • Responsive staff
    • Clean, well-maintained and new facilities
    • Generally good meals (food liked by residents)
    • Strong overall care quality
    • Positive patient and family recommendations
    • Daytime staff described as helpful and wonderful
    • Facility regarded as one of the best in the area

    Cons

    • Understaffing / high patient-to-staff ratios
    • Many patients (potential crowding or busy environment)

    Summary of reviews

    Overall sentiment across the review summaries for Cadia Rehabilitation Renaissance is strongly positive. Reviewers repeatedly praise the quality of clinical care, especially nursing and therapy services, and many explicitly state they would recommend the facility to friends or family. Words and phrases appearing across multiple summaries — such as "outstanding nurse," "excellent therapist," "great nursing care," and "excellent therapy" — indicate that clinical competence and rehabilitation outcomes are consistent strengths. Several reviews also highlight good clinical communication, including timely updates about medication changes, which supports confidence in care coordination.

    Staff behavior and interpersonal interactions are a major positive theme. Reviews emphasize that staff are friendly, courteous, helpful, and smiling — descriptors that suggest a warm atmosphere and respectful resident treatment. Multiple comments note staff responsiveness and proactive communication: families receive informative updates, and meetings are scheduled to keep them informed. This pattern of proactive family engagement appears to be a deliberate practice at the facility and contributes heavily to the positive impressions reported by reviewers.

    The physical environment and amenities receive favorable remarks as well. Many summaries describe the facility as very clean and note that it is a newer facility. Cleanliness is mentioned repeatedly, reinforcing the sense of a well-maintained setting. Dining gets generally positive but more moderate feedback — reviewers say residents "like the food" and that meals are "pretty good," indicating that dining is acceptable and satisfactory though not necessarily exceptional in the same emphatic way as clinical care and staff interactions.

    Despite the overwhelmingly positive tone, there are recurring operational concerns worth noting. Several reviews mention understaffing and a high number of patients. Those comments suggest that staffing levels and patient census can create a busy environment and may be perceived as a constraint on resources. While reviewers still report good care and responsiveness overall, the presence of understaffing remarks indicates a vulnerability: if census rises or staff turnover occurs, the facility could face challenges maintaining the current level of individualized attention. The reviews do not provide detailed examples of negative outcomes linked to staffing, but the concern appears frequently enough to record as a notable pattern.

    In summary, Cadia Rehabilitation Renaissance is consistently viewed by reviewers as delivering high-quality clinical care, particularly in nursing and therapy, within a clean, newer facility staffed by warm and communicative caregivers. Families appreciate proactive communication and scheduled updates, and many explicitly recommend the facility. The main area of concern across the summaries is staffing levels and a high patient load, which reviewers mention as a limitation even though it has not, in these summaries, overridden the generally favorable experiences. Overall, the reviews portray Cadia as a strong choice in the area for rehabilitation and short-term care, with one operational risk to monitor around staffing and patient volume.

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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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    Cadia Rehabilitation Renaissance is located at 26002 John J Williams Hwy, Millsboro, DE, 19966.

    About Cadia Rehabilitation Renaissance

    Cadia Rehabilitation Renaissance sits at 26002 John J Williams Highway in Millsboro, Delaware, right in Sussex County just minutes from Rehoboth Beach, and the place has 130 certified beds and takes care of a lot of different health needs, with skilled nursing, high acuity care, medication management, incontinence care, non-ambulatory care, specialized memory care in a secure unit, skilled wound care, feeding tube and ostomy care, CHF and COPD management, diabetes care, stroke recovery, dementia care, catheter care, and also offers hospice and palliative services, while providing rehabilitation services using physical, occupational, and speech therapy with deep heat and multiple pain reduction options, as well as therapy using computerized exercise cycles, nerve and muscle stimulation, video swallowing assessment, augmented communication systems, and even some virtual reality therapy, and there's always a registered dietitian on site making custom meal programs, with restaurant-style dining and chef-inspired entrees so people can get nutrition that fits their needs, and although the staff is called wonderful, anyone can see there's a high nurse turnover rate at 68% and nurses put in about 3.65 hours per resident per day, which is below the Delaware average, and the place isn't accepting new patients right now. The owners are Schafer Family LLC and Silver Holdings LLC, each with half the ownership, and the place is run for profit, and management changed in December 2024 to Elizabeth Price and Laura Dittmar, with Onix Group LLC involved since 2017 and Long Term Care Corp since 2008, and the ownership has some trusts for family members. The place had a standard inspection on September 19, 2024, showing 16 new deficiencies, including one around infection control, and overall there are 43 reported deficiencies, with two tied to infections, and past citations included an administration deficiency about not informing people of their arbitration rights and a residents' rights deficiency around dignity and communication, so there's some room for improvement. Rooms are described as large and semi-private, every room has a television, there's free Wi-Fi and good internet, and there's ample parking for visitors. Staff speak English and some other languages, and there's help with touring, admissions, and supporting current patients. The building also offers a virtual tour online. The rehabilitation program is personalized for each patient, and the care team includes physical therapists, occupational therapists, speech-language pathologists, medical directors, nurse practitioners, and consulting specialty doctors, and care transitions and discharge planning start at admission so there's a focus on timely and safe transitions home. There's a memory care program for people with dementia and a variety of features aimed at supporting recovery and daily life, though the full list of amenities isn't specified.

    People often ask...

    Cadia Rehabilitation Renaissance offers skilled nursing.

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    The full address for this community is 26002 John J Williams Hwy, Millsboro, DE 19966.

    No, Cadia Rehabilitation Renaissance 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 Delaware, the Division of Health Care Quality licenses assisted living and long-term care facilities, conducting annual surveys, complaint investigations, and infection-control reviews.

    License number2155
    StatusLicensed
    Facility typeNursing Home
    Capacity130 residents
    EffectiveApril 1st, 2025
    ExpiresMarch 31st, 2026

    Inspection Reports

    13

    Reports

    1

    Type A Citations

    0

    Type B Citations

    9

    Complaints

    7

    Years

    02 Jun 2025Complaint
    Investigated a resident abuse allegation and found two deficiencies: failure to report to the state agency promptly and failure to suspend the accused staff pending investigation.
    • §483.12(c)(2)-(4)Investigation and reporting of alleged abuse/neglect
    • §483.12(c)(2)-(4)Protection of residents; suspension of accused staff during investigation
    21 Mar 2025Desk Review
    Identified failure to maintain required minimum staffing levels and CNA day-shift ratios; a desk-review confirmed noncompliance with state staffing requirements.
    • 16 Del. code, Chapter 11, Subchapter VII 1162 Nursing StaffingMinimum Staffing Levels for Residential Health Facilities
    26 Jun 2024Complaint
    Investigated a complaint alleging abuse and found deficiencies in investigations and reporting.
    • §483.12(c)(4)Report the results of investigations
    • §483.12(c)(2)Investigations
    • §483.12(c)(3)Prevention of abuse, neglect, exploitation, or mistreatment during the investigation
    02 May 2024Complaint
    Investigated found deficiencies in handling a resident aggression incident and in reporting and investigating it, indicating non-compliance with key regulatory requirements.
    • 42 CFR subpart BAbuse/Neglect - Resident Safety
    • §483.12(c)(4)Investigation and Reporting of Alleged Violations
    27 Mar 2024Desk Review
    Identified a deficiency for failing to maintain the minimum direct-care staffing level required per resident per day.
    • 16 Del. Code, Chapter 11, Subchapter VII, 1162Minimum Staffing Levels for Residential Health Facilities
    07 Aug 2023Complaint
    Investigated findings included several deficiencies related to staffing, resident rights, and recordkeeping identified during the survey.
    13 Jul 2022Infection Control
    Investigated and found no deficiencies identified.
    22 Oct 2021Complaint
    Investigators found multiple deficiencies related to staffing levels, residents' rights and privacy, and care planning, resulting in cited violations across several standard sections.
    • 16 Del. C., Chapter 11, Subchapter VII § 1162Nursing staffing
    • Nursing staffing – posted daily on unit boards
    • Type ACFR(s): 483.10(f)(5)(i)-(iii)Resident rights/exercise of rights
    • Non-covered services and privacy of care
    • Protection/Advocacy contact information
    • Comprehensive care plan – resident needs
    30 Aug 2021Infection Control
    Investigated a COVID-19 focused infection control survey; found no deficiencies identified and confirmed compliance with infection control regulations.
    16 Feb 2021Infection Control
    Found deficiencies in infection prevention and control, including incomplete COVID-19 screening and gaps in the infection prevention program.
    • 42 CFR §483.80Infection prevention and control
    15 Jan 2021Infection Control
    Found no deficiencies. The COVID-19 focused infection control survey and complaint survey showed compliance with infection control regulations and CMS/CDC practices.
    16 Nov 2020Inspection
    Conducted a COVID-19 focused infection control survey; found no deficiencies.
    12 Mar 2019Complaint
    Identified a deficiency for not following a physician's order requiring two staff for bed mobility, which led to a resident fall and injury.
    • Bed mobility - two-staff assistance required by physician's order

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