Serenity Rehabilitation and Health Center

    1380 Southern Ave SE, Washington, DC 20032
    • Skilled Nursing

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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

    4.31·(35)

    Overall rating

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

      4.0
    • Staff

      4.3
    • Meals

      2.3
    • Amenities

      2.5
    • Value

      1.5

    Pros

    • clean, well-maintained facility
    • friendly and responsive nursing staff
    • knowledgeable rehabilitation and therapy team
    • attentive certified nursing assistants
    • secure environment with controlled entry
    • organized administration and strong leadership
    • convenient location near medical center
    • intimate, home-like atmosphere
    • clear communication about meals and activities
    • helpful social-work support
    • prompt issue resolution for routine concerns
    • welcoming admissions experience

    Cons

    • inconsistent staff responsiveness and timeliness
    • staffing shortfalls during some shifts
    • variability in housekeeping and odor control
    • inconsistent dining quality
    • limited or uneven activities programming
    • equipment and maintenance reliability issues (elevators)
    • gaps in on-site physician availability
    • weaknesses in resident supervision and room access controls
    • Communication transparency and follow-up
    • billing and administrative-practice concerns

    Summary of reviews

    Overall impression: Reviews present a mixed but generally positive picture of day-to-day life at the facility. Many accounts emphasize a clean, well-maintained building, a welcoming tour/admissions process, and strong therapy and nursing teams that provide attentive, compassionate care. The center's small, intimate layout and proximity to a medical center are frequently seen as advantages for families seeking a convenient, secure setting for rehabilitation or longer-term care.

    Care and staff: Staffing quality appears uneven. Numerous reviewers praise nurses, CNAs, therapists, social workers, and specific staff members for professionalism, responsiveness, and compassionate interactions. At the same time, other accounts describe delays in responding to call systems, unmet basic-care needs (for example assistance with bathing or timely water and toileting support), and concerns about the conduct or competence of some aides. These divergent reports suggest generally strong clinical and rehabilitative capability, with occasional lapses likely related to staffing levels or shift-to-shift variability.

    Dining and activities: Dining receives mixed feedback. Several families describe cafeteria food as mediocre but improving, while others find meals acceptable. The facility offers therapy and some activity programming that several reviewers appreciated; however, a subset of comments indicate limited or inconsistent activity options and variable meal quality. Staff communication about meal schedules and activity availability is reported as clear in many cases, which helps set expectations for residents and families.

    Facilities and operations: The physical environment is frequently described as clean, safe, and home-like, with secure entry and attentive front-line staff. Operational concerns include limited parking, intermittent elevator reliability, and episodic odor problems in common areas that reviewers tied to housekeeping or maintenance practices. There are also mentions of supervision gaps that have allowed other residents to enter rooms unintentionally; this points to opportunities to strengthen room-access controls and supervision protocols.

    Management, communication, and administrative practices: Management is characterized in contrasting ways. Some accounts praise strong leadership, coordinated care, and effective problem resolution; others describe a lack of transparency, unmet promises, and aggressive-sounding billing or post-death administrative follow-up. Additionally, reviewers reported limited on-site physician visibility in some cases. Taken together, these patterns suggest the facility has effective administrative strengths but would benefit from more consistent family communication, clearer billing practices, and standardized follow-up processes.

    Notable patterns and considerations for families: If you prioritize a clean, compact facility with a strong therapy program and generally compassionate staff, this center is often seen positively. Prospective residents and families should, however, ask targeted questions about staffing ratios by shift, physician availability, housekeeping/odor-control protocols, activity schedules, and billing procedures. A focused tour that inquires about call-response times, supervision policies, and recent maintenance work (for elevators and HVAC) will help set realistic expectations and identify whether the facility's operational practices match your needs.

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    Medicare Ratings

    4·/ 5
    • Overall

    • Health Inspection

    • Staffing

    • Quality Measures

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

    Location

    Serenity Rehabilitation and Health Center is located at 1380 Southern Ave SE, Washington, DC, 20032.

    About Serenity Rehabilitation and Health Center

    Serenity Rehabilitation And Health Center serves 176 residents daily and has 183 certified beds for people who need skilled nursing care, offering both long-term and short-term support, and folks can get help here after an illness, surgery, or hospital stay, and there's a team to help with medication management, bathing, dressing, transfers, and 24-hour supervision, plus a 24-hour call system and a 12-16 hour nursing shift schedule, which means someone's always around in case of emergencies or extra needs. The facility accepts Medicare and Medicaid, so those programs help with payment, and services are provided in English with free language help if needed, and they've got a complaints hotline, support for anonymous concerns, resident and family councils, and even special communication options like eCards if regular visits aren't possible, and they use a scheduled appointment system for all visits to help keep residents safe, especially against infections like COVID-19. The rooms come furnished with private bathrooms, cable TV, high-speed internet, air conditioning, and a kitchenette, while nurses spend about 3.42 hours per resident each day, and the staff offers help for activities of daily living, move-in coordination, and transportation when needed. Around the building, you'll find a beauty salon, a game room, a fitness area, a mental wellness room, gardens and walking paths, and a computer center, along with spaces for movies, art, community dining, and music programs, plus scheduled daily activities and some that residents run themselves, which include outdoor programs, a small library, and wellness rooms. There's restaurant-style dining in a shared room, with a professional chef handling menus that fit special diets for diabetes or other health issues, and housekeeping, laundry, and parking service for support.

    The center specializes in rehabilitation, long-term skilled care, and other types of medical services like hospice, tracheotomy care, on-site dialysis, and bariatric support, and they say they work to deliver care with compassion, aiming for quicker, stronger recovery, and a focus on keeping care personal and respectful for every person regardless of income, and they offer virtual tours and e-card messaging, so families can keep in touch from afar. The place doesn't belong to a Continuing Care Retirement Community, it's for-profit, owned by a limited liability company with Efraim Rooz linked to ownership, and there's no clear public information about who exactly manages daily operations. Serenity Rehabilitation And Health Center has had several state inspections and received 61 deficiencies in reports as of October 20, 2023, with issues found around timely reporting and response to suspected abuse or neglect, proper food sourcing, infection control (3 infection-related deficiencies), and maintaining nutrition and dietary standards, and there's been a citation for violating infection protection rules. The nurse turnover rate is 48.6%, which is high, but staff are in the building around the clock, and the center tries to stay up-to-date with new health and safety programs.

    The management encourages engagement with community-sponsored and resident-initiated activities, gives families several ways to communicate, and allows residents to participate through language help, mental wellness resources, and a regular schedule of upgrades and inspections, but those interested should review the inspection reports and visit in person, if possible, to see if it matches what's needed for their situation.

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