Assisted Living and Memory Care
The Cottages at Dartmouth Village
274 Slocum Road, Dartmouth, MA 02747 · Map
Licensed for 88 residents
The Cottages at Dartmouth Village is a state-licensed assisted living, memory care community in Dartmouth, Massachusetts. It is licensed for 88 residents. Lilisity publishes no score or ranking for this community; the details below come from the state licensing record.
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License
Active, 88 residents
Certified Assisted Living Residence with Special Care Residence.
Nearest emergency room
11.4 miles
Southcoast Hospitals Group, rated 4 of 5 stars by CMS.
Side by side with nearby communities
The 4 nearest communities that offer assisted living, by straight-line distance. Prices are starting prices each community publishes; we never show estimates.
| Community | Distance | Licensed capacity | Published starting price | License | Inspection citations |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Cottages at Dartmouth Village this community | 88 | Not published | Active | 7 findings in latest review | |
| Autumn Glen at Dartmouth | 3.1 mi | 85 | Not published | Active | No record |
| The Residence at Cedar Dell | 3.8 mi | 78 | Not published | Active | No record |
| Whaler's Cove | 3.8 mi | 120 | Not published | Active | 5 findings in latest review |
| Atria Fairhaven | 4.3 mi | 60 | $5,195/mo | Active | No record |
State inspection record7 findings in latest review
- Last compliance review
- November 5, 2025
- Reports on AGE’s page
- 1
- Latest action (as printed)
- Plan of Correction
- Certified since 1999
Compliance review, November 5, 2025 (AGE’s report)
- Review on site
- November 5, 2025
- Report dated
- November 13, 2025
- Action taken (as printed)
- Plan of Correction
- Certification (as printed)
- Certified through 11/15/2025
- Review before this one
- November 18, 2024
- Corrections due by (as printed)
- December 13, 2025
- Findings cited
- 7 5 marked repeat
Summary: AGE cited 7 findings in this report, 5 of them marked as repeat findings from an earlier review. Plan of Correction (AGE’s action).
Summary of actions, as written: “AGE conducted an on-site Compliance Review on November 5, 2025. The Cottages of Dartmouth Village (Residence) will continue to be certified until AGE issues a notice regarding final approval or denial of the application for recertification. Final approval will be granted when the issues discussed below have been clarified or corrected in writing. The Cottages of Dartmouth Village November 13, 2025”
- Finding A: General Requirements for an ALR: Emergency Response marked by AGE as a repeat finding
Details
AGE’s finding, as written: “Delayed e-call response time not compliant with Residence policy. Missing hourly safety checks in the SCR.”
Regulation cited, as printed: 651 CMR 12.04(2)(b)(3.)(b.)(c.)
What the cited rule covers (651 CMR 12.00): 651 CMR 12.04(2)(b): Service and Service Coordination Requirements (rule text: “The Sponsor of the Assisted Living Residence shall provide or arrange for the provision of the following services by personnel meeting standards for professional qualifications and training set forth in 651 CMR 12.05, 12.07, and 12.08: 1. [...]”)
Corrective action: See IV A (sections of the report)
- Finding B: General Requirements for an ALR: Special Care marked by AGE as a repeat finding
Details
AGE’s finding, as written: “Training issues and Physical hazards identified in the Special Care Residence.”
Regulation cited, as printed: 651 CMR 12.04(4)(a)(2),(3),(4),(5)
What the cited rule covers (651 CMR 12.00): 651 CMR 12.04(4)(a): Special Care (rule text: “All Special Care Residences shall be administered in accordance with the following safeguards: 1. [...]”)
Corrective action: See IV A&B (sections of the report)
- Finding C: General Requirements for an ALR: -Screening and Assessment -Service Plan Development and Requirements
Details
AGE’s finding, as written: “Inconsistent with documenting all requirements of Assessments and Service Plans.”
Regulation cited, as printed: 651 CMR 12.04(6)(a),(c) 651 CMR 12.04(7)(b) 651 CMR 12.04(8)(b)
What the cited rule covers (651 CMR 12.00): 651 CMR 12.04(6)(a): Screening and Assessment (rule text: “Prior to a Resident moving in, a nurse shall conduct an initial screening to assess and determine: 1. The prospective Resident's service needs and preferences and the ability of the Residence to meet those needs; 2. [...]”); 651 CMR 12.04(7)(b): Service Plan Development (rule text: “The Service Coordinator or nurse shall review the Resident's initial service plan within 30 days of the commencement of residency and document the review to ensure the Resident's needs and preferences are accurately incorporated therein [...]”); 651 CMR 12.04(8)(b): Service Plan Requirements (rule text: “All service plans shall be in writing, signed and dated by the Resident or his or her Legal Representative, and by the Sponsor or his or her representative.”)
Corrective action: See IV A (sections of the report)
- Finding D: General Requirements for an ALR: Quality Assurance and Performance Improvement marked by AGE as a repeat finding
Details
AGE’s finding, as written: “Missing or incomplete components of the Quality Assurance and Performance Improvement requirements.”
Regulation cited, as printed: 651 CMR 12.04(10)(c)
What the cited rule covers (651 CMR 12.00): 651 CMR 12.04(10)(c): Quality Assurance and Performance Improvement › Medication Quality Plan (rule text: “The Residence shall develop and implement systems that support and promote safe SAMM, and if applicable, LMA programs. The Medication quality plan shall include but need not be limited to the following components: 1. [...]”)
Corrective action: See IV A (sections of the report)
- Finding E: Emergency Preparedness Plan and Reporting Requirements: -Evacuation Drills and Rehearsals -Reporting Resident Specific Emergencies marked by AGE as a repeat finding
Details
AGE’s finding, as written: “Insufficient documentation of missing person drills. Late submissions of Resident-specific incidents reports.”
Regulation cited, as printed: 651 CMR 12.04(11)(a)(4.) 651 CMR 12.04(11)(e)
What the cited rule covers (651 CMR 12.00): 651 CMR 12.04(11)(a): Emergency Preparedness Plan and Reporting Requirements › Plan Requirements (rule text: “1. The plan and any changes to the plan, which shall be developed in conjunction with local and state emergency planners, must include the following elements: a. [...]”); 651 CMR 12.04(11)(e): Emergency Preparedness Plan and Reporting Requirements (rule text: “Any report required under 651 CMR 12.04(11)(c) or 12.04(11)(d) shall be filed with the Assisted Living Certification Unit within 24 hours after the occurrence of the incident or accident via EOEA's online filing system. [...]”)
Corrective action: See IV A (sections of the report)
- Finding F: Record Requirements: Correspondence Log
Details
AGE’s finding, as written: “Inconsistent documentation of information necessary for the continuity of care.”
Regulation cited, as printed: 651 CMR 12.05(4)
What the cited rule covers (651 CMR 12.00): 651 CMR 12.05(4): Record Requirements (rule text: “The Residence must maintain a staff correspondence log for each 24 hour period that communicates information necessary to maintain the continuity of care for all Residents. The correspondence log must be maintained for no less than 90 days.”)
Corrective action: See IV A (sections of the report)
- Finding G: Training Requirements: Introductory Visits and Review Supervision marked by AGE as a repeat finding
Details
AGE’s finding, as written: “Inconsistent documentation of Introductory Visits. Biannual SAMM and skills evaluations were not consistently documented for all PC staff.”
Regulation cited, as printed: 651 CMR 12.07(7), (8)
What the cited rule covers (651 CMR 12.00): 651 CMR 12.07(7): Introductory Visit and Review (rule text: “Prior to or within 48 hours after the provision of Personal Care Services to a Resident, a nurse shall review the Resident's service plan with all relevant personal care workers. [...]”)
Corrective action: See IV A&B (sections of the report)
Specific corrective actions AGE required
- Documentation confirming all SCR staff have been re-trained on policies and procedures concerning response to door alarms.
- Documentation that all Personal Care Staff have a current Introductory Review, conducted by a nurse, with all Residents.
- Documentation confirming current biannual PC skills evaluations have been completed by a nurse for all PC staff.
What AGE reviewed and found (AGE’s words)
- Service and Service Coordination Requirements - Emergency Response
- AGE reviewed the Personalized Emergency Response procedures developed to provide timely assistance to a Resident in the event of an emergency.
- In the months of September 2025 and October 2025 there were 45 e-call response times over the 15 minutes required by the Residence policy.
- The Residence has chosen to manually document hourly safety checks of Residents living in the Special Care Residence (SCR) to comply with the regulation to provide timely assistance to a Resident in the event of an emergency needs situation.
- Documentation of hourly safety checks for October and November 2025 had multiple instances where staff failed to document the hourly safety checks of the SCR Residents during the hours of 7:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m.
- Service and Service Coordination- Special Care
- AGE reviewed the Special Care Residence (SCR) operations on the date of the Compliance Review to verify that the Residence is complying with all the required safeguards.
- Age identified deficiencies with staff training in relation to emergency response as no staff responded to triggered door alarms.
- Age identified deficiencies with operational safeguards related to the risk of potential hazards in the physical environment:
- Unsecured chemicals in the SCR.
- Access to the heating elements in the country kitchen.
- General Requirements for an Assisted Living Residence
- AGE reviewed seven Resident Records to determine compliance with requirements for the Screening and Assessment, Service Plan Development and Service Plan Requirements.
Screening and Assessment
- Six records were missing documentation of an initial assessment being completed by a nurse.
- Six records were missing signatures of the Resident or Legal Representative.
Service Plan Development and Requirements
- Two records were missing documentation of a service plan review required within 30 days after the commencement of residency.
- Six records were missing documentation of signatures of the Resident, his or her Legal Representative on Service Plan reviews.
- Quality Assurance and Performance Improvement
- AGE reviewed documentation to ensure the Residence has established an effective, ongoing quality improvement and assurance program for Service Planning, Safety
- Assurances, and Medication Quality from September 2023, through the date of the Compliance Review.
Medication Quality Plan
- AGE reviewed the Residence's quarterly medication documentation audits from November 2024, through the date of the Compliance Review to ensure compliance with SAMM, LMA and Residence policies.
- Documentation of the date of the audit, the target date for the follow-up action, and the person responsible for follow-up action was missing for all quarters in the 2025 calendar year.
Medication administration observation
- AGE observed three PCA staff providing medication observation and two nurses providing medication administration to eight Residents to ensure the Residence has developed and implemented systems that support and promote safe SAMM and LMA.
SAMM
- One Resident had two loose unidentified loose pills in their medication storage unit.
- One Resident had one compromised pharmacy filled blister package.
LMA
- One Resident had multiple bottles of over-the-counter medication without pharmacy labels in their medication storge unit.
- Emergency Preparedness Plan and Reporting Requirements Evacuation Drills and Rehearsals
- AGE reviewed the Residence's Emergency Plan to ensure compliance that the Residence can address potential disasters and emergencies and resident-specific crises such as a missing Resident.
- Documentation of a missing person drill for the first and second shift for the 2024 calendar year was missing.
Reporting Resident-specific Emergencies
- AGE reviewed the Residence records and incident reports from November 2024 through the date of the Compliance Review to determine whether the Residence complied with the requirement to report qualifying incidents to AGE within 24 hours after the occurrence of the incident or accident.
- The Residence filed six incident reports greater than 24 hours after the occurrence of the incident or accident.
- Record Requirements - Correspondence Log
- AGE reviewed the current Correspondence Logs for Traditional and Special Care Residence, required to communicate information necessary to maintain the continuity of care for all Residents.
- The Residence did not maintain the Correspondence Logs for at least 90 days.
- Training Requirements
Introductory Visit and Review
- AGE reviewed the records of seven Residents to determine compliance with the requirements that a nurse reviews the Resident's service plan with all relevant personal care workers within the 48 hours after the provision of service or with any change of condition for the Resident:
- Three records were without documentation to support that Introductory Visits were consistently conducted with all applicable staff.
Supervision
- AGE reviewed the records of three Personal Care (PC) staff to determine compliance with SAMM skills and Personal Care evaluation requirements in the calendar year 2024 through the date of the Compliance Review.
- Documentation confirming the completion of Personal Care skills evaluations every six months was missing from two records for the 2025 calendar year.
Summaries are ours and are marked “Summary”; quoted text is AGE’s own, as printed in reports scanned to text (spelling slips are AGE’s or the scan’s), shortened where marked [...]. Rule descriptions come from 651 CMR 12.00 as in force on the report date. AGE’s page for this residence links each report.
What these terms mean
651 CMR 12.09(2): AGE "shall conduct compliance reviews of Assisted Living Residences no less than once every two years. In addition, [AGE] may conduct a compliance review any time it has cause to believe that an Assisted Living Residence is in violation" of the law or its regulations.
651 CMR 12.09(4)(b): a notice of noncompliance "shall describe the noncompliance with particularity, indicate the specific portion of the law(s) or regulation(s) which have been violated, and shall include the corrective action to be taken."
651 CMR 12.09(4)(c) and (d): AGE may require corrective action, including "Ceasing the enrollment of new Residents" or "Reducing the number of Residents served", and may "deny, revoke, suspend, modify or refuse to issue or renew a Certification."
A finding marked repeat is one AGE also cited at an earlier review. AGE does not rate findings by severity in these reports; the action taken is AGE's overall response.
AGE posts these reports on each residence’s mass.gov page and keeps no public index, so older reports may not be listed. Massachusetts posts no complaint results for assisted living. This residence is certified for 88 units; larger residences have more records to review, so read counts with size in mind. Source: Massachusetts Executive Office of Aging & Independence (AGE), Assisted Living Residence certification, residence pages read October 16, 2026. Always visit in person and ask the residence about anything listed here.
License and ownershipActive license
- License type
- Certified Assisted Living Residence with Special Care Residence
- License status
- Active
- Licensed capacity
- 88
- County
- Bristol County
Source: Massachusetts state licensing records (agency listing), retrieved 2026-09-09. Licensing status is a matter of public record; it is not a quality rating.
Paying with Medicaid and other programsHow Medicaid pays for care in Massachusetts, and other programs
How Medicaid pays for care in Massachusetts
- Group Adult Foster Care (GAFC), a MassHealth program. Most people pay privately. MassHealth (Medicaid) can help through Group Adult Foster Care (GAFC) at residences that accept it, but not all ALRs do. Ask before you sign a residency agreement. (state page)
Ask the community whether it accepts Medicaid.
Location and nearby careNearest hospital 11.4 mi, nursing home 1.3 mi, pharmacy 1.2 mi
- Nearest hospital with an emergency room
- Southcoast Hospitals Group, Fall River. 11.4 miles away, straight line. CMS overall hospital rating: 4 of 5 stars.
- Nearest Medicare nursing home
- Vantage Health & Rehab of New Bedford, New Bedford. 1.3 miles away, straight line.
- Nearest home health agency office
- Community Nurse Home Care, Fairhaven. 3.4 miles away, straight line. Agencies travel to clients, so ask which ones serve this address.
- Nearest pharmacy
- CVS Pharmacy. 1.2 miles away, straight line. From OpenStreetMap, which does not list every pharmacy, so one may be closer.
- Area
- USDA classes ZIP code 02747 as metropolitan (metropolitan core).
- Dialysis within 15 miles
- Davita New Bedford Dialysis, North Dartmouth, 1.5 miles away, straight line (CMS rating 4 of 5 stars)
Hawthorn Kidney Center, Dartmouth, 4.0 miles away, straight line (CMS rating 3 of 5 stars)
Fresenius Medical Care Of Fairhaven, Fairhaven, 4.5 miles away, straight line (CMS rating 3 of 5 stars) - Hospice
- 14 Medicare hospices tell CMS they serve ZIP code 02747.
Community Nurse Home Care, Inc, office in Fairhaven, 3.4 miles away, straight line (CMS family survey rating 5 of 5 stars)
Hospice And Palliative Care, office in Fairhaven, 4.7 miles away, straight line (CMS family survey rating 4 of 5 stars)
Bristol Hospice LLC, office in Fall River, 10.0 miles away, straight line - Nearest geriatric medicine practice
- Lifespan Physician Group Inc, Newport. 19.7 miles away, straight line. 2 geriatric medicine doctors listed there.
Distances are straight lines from the community, not driving distance. Hospitals, home health, dialysis, hospice and doctors come from CMS provider data (CMS, hospital list updated Jul 22, 2026). Star ratings are CMS’s own.
Emergency and natural hazard riskFEMA overall risk very low; outside FEMA's high-risk flood areas
Public hazard maps for this location. Ask the community about its emergency plan, its generator and where residents would go in an evacuation.
- Flood zone
- Outside the high and moderate risk flood areas on FEMA's flood map (Zone X, minimal flood hazard, or not studied). (FEMA flood map)
- FEMA National Risk Index
- Overall: very low. By hazard: hurricane relatively low, inland flooding relatively low, coastal flooding very low, wildfire very low, tornado very low, heat wave relatively low, earthquake relatively low. These are FEMA’s ratings for the census tract, compared with tracts nationwide. (FEMA, December 2025)
A flood zone describes the map at this point, not the building's elevation. In an emergency, follow the local emergency management agency.
Questions to ask on a tour10 questions picked for this community from its record
Picked for this community from its record. Ask them in person and write down the answers.
- The state recorded a finding in November 2025. What was it, and how was it fixed?
- What does the base rate include, and when did rates last go up?
- How many caregivers work in memory care during the day, the evening and overnight, and for how many residents?
- What dementia training does each caregiver get before working alone, and every year after?
- How do staff respond when a resident is agitated, frightened or tries to leave?
- How many caregivers are on duty during the day and at night?
- What happens if care needs increase? When would someone need to move?
- What fees are charged at move-in?
- How do you tell families about falls, illness or changes?
- How long have the executive director and the head of care been here?
What we checked13 public sources we searched, with dates
Every public source we searched for this community. “Nothing on record” means we found no record that matched it. A record can be missed when a name or address differs.
| Source | Data as of | What we found |
|---|---|---|
| Massachusetts Executive Office of Aging & Independence (AGE), Assisted Living Residence certification inspection records | Oct 16, 2026 | See above |
| U.S. Department of Labor wage and hour cases | Oct 15, 2026 | Nothing on record |
| OSHA workplace safety inspections since 2016 | Oct 15, 2026 | Nothing on record |
| Hurricane evacuation zone maps | Not in a mapped zone | |
| FEMA flood map | See above | |
| USDA wildfire risk | Apr 15, 2026 | Not shown: FEMA rates wildfire risk here very low |
| FEMA National Risk Index | See above | |
| CMS hospitals, home health, dialysis, hospice and doctors; OpenStreetMap pharmacies | See above | |
| HUD Multifamily Properties - Assisted | Jul 6, 2026 | Nothing on record |
| State Veterans Homes (NASVH directory) | Sep 20, 2026 | Nothing on record |
| CMS Hospice - General Information | Aug 19, 2026 | Nothing on record |
| CMS Home Health Care Agencies | May 27, 2026 | Nothing on record |
| The community’s own website | Could not read the site |
Common questionsAnswers to 4 questions families ask
What type of care does The Cottages at Dartmouth Village provide?
The Cottages at Dartmouth Village is licensed by the state of Massachusetts for assisted living, memory care in Dartmouth, Massachusetts. Its licensed capacity is 88 residents.
Does Lilisity rate The Cottages at Dartmouth Village?
No. We publish state licensing details for The Cottages at Dartmouth Village but no score, rating, or ranking. Only communities on the Top Communities list or with a Senior Living Alliance Excellence Award, both based on phone-verified resident and family interviews, are ranked.
How much does The Cottages at Dartmouth Village cost?
Assisted Living in Massachusetts typically starts at $5,300 to $7,800 a month. Based on 31 communities that publish prices. These are area figures, not this community's price. The Cottages at Dartmouth Village does not publish its prices.
How do I contact The Cottages at Dartmouth Village?
Use The Cottages at Dartmouth Village's website, mass.gov/locations/the-cottages-at-dartmouth-village, or visit at 274 Slocum Road, Dartmouth, MA 02747.
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