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Kennebunk Center for Health & Rehabilitation

158 Ross Rd, Kennebunk, ME 04043 · Map
For profit - Corporation · Part of National Health Care Associates (43 facilities) · 78 certified beds

Medicare and Medicaid certified
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Kennebunk Center for Health & Rehabilitation is a Medicare-certified nursing home in Kennebunk, Maine. CMS rates it 3 out of 5 stars overall (3/5 for staffing, 3/5 for health inspections). Nurse staffing is 4.07 hours per resident per day, below the Maine average of 4.35. Its most recent inspection on Jan 16, 2025 cited 10 deficiencies.

3 out of 5Overall CMS rating
3 out of 5Health inspections
3 out of 5Staffing
78 bedsCertified beds

CMS quality ratings

Ratings from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), updated monthly. 5 stars is the highest quality.

Overall rating3/5
Health inspections3/5
Staffing3/5
Quality measures2/5
Long-stay quality2/5
Short-stay quality2/5

How Kennebunk Center for Health & Rehabilitation compares

This facility vs. the Maine and national averages, from CMS data. For staffing, higher is generally better; for turnover and deficiencies, lower is better.

MetricThis facilityMaine avgNational avgCompared with the state
Total nurse staffing (hrs/resident/day)4.074.353.89below avg
RN staffing (hrs/resident/day)0.911.030.68below avg
Aide staffing (hrs/resident/day)2.392.862.34below avg
Nursing staff turnover55.3%49.3%46.4%above avg
Deficiencies cited, last inspection10.011.39.5below avg

Staffing

Hours per resident per day as reported to CMS. Higher numbers indicate more direct care time.

4.07Total nurse hrs/resident/day
0.91RN hrs/resident/day
0.77LPN hrs/resident/day
2.39Aide hrs/resident/day
3.64Weekend nurse hrs/resident/day

Staff turnover

Lower turnover typically indicates better working conditions and continuity of care. National average for nursing staff is 46.4%.

Total nursing staff55.3%
Registered nurses68.4%
Administrator changes1 in last year

Recent health inspection

CMS inspects nursing facilities regularly. Deficiencies are categorized by severity.

Jan 16, 2025Most recent inspection
10Deficiencies found
60Health inspection score
0Fines

What inspectors found at Kennebunk Center for Health & Rehabilitation

Specific deficiencies cited in recent CMS health inspections, most recent first. Severity follows the CMS scope/severity scale. Source: CMS Care Compare.

  • Potential for harm

    Ensure drugs and biologicals used in the facility are labeled in accordance with currently accepted professional principles; and all drugs and biologicals must be stored in locked compartments, separately locked, compartments for controlled drugs.

    Pharmacy Service Deficiencies · Feb 25, 2025 · Full report (PDF)
  • Potential for harm

    Allow residents to self-administer drugs if determined clinically appropriate.

    Resident Rights Deficiencies · Feb 25, 2025 · Full report (PDF)
  • Potential for harm

    Safeguard resident-identifiable information and/or maintain medical records on each resident that are in accordance with accepted professional standards.

    Resident Assessment and Care Planning Deficiencies · Feb 25, 2025 · Full report (PDF)
  • Potential for harm

    Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to prevent accidents.

    Quality of Life and Care Deficiencies · Feb 25, 2025 · Full report (PDF)
  • Potential for harm

    Inform resident or representatives choice to enter into binding arbitration agreement and right to refuse.

    Administration Deficiencies · Jan 16, 2025 · Full report (PDF)
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  • Potential for harm

    Procure food from sources approved or considered satisfactory and store, prepare, distribute and serve food in accordance with professional standards.

    Nutrition and Dietary Deficiencies · Jan 16, 2025 · Full report (PDF)
  • Potential for harm

    Provide enough nursing staff every day to meet the needs of every resident; and have a licensed nurse in charge on each shift.

    Nursing and Physician Services Deficiencies · Jan 16, 2025 · Full report (PDF)
  • Potential for harm

    Provide safe and appropriate respiratory care for a resident when needed.

    Quality of Life and Care Deficiencies · Jan 16, 2025 · Full report (PDF)
  • Potential for harm

    Provide care and assistance to perform activities of daily living for any resident who is unable.

    Quality of Life and Care Deficiencies · Jan 16, 2025 · Full report (PDF)
  • Potential for harm

    Honor the resident's right to a safe, clean, comfortable and homelike environment, including but not limited to receiving treatment and supports for daily living safely.

    Resident Rights Deficiencies · Jan 16, 2025 · Full report (PDF)
  • Potential for harm

    Provide appropriate treatment and care according to orders, resident’s preferences and goals.

    Quality of Life and Care Deficiencies · Jan 16, 2025 · Full report (PDF)
  • Potential for harm

    Honor the resident's right to and the facility must promote and facilitate resident self-determination through support of resident choice.

    Resident Rights Deficiencies · Jan 16, 2025 · Full report (PDF)

Read the full inspection reports on Medicare.gov Each inspection there has a “Read the full report” link with the inspectors’ written findings.

About this facility

Address
158 Ross Rd
Kennebunk, ME 04043
CMS certification #
205095
Ownership
For profit - Corporation
Certified beds
78
Avg residents/day
72.4
Provider type
Medicare and Medicaid
First certified
1993-01-01
Chain
National Health Care Associates (43 facilities)
Setting
Urban

Part of National Health Care Associates

National Health Care Associates operates 43 nursing facilities across the United States. View all National Health Care Associates facilities →

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Location and nearby

Explore the area around Kennebunk Center for Health & Rehabilitation using Google Maps.

Other public records

  • Website says Respite stays, nurse 24 hours a day, works with hospice, diabetes care, 3 meals a day
  • Staff pay 1 federal wage case with violations found, since 2013
  • Workplace safety 2 OSHA workplace safety inspections since 2023, 6 violations cited
Full public records, with dates and sources

Care and services

From the community’s website

What Kennebunk Center for Health & Rehabilitation says about itself, quoted from its own site. We have not checked these claims against licensing records. Ask about each one on a tour.

  • Offers respite or short-term stays. Respite Care (page, checked Oct 12, 2026)
  • Nurse on site: 24 hours a day. 24-hour skilled nursing care (page, checked Oct 12, 2026)
  • Offers hospice care on site or works with hospice providers. , we offer access to a continuum of post-acute services including therapy, telehealth, diagnostics, home care, and hospice. (page, checked Oct 12, 2026)
  • Offers diabetes care. Diabetes Management (page, checked Oct 12, 2026)
  • 3 meals a day. 3 meals a day, plus an always available menu (page, checked Oct 12, 2026)
  • Apartment types named: private room, semi-private room. Furnished semi-private and private rooms (page, checked Oct 15, 2026)

Staff pay and workplace safety

Federal records about how the employer here treats its staff.

Federal wage and hour cases

The Department of Labor checks that staff are paid minimum wage and overtime as the law requires.

  • Findings for Jul 1, 2013 to May 13, 2015. Violations found: Overtime. Back wages: $16,687 owed to 3 employees. Employer as DOL recorded it: Kennebunk Center for Health & Rehabilitation (National Healthcare Associates, Inc.). Case 1755942.

Source: U.S. Department of Labor, Wage and Hour Division enforcement data, loaded Oct 15, 2026. Concluded cases only. The dates are the period in which DOL found violations, not when the case opened or closed. Back wages are what the employer agreed to pay; penalties are what DOL assessed. DOL does not publish a page for each case, so search the dataset by case number.

OSHA workplace safety inspections

OSHA inspects workplaces for staff safety, such as lifting, needles, chemicals and workplace violence. It does not inspect resident care.

  • Jun 16, 2026: complaint inspection, partial (health). Case open. 1 violation cited (1 other). Penalties: $1,407 proposed, $985 now. OSHA record. OSHA recorded the employer as VK Kennebunk, LLC.
    Details
    • Other than serious: Injury and illness log forms (OSHA 300 and 301) (1904.29(b)(3)). Penalty $1,407 proposed, $985 now.
  • Mar 30, 2023: programmed (planned) inspection, complete (health). Case closed Mar 1, 2024. 5 violations cited (4 serious, 1 other). Penalties: $25,235 proposed, $12,619 now. OSHA record. OSHA recorded the employer as VK Kennebunk, LLC.
    Details
    • Serious: Respiratory protection (respirators, N95 fit testing) (1910.134(f)(1)). Penalty $6,641 proposed, $3,321 now. To be fixed by Sep 5, 2023.
    • Serious: Respiratory protection (respirators, N95 fit testing) (1910.134(g)(1)(i)(a)). Penalty $6,641 proposed, $3,321 now.
    • Serious: Hazard communication (chemical labels, safety data sheets, training) (1910.1200(g)(8)). Penalty $3,984 proposed, $1,992 now.
    • Serious: Hazard communication (chemical labels, safety data sheets, training) (1910.1200(h)(1)). Penalty $6,641 proposed, $3,321 now. To be fixed by Sep 26, 2023.
    • Other than serious: Injury and illness log forms (OSHA 300 and 301) (1904.29(b)(1)). Penalty $1,328 proposed, $664 now.

Source: U.S. Department of Labor OSHA enforcement data, as of Oct 15, 2026, inspections since 2016. Penalties can change while a case is open or contested.

Location and nearby care

Nearest hospital with an emergency room
York Hospital, York. 18.5 miles away, straight line. CMS overall hospital rating: 4 of 5 stars.
Nearest Medicare nursing home
River Ridge Center, Kennebunk. 0.7 miles away, straight line.
Nearest home health agency office
Bayada Home Health Care Inc, Kennubunk. 1.1 miles away, straight line. Agencies travel to clients, so ask which ones serve this address.
Nearest pharmacy
Walmart Pharmacy. 5.8 miles away, straight line. From OpenStreetMap, which does not list every pharmacy, so one may be closer.
Area
USDA classes ZIP code 04043 as metropolitan (metropolitan core).
Dialysis within 15 miles
Fmc York County Dialysis Center, Biddeford, 6.4 miles away, straight line (CMS rating 4 of 5 stars)
Hospice
9 Medicare hospices tell CMS they serve ZIP code 04043.
Compassus - Greater Maine, office in Scarborough, 16.1 miles away, straight line (CMS family survey rating 5 of 5 stars)
Andwell Health Partners, office in Scarborough, 16.2 miles away, straight line (CMS family survey rating 4 of 5 stars)
Affinity Care Of Maine, LLC, office in South Portland, 19.1 miles away, straight line (CMS family survey rating 4 of 5 stars)
Nearest geriatric medicine practice
Maine Geriatrics, Biddeford. 6.4 miles away, straight line. 1 geriatric medicine doctor 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 risk

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: relatively moderate. By hazard: hurricane relatively moderate, inland flooding relatively moderate, coastal flooding very low, wildfire relatively low, tornado relatively 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.

What we checked

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.

SourceData as ofWhat we found
U.S. Department of Labor wage and hour casesOct 15, 2026See above
OSHA workplace safety inspections since 2016Oct 15, 2026See above
FEMA flood mapSee above
USDA wildfire riskApr 15, 2026Not shown: FEMA rates wildfire risk here relatively low
FEMA National Risk IndexSee above
CMS hospitals, home health, dialysis, hospice and doctors; OpenStreetMap pharmaciesSee above
HUD Multifamily Properties - AssistedJul 6, 2026Nothing on record
State Veterans Homes (NASVH directory)Sep 20, 2026Nothing on record
CMS Hospice - General InformationAug 19, 2026Nothing on record
CMS Home Health Care AgenciesMay 27, 2026Nothing on record
The community’s own websiteSee above

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Frequently asked questions

Is Kennebunk Center for Health & Rehabilitation a good nursing home?

CMS gives Kennebunk Center for Health & Rehabilitation an overall rating of 3 out of 5 stars, including 3/5 for staffing and 3/5 for health inspections. These ratings come from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and are updated monthly.

How is Kennebunk Center for Health & Rehabilitation staffed?

Kennebunk Center for Health & Rehabilitation reports 4.07 total nurse hours per resident per day, compared with the Maine average of 4.35.

Has Kennebunk Center for Health & Rehabilitation had inspection problems?

Its most recent CMS inspection cited 10 deficiencies.

How many beds does Kennebunk Center for Health & Rehabilitation have?

Kennebunk Center for Health & Rehabilitation is certified for 78 beds.