Nursing home
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
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.
CMS quality ratings
Ratings from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), updated monthly. 5 stars is the highest quality.
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.
| Metric | This facility | Maine avg | National avg | Compared with the state |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total nurse staffing (hrs/resident/day) | 4.07 | 4.35 | 3.89 | below avg |
| RN staffing (hrs/resident/day) | 0.91 | 1.03 | 0.68 | below avg |
| Aide staffing (hrs/resident/day) | 2.39 | 2.86 | 2.34 | below avg |
| Nursing staff turnover | 55.3% | 49.3% | 46.4% | above avg |
| Deficiencies cited, last inspection | 10.0 | 11.3 | 9.5 | below avg |
Staffing
Hours per resident per day as reported to CMS. Higher numbers indicate more direct care time.
Staff turnover
Lower turnover typically indicates better working conditions and continuity of care. National average for nursing staff is 46.4%.
Recent health inspection
CMS inspects nursing facilities regularly. Deficiencies are categorized by severity.
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)
Show all 12 deficiencies
- 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
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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.
| Source | Data as of | What we found |
|---|---|---|
| U.S. Department of Labor wage and hour cases | Oct 15, 2026 | See above |
| OSHA workplace safety inspections since 2016 | Oct 15, 2026 | See above |
| FEMA flood map | See above | |
| USDA wildfire risk | Apr 15, 2026 | Not shown: FEMA rates wildfire risk here relatively 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 | See 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.