Sandy River Center

Care and services

From the community’s website

What Sandy River Center 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. Sandy River Center is a skilled nursing facility offering post-hospital, short-term rehabilitation as well as long-term and respite care. (page, checked Oct 12, 2026)
• Provides transportation. Coordinated transportation (page, checked Oct 12, 2026)
• 3 meals a day. 3 good meals a day. (page, checked Oct 12, 2026)
• Pets allowed. Pets Permitted (page, checked Oct 12, 2026)
• Apartment types named: private room, semi-private room. Private and Semi-Private Rooms (page, checked Oct 12, 2026)
• Smoke-free. Smoke free environment (page, checked Oct 12, 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 May 3, 2003 to Apr 23, 2005. Violations found: Overtime. Back wages: $184 owed to 2 employees. Employer as DOL recorded it: Sandy River Center for Health Care and Rehabi (Wilson Stream Management, Inc.). Case 1411213.

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.

• Nov 8, 2023: programmed (planned) inspection, complete (health). Case closed Apr 29, 2024. 2 violations cited (1 serious, 1 other). Penalties: $22,627 proposed, $15,839 now. OSHA record. OSHA recorded the employer as Genesis Healthcare. Matched by street address; the name OSHA recorded differs from the community's.
  Details

  • Serious: Respiratory protection (respirators, N95 fit testing) (1910.134(f)(2)). Penalty $15,085 proposed, $15,085 now.
  • Other than serious: Respiratory protection (respirators, N95 fit testing) (1910.134(g)(1)(i)(a)). Penalty $7,542 proposed, $754 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

Mainehealth Franklin Hospital, Farmington. 0.1 miles away, straight line. CMS overall hospital rating: 3 of 5 stars.

Nearest Medicare nursing home

Orchard Park Rehab & Living Center, Farmington. 3.5 miles away, straight line.

Nearest home health agency office

Mainegeneral Community Care, Waterville. 26.7 miles away, straight line. Agencies travel to clients, so ask which ones serve this address.

Nearest pharmacy

Walgreens. 2.8 miles away, straight line. From OpenStreetMap, which does not list every pharmacy, so one may be closer.

Area

USDA classes ZIP code 04938 as rural (rural area).

Dialysis within 15 miles

Fmc Umbagog Kidney Center, Wilton, 4.3 miles away, straight line (CMS rating 4 of 5 stars)

Hospice

3 Medicare hospices tell CMS they serve ZIP code 04938.

Nearest geriatric medicine practice

Mainehealth, Farmington. 0.1 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 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

FEMA has a flood map for this community (effective July 3, 1995), but it is not in FEMA's digital flood map data, so the zone at this address could not be read. FEMA's Map Service Center has the map. (FEMA flood map)

FEMA National Risk Index

Overall: relatively low. By hazard: hurricane relatively moderate, inland flooding relatively low, wildfire very low, tornado very low, heat wave very 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.