AdviniaCare Newport

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 Oct 5, 2013 to Sep 24, 2016. Violations found: Overtime. Back wages: $95,355 owed to 100 employees. Civil money penalties assessed: $44,000. DOL marked the employer as a willful violator. Employer as DOL recorded it: Heatherwood Nursing and Rehabilitation Center (Heatherwood RI, LLC d/b/a). Case 1792104.
• Findings for May 1, 2013 to Apr 30, 2015. Violations found: Fair Labor Standards Act (pay and hours). Employer as DOL recorded it: Heatherwood Nursing & Rehab Center (Athena Heatherwood, Rhode Island, LLC). Case 1755446.
• Findings for Mar 27, 2004 to Mar 25, 2006. Violations found: Overtime. Back wages: $63,133 owed to 48 employees. Employer as DOL recorded it: Heatherwood Nursing and Subacute Center, Inc.. Case 1424666.

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.

• Sep 8, 2021: fatality or catastrophe inspection, partial (health). Case closed Jul 7, 2022. 8 violations cited (5 serious, 3 other). Penalties: $31,330 proposed, $21,930 now. OSHA record. OSHA recorded the employer as Heatherwood Ri, LLC. Matched by street address; the name OSHA recorded differs from the community's.
  Details

  • Serious: COVID-19 rule for healthcare settings (1910.502(f)(2)(i)). Penalty $14,502 proposed, $10,151 now. To be fixed by May 31, 2022.
  • Serious: Respiratory protection (respirators, N95 fit testing) (1910.134(e)(1)). Penalty $0 proposed, $0 now. To be fixed by May 31, 2022.
  • Serious: Respiratory protection (respirators, N95 fit testing) (1910.134(f)(2)). Penalty $0 proposed, $0 now. To be fixed by May 31, 2022.
  • Serious: Respiratory protection (respirators, N95 fit testing) (1910.134(k)(1)). Penalty $0 proposed, $0 now. To be fixed by May 31, 2022.
  • Serious: COVID-19 rule for healthcare settings (1910.502(n)(1)(i)). Penalty $14,502 proposed, $10,151 now. To be fixed by May 31, 2022.
  • Other than serious: COVID-19 rule for healthcare settings (1910.502(c)(3)). Penalty $0 proposed, $0 now. To be fixed by May 31, 2022.
  • Other than serious: COVID-19 rule for healthcare settings (1910.502(c)(4)). Penalty $1,163 proposed, $814 now. To be fixed by May 31, 2022.
  • Other than serious: COVID-19 rule for healthcare settings (1910.502(q)(2)(ii)(a)). Penalty $1,163 proposed, $814 now. To be fixed by May 31, 2022.

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

Newport Hospital, Newport. 1.4 miles away, straight line. CMS overall hospital rating: 4 of 5 stars.

Nearest Medicare nursing home

St Clare Home, Newport. 0.5 miles away, straight line.

Nearest home health agency office

Visiting Nurse Home And Hospice, Middleton. 3.3 miles away, straight line. Agencies travel to clients, so ask which ones serve this address.

Nearest pharmacy

CVS Pharmacy. 0.4 miles away, straight line. From OpenStreetMap, which does not list every pharmacy, so one may be closer.

Area

USDA classes ZIP code 02840 as metropolitan (metropolitan core).

Dialysis within 15 miles

Wakefield Dialysis Center, Wakefield, 10.4 miles away, straight line (CMS rating 5 of 5 stars)

Hospice

9 Medicare hospices tell CMS they serve ZIP code 02840.
Visiting Nurse Health And Hospice, office in Middletown, 3.3 miles away, straight line (CMS family survey rating 4 of 5 stars)
Athena Rhode Island Hospice LLC, office in Warwick, 17.3 miles away, straight line
Continuum Care Hospice, office in West Warwick, 17.8 miles away, straight line (CMS family survey rating 3 of 5 stars)

Nearest geriatric medicine practice

Lifespan Physician Group Inc, Newport. 1.4 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

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 very low, coastal flooding very 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.