Best nursing homes in Philadelphia, PA
These are the 47 CMS-certified nursing homes in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, ranked best-first by the home’s CMS overall star rating. When two homes tie, we break the tie by the health-inspection rating — the domain assigned by independent state surveyors rather than self-reported by the facility. Nothing on this page is sponsored: no home pays to appear or to rank higher.
Check the certification chip before anything else. Most homes here are certified for both Medicare and Medicaid, but CMS certifies some for only one — and a 5-star home that doesn’t take your programme is not an option, however it ranks. Certification is not a quality measure and we don’t rank on it; we label it, because it decides whether the rest of the row matters to you.
How to read this: a high overall star can be lifted by self-reported quality-measure and payroll-staffing scores, so we surface the inspection rating and any serious citations, fines, abuse flags or ownership changes right on the row. A lower-ranked home with a clean inspection record can be the better fit than a higher-ranked one carrying red flags — open each profile.
- 1Medicare & Medicaid certifiedNo major red flags on record8580 Verree Road, Philadelphia, PA
- 2Medicare & Medicaid certifiedNo major red flags on record6500 Tabor Road, Philadelphia, PA
- 3Medicare & Medicaid certifiedNo major red flags on record2101 Belmont Avenue, Philadelphia, PA
- 4Medicare & Medicaid certified1 serious citation5300 Chester Avenue, Philadelphia, PA
- 5Medicare & Medicaid certifiedNo major red flags on record9896 Bustleton Avenue, Philadelphia, PA
- 6Medicare only — no MedicaidNo major red flags on record8410 Roosevelt Blvd, Philadelphia, PA
- 7Medicare only — no MedicaidNo major red flags on record2601 Holme Avenue, Philadelphia, PA
- 8Medicare & Medicaid certifiedNo major red flags on recordAlbert Einstein Med Ctr, Philadelphia, PA
- 9Medicare & Medicaid certified2 serious citations$208,039 in federal fines600 East Cathedral Road, Philadelphia, PA
- 10Medicare & Medicaid certified$5,269 in federal fines2109 Red Lion Road, Philadelphia, PA
- 11Medicare & Medicaid certifiedNo major red flags on record8015 Lawndale Avenue, Philadelphia, PA
- 12Medicare & Medicaid certified$12,185 in federal finesSelf-reported scores 2★ above inspection2100 North 49th Street, Philadelphia, PA
- 13Medicare only — no Medicaid1 serious citationSelf-reported scores 2★ above inspectionPenn Med Rittenhouse Campus 1800 Lombard St 5th Fl, Philadelphia, PA
- 14Medicare & Medicaid certified$7,387 in federal finesSelf-reported scores 2★ above inspection9501 State Road, Philadelphia, PA
- 15Medicaid only — no MedicareAbuse icon2 serious citations$10,036 in federal finesSelf-reported scores 3★ above inspection2701 Southampton Rd, Philadelphia, PA
- 16Medicare & Medicaid certifiedNo major red flags on record4400 West Girard Avenue, Philadelphia, PA
- 17Medicare & Medicaid certifiedNo major red flags on record6950 Germantown Avenue, Philadelphia, PA
- 18Medicare & Medicaid certified1 immediate-jeopardy citation$43,154 in federal fines2 Franklin Town Blvd, Philadelphia, PA
- 19Medicare & Medicaid certified1 immediate-jeopardy citation$76,483 in federal fines125 W Schoolhouse Lane, Philadelphia, PA
- 20Medicare & Medicaid certified$8,018 in federal fines4712 Chester Avenue, Philadelphia, PA
- 21Medicare & Medicaid certified1 serious citation$8,824 in federal fines6300 Greene Street, Philadelphia, PA
- 22Medicare & Medicaid certified2 serious citations$14,015 in federal fines8401 Roosevelt Boulevard, Philadelphia, PA
- 23Medicare & Medicaid certifiedSelf-reported scores 3★ above inspection1401 Ivy Hill Road, Philadelphia, PA
- 24Medicare & Medicaid certifiedSelf-reported scores 3★ above inspection3609 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA
- 25Medicare & Medicaid certified1 serious citation$24,675 in federal finesSelf-reported scores 2★ above inspection6445 Germantown Avenue, Philadelphia, PA
- 26Medicare & Medicaid certifiedAbuse icon2 serious citations$17,192 in federal fines1104 Welsh Road, Philadelphia, PA
- 27Medicare & Medicaid certifiedSelf-reported scores 3★ above inspection6400 Greene Street, Philadelphia, PA
- 28Medicare & Medicaid certified1 serious citation8301 Roosevelt Boulevard, Philadelphia, PA
- 29Medicare & Medicaid certifiedAbuse icon$12,735 in federal fines1930 South Broad Street, Philadelphia, PA
- 30Medicare & Medicaid certified1 immediate-jeopardy citation1020 Oak Lane Avenue, Philadelphia, PA
- 31Medicare & Medicaid certified$8,827 in federal finesSelf-reported scores 3★ above inspection7310 Stenton Avenue, Philadelphia, PA
- 32Medicare & Medicaid certifiedSelf-reported scores 2★ above inspection7800 Bustleton Avenue, Philadelphia, PA
- 33Medicare & Medicaid certified1 immediate-jeopardy citation$26,043 in federal finesSelf-reported scores 2★ above inspection10400 Roosevelt Avenue, Philadelphia, PA
- 34Medicare & Medicaid certifiedSelf-reported scores 2★ above inspection2509 South Fourth Street, Philadelphia, PA
- 35Medicare & Medicaid certifiedNo major red flags on record1001 Wallace Street, Philadelphia, PA
- 36Medicare & Medicaid certified1 serious citation$25,847 in federal finesSelf-reported scores 3★ above inspection4401 Haverford Avenue, Philadelphia, PA
- 37Medicare & Medicaid certifiedAbuse icon$17,940 in federal finesSelf-reported scores 4★ above inspection1526 Lombard Street, Philadelphia, PA
- 38Medicare & Medicaid certified1 immediate-jeopardy citationSelf-reported scores 2★ above inspection650 Edison Avenue, Philadelphia, PA
- 39Medicare & Medicaid certified1 immediate-jeopardy citationSelf-reported scores 2★ above inspection2990 Holme Avenue, Philadelphia, PA
- 40Medicare & Medicaid certified2 immediate-jeopardy citations$57,568 in federal fines3300 Henry Avenue, 7th Floor, Philadelphia, PA
- 41Medicare & Medicaid certified3 immediate-jeopardy citations$154,904 in federal finesSelf-reported scores 2★ above inspection6212 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA
- 42Medicare & Medicaid certified1 immediate-jeopardy citation$37,431 in federal finesSelf-reported scores 3★ above inspection184 Bethlehem Pike, Philadelphia, PA
- 43Medicare & Medicaid certified5 immediate-jeopardy citations$353,465 in federal fines600 W Cheltenham Avenue, Philadelphia, PA
- 44Medicare & Medicaid certified1 serious citation$20,395 in federal finesSelf-reported scores 2★ above inspection2600 Belmont Avenue, Philadelphia, PA
- 45Medicare & Medicaid certifiedAbuse icon1 immediate-jeopardy citation$30,752 in federal finesSelf-reported scores 2★ above inspection4001 Ford Road, Philadelphia, PA
- 46Medicare & Medicaid certifiedAbuse icon2 serious citations$9,113 in federal finesSelf-reported scores 3★ above inspectionOne Penn Boulevard, Philadelphia, PA
- 47Medicare & Medicaid certifiedAbuse icon1 immediate-jeopardy citation$63,872 in federal finesSelf-reported scores 3★ above inspection7101 Old York Road, Philadelphia, PA
Keep looking: read the Pennsylvania state guides — nursing homes and assisted living — for how the state’s system works, find the closest homes to your ZIP or location, filter every facility by rating, cost and inspection record, or compare any of these side by side. Or see assisted living in Philadelphia, PA. Back to every Pennsylvania city.
How we rank
We order this list strictly by each home’s CMS overall star rating — the government’s own rating, not a score of our own. When two homes carry the same overall rating we break the tie by the health-inspection rating — the domain scored by independent state surveyors rather than self-reported — and then alphabetically. Homes with no rating on file sink to the bottom.
We should be straight with you about a tension here. The CMS overall star is a blend of three domains, and elsewhere on this site we argue that blend can be misleading: the staffing and quality-measure components lean on data facilities report about themselves, and they can lift a home’s overall star above what inspectors actually found. We still sort by it, for one reason — it is the only ranking of nursing homes the government publishes, and the alternative is us deciding which domain ought to count, which is our opinion dressed up as an official rating. We won’t do that. (It is the same reason we refuse to rank assisted living at all.) So instead of quietly re-sorting to our taste, we un-blend the star on every row: the inspection rating sits next to the overall one, and serious citations, fines and abuse flags are on the row too. Where the two disagree, trust the inspection record and the citations — and treat our sort order as the government’s claim, not ours. See our methodology.
No home pays to appear here or to rank higher. There is no sponsored placement, no paid listing, and no referral fee. The page carries ordinary Google display advertising, sold against the page by Google: it cannot move a home up or down this list, and no advertiser sees who you are. The ratings, citations and fines are assigned by government inspectors (CMS), not by Eldercare Lens.
Common questions
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Ratings and citations are assigned by government inspectors (CMS), not by Eldercare Lens. The absence of a citation does not guarantee the absence of problems. Always verify with the facility and your state Long-Term Care Ombudsman.