Best nursing homes in Vermont
These are all 33 CMS-certified nursing homes in Vermont, ranked best-first by the home’s CMS overall star rating, with the independent health-inspection rating as the tie-break. No Vermont city has enough certified homes to be worth its own page, so we rank the whole state here — which is the comparison CMS itself makes, since it assigns the inspection star by ranking each home against others in its own state. Nothing here 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 record60 Maple Lane, Barton, VT
- 2Medicare & Medicaid certifiedNo major red flags on record30 Porter Drive, Middlebury, VT
- 3Medicare & Medicaid certifiedNo major red flags on record187 Oak Grove Avenue, Brattleboro, VT
- 4Medicare & Medicaid certifiedNo major red flags on record71 Richardson Avenue, Northfield, VT
- 5Medicare only — no MedicaidNo major red flags on record200 Wake Robin Drive, Shelburne, VT
- 6Medicare & Medicaid certifiedNo major red flags on record8 Gill Terrace, Ludlow, VT
- 7Medicare & Medicaid certifiedNo major red flags on record601 Red Village Road, Lyndonville, VT
- 8Medicare & Medicaid certified1 serious citation$32,708 in federal fines46 Nichols Street, Rutland, VT
- 9Medicare & Medicaid certified$8,512 in federal fines99 Allen Street, Rutland, VT
- 10Medicare & Medicaid certified2 serious citations$18,418 in federal fines3086 Glover Street, Glover, VT
- 11Medicare & Medicaid certifiedSelf-reported scores 2★ above inspection110 Fairfax Road, St. Albans, VT
- 12Medicare & Medicaid certifiedSelf-reported scores 2★ above inspection47 Maggie's Pond Road, Greensboro, VT
- 13Medicare & Medicaid certified$76,500 in federal finesSelf-reported scores 3★ above inspection215 Tom Wicker Lane, Randolph Center, VT
- 14Medicare & Medicaid certified$10,358 in federal fines49 Cedar Hill Drive, Windsor, VT
- 15Medicare & Medicaid certified1 immediate-jeopardy citation$127,834 in federal fines43 Starr Farm Rd, Burlington, VT
- 16Medicare & Medicaid certified4 serious citations$40,350 in federal fines9 Haywood Avenue, Rutland, VT
- 17Medicare & Medicaid certified2 immediate-jeopardy citations$148,714 in federal fines596 Sheldon Road, St. Albans, VT
- 18Medicare & Medicaid certified2 immediate-jeopardy citations$140,856 in federal fines577 Washington Highway, Morrisville, VT
- 19Medicare & Medicaid certifiedAbuse icon1 immediate-jeopardy citation$87,896 in federal finesSelf-reported scores 3★ above inspection61 Greenway Drive, Vernon, VT
- 20Medicare & Medicaid certified4 serious citations$286,973 in federal finesSelf-reported scores 2★ above inspection35 Bel-Aire Drive, Newport, VT
- 21Medicare & Medicaid certified2 immediate-jeopardy citations$242,044 in federal finesSelf-reported scores 2★ above inspection2 Blackberry Lane, Bennington, VT
- 22Medicare & Medicaid certifiedAbuse icon2 serious citations$57,038 in federal finesSelf-reported scores 2★ above inspection160 Hospital Drive, Bennington, VT
- 23Medicare & Medicaid certified3 serious citations$38,610 in federal fines312 Crescent Blvd, Bennington, VT
- 24Medicare & Medicaid certified5 serious citations$220,961 in federal fines98 Starr Farm Rd., Burlington, VT
- 25Medicare & Medicaid certifiedAbuse icon1 serious citation$21,453 in federal finesSelf-reported scores 2★ above inspection142 Woodridge Drive, Barre, VT
- 26Medicare & Medicaid certified$8,278 in federal fines325 North Street, Bennington, VT
- 27Medicare & Medicaid certified1 immediate-jeopardy citation$307,847 in federal fines98 Hospitality Drive, Barre, VT
- 28Medicare & Medicaid certifiedSpecial Focus candidate (CMS is watching this home)3 immediate-jeopardy citations$142,045 in federal fines378 Prospect Street, Barre, VT
- 29Medicare & Medicaid certifiedSpecial Focus candidate (CMS is watching this home)4 serious citations$137,679 in federal finesSelf-reported scores 2★ above inspection300 Pearl Street, Burlington, VT
- 30Medicare & Medicaid certifiedSpecial Focus candidate (CMS is watching this home)4 immediate-jeopardy citations$314,323 in federal finesSelf-reported scores 2★ above inspection1248 Hospital Drive, Saint Johnsbury, VT
- 31Medicare & Medicaid certifiedSpecial Focus candidate (CMS is watching this home)1 serious citation$37,040 in federal finesSelf-reported scores 3★ above inspection7 Forest Hill Drive, St. Albans, VT
- 32Medicare & Medicaid certifiedSpecial Focus candidate (CMS is watching this home)3 immediate-jeopardy citations$112,499 in federal finesSelf-reported scores 3★ above inspection80 Maple Street, Brattleboro, VT
- 33Medicare & Medicaid certifiedSpecial Focus Facility (federal watch list)Abuse icon9 immediate-jeopardy citations$354,247 in federal fines105 Chester Road, Springfield, VT
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.
Assisted living in Vermont
Keep looking: read the Vermont state guides — nursing homes and assisted living — find the closest homes to your ZIP, filter every facility by rating, cost and inspection record, or see how Vermont Medicaid pays for long-term care. Back to every state.
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.