Page 4 of Best Nursing Homes in Maine

Coastal Shores provides assisted living, independent living, and skilled nursing care in Brunswick, ME. Assisted living provides help with personal care while a resident keeps a private apartment. Independent living offers private living without daily care, while skilled nursing provides licensed nursing care on site around the clock. The range of care levels may suit a resident whose needs grow over time because care can continue within the same community.

Coastal Shores has 40 beds, making it a smaller community where staff and residents get to know each other. The community opened in 2015, and Wendy A Rider serves as its administrator.

A Walk Score of 92 out of 100 places the area in the walker’s paradise band, meaning daily errands do not require a car and a resident who no longer drives can still get out independently.

Overview of Eastside Center for Health & Rehabilitation

Eastside Center for Health & Rehabilitation offers nursing home care, skilled nursing, hospice care, palliative care, and respite care in Bangor, ME. Its services include short-term rehabilitation for a temporary recovery stay and long-term care services for residents who need ongoing support.

Hospice care provides end-of-life support, while palliative care focuses on comfort for residents living with serious illness. Respite care offers a short stay for someone whose usual caregiver needs temporary relief, and the range of services may suit a resident whose needs include rehabilitation, continuing nursing care, or comfort-focused support.

Medicare, Medicaid, and private pay are accepted. Medicare covers eligible short-term skilled care after a hospital stay, Medicaid may help when savings do not cover a long stay, and private pay means paying directly for services. Rehabilitation services are available, and a doctor is on staff to provide medical care within the center. Robert Cleaves serves as director.

Four beds is a small number by any measure, and at Fifty Eight Sargent Avenue in Lewiston, Maine, all four are currently full. The Level III licensed residential care facility occupies a single-story building on Sargent Avenue, administered by Brian Vye. It’s not a campus; it’s closer to a household.

That scale shapes everything else about the place. Residents choose between private and semi-private rooms, and with only four people under one roof, the staff-to-resident dynamic looks nothing like a larger facility’s. The neighborhood itself is car-dependent, carrying a Walk Score of 22, so getting around still means driving rather than walking to nearby errands.

Regulatory reviews of the facility have tended to focus on care planning and documentation, a standard area of oversight for facilities like this one rather than a sign of trouble in day-to-day care. It’s the kind of theme regulators check across the board, not something specific to how residents are treated here.

For families weighing a smaller, quieter alternative to a large assisted living campus, Fifty Eight Sargent Avenue offers exactly that: four rooms, one administrator, and a scale of care that’s more household than it is a large institution.

Chase Point Assisted Living in Damariscotta, Maine is a 24-bed assisted living community at 51 Schooner St, 0.18 miles from MaineHealth Lincoln Hospital. That proximity to acute care is the most practically significant location fact about Chase Point Assisted Living: the hospital is effectively next door, which matters for residents whose care needs carry any medical complexity.

The building is two stories high. Studio units run 350 to 380 square feet, with one-bedrooms sized from 480 to 500. Pets are welcome. Walk Score is 19, so a car or the on-site transportation handles almost everything beyond a short walk.

Ten of 24 beds are occupied, yielding a 42% occupancy rate. Which is to say that the facility has substantial availability.

Services include 24-hour staffing, nursing services, rehabilitation services, and respite care. Safety features are comprehensive: nursing supervision, resident call systems, 24-hour security, fire and emergency systems, and backup generators.

Wanda L. Wilcox is the administrator. The facility holds an Assisted Living Program license from the Maine Department of Health and Human Services.

A small assisted living community in coastal midcoast Maine with immediate hospital adjacency, open availability, and a full safety infrastructure: that is the factual picture of what Chase Point offers and who it is positioned to serve.

Overview of Assisted Living Household at the Cedars

Assisted Living Household at the Cedars offers assisted living, independent living, memory care, and skilled nursing in Portland, ME. Assisted living provides help with daily tasks while a resident maintains an apartment, independent living provides private living with community services and no daily care, memory care provides a secured setting with supervision, and skilled nursing provides licensed nursing care on site around the clock.

Because these care levels are available within one community, a resident whose needs grow may be able to move to a different level of care without leaving the community or starting over socially. The 44-bed community is smaller in scale, where staff and residents get to know each other, and it may suit someone who prefers a smaller setting. The community opened in 1929.

Rehabilitation services include short-term rehab, giving someone who needs recovery-focused care a temporary stay rather than an ongoing residence. A Walk Score of 87 places the area in the very walkable band, so most errands can be done on foot and a resident who no longer drives can still get out independently.

Assisted Living Household at the Cedars is administered by Katharine O’neill.

Overview of The Cedars Portland

The Cedars Portland, licensed as a nursing home in Portland, ME, runs skilled nursing, assisted living, independent living, and memory care in conjunction. Within skilled nursing, licensed nurses are present during all shifts, including nights. Assisted living brings bathing assistance, dressing support, and medication management into a resident’s personal apartment. Independent living maintains access to community services without requiring daily assistance, while in memory care, staff supervise a secured environment for residents whose dementia may lead to wandering.

Having these levels in one place means that increasing needs won’t require looking for a new community. Respite supports a family when the caregiver needs to be absent for travel or personal recuperation. Short-term rehab is a brief stay focused on helping an individual regain their stability. Kathryn Callnan serves as the administrator.

The Cedars is in the North Deering neighborhood. Within the community, there’s a salon and spa, a swimming pool, and a fitness center. Residents can join wellness and fitness classes or the Opening Minds Through Art program.

Walk Score rates the area at 49, which makes it car-dependent, meaning most errands require driving. For a resident lacking a vehicle, reaching nearby errands independently will be more challenging.

Overview of Brewer Group Home

Brewer Group Home provides nursing home and skilled nursing, along with hospice, palliative, and respite care in Brewer, Maine. Skilled nursing includes licensed nursing care around the clock, while hospice and palliative care center on comfort and symptom management for people with serious illness. Respite care provides a short term stay when a usual caregiver needs time away, and long term care services support residents who need ongoing help.

There are three beds here. That makes Brewer Group Home a small community for someone who prefers living with fewer residents. Short term care and postacute rehabilitation support recovery after a hospital stay, with programs for neurology and stroke rehabilitation, orthopedic injuries and postsurgical care, and heart failure and cardiac recovery. Therapy is available on site, so rehabilitation can take place within the care setting.

Medicaid and Medicare are accepted. Medicaid may help cover care for an eligible resident whose savings would not cover a long stay, while Medicare generally applies to short term skilled care after a qualifying hospital stay rather than long term residence. Jessica Porter serves as the director.

Overlooking the scenic area of Lewiston, ME, Seventy Six Bradley Street is a warm and welcoming senior living community, offering assisted living and memory care services. Offering a round the clock team of dependable caregivers, the community warrants each resident immediate assistance during emergencies and personalized services tailored to their needs. Residents are provided with cozy and easy to navigate living spaces that guarantee utmost comfort and safety, fostering a comfortable living experience.

Dedicated to giving residents a well-rounded experience, the community also offers an array of conveniences and amenities, such as chapel, concierge, transportation, and pharmacy services. A fitness room is available to provide residents with space and opportunities for physical activities, while a talented culinary team prepares three delicious meals daily to give residents the nourishment they need. With its extensive services, a reliable care team, and array of thoughtful perks, the community guarantees a relaxing retirement experience.

Martin Drive sits on Martin Drive itself in Lewiston, Maine, a four-bed community in Androscoggin County that offers memory care, assisted living, independent living, and nursing home services under one roof. That combination in a building this small is unusual. Most facilities offering all four care types operate at a much larger scale.

The two-story building sits in a moderately walkable pocket of the city (Walk Score 61), so some errands are doable on foot even if a car still helps for most trips. Rooms come as private or semi-private, and residents have access to transportation services and fitness and recreation options, covering basic mobility and activity needs without requiring family to arrange every outing.

Four beds is a small number by any measure, closer to a household than an institution. That scale can mean tighter staff familiarity with each resident’s habits and needs, though it also means less of the programming variety a larger community might offer. Families drawn to a quiet, low-turnover setting will find that here; those wanting a broader activity calendar or bigger social circle may want to look elsewhere.

The mix of care types under one small roof suggests a place built for continuity, letting a resident’s needs change over time without a move to a new facility.

Six beds; that’s the entire scale of Ohi-Three Hudson Street, and it shapes everything else about the place. Located at 3 Hudson St in Bangor, Maine, this two-story community covers assisted living, memory care, and independent living, all within a setting small enough for staff to actually know every resident by name. A Walk Score of 86 puts the surrounding area in very-walkable range, so errands rarely require a car.

Staff stay on-site around the clock, awake and available rather than just on-call, and transportation services fill in when residents need to go further than walking distance allows. The activities list leans creative and sensory: music therapy, animal therapy, board games, and time spent outdoors all show up in the regular routine. Meals are prepared with residents’ specific dietary needs in mind rather than a single fixed menu.

Pets are welcome here too, a detail that matters more in a small community like this one, where a resident’s dog or cat can become part of the shared rhythm of daily life rather than an exception to a rule.

Maine’s Department of Health and Human Services, through its Division of Licensing and Certification, oversees inspections for long-term care facilities across the state, including this one.

This is a small-scale, pet-friendly community built for residents who want close staff attention, sensory-based activities, and a highly walkable Bangor location, without the scale of a much larger facility.