U.S. News & World Best Nursing Homes list includes Southern New England facilities

(WJAR) — U.S. News & World Report released its 2025 list of Best Nursing Homes.

Several Southern New England nursing homes and rehabilitation centers made the list.

The ranking is based on the performance of handling resident care, consistency of that care, safety, nurse staffing levels and retention of nurses, as well as the use of certain drugs to prevent ER visits.

U.S. News & World report looked at 15,000 nursing homes to get its results.

According to the findings, fewer than 20% of all of the evaluated nursing homes were ranked as best in short-term rehab, long-term care, or both.

U.S. News’ evaluation also finds that nearly half of U.S. nursing homes do not comply with a federal regulation to provide at least 8 registered nurse staffing hours every day of the year. Among nursing homes that did not comply, the average nursing home had 15 days of inadequate staffing.

U.S. News & World report looked at 74 Rhode Island nursing homes. Of them, 5 received an overall high-performance rating.

U.S. News and World Report best Rhode Island nursing homes:

• Briarcliffe Manor in Johnston.
• Cherry Hill Manor in Johnston.
• Hattie Ide Chaffee Home in East Providence.
• Steere House Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Providence.
• Tockwotton on the Waterfront in East Providence.

There are 345 nursing homes and skilled nursing facilities in Massachusetts.

Of them, 46 received an overall high-performance rating of 5 out of 5.