The Best Nursing Home Communities in Belknap County, NH

"Wolfeboro Bay Care and Rehabilitation Center was very good and very clean. The staff was very accommodating, friendly, and very helpful. My spouse didn’t complain about the food. "

"We toured the Mountain View Community. I thought the place was super clean. They had many amenities and very serious care. Everything was first class. The staff was very good and very thorough. The rooms were excellent. They had more going for them than I've seen in other nursing homes."

"Mountain View Nursing Home was very clean and very nice. They're understaffed though. There were some issues going on over there. I'm not pleased with the admissions coordinator, because I've called two or three times for the status of my application and I never get a call back. The rooms were laid out very nice. They're fairly good sized and they all had private showers and bathrooms."

"I went to Havenwood-Heritage Heights. They have apartments all over the place. I would be in the lodge, which is a one-room studio apartment rather than a full apartment. I like the lodge because, in weather like this, you don't have to go out. Like the meals and all the activities, everything, is in the building, so I wouldn't have to go out. Like some of the apartments, you have to go to activities or anything you want to do, and even though they have bus transportation because they have two campuses, you have to go out to go to them. If you're in the lodge, everything is there like the dining room, a little store, the hair salon, and the activities. The staff is all very pleasant. I only met two, the person that I first met when I called for information, and one other person, and they both have been very nice, very helpful, and they always answered my calls. We got a beautiful wreath from my representative for Christmas. It's gorgeous, it's very nice, so I was quite surprised. The place looked well kept. I didn’t see anything like layers of dust. It's well kept up. I just have one problem with the room. As you go into the doorway of the studio, the bathroom is right there, it's not closer into the room where you would be sleeping. It just seems the door should be more near your bed or the inside of the room rather than the little entranceway. It would be nice if the bathroom was more inside the room."

"We were so glad to escape a bad care situation and be received into the tender care of Presidential Oaks. Our brother was a difficult case. The facility is bright, spacious , clean and homey. The staff is competent and treats the patients as human beings. We were finally relieved of stress and could go home knowing he was safe and relatively happy. He enjoyed the activities , especially music, scrabble and bingo. A special shout out to Melissa, Jon, Vicky and Brian , who were so friendly and creative. I know there are many others who cared for him, and joked with him, and didn't hold his impatience against him. The staff were all receptive to our needs and flexible. We cannot thank them enough for our brother's life with them and our welcome .They cared for our brother so attentively during the time of his passing. There are many details I could relate; letting us put a bird house outside his window, fixing his Uke, stroking his forehead , laughing at his bizarre sense of humor . Thank you each and every one."

"My dad was in Pleasant View Center for a while. He was in the rehab, but we would go see the nursing home part for different things because it’s all one unit. I thought they were very good about his care. They got him rehabilitated; his therapists were great. I did have a concern with them sometimes leaving him for long periods of time. I would come in and find him tangled up in the sheets, and the bed was wet and it had been a while. I know they’re understaffed; they have 50 rooms to do in an hour. It’s the staffing part, but as far as the professional part and what he needed for his therapies, that was 100%. "

"This is easily the better of the care centers in Concord when it comes to elders. There is a more intensive, more luxurious center located directly in the Concord Hospital parking lot but it was far too intense for my 87 yr old MIL. We had her moved to HH, where they made her feel at home in a private room as she has dementia and would have disturbed a roommate. There is almost always a waiting list. That was frustrating but befits the fact that is is a better center than most. The usual problems of overstretched nursing assistants and the lack of an RN on duty at all times was one of my reasons for distracting a star. I admire the LPNs but really feel an RN should be there. They are better than average about changing underwear and keeping the rooms really clean. Mom was getting so comfortable there it would have been a thought to go ahead and let her stay if they had the same conditions up on the permanent stay floor as downstairs. Someone needs to understand that unless it's a couple in a room together, then permanent stay needs to be all single rooms, even if they must be tiny. People deserve the dignity of their own space, their own bathroom/shower area. The other reason I removed a star was the food. I brought Mom most of her food because the food was a big pool of grease, and nothing there would fit a low fat lifestyle to any measure. But again, that is unfortunately typical. I'd say if you are looking for short term rehab for an elder, there is really no place better locally. If you are looking for long term..well it's really up to your elder if they want to share a room. Perhaps s/he will. If so, the care is great if the food isn't :) "