Best Nursing Homes in Maine — 2026 Directory
Maine has 78 CMS-certified skilled nursing facilities. 78 of 78 listed facilities have linked deficiency history in the loaded CMS-derived records. Among those 78 facilities, the average is 28.6 cited deficiencies and 0 have zero citations in that loaded history. Facilities with unavailable history are not ranked as zero-citation facilities.
All CMS-Certified Nursing Homes in Maine
This complete state directory provides a direct path to each facility's inspection profile. Facilities with available history are ordered by citation count; records without matched history appear afterward and are not treated as zero.
- Maine Veterans Home - So Paris — South Paris (8 deficiencies)
- Mainegeneral Rehab & Long Term Care - Glenridge — Augusta (8 deficiencies)
- Maine Veterans Home - Scarborough — Scarborough (9 deficiencies)
- Norway Center For Health & Rehabilitation, LLC — Norway (10 deficiencies)
- Durgin Pines — Kittery (11 deficiencies)
- St Andre Health Care Facility — Biddeford (11 deficiencies)
- Cove's Edge Inc — Damariscotta (12 deficiencies)
- Maine Veterans Home - Augusta — Augusta (12 deficiencies)
- Pinnacle Health & Rehab At Sanford — Sanford (12 deficiencies)
- Borderview Rehab & Living Ctr — Van Buren (14 deficiencies)
- Mid Coast Senior Health Center — Brunswick (14 deficiencies)
- Gorham House — Gorham (16 deficiencies)
- Pinnacle Health & Rehab At N Berwick — North Berwick (16 deficiencies)
- Sanfield Rehab & Living Center — Hartland (16 deficiencies)
- Westgate Center For Rehab & Alzheimers Care — Bangor (16 deficiencies)
- Aroostook Health Center — Mars Hill (17 deficiencies)
- Maine Veterans Home - Caribou — Caribou (17 deficiencies)
- Odd Fellows Health Care Center — Auburn (17 deficiencies)
- Summer Commons — Sanford (18 deficiencies)
- Barron Center — Portland (19 deficiencies)
- Horizons Living And Rehab Center — Brunswick (20 deficiencies)
- Mainegeneral Rehab & Long Term Care - Gray Birch — Augusta (20 deficiencies)
- Piper Shores — Scarborough (21 deficiencies)
- Brentwood Center For Health & Rehabilitation, LLC — Yarmouth (22 deficiencies)
- Seaside Nursing And Retirement Home — Portland (22 deficiencies)
- Caribou Rehab And Nursing Center — Caribou (23 deficiencies)
- Orchard Park Rehab & Living — Farmington (24 deficiencies)
- Cedars Nursing Care Center — Portland (25 deficiencies)
- Madigan Estates — Houlton (25 deficiencies)
- Pinnacle Health & Rehab At South Portland — So Portland (25 deficiencies)
- Augusta Center For Health & Rehabilitation, LLC — Augusta (26 deficiencies)
- Fallbrook Commons — Portland (26 deficiencies)
- Pinnacle Health & Rehab Canton — Canton (26 deficiencies)
- St Mary's D'youville Pavilion — Lewiston (26 deficiencies)
- Stillwater Health Care — Bangor (26 deficiencies)
- Winship Green Center For Health & Rehab, LLC — Bath (26 deficiencies)
- Gregory Wing Of St Andrews Village — Boothbay Harbor (27 deficiencies)
- Pine Point Center — Scarborough (27 deficiencies)
- River Ridge Center — Kennebunk (27 deficiencies)
- Forest Hill Manor — Fort Kent (28 deficiencies)
- Rumford Community Home — Rumford (28 deficiencies)
- Seal Rock Healthcare — Saco (28 deficiencies)
- Sedgewood Commons — Falmouth (28 deficiencies)
- Cummings Health Care Facility — Howland (29 deficiencies)
- Eastside Center For Health & Rehabilitation, LLC — Bangor (29 deficiencies)
- Katahdin Health Care LLC — Millinocket (29 deficiencies)
- Harbor Hill Center — Belfast (30 deficiencies)
- Marshall Health Care And Rehab — Machias (30 deficiencies)
- Marshwood Center — Lewiston (30 deficiencies)
- Southridge Rehab & Living Ctr — Biddeford (30 deficiencies)
- Springbrook Center — Westbrook (30 deficiencies)
- Edgewood Rehab & Living Ctr — Farmington (31 deficiencies)
- Hawthorne House — Freeport (31 deficiencies)
- Coastal Manor — Yarmouth (32 deficiencies)
- High View Rehabilitation And Living Center — Madawaska (32 deficiencies)
- Kennebunk Center For Health & Rehabilitation, LLC — Kennebunk (32 deficiencies)
- Brewer Center For Health & Rehabilitation, LLC — Brewer (33 deficiencies)
- Ledgewood Manor — Windham (33 deficiencies)
- Market Square Health Care Center, LLC — South Paris (35 deficiencies)
- Montello Manor — Lewiston (37 deficiencies)
- Maine Veterans Home - Bangor — Bangor (38 deficiencies)
- Dexter Health Care — Dexter (39 deficiencies)
- Lakewood A Continuing Care Center — Waterville (39 deficiencies)
- Eastport Memorial Nursing Home — Eastport (40 deficiencies)
- Ross Manor — Bangor (40 deficiencies)
- Maplecrest Rehab & Living Center — Madison (41 deficiencies)
- Orono Commons — Orono (43 deficiencies)
- Cedar Ridge Center — Skowhegan (44 deficiencies)
- Russell Park Rehabilitation & Living Center — Lewiston (44 deficiencies)
- Waterville Center For Health And Rehab — Waterville (45 deficiencies)
- Sandy River Center — Farmington (47 deficiencies)
- Woodlawn Rehabilitation & Nursing Center — Skowhegan (48 deficiencies)
- Breakwater Commons — Rockland (49 deficiencies)
- Hibbard Skilled Nursing & Rehabilitation Center — Dover Foxcroft (49 deficiencies)
- Bangor Nursing & Rehabilitation Center — Bangor (52 deficiencies)
- Clover Health Care — Auburn (53 deficiencies)
- Oak Grove Center — Waterville (63 deficiencies)
- Windward Gardens — Camden (77 deficiencies)
Most-Cited Compliance Areas in Maine
- Resident Rights Deficiencies — 448 citations
- Quality of Life and Care Deficiencies — 434 citations
- Resident Assessment and Care Planning Deficiencies — 421 citations
- Nutrition and Dietary Deficiencies — 207 citations
- Pharmacy Service Deficiencies — 205 citations
Nursing Homes by City in Maine
- Nursing homes in Auburn (2)
- Nursing homes in Augusta (4)
- Nursing homes in Bangor (6)
- Nursing homes in Bath (1)
- Nursing homes in Belfast (1)
- Nursing homes in Biddeford (2)
- Nursing homes in Boothbay Harbor (1)
- Nursing homes in Brewer (1)
- Nursing homes in Brunswick (2)
- Nursing homes in Camden (1)
- Nursing homes in Canton (1)
- Nursing homes in Caribou (2)
- Nursing homes in Damariscotta (1)
- Nursing homes in Dexter (1)
- Nursing homes in Dover Foxcroft (1)
- Nursing homes in Eastport (1)
- Nursing homes in Falmouth (1)
- Nursing homes in Farmington (3)
- Nursing homes in Fort Kent (1)
- Nursing homes in Freeport (1)
- Nursing homes in Gorham (1)
- Nursing homes in Hartland (1)
- Nursing homes in Houlton (1)
- Nursing homes in Howland (1)
- Nursing homes in Kennebunk (2)
- Nursing homes in Kittery (1)
- Nursing homes in Lewiston (4)
- Nursing homes in Machias (1)
- Nursing homes in Madawaska (1)
- Nursing homes in Madison (1)
- Nursing homes in Mars Hill (1)
- Nursing homes in Millinocket (1)
- Nursing homes in North Berwick (1)
- Nursing homes in Norway (1)
- Nursing homes in Orono (1)
- Nursing homes in Portland (4)
- Nursing homes in Rockland (1)
- Nursing homes in Rumford (1)
- Nursing homes in Saco (1)
- Nursing homes in Sanford (2)
- Nursing homes in Scarborough (3)
- Nursing homes in Skowhegan (2)
- Nursing homes in So Portland (1)
- Nursing homes in South Paris (2)
- Nursing homes in Van Buren (1)
- Nursing homes in Waterville (3)
- Nursing homes in Westbrook (1)
- Nursing homes in Windham (1)
- Nursing homes in Yarmouth (2)
Sources and limits
Source: CMS nursing-home Provider Data. POCDesk orders only facilities with linked, loaded deficiency history by citation count; this is not an official CMS ranking or a quality recommendation. See our editorial standards and methodology.
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Official Sources
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