St. Johnsbury Health & Rehab
1248 Hospital Drive, Saint Johnsbury, VT, 05819 · CCN 475019
St. Johnsbury Health & Rehab is a CMS-certified skilled nursing facility located in Saint Johnsbury, Vermont. This facility-specific record brings together official CMS provider, inspection, rating, and enforcement data while identifying what is missing or uncertain.
What stands out in the available record
The available records contain 73 cited deficiencies across 17 surveys. 11 were coded at G or above; 4 were coded at immediate-jeopardy levels J through L.
5 of the most frequently cited tags appear more than once in the available history: F0656 (7), F0689 (5), F0600 (4), F0657 (3), F0655 (3). Repetition can indicate a recurring compliance area, but it is not proof that the same underlying problem remained uncorrected.
Survey history
- July 2025 — Health: 17 cited deficiencies
- May 2025 — Health: 5 cited deficiencies
- April 2025 — Health: 3 cited deficiencies
- March 2025 — Health: 1 cited deficiency
- January 2025 — Health: 1 cited deficiency
- December 2024 — Health: 7 cited deficiencies
- November 2024 — Health: 3 cited deficiencies
- September 2024 — Health: 2 cited deficiencies
Scope and severity distribution
- Scope/severity B: 3 citations
- Scope/severity C: 1 citation
- Scope/severity D: 31 citations
- Scope/severity E: 15 citations
- Scope/severity F: 12 citations
- Scope/severity G: 7 citations
- Scope/severity J: 2 citations
- Scope/severity L: 2 citations
11 available citations were coded at G or above, indicating actual harm or immediate jeopardy; 4 were coded J or above.
Top Deficiency Citations
- F0656 — Develop and implement a complete care plan that meets all the resident's needs, with timetables and actions that can be measured. (7 citations)
- F0689 — Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to prevent accidents. (5 citations)
- F0600 — Protect each resident from all types of abuse such as physical, mental, sexual abuse, physical punishment, and neglect by anybody. (4 citations)
- F0657 — Develop the complete care plan within 7 days of the comprehensive assessment; and prepared, reviewed, and revised by a team of health professionals. (3 citations)
- F0655 — Create and put into place a plan for meeting the resident's most immediate needs within 48 hours of being admitted (3 citations)
Deficiency categories
- Resident Assessment and Care Planning Deficiencies: 17 citations
- Quality of Life and Care Deficiencies: 17 citations
- Freedom from Abuse, Neglect, and Exploitation Deficiencies: 10 citations
- Nursing and Physician Services Deficiencies: 8 citations
- Resident Rights Deficiencies: 8 citations
- Administration Deficiencies: 5 citations
Official CMS Five-Star context
- Overall: 1 of 5 stars
- Health inspection: 1 of 5 stars
- Staffing: 3 of 5 stars
- Quality measure: 3 of 5 stars
CMS reports 4.63 total nurse staffing hours per resident day.
Five-Star values above are official CMS fields. POCDesk does not calculate or predict the official CMS rating.
Enforcement and penalties
The available CMS enforcement dataset contains 4 penalty actions, most recently dated March 2025. Monetary fines in these records total $314,323.
Sources, freshness, and limitations
Source: official CMS datasets, including Provider Information, Health Deficiencies, and Penalties. View the CMS data source. Loaded survey records window — Earliest loaded survey: August 2022; Latest loaded survey: July 2025. These dates describe records loaded by POCDesk, not a CMS release or publication timestamp. Facility statistics refreshed: October 8, 2026 at 9:48 AM UTC. The available rating record has a CMS processing date of September 2026. POCDesk last refreshed that rating record on October 2026.
POCDesk groups citations by survey date, counts recurring F-Tags across the available history, and summarizes CMS scope/severity codes. Those summaries are POCDesk organization and interpretation of public records, not official ratings or survey findings of our own. Read the governing 42 CFR Part 483 and our editorial standards and methodology.
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