Next Step Healthcare
14 nursing homes in 1 state, in CMS's provider file of 2026-09-01.
These are the homes CMS lists under this chain today. Where a home has changed owner since 2016, CMS's change-of-ownership file (edition 2026-06-01) gives the date its current owner took it over, and penalties from before that date are counted apart: they were against an earlier owner, not a penalty against this chain's management. The figure can be off both ways: a change between two companies in the same chain is counted the same way, and a change the file does not hold (it runs to changes effective by 2026-02-01) is not counted at all.
CMS's archive holds 98 fines totalling $3,455,762 and 3 payment denials against these homes, at 14 of the 14. CMS's current file no longer shows 83 of those penalties.
11 of the 14 homes changed owner since 2016. 12 of those penalties, $479,085 in fines, are dated before the home's current owner took it over, which leaves $2,976,677 in fines since.
These are counts, not rates. They are not adjusted for how many homes the chain has, how large they are, or which states inspect them.
| Home | State | Fines | Total | Payment denials | Earliest | Current owner since | Before that |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dexter House Healthcare | MA | 4 | $261,872 | 1 | 2016 | 2017-09-01 | 3 ($246,628) |
| Elmhurst Healthcare (the) | MA | 1 | $15,592 | 0 | 2022 | 2017-09-01 | |
| Fall River Healthcare | MA | 14 | $917,993 | 0 | 2018 | none in CMS's file | |
| Fitchburg Healthcare | MA | 7 | $87,093 | 0 | 2021 | 2017-09-01 | |
| Garden Place Healthcare | MA | 8 | $208,901 | 0 | 2016 | 2017-09-01 | 2 ($35,252) |
| Hermitage Healthcare (the) | MA | 7 | $161,928 | 0 | 2019 | 2017-09-01 | |
| Lee Healthcare | MA | 7 | $146,045 | 0 | 2017 | none in CMS's file | |
| Melrose Healthcare | MA | 7 | $250,676 | 0 | 2016 | 2017-09-01 | 3 ($81,560) |
| Norwood Healthcare | MA | 13 | $360,542 | 0 | 2016 | 2017-09-01 | 1 ($50,570) |
| Oakhill Healthcare | MA | 5 | $26,882 | 0 | 2016 | 2017-09-01 | 2 ($11,840) |
| Plymouth Harborside Healthcare | MA | 12 | $548,409 | 1 | 2016 | 2017-09-01 | 1 ($53,235) |
| Wedgemere Healthcare | MA | 3 | $152,493 | 0 | 2019 | 2017-09-01 | |
| West Newton Healthcare | MA | 5 | $247,041 | 0 | 2019 | 2017-09-01 | |
| Westborough Healthcare | MA | 5 | $70,295 | 1 | 2016 | none in CMS's file |