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Helen Porter Healthcare & Rehab

30 PORTER DRIVE, MIDDLEBURY, VT, 05753
(802) 388-4001
98 licensed beds

CMS rates Helen Porter Healthcare & Rehab 4 out of 5 overall. Federal inspectors issued 23 citations across 9 inspections in the last three years, with no federal fines. Listing last updated 2026-11-06.

★★★★★4/5CMS Five-Star overall3/5 health inspections5/5 staffing3/5 quality measuresSource: CMS Care Compare

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Public record summary

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Bed capacity
98
CMS facility ID
475017
Care type
Nursing home
County
Addison
Facility name
Helen Porter Healthcare & Rehab
Street address
30 PORTER DRIVE
City / state / ZIP
Middlebury, VT 05753
Phone
(802) 388-4001

About this facility — Helen Porter Healthcare & Rehab

Helen Porter Healthcare & Rehab is a Medicare/Medicaid-certified skilled nursing facility in Middlebury, Vermont. It is licensed for 98 beds — close to the median for skilled nursing facilities in Vermont (90 beds).

It is one of 5 senior care facilities in Middlebury and 33 skilled nursing facilities across Vermont. Families comparing options should weigh inspection history, ownership record, and litigation — not just the tour — before deciding.

Federal inspectors have cited Helen Porter Healthcare & Rehab 23 times across 9 inspections in the last three years, including 3 food-safety citations; no federal fines are on record. Every citation is listed, dated, and graded in the inspection record below.

This listing draws on federal CMS Nursing Home Compare records, and was last updated on November 6, 2026. Background reports are compiled from primary sources — state inspection files, federal CMS data, corporate registrations, and court records — at the time of order.

Facility background

What the public record shows.

Ownership & operator

Ownership type
Non profit - Corporation

Registered owners & officers

Anderson, Noma
Director · Trustee — since 2022
Collins, Anne
Director · Trustee — since 2021
Comeau, Scott
Officer — since 2021
Cotel, Sivan
Director · Trustee — since 2015
Cunningham, William
Director · Trustee — since 2023
Curran, Matthew
Director · Trustee — since 2022
Deppman, Benj
Director · Trustee — since 2023
Doucet, Julia
Director · Trustee — since 2025
Duley, Victoria
Director · Trustee — since 2020
Dwyer, John
Director · Trustee — since 2020
Eisinger, Dominic
Director · Trustee — since 2021
Farnham, Kim
Director · Trustee — since 2023
Foote, Richard
Director · Trustee — since 2020
Fromhold, Karen
Operational control · Additional disclosable party — since 2016
Golonka, Thomas
Director · Trustee — since 2020
Hart, Kevin
Director · Trustee — since 2018
Lovejoy, Nicholas
Director · Trustee — since 2021
Mccullough, Deena
Director · Trustee — since 2018
Mercure, Allison
Operational control — since 2025
Ortmyer, Robert
Director · Operational control · Trustee · Additional disclosable party — since 2023
Page, Richard
Director · Trustee — since 2018
Porter Medical Center Inc
Operational control · Additional disclosable party — since 2013
Rugge, John
Director · Trustee — since 2019
Ruzicka, Smita
Director · Trustee — since 2025
Stickney, Mary
Director · Trustee — since 2015
The University of Vermont Health Network Inc.
Additional disclosable party — since 2025
Van Voorst, Helena
Director · Trustee — since 2021
Vaughan, Amy
Officer — since 2022
Vicencio, Elizabeth
Director · Trustee — since 2022
Walker, Amy
Operational control · Additional disclosable party — since 2024
Walker, Kara
Director · Trustee — since 2021

Regulatory standing

Licensed / certified since
1970-06-26
CMS overall rating
4 of 5 stars
Health deficiencies
12 at the last standard inspection
Federal fines
None on record
Last standard inspection
2026-08-05
Nurse staffing
4.4 hours per resident per day

Cost & payer profile (FY2023 cost report)

Average billed charges
$441 per day (≈ $13,410/month). Private-pay prices typically track billed charges; Medicare and Medicaid pay set rates.
Payer mix (resident days)
0% Medicaid · 12% Medicare · 88% private/other
Occupancy
89% (fiscal year 2023)
Vs. state median
3% below the VT median of $453/day — full state cost breakdown

Services & coverage

Licensed beds
98
Medicare
Accepted
Medicaid
Accepted
Compiled from CMS Nursing Home Compare; owners/officers from the CMS Ownership dataset; cost & occupancy from the facility's own CMS cost report · last verified 2026-11-06. Facilities can submit a correction.

Inspection record

Every citation, dated and graded.

Kitchen & food safety

Federal surveyors inspect the kitchen at every standard visit. This facility has 3 food-safety citations on its three-year record — flagged below among the inspections.
2026-08-05Health inspection10 citations
F-0554
D · No harm found
Allow residents to self-administer drugs if determined clinically appropriate.
Corrected 2026-09-30
F-0580
D · No harm found
Immediately tell the resident, the resident's doctor, and a family member of situations (injury/decline/room, etc.) that affect the resident.
Corrected 2026-09-30
F-0656
D · No harm found
Develop and implement a complete care plan that meets all the resident's needs, with timetables and actions that can be measured.
Corrected 2026-09-30
F-0657
D · No harm found
Develop the complete care plan within 7 days of the comprehensive assessment; and prepared, reviewed, and revised by a team of health professionals.
Corrected 2026-09-30
F-0658
D · No harm found
Ensure services provided by the nursing facility meet professional standards of quality.
Corrected 2026-09-30
F-0677
D · No harm found
Provide care and assistance to perform activities of daily living for any resident who is unable.
Corrected 2026-09-30
F-0689
E · No harm found
Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to prevent accidents.
Corrected 2026-09-30
F-0692
D · No harm found
Provide enough food/fluids to maintain a resident's health.
Corrected 2026-09-30
F-0726
F · No harm found
Ensure that nurses and nurse aides have the appropriate competencies to care for every resident in a way that maximizes each resident's well being.
Corrected 2026-09-30
F-0812
F · No harm foundFood safety
Procure food from sources approved or considered satisfactory and store, prepare, distribute and serve food in accordance with professional standards.
Corrected 2026-09-30
2026-07-20Health inspectionComplaint-triggered2 citations
F-0657
D · No harm foundFrom a complaint
Develop the complete care plan within 7 days of the comprehensive assessment; and prepared, reviewed, and revised by a team of health professionals.
Corrected 2026-09-01
F-0755
D · No harm foundFrom a complaint
Provide pharmaceutical services to meet the needs of each resident and employ or obtain the services of a licensed pharmacist.
Corrected 2026-09-01
4 earlier / fire-safety inspections (11 citations)
2026-07-08Health inspectionComplaint-triggered2 citations
F-0600
E · No harm foundFrom a complaint
Protect each resident from all types of abuse such as physical, mental, sexual abuse, physical punishment, and neglect by anybody.
F-0609
D · No harm foundFrom a complaint
Timely report suspected abuse, neglect, or theft and report the results of the investigation to proper authorities.
2026-01-13Health inspectionComplaint-triggered1 citation
F-0550
D · No harm foundFrom a complaint
Honor the resident's right to a dignified existence, self-determination, communication, and to exercise his or her rights.
2025-08-27Health inspection4 citations
F-0742
D · No harm found
Provide the appropriate treatment and services to a resident who displays or is diagnosed with mental disorder or psychosocial adjustment difficulty, or who has a history of trauma and/or post-traumatic stress disorder.
Corrected 2025-10-10
F-0759
D · No harm found
Ensure medication error rates are not 5 percent or greater.
Corrected 2025-10-10
F-0761
D · No harm found
Ensure drugs and biologicals used in the facility are labeled in accordance with currently accepted professional principles; and all drugs and biologicals must be stored in locked compartments, separately locked, compartments for controlled drugs.
Corrected 2025-10-10
F-0812
F · No harm foundFood safety
Procure food from sources approved or considered satisfactory and store, prepare, distribute and serve food in accordance with professional standards.
Corrected 2025-10-10
2024-06-05Health inspection4 citations
F-0658
D · No harm found
Ensure services provided by the nursing facility meet professional standards of quality.
Corrected 2024-07-20
F-0699
E · No harm found
Provide care or services that was trauma informed and/or culturally competent.
Corrected 2024-07-20
F-0812
F · No harm foundFood safety
Procure food from sources approved or considered satisfactory and store, prepare, distribute and serve food in accordance with professional standards.
Corrected 2024-07-20
F-0887
E · No harm found
Educate residents and staff on COVID-19 vaccination, offer the COVID-19 vaccine to eligible residents and staff after education, and properly document each resident and staff member's vaccination status.
Corrected 2024-07-20
Citations and penalties from the CMS Provider Data Catalog (three-year survey window, refreshed monthly). Severity codes follow the federal scope/severity grid; “Immediate jeopardy” is the most serious grade CMS issues. CCN 475017.

Quality of care & staffing

How it compares in Vermont.
Inspection citations, 3 years
23
More than 33% of nursing homes in the state
State median: 28
Federal fines, 3 years
$0
No federal fines on record
State median: $57,727
Nurse staffing, hours per resident per day
4.4
Higher than 66% of nursing homes in the state
State median: 4.3
Nursing staff turnover, annual
30%
Higher than 6% of nursing homes in the state
State median: 61%

Resident outcomes

On 21 federal quality measures, this facility does better than the Vermont average on 10 and worse on 6. Differences within 10% of the average are shown as near average.

Long-stay residentsThis facilityStateUSCompared with state
Need for help with daily activities has increased25.4%19.8%13.5%Worse than state
Lose too much weight4.2%6.5%5.1%Better than state
With a catheter inserted and left in their bladder1.1%0.5%0.7%Worse than state
With a urinary tract infection2.9%2.3%1.5%Worse than state
Have depressive symptoms10.5%14.6%13.5%Better than state
Were physically restrained0.0%0.1%0.1%Better than state
Experiencing one or more falls with major injury5.2%5.5%3.2%Near state average
Assessed and appropriately given the pneumococcal vaccine98.5%95.3%93.7%Near state average
Ability to walk independently worsened26.4%16.4%12.7%Worse than state
Received an antianxiety or hypnotic medication16.9%16.6%19.5%Near state average
Assessed and appropriately given the seasonal influenza vaccine100.0%97.0%95.3%Near state average
With pressure ulcers7.7%4.9%4.5%Worse than state
With new or worsened bowel or bladder incontinence16.2%25.5%18.3%Better than state
Received an antipsychotic medication17.8%20.0%15.4%Better than state
Hospitalizations per 1000 long-stay resident days0.771.451.81Better than state
Outpatient emergency department visits per 1000 long-stay resident days1.442.791.69Better than state
Short-stay residentsThis facilityStateUSCompared with state
Assessed and appropriately given the pneumococcal vaccine94.2%83.6%82.3%Better than state
Newly received an antipsychotic medication2.0%1.4%1.5%Worse than state
Were assessed and appropriately given the seasonal influenza vaccine91.9%81.0%80.1%Better than state
Were rehospitalized after a nursing home admission21.1%22.2%23.4%Near state average
Had an outpatient emergency department visit11.3%18.7%11.8%Better than state
Source: CMS MDS and Medicare claims quality measures, measure period 2025Q3-2026Q2. Averages are computed from all nursing homes reporting each measure.

Cited more than once

The same rule cited at separate inspections can point to a problem that wasn't fully fixed.

  • F-0812 3 inspections. Procure food from sources approved or considered satisfactory and store, prepare, distribute and serve food in accordance with professional standards.
  • F-0657 2 inspections. Develop the complete care plan within 7 days of the comprehensive assessment; and prepared, reviewed, and revised by a team of health professionals.
  • F-0658 2 inspections. Ensure services provided by the nursing facility meet professional standards of quality.

Verify & compare

Where to check, and what's nearby.

Who to contact in Vermont

  • Licensing: Vermont Department of Disabilities, Aging and Independent Living (DAIL), Division of Licensing and Protection
  • Long-Term Care Ombudsman: 800-889-2047. A free advocate for residents and families.
  • Adult Protective Services: 800-564-1612. Some states send facility cases to licensing instead. In an emergency, call 911.
  • Eldercare Locator: 800-677-1116, a federal service for local aging help.

Nearest emergency hospitals

  • Porter Hospital Inc, less than 0.1 miles. CMS rating 3 of 5.
  • Gifford Medical Center, about 26 miles. CMS rating 5 of 5.
  • Elizabethtown Community Hospital, about 26 miles. CMS rating 4 of 5.
Source: CMS Hospital General Information. Straight-line distance.

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CMS Nursing Home Compare
data.cms.gov Provider Data Catalog
Last verified 2026-11-06
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pacer.uscourts.gov
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