Seal Rock Healthcare
88 Harbor Drive, Saco, ME 04072 · York County · 105 certified beds · avg 91 residents/day · certified since Jan 1, 1993
Part of chain: FIRST ATLANTIC HEALTHCARE (10 facilities, chain avg rating 3.4★)
What health inspectors found (on-site government inspections — the most independent evidence available)
Health inspection rating: ★★☆☆☆2/5 · CMS overall rating: 2/5
The health inspection star above is graded on a curve within each state — a set share of each state's facilities gets each star level — so a facility can have few citations and still rate 2–3 stars if others in its state did even better. The overall rating combines that inspection score with staffing and self-reported quality measures.
Most serious findings (actual harm or immediate jeopardy)
▲ Immediate jeopardy, repeated · Apr 2, 2025 · F-0880 · triggered by a complaint
The facility did not have or follow an effective program to prevent and control infections — such as proper hand washing, cleaning, and isolation practices. This is the most commonly cited deficiency nationwide.
Why it matters: Weak infection control lets illnesses like flu, COVID-19, and drug-resistant infections spread quickly among vulnerable residents.
Severity (K): A life-threatening or extremely dangerous situation affected several residents. Among the most serious findings an inspection can produce.
Corrected: Apr 24, 2025 (Deficient, Provider has date of correction)
All citations in the current public record (27)
CMS publishes roughly the last three inspection cycles plus recent complaint investigations. Older surveys drop out of the record as new ones are completed.
| Date | Severity | What the facility was cited for |
|---|---|---|
| Apr 3, 2026 | E · Potential for harm, repeated | The facility did not honor residents' rights to request, refuse, or stop treatment, to decline participation in medical research, or to make an advance directive — a written statement of their wishes for future medical care. |
| Apr 3, 2026 | E · Potential for harm, repeated | The facility did not protect residents from misuse of their belongings or money — this is called misappropriation, and it includes theft or improper use of a resident's property or funds. |
| Apr 3, 2026 | D · Potential for harm, one-off | The facility did not keep the environment free of accident hazards, or did not provide enough supervision to prevent accidents like falls. |
| Apr 3, 2026 | D · Potential for harm, one-off | The facility did not make sure its nurse aides had the skills needed to care for residents, including training in dementia care and abuse prevention. |
| Apr 3, 2026 | B · Minimal risk, repeated | The facility did not provide a safe, clean, comfortable, and homelike environment, including safe support for residents' daily living needs. |
| Apr 2, 2025 | ▲ K · Immediate jeopardy, repeated | The facility did not have or follow an effective program to prevent and control infections — such as proper hand washing, cleaning, and isolation practices. This is the most commonly cited deficiency nationwide. · from a complaint |
| Apr 2, 2025 | E · Potential for harm, repeated | The facility did not make sure its nurses and nurse aides had the skills and training needed to properly care for every resident. · from a complaint |
| Apr 2, 2025 | E · Potential for harm, repeated | The facility was not managed in a way that uses its money, staff, and resources effectively and efficiently to care for residents. · from a complaint |
| Apr 2, 2025 | D · Potential for harm, one-off | The facility did not immediately notify the resident, their doctor, and a family member when something significant happened — such as an injury, a decline in health, or a room change. Families and doctors are entitled to know right away. · from a complaint |
| Apr 2, 2025 | D · Potential for harm, one-off | The facility did not provide treatment and care that follows the doctor's orders and matches the resident's own preferences and goals. · from a complaint |
| Aug 8, 2023 | D · Potential for harm, one-off | The facility did not provide treatment and care that follows the doctor's orders and matches the resident's own preferences and goals. · from a complaint |
| Aug 8, 2023 | C · Minimal risk, facility-wide | The facility did not treat residents with dignity and respect, or did not honor their rights to make their own decisions and communicate freely. This is one of the most fundamental resident rights. · from a complaint |
| Jul 27, 2022 | E · Potential for harm, repeated | The facility did not provide a safe, clean, comfortable, and homelike environment, including safe support for residents' daily living needs. |
| Jul 27, 2022 | E · Potential for harm, repeated | The facility did not create and follow a basic care plan covering a new resident's most immediate needs within 48 hours of admission. The first days are when a new resident is most vulnerable. |
| Jul 27, 2022 | E · Potential for harm, repeated | The facility did not label drugs according to professional standards or did not store them in locked compartments, with controlled drugs (medications with a high risk of misuse) kept under a separate lock. |
| Jul 27, 2022 | E · Potential for harm, repeated | The facility did not protect residents' personal information or did not keep complete, accurate medical records that meet professional standards. |
| Jul 27, 2022 | E · Potential for harm, repeated | The facility did not run an ongoing quality assurance committee that reviews care problems and creates plans to fix them. |
| Jul 27, 2022 | E · Potential for harm, repeated | The facility did not keep its building and grounds safe, functional, clean, and comfortable for residents, staff, and visitors. |
| Jul 27, 2022 | D · Potential for harm, one-off | The facility did not provide the help residents need with basic daily activities — like bathing, dressing, eating, and using the bathroom — for residents who cannot do these things on their own. |
| Jul 27, 2022 | D · Potential for harm, one-off | The facility did not provide safe and appropriate respiratory care — such as oxygen, breathing treatments, or care for residents on breathing equipment — for residents who needed it. |
| Jul 27, 2022 | B · Minimal risk, repeated | The facility did not give residents (and their representatives and the ombudsman, a state advocate for residents) proper advance notice before a transfer or discharge, including information about their right to appeal. |
| Jul 27, 2022 | B · Minimal risk, repeated | The facility did not give the resident or their representative written notice of how long it would hold the resident's bed during a hospital stay or approved leave. |
| Jul 27, 2022 | B · Minimal risk, repeated | The facility did not post its nurse staffing information every day. Nursing homes must publicly display how many nurses and aides are on duty each day. |
| Nov 7, 2019 | E · Potential for harm, repeated | The facility did not label drugs according to professional standards or did not store them in locked compartments, with controlled drugs (medications with a high risk of misuse) kept under a separate lock. |
| Nov 7, 2019 | D · Potential for harm, one-off | The facility did not make sure residents were fully informed about their own health, care, and treatments in a way they could understand. |
| Nov 7, 2019 | D · Potential for harm, one-off | The facility did not honor residents' right to make their own choices about their daily lives, such as when to wake up, what to eat, or how to spend their time. |
| Nov 7, 2019 | D · Potential for harm, one-off | The facility did not honor residents' individual preferences, choices, values, and beliefs in their daily life and care. |
Inspection trend by year
Citations from standard inspections decreased between the last two inspection cycles (11 → 5).
| Year | Citations | Serious (G–L) | Worst severity that year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 4 | 0 | E |
| 2022 | 11 | 0 | E |
| 2023 | 2 | 0 | D |
| 2025 | 5 | 1 | K ▲ |
| 2026 | 5 | 0 | E |
Counts reflect the current CMS public record (~3 inspection cycles plus complaint investigations); years with no surveys show no row. Inspection frequency varies, so compare severity as well as counts.
Fines and enforcement (last 3 years)
1 fine totaling $75,433.
| Date | Type | Amount / length |
|---|---|---|
| Apr 2, 2025 | Fine | $75,433 |
Nurse staffing (from payroll records, adjusted for how much care residents need)
| Measure | This facility | Maine avg | U.S. avg | Where it stands |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total nurse staffing (hours per resident per day) | 4.98 | 4.60 | 3.95 | top 30% in Maine; top 13% in the U.S. |
| Registered Nurse hours | 0.93 | 1.11 | 0.69 | bottom 37% in Maine; top 19% in the U.S. |
| Weekend total nurse staffing | 4.61 | 4.16 | 3.50 | top 23% in Maine; top 10% in the U.S. |
| Weekend RN hours (not acuity-adjusted) | 0.73 | 0.73 | 0.48 | bottom 49% in Maine; top 14% in the U.S. |
| Total nursing staff turnover (%) | 56.3 | 46.7 | 45.8 | bottom 18% in Maine; bottom 22% in the U.S. |
| RN turnover (%) | 47.6 | 40.2 | 42.9 | bottom 34% in Maine; bottom 40% in the U.S. |
Hours are per resident per day, case-mix adjusted by CMS so facilities caring for sicker residents can be compared fairly (same basis as the CMS staffing star). "Top X%" means better than most facilities: more staffing hours, or lower turnover. Raw (unadjusted) reported hours: total 4.48, RN 0.84, weekend 4.14. Staffing rating: 4/5.
Self-reported quality measures
Note: these ratings are based on data the facility reports about itself to CMS. They are not independently verified by inspectors, and can look better than inspection findings. Give more weight to the inspection results above.
Quality measures rating: 3/5 · long-stay residents: 1/5 · short-stay residents: 4/5
Who owns this facility
For profit - Corporation
| Owner / manager | Type | Role | Stake | Since |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Faraday Holdings LLC | Organization | 5% or Greater Direct Ownership Interest | 67% | 06/29/2019 |
| KWB Holdings, LLC | Organization | 5% or Greater Direct Ownership Interest | 33% | 06/29/2019 |
| Berman, Ari | Individual | Operational/Managerial Control | NOT APPLICABLE | 10/01/2024 |
| Berman, Ari | Individual | ADP of the SNF | NOT APPLICABLE | 02/01/2019 |
| Bowden, Kenneth | Individual | Corporate Director | NOT APPLICABLE | 06/29/2019 |
| Bowden, Kenneth | Individual | ADP of the SNF | NOT APPLICABLE | 06/30/2019 |
| Coffin, Craig | Individual | ADP of the SNF | NOT APPLICABLE | 06/30/2019 |
| Faraday Holdings LLC | Organization | ADP of the SNF | NOT APPLICABLE | 06/30/2019 |
| First Atlantic Healthcare INC | Organization | Operational/Managerial Control | NOT APPLICABLE | 06/05/2005 |
| First Atlantic Healthcare INC | Organization | ADP of the SNF | NOT APPLICABLE | 02/26/2025 |
| Gilbert, Jessica | Individual | Operational/Managerial Control | NOT APPLICABLE | 01/01/2025 |
| Gilbert, Jessica | Individual | ADP of the SNF | NOT APPLICABLE | 08/01/2023 |
| KWB Holdings, LLC | Organization | ADP of the SNF | NOT APPLICABLE | 06/30/2019 |
| Otis-Higgins, Andrea | Individual | Corporate Officer | NOT APPLICABLE | 05/11/2015 |
| Otis-Higgins, Andrea | Individual | Operational/Managerial Control | NOT APPLICABLE | 05/11/2015 |
| Otis-Higgins, Andrea | Individual | ADP of the SNF | NOT APPLICABLE | 05/11/2015 |
| Pelkey, Wanda | Individual | Corporate Officer | NOT APPLICABLE | 10/01/2024 |
| Pelkey, Wanda | Individual | Operational/Managerial Control | NOT APPLICABLE | 10/01/2024 |
| Pelkey, Wanda | Individual | ADP of the SNF | NOT APPLICABLE | 10/01/2024 |
Questions to ask on your visit
Generated from this facility's actual citation record — bring them to a tour and ask the administrator directly.
- "Who leads your infection prevention program, and how do you make sure staff follow practices like hand hygiene every day?"
- "How do you record and honor each resident's treatment wishes and advance directives, and how do staff know about them?"
- "What safeguards do you have to protect residents' money and belongings, and what happens when something goes missing?"
- "What is your falls rate, and what specific steps do you take to prevent falls and supervise residents at risk?"
- "What specific training do your nurse aides complete in dementia care and abuse prevention, and how often is it refreshed?"
- "Can we tour the resident rooms, bathrooms, and common areas today, including areas not on the usual tour route?"
- "How do you verify that your nurses and aides have the skills to care for residents with needs like my family member's?"
- "What were the findings behind this administration citation, and what has leadership changed since?"
- "What is your current ratio of nursing staff to residents on day, evening, and weekend shifts?"
- "Can I see the results and plan of correction from your most recent state inspection?"
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Facility data as of CMS processing date 2026-08-01. CCN 205103.