Woodridge Nursing Home
142 Woodridge Drive, Barre, VT 05641 · Washington County · 153 certified beds · avg 141 residents/day · certified since Oct 28, 1993
Abuse citation flag (CMS)
Part of chain: UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT HEALTH NETWORK (3 facilities, chain avg rating 2.3★)
The abuse flag means inspectors cited this facility for abuse that caused harm to a resident within the past year, or potential for harm in each of the last two years. Source: CMS.
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)
▲ Actual harm, one-off · Sep 23, 2025 · F-0600 · triggered by a complaint
The facility did not protect residents from abuse or neglect. This covers physical, mental, and sexual abuse, physical punishment, and neglect, by anyone — staff, other residents, or visitors.
Why it matters: Abuse and neglect cause direct physical and emotional harm and are among the most serious failures a nursing home can have.
Severity (G): One or a few residents were actually harmed — physically or emotionally — though not put in immediate danger of serious injury or death.
Corrected: Oct 14, 2025 (Deficient, Provider has date of correction)
All citations in the current public record (32)
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 23, 2025 | ▲ G · Actual harm, one-off | The facility did not protect residents from abuse or neglect. This covers physical, mental, and sexual abuse, physical punishment, and neglect, by anyone — staff, other residents, or visitors. · from a complaint |
| Sep 12, 2025 | F · Potential for harm, facility-wide | The facility did not honor residents' right to voice complaints without discrimination or retaliation, or did not have a working complaint process that resolves issues promptly. |
| Sep 12, 2025 | F · Potential for harm, facility-wide | The facility did not get its food from approved, safe sources, or did not store, prepare, and serve food according to professional food safety standards. |
| Sep 12, 2025 | E · Potential for harm, repeated | 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. |
| Sep 12, 2025 | E · Potential for harm, repeated | The facility did not make sure residents were fully informed about their own health, care, and treatments in a way they could understand. |
| Sep 12, 2025 | 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. |
| Sep 12, 2025 | E · Potential for harm, repeated | 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. |
| Sep 12, 2025 | D · Potential for harm, one-off | 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. |
| Sep 12, 2025 | D · Potential for harm, one-off | The facility gave residents unnecessary mind-altering (psychotropic) medications, or used drugs in a way that restrained residents by dulling their ability to think, move, or function. |
| Sep 12, 2025 | D · Potential for harm, one-off | The facility did not develop and follow policies and procedures to prevent abuse, neglect, and theft. These written safeguards are the foundation of resident protection. |
| Sep 12, 2025 | D · Potential for harm, one-off | The facility did not develop a resident's complete plan of care within 7 days of the full assessment, or the plan wasn't prepared, reviewed, and updated by a team of health professionals as required. |
| Sep 12, 2025 | 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. |
| Sep 12, 2025 | D · Potential for harm, one-off | The facility did not provide appropriate care related to bladder and bowel needs — including care for residents who use catheters and steps to prevent urinary tract infections. |
| Sep 12, 2025 | D · Potential for harm, one-off | 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. |
| Sep 12, 2025 | D · Potential for harm, one-off | The facility did not provide special eating equipment and utensils — like adaptive cups or easy-grip silverware — for residents who need them, along with appropriate help at meals. |
| Sep 12, 2025 | B · Minimal risk, repeated | The facility did not make its inspection results easy for residents to see, or made it hard for residents to contact advocacy agencies like the ombudsman. |
| Jul 24, 2025 | E · Potential for harm, repeated | The facility did not develop and follow policies and procedures to prevent abuse, neglect, and theft. These written safeguards are the foundation of resident protection. · from a complaint |
| Jul 24, 2025 | D · Potential for harm, one-off | The facility did not protect residents from abuse or neglect. This covers physical, mental, and sexual abuse, physical punishment, and neglect, by anyone — staff, other residents, or visitors. · from a complaint |
| Jul 24, 2025 | D · Potential for harm, one-off | The facility did not report suspected abuse, neglect, or theft to the proper authorities quickly enough, or did not report the results of its investigation. · from a complaint |
| Dec 4, 2024 | D · Potential for harm, one-off | 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 |
| Nov 6, 2024 | D · Potential for harm, one-off | The facility did not protect residents from abuse or neglect. This covers physical, mental, and sexual abuse, physical punishment, and neglect, by anyone — staff, other residents, or visitors. · from a complaint |
| Nov 6, 2024 | D · Potential for harm, one-off | The facility did not develop or follow a complete care plan for each resident — the written roadmap covering all of a resident's needs, with measurable goals and timelines. |
| Nov 6, 2024 | D · Potential for harm, one-off | The facility did not provide proper care for pressure ulcers (bedsores) or did not do enough to prevent new ones from forming. Bedsores develop when residents stay in one position too long without help moving. |
| Nov 6, 2024 | D · Potential for harm, one-off | The facility did not provide care that took into account residents' past trauma or their cultural backgrounds. Care is supposed to be sensitive to what residents have lived through and where they come from. |
| Nov 6, 2024 | D · Potential for harm, one-off | The facility did not have a licensed pharmacist review each resident's complete medication regimen and medical chart every month, or did not follow its own rules for reporting medication problems. |
| Nov 6, 2024 | C · Minimal risk, facility-wide | The facility did not develop and follow policies and procedures to prevent abuse, neglect, and theft. These written safeguards are the foundation of resident protection. · from a complaint |
| Nov 6, 2024 | C · Minimal risk, facility-wide | The facility did not train its staff on dementia care and on recognizing and reporting abuse, neglect, and exploitation. · from a complaint |
| Mar 7, 2024 | D · Potential for harm, one-off | The facility provided care that did not meet professional standards of quality — the accepted standards that nurses and other clinicians are expected to follow. · from a complaint |
| Mar 7, 2024 | 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 |
| Oct 27, 2023 | D · Potential for harm, one-off | The facility did not report suspected abuse, neglect, or theft to the proper authorities quickly enough, or did not report the results of its investigation. · from a complaint |
| Aug 23, 2023 | D · Potential for harm, one-off | The facility did not provide safe and appropriate pain management for a resident who needed it. |
| Aug 23, 2023 | D · Potential for harm, one-off | The facility did not make sure residents actually saw their doctor face-to-face at all required visits. Doctors must examine nursing home residents in person on a regular schedule. |
Inspection trend by year
Citations from standard inspections increased between the last two inspection cycles (7 → 15).
| Year | Citations | Serious (G–L) | Worst severity that year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 3 | 0 | D |
| 2024 | 10 | 0 | D |
| 2025 | 19 | 1 | G ▲ |
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 $21,453, plus 1 Medicare payment denial period.
| Date | Type | Amount / length |
|---|---|---|
| Jul 24, 2025 | Fine | $21,453 |
| Oct 27, 2023 | Payment Denial | 31 days from Jan 27, 2024 |
Nurse staffing (from payroll records, adjusted for how much care residents need)
| Measure | This facility | Vermont avg | U.S. avg | Where it stands |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total nurse staffing (hours per resident per day) | 4.97 | 4.34 | 3.95 | top 29% in Vermont; top 14% in the U.S. |
| Registered Nurse hours | 1.26 | 0.82 | 0.69 | top 10% in Vermont; top 8% in the U.S. |
| Weekend total nurse staffing | 4.07 | 3.76 | 3.50 | top 36% in Vermont; top 21% in the U.S. |
| Weekend RN hours (not acuity-adjusted) | 0.85 | 0.52 | 0.48 | top 10% in Vermont; top 10% in the U.S. |
| Total nursing staff turnover (%) | 62.6 | 55.4 | 45.8 | bottom 36% in Vermont; bottom 13% in the U.S. |
| RN turnover (%) | 38.1 | 39.9 | 42.9 | top 42% in Vermont; top 44% 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 4.94, RN 1.25, weekend 4.05. 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: 2/5 · short-stay residents: 3/5
Who owns this facility
Non profit - Corporation
| Owner / manager | Type | Role | Stake | Since |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The University of Vermont Health Network INC. | Organization | 5% or Greater Direct Ownership Interest | 100% | 11/17/2014 |
| Carlson, Kristin | Individual | Corporate Director | NOT APPLICABLE | 01/01/2025 |
| Carlson, Kristin | Individual | Trustee of the SNF | NOT APPLICABLE | 01/01/2025 |
| Clouser, Ryan | Individual | Corporate Director | NOT APPLICABLE | 01/01/2024 |
| Clouser, Ryan | Individual | Trustee of the SNF | NOT APPLICABLE | 01/01/2024 |
| Colman, Constance | Individual | Corporate Director | NOT APPLICABLE | 04/28/2018 |
| Colman, Constance | Individual | Trustee of the SNF | NOT APPLICABLE | 04/28/2018 |
| Costello, Katherine | Individual | Corporate Director | NOT APPLICABLE | 04/28/2025 |
| Costello, Katherine | Individual | Operational/Managerial Control | NOT APPLICABLE | 04/28/2025 |
| Costello, Katherine | Individual | ADP of the SNF | NOT APPLICABLE | 06/26/2025 |
| Dellipriscoli, Michael | Individual | Corporate Director | NOT APPLICABLE | 01/01/2024 |
| Dellipriscoli, Michael | Individual | Trustee of the SNF | NOT APPLICABLE | 01/01/2024 |
| Eappen, Sunil | Individual | Corporate Director | NOT APPLICABLE | 11/28/2022 |
| Eappen, Sunil | Individual | Trustee of the SNF | NOT APPLICABLE | 11/28/2022 |
| Hare, Erica | Individual | Corporate Director | NOT APPLICABLE | 01/03/2023 |
| Hare, Erica | Individual | Trustee of the SNF | NOT APPLICABLE | 01/03/2023 |
| Judy, Joyce | Individual | Corporate Director | NOT APPLICABLE | 12/12/2013 |
| Judy, Joyce | Individual | Trustee of the SNF | NOT APPLICABLE | 12/12/2013 |
| Misek, Joan | Individual | Corporate Director | NOT APPLICABLE | 12/01/2019 |
| Misek, Joan | Individual | Trustee of the SNF | NOT APPLICABLE | 12/01/2019 |
Questions to ask on your visit
Generated from this facility's actual citation record — bring them to a tour and ask the administrator directly.
- "Tell me about this abuse or neglect citation — what happened, and what specific changes did you make afterward?"
- "Walk me through what happens when a resident or family files a grievance — who responds and how fast?"
- "What did your most recent kitchen inspection find, and can I see how food is stored and prepared?"
- "Can you give me examples of how your staff protect residents' dignity in everyday care, like bathing and dressing?"
- "How do you explain health changes and treatment options to residents and their families?"
- "Can we tour the resident rooms, bathrooms, and common areas today, including areas not on the usual tour route?"
- "How many residents here use oxygen or breathing equipment, and who checks that equipment each shift?"
- "How do you record and honor each resident's treatment wishes and advance directives, and how do staff know about them?"
- "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?"
Nearby facilities (within 20 miles)
| Facility | Distance | City | Overall | Inspection | Flags |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Barre Gardens Nursing and Rehab, LLC | 1.6 mi | Barre, VT | ★☆☆☆☆ | 1/5 | SFF |
| Premier Rehab and Healthcare at Berlin | 3.7 mi | Barre, VT | ★☆☆☆☆ | 2/5 | |
| Mayo Healthcare INC. | 9.3 mi | Northfield, VT | ★★★★☆ | 5/5 | |
| Menig Nursing Home | 18.1 mi | Randolph Center, VT | ★★★★☆ | 2/5 |
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Facility data as of CMS processing date 2026-08-01. CCN 475045.