Hattie Ide Chaffee Home is certified as a Medicare and Medicaid facility and has been approved to provide these services since 1981-01-01. Medicare covers short-term skilled nursing care (typically up to 100 days after a qualifying hospital stay). Medicaid covers long-term care for residents who meet financial eligibility requirements. Contact the facility at (401) 434-1520 or your local Medicaid office to verify current eligibility.

Hattie Ide Chaffee Home holds an overall CMS (Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services) rating of 5 out of 5 stars. This is made up of three components: Health Inspection (3★), Staffing (5★), and Quality of Resident Care (5★). Our independent composite quality score — which uses the raw underlying CMS numbers to break ties between similarly-rated facilities — is 91.4/100, placing it #413 of 14703 facilities nationally and #1 of 73 in Rhode Island. Star ratings are a useful starting point, but the composite score and individual sub-ratings give a more complete picture for families comparing facilities.

Each resident at Hattie Ide Chaffee Home receives a reported average of 5 hours 12 minutes of total nurse staffing per day. This breaks down as: Registered Nurse (RN) coverage — 1 hour 18 minutes; Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) — 21 minutes; Nurse Aide — 3 hours 32 minutes. On weekends, total nurse staffing is 4 hours 33 minutes per resident per day. The CMS Staffing Rating for this facility is 5 out of 5. The national average for total nursing hours is approximately 3.5 hrs/day. Total nursing staff turnover is 34.0%. Families are encouraged to ask about current staffing schedules during their facility visit.

In the current reporting period, the facility received 1 fine(s) totaling $40,295. 11 substantiated complaints were recorded across the 5-year period — families should request details from the facility or review CMS inspection findings. There were 1 Medicare payment denial(s) in the current period. In the most recent CMS reporting period, the facility received 1 fine(s) totaling $40,295, and 1 Medicare payment denial(s). Total penalties: 2. The Total Weighted Health Survey Score is 63.75 (lower scores are better). Full inspection history and complaint details are available at medicare.gov/care-compare.

Nationally, Hattie Ide Chaffee Home ranks 413th out of 14,703 facilities (composite score: 91.4/100), placing it in the top 5% nationwide. Within RI, it ranks 1st out of 73 nursing homes. In East Providence, it ranks 1st out of 7 facilities. Among facilities sharing its ZIP code, it ranks 1st of 2. For 2026 staffing: total nurse hours rank #926 nationally and RN hours rank #863 nationally (#3 in RI). Our composite quality score of 91.4/100 weighs health inspections, quality of resident care, staffing hours, compliance record, and five-year performance trends — giving a more complete picture than CMS star ratings alone, which can place hundreds of facilities in the same 5-star bucket. To browse and compare all nursing homes in East Providence, visit: https://nursinghomesnearme.org/rhode_island/east-providence/