Riverside Rest Home is certified as a Medicare and Medicaid facility and has been approved to provide these services since 1995-04-01. 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 (603) 742-1348 or your local Medicaid office to verify current eligibility.

Riverside Rest Home holds an overall CMS (Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services) rating of 4 out of 5 stars. This is made up of three components: Health Inspection (4★), Staffing (4★), and Quality of Resident Care (4★). Our independent composite quality score — which uses the raw underlying CMS numbers to break ties between similarly-rated facilities — is 82.4/100, placing it #2626 of 14703 facilities nationally and #8 of 74 in New Hampshire. 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 Riverside Rest Home receives a reported average of 4 hours 19 minutes of total nurse staffing per day. This breaks down as: Registered Nurse (RN) coverage — 1 hour 9 minutes; Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) — 38 minutes; Nurse Aide — 2 hours 32 minutes. On weekends, total nurse staffing is 3 hours 38 minutes per resident per day. The CMS Staffing Rating for this facility is 4 out of 5. The national average for total nursing hours is approximately 3.5 hrs/day. Families are encouraged to ask about current staffing schedules during their facility visit.

The facility has received 6 fine(s) over the 5-year period, totaling $23,985. No substantiated complaints have been recorded in the available data. In the most recent CMS reporting period, the facility received 0 fine(s) totaling $0, and 0 Medicare payment denial(s). Total penalties: 0. The Total Weighted Health Survey Score is 13.0 (lower scores are better). Full inspection history and complaint details are available at medicare.gov/care-compare.

Nationally, Riverside Rest Home ranks 2626th out of 14,703 facilities (composite score: 82.4/100), placing it in the top 25% nationwide. Within NH, it ranks 8th out of 74 nursing homes. In Dover, it ranks 1st out of 4 facilities. Among facilities sharing its ZIP code, it ranks 1st of 4. For 2026 staffing: total nurse hours rank #3,094 nationally and RN hours rank #1,297 nationally (#4 in NH). Our composite quality score of 82.4/100 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 Dover, visit: https://nursinghomesnearme.org/new_hampshire/dover/