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Gill Odd Fellows Home of Vermont

A nursing home in Ludlow, Vermont 05149

8 Gill Terrace, Ludlow, Vermont 05149. (802) 228-4571.

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The short answer

Record last released by CMS on Oct 28, 2026.

The last 24 months 25 citations in 6 months of the last 36. Last cited Jul 2026. Most serious: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm (D). Every month

Each figure’s source sits beside it, in its section below.

What these words mean7
Star ratings
CMS rates some kinds of place from 1 to 5 stars, more stars meaning better on CMS’s own measures for that kind: for a nursing home, its health inspections, staffing and quality measures. A rating is CMS’s summary of those measures; it doesn’t promise good care. Source: CMS, Care Compare and the Five-Star Quality Rating System.
Inspection (survey)
A visit by state inspectors, often unannounced, who check a place against the rules it must meet. For nursing homes and other places Medicare pays, CMS calls these visits surveys: a standard survey of a nursing home comes at least every 15 months, and a complaint survey whenever a complaint calls for one. Source: CMS; 42 CFR 488.308.
Deficiency, citation, violation
What inspectors write up when a place didn’t meet a rule: the rule, what they saw, and when. CMS calls it a deficiency; states may say citation or violation. It is the inspectors’ finding, not a court’s, and the place is usually asked for a plan to correct it. Source: CMS, statement of deficiencies (Form CMS-2567); each state’s licensing agency.
Scope and severity (A to L)
CMS grades each nursing home deficiency with a letter. A to C: no actual harm, with potential for minimal harm. D to F: no actual harm, but potential for more. G to I: actual harm. J to L: immediate jeopardy. Within each band, the letter rises as more residents were affected or could be: one or a few, a pattern, or widespread. Source: CMS, nursing home scope and severity grid (State Operations Manual, chapter 7).
Nurse staffing hours
The hours registered nurses, licensed practical nurses and nurse aides worked, per resident per day, from the payroll records each home sends CMS. Source: CMS, Payroll-Based Journal.
Fines and payment denials
A fine (civil money penalty) is money CMS makes a nursing home pay when it falls short of federal rules. A payment denial means Medicare and Medicaid stop paying for new admissions until the home meets the rules again. Source: CMS; 42 CFR 488.430 and 488.417.
Capacity
The most people the licence or certification lets the place care for at once: residents, children, beds or apartments, as the state counts them. It isn’t how many are there now. Source: Each state’s licensing agency.

What did inspectors find?

7 health citations at the latest inspection cycle

The Vermont average is 8.1.

Last standard inspection Feb 25, 2026.

Most serious in three years: D: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm.

Source:

CMS, Provider Information, State and US Averages and Health Deficiencies. Released Oct 28, 2026. Updated monthly.

When those citations happened

25 citations in 6 months of the last 36. Last cited Jul 2026. Most serious: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm (D). The last 3 years, to Nov 5, 2026.

25 citations by month over the last 3 years. Each cell is one month.
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No visit on record Visited, nothing cited A stronger orange is more serious, on its source’s own levels, read onto four bands: from the least serious it publishes to the most
Source:

Hearth Record drew this from the dates and levels in the source’s own records.

All 25 citations in the last three years

Grouped by inspection, newest first. Each carries , from A, the least serious, to L, the most. 7 came from complaint inspections.

Source:

CMS, Health Deficiencies. Released Oct 28, 2026. Updated monthly.

Jul 20, 2026: complaint inspection1 citation

  • Protect each resident from all types of abuse such as physical, mental, sexual abuse, physical punishment, and neglect by anybody.

    Rule F0600. D: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm. From a complaint.

Feb 25, 2026: standard inspection6 citations

  • Honor the resident’s right to voice grievances without discrimination or reprisal and the facility must establish a grievance policy and make prompt efforts to resolve grievances.

    Rule F0585. E: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm. Correction date, as CMS recorded it: Mar 31, 2026.

  • Develop the complete care plan within 7 days of the comprehensive assessment; and prepared, reviewed, and revised by a team of health professionals.

    Rule F0657. D: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm. Correction date, as CMS recorded it: Mar 31, 2026.

  • Ensure medication error rates are not 5 percent or greater.

    Rule F0759. D: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm. Correction date, as CMS recorded it: Mar 31, 2026.

  • 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.

    Rule F0761. D: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm. Correction date, as CMS recorded it: Mar 31, 2026.

  • Procure food from sources approved or considered satisfactory and store, prepare, distribute and serve food in accordance with professional standards.

    Rule F0812. F: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm. Correction date, as CMS recorded it: Mar 31, 2026.

  • Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program.

    Rule F0880. E: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm. Correction date, as CMS recorded it: Mar 31, 2026.

Aug 6, 2025: complaint inspection2 citations

  • Timely report suspected abuse, neglect, or theft and report the results of the investigation to proper authorities.

    Rule F0609. D: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm. From a complaint. Correction date, as CMS recorded it: Aug 31, 2025.

  • Respond appropriately to all alleged violations.

    Rule F0610. D: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm. From a complaint. Correction date, as CMS recorded it: Aug 31, 2025.

Mar 19, 2025: standard inspection4 citations

  • Immediately tell the resident, the resident’s doctor, and a family member of situations (injury/decline/room, etc.) that affect the resident.

    Rule F0580. D: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm. Correction date, as CMS recorded it: Apr 25, 2025.

  • Provide care or services that was trauma informed and/or culturally competent.

    Rule F0699. D: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm. Correction date, as CMS recorded it: Apr 25, 2025.

  • Implement gradual dose reductions(GDR) and non-pharmacological interventions, unless contraindicated, prior to initiating or instead of continuing psychotropic medication; and PRN orders for psychotropic medications are only used when the medication is necessary and PRN use is limited.

    Rule F0758. E: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm. Correction date, as CMS recorded it: Apr 9, 2025.

  • Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program.

    Rule F0880. E: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm. Correction date, as CMS recorded it: Apr 9, 2025.

Nov 12, 2024: complaint inspection2 citations

  • Ensure services provided by the nursing facility meet professional standards of quality.

    Rule F0658. D: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm. From a complaint. Correction date, as CMS recorded it: Jan 3, 2025.

  • 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.

    Rule F0726. D: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm. From a complaint. Correction date, as CMS recorded it: Jan 3, 2025.

Jan 24, 2024: standard inspection8 citations

  • Permit a resident to return to the nursing home after hospitalization or therapeutic leave that exceeds bed-hold policy.

    Rule F0626. D: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm. Correction date, as CMS recorded it: Feb 22, 2024.

  • Assess the resident completely in a timely manner when first admitted, and then periodically, at least every 12 months.

    Rule F0636. D: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm. Correction date, as CMS recorded it: Feb 22, 2024.

  • Create and put into place a plan for meeting the resident’s most immediate needs within 48 hours of being admitted

    Rule F0655. D: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm. Correction date, as CMS recorded it: Feb 22, 2024.

  • Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to prevent accidents.

    Rule F0689. D: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm. Correction date, as CMS recorded it: Feb 22, 2024.

  • Provide safe and appropriate respiratory care for a resident when needed.

    Rule F0695. D: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm. Correction date, as CMS recorded it: Feb 22, 2024.

  • Obtain a doctor’s order to admit a resident and ensure the resident is under a doctor’s care.

    Rule F0710. D: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm. Correction date, as CMS recorded it: Feb 22, 2024.

  • 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.

    Rule F0726. F: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm. Correction date, as CMS recorded it: Mar 1, 2024.

  • Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program.

    Rule F0880. D: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm. Correction date, as CMS recorded it: Feb 22, 2024.

Jan 24, 2024: standard and complaint inspection2 citations

  • Reasonably accommodate the needs and preferences of each resident.

    Rule F0558. D: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm. From a complaint. Correction date, as CMS recorded it: Feb 22, 2024.

  • Ensure services provided by the nursing facility meet professional standards of quality.

    Rule F0658. E: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm. From a complaint. Correction date, as CMS recorded it: Feb 22, 2024.

Is it certified, and in good standing?

  • Certified for Medicare and Medicaid since May 11, 1995.
  • Not on CMS’s special focus list.
  • No abuse icon from CMS.
  • No change of ownership in the last 12 months.
  • CMS lists its ownership as non profit, corporation.
  • 46 certified beds.
Source:

CMS, Provider Information. Released Oct 28, 2026. Updated monthly.

Has it been fined or penalized?

  • No fines in the last three years.
  • No Medicare payment denials in the last three years.
  • 7 citations in the last three years came from complaint inspections.
Source:

CMS, Penalties and Health Deficiencies. Released Oct 28, 2026. Updated monthly.

Who does the caring?

3.68 nurse hours per resident per day

The Vermont average is 4.30.

CMS publishes staffing about four months after the fact.

Source:

CMS, Provider Information and State and US Averages. Released Oct 28, 2026. Updated monthly.

Staffing measures
MeasureThis homeVermont average
Nurse hours per resident per day3.684.30
Of which registered nurses1.040.83
At weekends3.143.72
Nursing staff turnover24.4%54.8%
Registered nurse turnover0%43.6%
Administrators who left1Not given

Who owns it?

  • 49 owners or officers are people: Nicole Green (runs it (operational or managerial control)); Dylan Merrifox (corporate director); Dylan Merrifox (trustee); Dylan Merrifox (additional disclosable party (controls, leases property to, or provides services to the home)); Jennifer Moore (runs it (operational or managerial control)); Jennifer Moore (additional disclosable party (controls, leases property to, or provides services to the home)); A person CMS lists without a name (additional disclosable party (controls, leases property to, or provides services to the home)); Morgan Little (runs it (operational or managerial control)); Maegan Mcelwain (runs it (operational or managerial control)); A person CMS lists without a name (additional disclosable party (controls, leases property to, or provides services to the home)); Brandin Jones (corporate officer); Brandin Jones (corporate director); Brandin Jones (trustee); Brandin Jones (additional disclosable party (controls, leases property to, or provides services to the home)); Dennis Devereux (corporate officer); Dennis Devereux (corporate director); Dennis Devereux (trustee); Dennis Devereux (additional disclosable party (controls, leases property to, or provides services to the home)); Ralph Farnsworth (runs it (operational or managerial control)); A person CMS lists without a name (additional disclosable party (controls, leases property to, or provides services to the home)); Everett Allen (corporate director); Everett Allen (trustee); Everett Allen (additional disclosable party (controls, leases property to, or provides services to the home)); Martha Benoit (corporate officer); Martha Benoit (corporate director); Martha Benoit (trustee); Martha Benoit (additional disclosable party (controls, leases property to, or provides services to the home)); Ashley Conway (runs it (operational or managerial control)); George Thomson (corporate officer); George Thomson (corporate director); George Thomson (trustee); George Thomson (additional disclosable party (controls, leases property to, or provides services to the home)); January Reichert (runs it (operational or managerial control)); January Reichert (additional disclosable party (controls, leases property to, or provides services to the home)); Daniel Caloras (runs it (operational or managerial control)); Daniel Caloras (additional disclosable party (controls, leases property to, or provides services to the home)); Sandra George (corporate director); Sandra George (trustee); Sandra George (additional disclosable party (controls, leases property to, or provides services to the home)); Zachary York (corporate director); Zachary York (trustee); Zachary York (additional disclosable party (controls, leases property to, or provides services to the home)); Jennifer Olivo (runs it (operational or managerial control)); Jennifer Olivo (additional disclosable party (controls, leases property to, or provides services to the home)); Lindsey Ferland (runs it (operational or managerial control)); Lindsey Ferland (additional disclosable party (controls, leases property to, or provides services to the home)); Wanda Kiniry (runs it (operational or managerial control)); A person CMS lists without a name (additional disclosable party (controls, leases property to, or provides services to the home)); Tonya Copley (runs it (operational or managerial control)).
  • No private-equity firm among the owners CMS lists.
  • No real-estate investment trust among the owners CMS lists.
Source:

CMS, All Owners. Checked Nov 5, 2026. Updated monthly.

CMS, Provider Information. Released Oct 28, 2026. Updated monthly.

How do residents fare?

  • CMS rates its quality measures 4 of 5 (Vermont average 2.9).
Source:

CMS, Provider Information and State and US Averages. Released Oct 28, 2026. Updated monthly.

CMS’s star ratings, from 1 to 5
MeasureRating
Overall rating5 of 5
Health inspections4 of 5
Staffing5 of 5
Quality measures4 of 5

How does it compare nearby?

  • Among the 12 nearest homes, within 30.8 miles, this one had the 3rd most health citations at the latest inspection cycle (7; the middle value was 6).
Source:

CMS, Provider Information. Released Oct 28, 2026. Updated monthly.

The 12 nearest, by straight-line distance
PlaceMiles awayCitations, latest cycle
Gill Odd Fellows Home of Vermont This nursing home7
Springfield Health & Rehab11.618
Cedar Hill Health Care Center15.39
Elm Wood Center at Claremont18.06
Mountain View Center Genesis Healthcare19.07
The Pines at Rutland Center for Nursing & Rehabili19.26
Rutland Healthcare & Rehabilitation Center20.32
Sullivan County Health Care20.42
Woodlawn Healthcare Center LLC26.03
Lebanon Center, Genesis Healthcare28.77
Granville Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing28.86
Hanover Terrace Health and Rehabilitation30.83

What the record doesn’t say

  • Complaints that didn’t lead to a citation aren’t published.
  • Inspections reach CMS’s data about six weeks after they happen, and staffing about four months after.
  • CMS publishes the inspectors’ full written findings in a separate monthly file, which isn’t loaded yet.
  • Fines and Medicare payment denials are the only enforcement CMS publishes; state licence actions aren’t included.

Sources

  • Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Provider Information (4pq5-n9py).

    Released Oct 28, 2026 and checked Nov 5, 2026. Updated monthly. Public domain (U.S. Government work).

  • Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Health Deficiencies (r5ix-sfxw).

    Released Oct 28, 2026 and checked Nov 5, 2026. Updated monthly. Public domain (U.S. Government work).

  • Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Penalties (g6vv-u9sr).

    Released Oct 28, 2026 and checked Nov 5, 2026. Updated monthly. Public domain (U.S. Government work).

  • Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, All Owners (afe44b85-cc6d-40d7-b5df-00ae8910d1d2).

    Checked Nov 5, 2026. Updated monthly. Public domain (U.S. Government work).

  • Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, State and US Averages (xcdc-v8bm).

    Released Oct 28, 2026 and checked Nov 5, 2026. Updated monthly. Public domain (U.S. Government work).

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Source:

This copy of the record was made on Nov 5, 2026.

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Not fully inspected in over two years (CMS flag)

11 health citations at the latest inspection cycle

The state average is 14.3.

Source:

CMS, State and US Averages and Health Deficiencies. Released Oct 28, 2026. Updated monthly.

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