Spaulding Rehabilitation Nursing and Therapy Center Brighton Earns Highest Performing Rating in US News & World Report 2025-2026 Best Nursing Homes Survey
For the eighth straight year U.S. News & World Report named Spaulding Rehabilitation Nursing and Therapy Center Brighton a Best Nursing Home for Short-Term Rehabilitation. Honored each year since opening in 2017, Spaulding Brighton was selected as a Best Nursing Home for 2025-2026 by U.S. News & World Report.
Spaulding Brighton earned Best Nursing Homes status by achieving a rating of “High Performing,” the highest possible rating, for short-term rehabilitation. U.S. News gives the designation of Best Nursing Home only to those facilities that satisfy U.S. News’s assessment of the appropriate use of key services and consistent performance in quality measures.
“Skilled nursing facilities have such a critical role in healthcare to ensure patients with a wide range of complex cases have the opportunity to achieve the best outcomes possible. For the Spaulding Brighton team to have an unwavering focus to achieve the highest standards of excellence in care each year is a testament to their skill and dedication, “ said Greg Jackson, President, Spaulding Rehabilitation. “All of us at Spaulding are so honored to have them as colleagues and as a vital part of Mass General Brigham.”
Since 2009, the U.S. News Best Nursing Homes ratings and profiles offer comprehensive information about care, safety, health inspections, staffing and more for nearly all of the nation’s 15,000-plus nursing homes. The Best Nursing Homes ratings reflect U.S. News’ exclusive analysis of publicly available data using a methodology defined by U.S. News that evaluates factors that it has determined most greatly impact patient and resident care, safety, and outcomes.
Best Nursing Homes ratings are based on U.S. News’s in-depth analysis of publicly available data, including information that is not factored into CMS’s star ratings. Only 19% of skilled nursing facilities in the country earned a High Performing rating in short or long-term categories.
The Short-Term Rehabilitation rating is based on U.S. News’ assessment of ten quality measures focusing on staffing, medical outcomes, resident complaints and processes of care. U.S. News used scientific literature review, discussions with industry experts and statistical modeling to select these measures.
This rating designates nursing homes as High Performing, Average or Below Average in the care they provided to residents who spent 100 days or fewer at a skilled nursing facility for care needed as a result of a stroke or accident, joint replacement or other rehabilitation-focused recovery.
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About Spaulding Rehabilitation
A member of the Mass General Brigham Health System, Spaulding Rehabilitation includes Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, with a main campus in Charlestown the 2nd ranked in the nation for rehabilitation by U.S. News & World Report, along with Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital Cape Cod, Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital Cambridge, Spaulding Rehabilitation Nursing and Therapy Center Brighton, and over 25 outpatient sites throughout Eastern Massachusetts. An acclaimed teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School and home to the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Spaulding is recognized as a top residency program in the U.S. in the Doximity Residency Navigator. For more information, visit www.spauldingrehab.org.