CCN 415002 · Providence County, Rhode Island
Hattie Ide Chaffee Home
200 Wampanoag Trail, East Providence, RI 02915
Hattie Ide Chaffee Home is a 69-bed nonprofit nursing home in East Providence, Rhode Island, first certified for Medicare or Medicaid in 1981. CMS rates it 4 out of 5 stars overall in its September 2026 data, and it averaged 67.1 residents a day, about 97% of its certified beds. We found no FHA-insured Section 232 loan for it in HUD's healthcare endorsement database (fiscal 2001 onward).
Facility facts
- Certified beds
- 69
- Average residents per day
- 67.1 (97.2% of beds)
- Ownership type
- Non profit - Corporation
- Certification
- Medicare and Medicaid
- Legal business name
- Hattie Ide Chaffee Nursing Home Inc
- Certified since
- Jan 1, 1981
- Chain or affiliated group
- None listed by CMS
- Location
- Urban
Ratings and staffing
Star ratings run from 1 to 5. Staffing is nurse hours per resident per day from CMS Payroll Based Journal data; turnover is the CMS annual nursing staff turnover rate. Occupancy is CMS's average daily census divided by certified beds.
| Measure | This facility | Rhode Island median | US median |
|---|---|---|---|
| Overall rating | 4 of 5 | State spread: 13 at 1, 21 at 2, 7 at 3, 20 at 4, 10 at 5 | |
| Health inspections | 3 of 5 | ||
| Quality measures | 3 of 5 | ||
| Staffing | 5 of 5 | ||
| Total nurse hours per resident per day | 5.39 | 3.58 | 3.68 |
| RN hours per resident per day | 1.15 | 0.72 | 0.58 |
| Weekend nurse hours per resident per day | 4.86 | ||
| Nursing staff turnover | 34.7% | 39.3% | 44.9% |
| Occupancy (residents / beds) | 97.2% | 89.9% | 85.7% |
| Fines reported by CMS | 1 totaling $40,295 | ||
| Health deficiencies, latest standard survey | 5 (Jun 20, 2025) | ||
HUD 223(f) Express Lane: the CMS part
HUD gives 223(f) applications queue priority when the facility has CMS overall and health inspection ratings of at least 2 stars and no abuse icon, among other tests (ORCF criteria of March 31, 2026). Hattie Ide Chaffee Home meets that part today: 4 stars overall, 3 on health inspections, no abuse icon. The loan-to-value, coverage and operator tests depend on the deal. All the criteria.
Who owns and operates it
These are the owners and operators the facility reported to CMS: anyone with a 5% or greater direct or indirect stake, and any organization with operational or managerial control.
| Name | Role | Share | Since |
|---|---|---|---|
| Santoro, RalphIndividual | Operational / Managerial Control | n/a | 01/01/2021 |
| Zeltzer, BarryIndividual | Operational / Managerial Control | n/a | 12/28/2021 |
Changes of ownership
No change of ownership for this facility appears in the CMS change-of-ownership file, which starts in January 2016.
HUD Section 232 loans
No FHA-insured loan matching this facility appears in HUD's database of healthcare endorsements, which covers fiscal 2001 onward (HUD data run of July 8, 2026). A loan could still exist under a different project name or from before 2001.
Sources and dates
Facility, rating, staffing and ownership data: CMS Provider Information and CMS Ownership, processing date September 2026. Private equity, REIT and mortgage-interest flags and changes of ownership: CMS Skilled Nursing Facility All Owners and Change of Ownership files (2026-10-01). FHA-insured loans: HUD Office of Healthcare Programs endorsement database, data run July 8, 2026. How we join them, and what the join can get wrong: methodology.
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