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Samaritan Keep Home

133 Pratt St

2.8(13 ratings)· Watertown average: 3.7

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Quick Facts

Total units
272
Medicare rating
1 of 5

CMS Care Compare

Ownership
Non profit, Corporation
Certified beds
272
Medical Campus
Connected directly to Samaritan Medical Center
Rehabilitation
Sub-acute rehab program for short-term recovery

What Families Think

The Good

  • Two specialized memory care units for dementia residents
  • Sub-acute rehabilitation program for recovery after illness
  • Open visitation policy with no set visiting hours
  • Located on the Samaritan Medical Center campus
  • Individualized activity programming tailored to residents' interests

The Bad

  • No published pricing information available
  • Overall Google rating is low (2.8) from a small number of reviews

AI-generated from reviews and community data.

Samaritan Keep Home is a senior living community in Watertown, New York offering Memory Care and Skilled Nursing / Long Term Care. Amenities include Restaurant style Dining Room, Gathering / Activity Spaces and Social Activities. Families rate it 2.8 out of 5 across 13 reviews.

About Samaritan Keep Home

Samaritan Keep Nursing Home is a 272-bed skilled nursing facility in Watertown, New York, connected to the Samaritan Medical Center campus. The community provides skilled nursing assistance, rehabilitative therapies, and social and recreational activities, with a mission to create an atmosphere where residents thrive and remain socially active.

The facility operates two specialized Memory Care Units staffed with trained personnel dedicated to serving residents with significant memory impairment. Samaritan Keep Home and its sister community have earned Bronze-Level Credentialing in the Montessori Inspired Lifestyle Program, a distinction from the Center for Applied Research in Dementia.

Rehabilitation services are a core offering, with a sub-acute rehabilitation program designed to help residents achieve their full potential. Short-term rehabilitation programming focuses on restorative therapies following illness or injury, supporting residents' return home upon program completion.

Activities form an important part of daily life at the community, with staff providing individualized programming tailored to residents' needs and interests. Many activities involve community events and outings. The facility maintains an open visitation policy with no formal visiting hours, allowing residents to receive visitors at any time of their choosing.

Types of Care at Samaritan Keep Home

Memory CareSkilled Nursing / Long Term Care

Amenities

Room Amenities

  • Emergency Call System
  • Private Rooms
  • Wheelchair Accessible

Meals & Dining

  • Dietary Accommodations (Gluten-Free, Low / No Sodium, No Sugar, Vegan)
  • Restaurant style Dining Room

Community Amenities

  • 24-Hour Staff
  • Gathering / Activity Spaces
  • Housekeeping
  • Laundry Service
  • Medication Management
  • On-Site Nurse (RN)

Activities

  • Birthday / Holiday Parties
  • Day Trips and Outings
  • Social Activities (Happy Hour, Wine Tasting, Dances, Karaoke)

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Reviews of Samaritan Keep Home

2.8overall · 13 ratings combined

2.8★ on Google (13)

Sean Hill

Oct 2025

via Google

My mother was in Sam Keep for the better part of year. It one on the great regrets of my life that we put her in there. The care she received was minimal. Echoing what another review said the place seems dangerously under staffed. The staff that worked there appeared un-engaged and seemed to be chained to the nurses sattions. Multiple times when I arrived and found my mother needding to be changed and to have been left in that condition for more than a day. Only to be told by the nurses that they would get to it with no sense of urgency. During the time my mother stayed there, they managed to throw out her false teeth after she left them on a dining tray. This happened not once but twice. When we brought this to the attention of the staff they were vaguely apologetic and seemed to imply there things happen and that we try and be more careful in the future. But you know these things happen. They also left my mother shoes on for over a week while I was vacation. She developed sore on her feet which developed into actual holes in her soles, it took months to treat. There was little evidence that anyone working there was paying close to the patients. Ironically the floor she was had a poster of poem titled "Just a Nurse" You can google it, but it's the most passive aggressive things I've seen, suggesting that nurses don't get there due and it was nurse who did the hard workd and received little praise. While my mother there it was just the nurses rendering inadequate care. It was just a nurse who forgot to take off her shoes and it was just a nurse who threw out teeth. From what I saw everytime I went there It was just the nurses who were continually on their phone ignoring patients. One other thing to note. In order to get the cable turned on in her room we had to pay the front desk downstairs cash only to get it turned on. They would not provide a receipt for this. Can't say for sure they were pocketing the cash, but it sure seemed like it. There are not a lot of options up here for care for the eldery, but you have any other option I would look there first.

Panda Panda

Aug 2025

via Google

Resident to staff ratios are dangerously inadequate. Many days your loved one and 20 other patients are left with two exhausted women for the entire day. It is dangerously understaffed. And the few staff they have are paid less than fast food workers, but working six times as long each shift. It is completely normal for two people with no college education, no medical training, and no sleep to be left in charge of 15-20 fully dependent, extremely impaired adults for sixteen hours each day. This is the usual policy. Your loved one is left stewing in her own waste, dehydrated, and mentally bereft for hours. Because Samaritan does not care about safety, staffing, hygiene, nor humane treatment.

brenda bockus

Aug 2023

via Google

My mother has been a resident of Samaritan Keep for almost 2 years. I couldn't ask for better care for her. The nurses are all kind to her and she loves them too. I am called with monthly updates on her check ups.

Takari Wolf

Jul 2019

via Google

Nurses are more worried about their break then helping patients, they take forever to get to patients when they buzz for help, place is always understaffed. Jeanine on 3rd floor is rude and doesn't know what she's talking about, said my mother in law was faking not being able to move well and when it was time for my mother in law to have her pain meds Jeanine said it wasn't time for them even though it was til hubby did the math for her on the time. Next day mother in law passed away. This place is HORRIBLE if you truly love your elderly ones DO NOT put them in here, they will go from needing minimal help to a hoyer lift for help before they pass away.

jmedley38

Sep 2016

via Google

You should judge a nursing home when you visit it, and you will like this one!! Residents here are clean, happy and well taken care of. You will find them singing in the lobby with a piano player, getting their hair done in the salon, or enjoying a meal in the cafeteria with families and friends.

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Government Inspection History

7 inspection visits in the last three years, 43 citations on file. Inspections are conducted by state agencies on behalf of the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).

Mar 20, 2026Health ComplaintHealth Standard11 citations
  • Honor the resident's right to a dignified existence, self-determination, communication, and to exercise his or her rights.

    Severity E of L: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, patternCorrected May 12, 2026

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

    Severity D of L: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, isolatedFound during a complaint inspectionCorrected May 12, 2026

  • Provide appropriate care for residents who are continent or incontinent of bowel/bladder, appropriate catheter care, and appropriate care to prevent urinary tract infections.

    Severity D of L: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, isolatedCorrected May 12, 2026

  • Provide enough food/fluids to maintain a resident's health.

    Severity D of L: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, isolatedCorrected May 12, 2026

  • Allow residents to self-administer drugs if determined clinically appropriate.

    Severity D of L: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, isolatedFound during a complaint inspectionCorrected May 12, 2026

  • Provide safe, appropriate dialysis care/services for a resident who requires such services.

    Severity D of L: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, isolatedCorrected May 12, 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.

    Severity D of L: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, isolatedCorrected May 12, 2026

  • Ensure each resident receives and the facility provides food prepared in a form designed to meet individual needs.

    Severity D of L: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, isolatedCorrected May 12, 2026

  • Provide appropriate pressure ulcer care and prevent new ulcers from developing.

    Severity D of L: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, isolatedFound during a complaint inspectionCorrected May 12, 2026

  • Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program.

    Severity D of L: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, isolatedCorrected May 12, 2026

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

    Severity D of L: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, isolatedCorrected May 12, 2026

Feb 20, 2026Health Complaint1 citation
  • Protect each resident from all types of abuse such as physical, mental, sexual abuse, physical punishment, and neglect by anybody.

    Severity J of L: immediate jeopardy, isolatedFound during a complaint inspectionCorrected Mar 29, 2024

Apr 1, 2024Health Complaint1 citation
  • Timely report suspected abuse, neglect, or theft and report the results of the investigation to proper authorities.

    Severity D of L: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, isolatedFound during a complaint inspectionCorrected May 15, 2024

Mar 1, 2024Fire Safety StandardHealth ComplaintHealth Standard11 citations
  • Provide appropriate pressure ulcer care and prevent new ulcers from developing.

    Severity E of L: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, patternCorrected Apr 18, 2024

  • Inspect, test, and maintain automatic sprinkler systems.

    Severity E of L: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, patternCorrected May 16, 2024

  • Ensure that special areas are constructed so that walls can resist fire for one hour or have an approved fire extinguishing system.

    Severity D of L: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, isolatedCorrected Apr 23, 2024

  • Develop and implement a complete care plan that meets all the resident's needs, with timetables and actions that can be measured.

    Severity D of L: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, isolatedFound during a complaint inspectionCorrected Apr 18, 2024

  • Provide care and assistance to perform activities of daily living for any resident who is unable.

    Severity D of L: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, isolatedFound during a complaint inspectionCorrected Apr 18, 2024

  • Provide appropriate care for a resident to maintain and/or improve range of motion (ROM), limited ROM and/or mobility, unless a decline is for a medical reason.

    Severity D of L: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, isolatedCorrected Apr 18, 2024

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

    Severity D of L: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, isolatedFound during a complaint inspectionCorrected Apr 18, 2024

  • Ensure that residents are free from significant medication errors.

    Severity D of L: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, isolatedFound during a complaint inspectionCorrected Apr 18, 2024

  • Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program.

    Severity D of L: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, isolatedCorrected Apr 18, 2024

  • Have restrictions on the use of portable space heaters.

    Severity D of L: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, isolatedCorrected Apr 27, 2024

  • Keep aisles, corridors, and exits free of obstruction in case of emergency.

    Severity D of L: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, isolatedCorrected May 8, 2024

Aug 8, 2023Health Complaint4 citations
  • Provide the appropriate treatment and services to a resident who displays or is diagnosed with dementia.

    Severity J of L: immediate jeopardy, isolatedFound during a complaint inspectionCorrected Sep 19, 2023

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

    Severity J of L: immediate jeopardy, isolatedFound during a complaint inspectionCorrected Sep 22, 2023

  • Respond appropriately to all alleged violations.

    Severity D of L: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, isolatedFound during a complaint inspectionCorrected Sep 19, 2023

  • Ensure that paid feeding assistants have the training they need.

    Severity D of L: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, isolatedFound during a complaint inspectionCorrected Sep 19, 2023

Sep 3, 2021Fire Safety StandardHealth Standard11 citations
  • Have an enclosure around a vertical opening shaft.

    Severity E of L: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, patternCorrected Sep 15, 2021

  • Have elevators that firefighters can control in the event of a fire.

    Severity E of L: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, patternCorrected Sep 30, 2021

  • Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program.

    Severity E of L: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, patternCorrected Nov 2, 2021

  • Respond appropriately to all alleged violations.

    Severity E of L: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, patternCorrected Nov 2, 2021

  • Ensure that testing and maintenance of electrical equipment is performed.

    Severity D of L: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, isolatedCorrected Sep 21, 2021

  • Allow residents to easily view the nursing home's survey results and communicate with advocate agencies.

    Severity D of L: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, isolatedCorrected Nov 2, 2021

  • Honor the resident's right to a safe, clean, comfortable and homelike environment, including but not limited to receiving treatment and supports for daily living safely.

    Severity D of L: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, isolatedCorrected Sep 26, 2021

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

    Severity D of L: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, isolatedCorrected Nov 2, 2021

  • Ensure each resident receives and the facility provides food prepared in a form designed to meet individual needs.

    Severity D of L: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, isolatedCorrected Nov 2, 2021

  • Have simulated fire drills held at unexpected times.

    Severity D of L: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, isolatedCorrected Sep 2, 2021

  • Ensure proper usage of power strips and extension cords.

    Severity D of L: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, isolatedCorrected Sep 7, 2021

Apr 26, 2019Fire Safety Standard4 citations
  • Install a two-hour-resistant firewall separation.

    Severity E of L: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, patternWaiver has been granted

  • Install an approved automatic sprinkler system.

    Severity D of L: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, isolatedCorrected Jun 21, 2019

  • Have generator or other power source capable of supplying service within 10 seconds.

    Severity D of L: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, isolatedCorrected Apr 30, 2019

  • Ensure proper usage of power strips and extension cords.

    Severity D of L: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, isolatedCorrected Jun 21, 2019

Source: CMS Care Compare, public federal data covering certified nursing facilities, refreshed monthly. Citations range from A (least serious) to L (most serious) on the federal scope and severity scale. Most citations are corrected quickly; review the details and ask the community about anything that concerns you.

Frequently Asked Questions

What types of care does Samaritan Keep Home offer?

Samaritan Keep Home offers Memory Care and Skilled Nursing / Long Term Care.

Where is Samaritan Keep Home located?

Samaritan Keep Home is located at 133 Pratt St in Watertown, New York.

How did Samaritan Keep Home do on recent health and safety inspections?

Samaritan Keep Home had 7 government inspection visits in the last three years, with 43 citations on file according to CMS Care Compare data. The full history, including what each citation was for and whether it was corrected, is in the inspection section on this page.

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