Lakeview House Skilled Nursing and Residential Care Facility

06/23/2015

Two Haverhill nursing homes, Lakeview House Skilled Nursing and Residential Care Facility and Baker-Katz Skilled Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, received the federal government’s top five-star rating and have been deemed “deficiency free” again this year.

The state Executive Office of Health and Human Services, Division of Health Care Facility Licensure and Certification made the determinations during separate unannounced surveys this spring. The division inspects nursing homes at least every 9-15 months to assess compliance with federal standards of care such as adequacy of staffing, quality of care and cleanliness of facilities.

“We take great interest in ensuring not only the highest levels of patient care and quality, but also work to maintain safe, clean and home-like facilities,” said Jon D. Guarino, president of Guarino-Grimes LLC, managers of the two nursing homes.

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Lakeview House Skilled Nursing and Rehabilitation Center is a small, family-owned and operated skilled nursing facility offering specialized, compassionate care.

06/26/2014

Lakeview House Welcomes Back Nurse and Educator Marion Bergman

HAVERHILL, Mass. (June 26, 2014) — Lakeview House Skilled Nursing and Residential Care Facility was the site of a historical reunion Thursday, June 5, as Marion F. Bergman met with Lakeview’s Director of Social Services Joseph S. Tavitian to compare notes on the facility’s storied past.

Bergman’s family bought the property in 1946. Her parents, James and Florence Sexton, bought what had been the Kenoza Lake Country Club and developed it first into a rest home, and then a full-fledged nursing home, calling it Kenoza Lake Health Resort. Before the property was used as a country club it belonged to the Shattuck family. Marble fireplaces and turned mahogany staircases adorned the luxury estate.

“The place has quite an interesting history,” said Bergman. Bergman’s personal history is inextricably entwined with that of Lakeview House. She graduated from the Beverly Hospital School of Nursing in 1954 after completing years of training, and returned to join the professional staff at her family’s facility. She eventually transitioned to an educational position, teaching nurses’ aides at facilities in the Merrimack Valley.

Bergman’s family sold Kenoza Lake Health Resort in 1958. In 1983 Jon D. Guarino acquired the property and named it Lakeview House. In 2001 he purchased Baker-Katz Skilled Nursing and Rehabilitation Center. Both Lakeview House and Baker-Katz remain family-owned and operated by Guarino. Bergman was pleased to note that the facilities retain the comfort and atmosphere she remembered. “It’s like a big extended family,” she said.

Lakeview House Skilled Nursing and Residential Care Facility provides 26 licensed skilled care beds and 65 residential care beds.