The Village at Waterman Lake

Is The Village at Waterman Lake a licensed assisted living residence in Rhode Island?

Yes. The Village at Waterman Lake at 715 Putman Pike, Greenville, RI 02828 holds an active Rhode Island Assisted Living Residence license, number ALR01347, for 178 beds, on the Rhode Island Department of Health (RIDOH) licensee list updated October 23, 2026, together with a Special Care Unit license for Alzheimer's and dementia care.

Its current license dates to 1991, which makes The Village at Waterman Lake one of the longest continuously licensed residences in Providence County.

You can confirm the license yourself in RIDOH's assisted living finder or the license verification site by searching the name or license number.

What did RIDOH's recent inspections of The Village at Waterman Lake find?

RIDOH has posted reports from 11 survey visits at The Village at Waterman Lake since May 2023: 4 found deficiencies and 7 found none. The most recent, on April 8, 2026, was a survey — deficiencies cited (resident assessments and service plans).

The latest posted routine (biennial) licensure survey was on July 15, 2025 — deficiencies cited (dietary services, medication administration and storage, the quality assurance program). Most other visits are unannounced complaint or incident investigations, which RIDOH opens whenever a report or complaint comes in; a high count can reflect a large or busy residence as much as a problem.

Areas cited across those reports include dietary services, resident assessments and service plans, medication administration and storage and the quality assurance program. A cited deficiency requires a written Plan of Correction that RIDOH reviews; it is not a fine or a license action.

For context, the median Providence County residence with posted reports has 3.5 survey visits with deficiencies over the same period; The Village at Waterman Lake has been cited more often than that.

SOD = Statement of Deficiencies; POC = Plan of Correction. Results are read from RIDOH's scanned reports; the linked PDF is the authority. Showing the latest 8 of 11. All posted reports for The Village at Waterman Lake →

Does The Village at Waterman Lake offer memory care in Smithfield?

Yes. The Village at Waterman Lake holds a RIDOH Special Care Unit license for Alzheimer's and dementia care with 55 licensed beds — about 31% of its 178 beds. Rhode Island requires a residence offering dementia care to hold that separate license, to be licensed at the F1–M1 level, to keep a registered nurse available for consultation at all times, and to provide a secure environment.

Across Rhode Island, 34 residences hold a Special Care Unit license, with a median of 32 dementia beds; The Village at Waterman Lake's unit is larger than most.

At least one posted RIDOH report cited a Special Care Unit requirement — ask what was cited and what changed.

Where is The Village at Waterman Lake located?

The Village at Waterman Lake is at 715 Putman Pike, Greenville, RI 02828, in Smithfield, Providence County. Hospitals families there commonly use include Our Lady of Fatima Hospital and Landmark Medical Center.

Smithfield, including the Greenville village along Putnam Pike, sits in northern Rhode Island off I-295 and Route 44.

There are 2 other licensed assisted living residences in Smithfield: Smithfield Woods, Stillwater Assisted Living and Skilled Nursing Community.

RIDOH also licenses a 30-bed nursing facility at the same address (Village at Waterman Lake, license LTC00722), which can make a later move to skilled nursing less disruptive.

Veterans and surviving spouses are served by the Providence VA Medical Center and may qualify for VA Aid & Attendance toward assisted living costs; the state also runs the Rhode Island Veterans Home in Bristol.

How does The Village at Waterman Lake compare with other assisted living in Providence County?

With 178 licensed beds, The Village at Waterman Lake is one of the largest among the 35 licensed assisted living residences in Providence County (number 1 by bed count); the county median is 72 beds.

17 of those 35 residences hold a Special Care Unit license and 8 hold a Limited Health Services license, for 2,703 licensed assisted living beds in the county.

Closest in size among Providence County residences, from the same RIDOH records:

How much does The Village at Waterman Lake cost per month?

Rhode Island does not publish prices for individual residences, so ask The Village at Waterman Lake for its written rate schedule. This site's 2026 research puts typical assisted living in the Providence metro at $5,500–$7,800/mo, with memory care at $7,000–$9,500/mo.

Most Rhode Island residences charge base rent plus a level-of-care fee that rises as help with bathing, dressing, medications or mobility increases, so get the fee for your parent's assessed level in writing.

Rhode Island Medicaid's long-term services and supports program can pay for assisted living services at participating residences for people who qualify, while room and board stays the resident's responsibility. Ask whether the residence participates and how many Medicaid beds it has; see our Medicaid assisted living guide.

What should you ask when touring The Village at Waterman Lake?

Start with the areas RIDOH has already cited at The Village at Waterman Lake — dietary services, resident assessments and service plans and medication administration and storage — and ask what changed after each Plan of Correction; then cover overnight staffing, the full rate schedule and what would force a move.

• Who plans therapeutic diets, and how are menu changes and special diets communicated to the kitchen?
• How soon after move-in is the written service plan finished, and who reviews it when needs change?
• Who administers medications on each shift, and how are errors and missed doses tracked?
• What has your quality-assurance committee changed in the past year, and can families see the plan?
• Is the residence licensed F1 or F2, and M1 or M2 — and what does that mean for my parent?
• What happens if a resident runs out of private funds — do you participate in Rhode Island Medicaid?
• Can we visit at mealtime and in the evening without an appointment?
• How do you handle a hospital discharge back to the residence?

Tour at different times of day, sit in on an activity, and take the residency agreement home to read before you commit.

How does moving into The Village at Waterman Lake work?

Before anyone moves into The Village at Waterman Lake, the residence assesses their needs, and RIDOH's rules require a written service plan — services, frequency and who provides them — within seven days of move-in.

• Residency agreement and disclosures. Get the agreement, the rate schedule and the discharge terms in writing and compare them before paying a deposit.
• Medication plan. Ask whether your parent will self-administer with help (an M2-level service) or need staff to store and administer medications (M1).
• Nurse review. A nurse reviews each resident's condition on a regular schedule; ask how often and who the nurse is.
• Special Care Unit admission. Ask what criteria move a resident into The Village at Waterman Lake's 55-bed Special Care Unit from its assisted living rooms.
• Payment. Most residents pay privately; long-term care insurance, VA Aid & Attendance and Rhode Island Medicaid (at participating residences) can offset costs.

Most moves take two to four weeks once a room is available; a hospital discharge can compress that to days, which is when a second set of eyes on the agreement helps most.

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