Hillsboro House sits at 67 School Street in Hillsborough, NH, and has only 33 beds, making it the smallest nursing home in New Hampshire, and it's been around serving families from the Contoocook Valley for over fifty years. This family-owned and independently operated nursing facility carries license number #00534 and offers skilled nursing, post-hospital care, long-term care, continuing rehab therapies, memory and Alzheimer's care, and assisted living services, all in a quiet, Victorian-style renovated building. You'll find two living rooms, a dining room, and a multipurpose common area for activities, and residents can spend time on the spacious front porch, the large screened-in side porch, or outside in the courtyard garden-some even tend the resident garden beds when they feel up to it, and that's pretty nice to have. The small size lets staff provide more personal care, and many families like the non-institutional, home-like feel, though the facility says no pets are allowed.
Residents at Hillsboro House have routine dental, eye, lab, and pharmacy services on site, with frequent physician visits and close one-on-one care, which you don't always find at larger places. It offers programs like arts and crafts, support for memory issues, and many outings, so folks still go shopping, dining, on walks, to musicals, ball games, and picking apples, which helps them stay connected to the lives they knew before coming here. The place aims to keep things personal, hands-on, and community-centered, and it tries to offer the types of services you'd expect from a larger institution-skilled nursing covered under Medicare, dementia care, help with daily needs-but in a much smaller and supportive space, which some say feels safer or more familiar. There's no information about the number of floors, garage details, or extra amenities like fitness centers or fancy patios, and rental policies aren't specified, but the main draw seems to be the steady, adaptable care and the close-knit, family-like setting. Hillsboro House also provides information on legal rights about housing protections, including for gender identity and orientation, and focuses on helping every resident feel valued, healthy, and at home for as long as they're there.
