Benchmark Awards
Since our inception, Benchmark communities have earned more than 500 national, regional, state and local awards. Our associates, the compassionate care they provide, community programs, dining experiences and overall quality have repeatedly been recognized as the best. Our residents, their families, the greater communities we serve and our industry have continually selected our senior living communities over others.
US News & World Report Best Senior Living Awards
Benchmark Senior Living earned 67 awards in U.S. News & World Report’s "Best" Senior Living 2025 excellence program. The awards were won across our 67 continuing care, independent living, assisted living and memory care communities throughout the Northeast. Benchmark was one of only 10 senior living providers in the entire country to receive the highest number of recognitions.
Boston Globe Top Places to Work, 17 Years Straight
In 2024, Benchmark was named a top workplace in Massachusetts by the Boston Globe for 17 straight years. That’s as long as the honor has been awarded. Associates voted Benchmark as being among the best based on company direction, execution, connection, management, work, pay and benefits and engagement. Benchmark was also certified as a Great Place To Work for the seventh straight year and ranked 11th nationally as a Best Workplaces in Aging Services by FORTUNE magazine.
A renovation of The Falls at Cordingly Dam, an assisted living and Mind & Memory Care community, won the community a 2022 Senior Housing News (SHN) Architecture & Design Award for Best Building Renovation. The SHN Architecture & Design award is a global competition recognized as one of the nation’s most prestigious industry awards. The Falls’ renovation project imparted fresh aesthetics and new lighting throughout, additional common spaces indoors and out designed to maximize the community’s stunning Charles River views and an upgraded HVAC system to maximize fresh air intake.
We’ve been pleased to have our philanthropy acknowledged as being among the best. In 2020 and 2019, Boston Business Journal awarded us as one of the largest corporate contributors in Massachusetts. In 2024, the national senior living association, Argentum, recognized us as the highest corporate donor, and we secured the most individual donors in 2019 and 2018 for senior living industry advocacy and lobbying.
