Needham-based Nauset Construction has completed a $5-million addition and renovation to the Lighthouse Nursing Care Center in Revere.

The project, which broke ground in November 2013, included ground-up construction of a three-story, 17,000-square-foot addition and renovation of an additional 10,000 square feet of space.

Lighthouse is a short-term rehabilitative and long-term skilled nursing care facility. The facility is built on a site that was originally home of Revere General Hospital, which began operations in 1939. It later served as a housing facility for sailors on leave during the Vietnam War, and in 1986 it opened as a skilled nursing facility under the name AtlantiCare Nursing Home. An affiliate of The Guardian Foundation, a not-for-profit Atlanta-based organization, purchased the facility and renamed it Lighthouse of Revere.

Designed by The Architectural Team of Chelsea, the addition and renovation provides the facility with 12 single unit short-term rehabilitation beds, suites for physical, occupational, and speech therapy, medical office and clinical space and a 2,700-square-foot rehabilitation gymnasium.

“It was very important to us that this project have minimal impact on the daily routines of Lighthouse residents, visitors and staff. The Nauset team was able to achieve this goal as well as deliver the project in a timely and cost effective manner through one of the worst winters in Boston’s history,” Gregory Grove, president and CEO of the Guardian Foundation Inc., said in a statement.