Chelsea Place Care Center, LLC.

    25 Lorraine St, Hartford, CT 06105
    • Assisted Living
    • Memory Care
    • Skilled Nursing

    Warm room, clean, attentive staff

    I'm very pleased with Chelsea Place - the staff are professional, kind, caring and do their best, and the nurses (especially Christina) are attentive and explain medications clearly. My room is warm, linens are clean, trash is emptied, the place feels much cleaner with no urine odor, and I feel well taken care of and happy here.

    Current/former resident
    Jul 2026

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    Amenities

    Healthcare services

    • Activities of daily living assistance
    • Assistance with bathing
    • Assistance with dressing
    • Assistance with transfers
    • Medication management
    • Mental wellness program

    Healthcare staffing

    • 12-16 hour nursing
    • 24-hour call system
    • 24-hour supervision

    Meals and dining

    • Diabetes diet
    • Meal preparation and service
    • Restaurant-style dining
    • Special dietary restrictions

    Room

    • Air-conditioning
    • Cable
    • Fully furnished
    • Housekeeping and linen services
    • Kitchenettes
    • Private bathrooms
    • Telephone
    • Wifi

    Transportation

    • Community operated transportation
    • Transportation arrangement
    • Transportation arrangement (non-medical)

    Common areas

    • Beauty salon
    • Computer center
    • Dining room
    • Fitness room
    • Gaming room
    • Garden
    • Outdoor space
    • Small library
    • Wellness center

    Community services

    • Concierge services
    • Fitness programs
    • Move-in coordination

    Activities

    • Community-sponsored activities
    • Planned day trips
    • Resident-run activities
    • Scheduled daily activities

    Reviews

    1.68·(63)

    Overall rating

    1. 5
    2. 4
    3. 3
    4. 2
    5. 1
    • Care

      1.6
    • Staff

      1.6
    • Meals

      1.2
    • Amenities

      1.0
    • Value

      1.0

    Pros

    • Individual attentive nursing staff
    • Friendly caregiving aides
    • Responsive reception personnel
    • Clean linens and timely trash removal
    • Noted improvements in overall cleanliness
    • Clear medication and condition explanations by nurses
    • Comfortable room temperature and warm rooms

    Cons

    • Inconsistent clinical monitoring and delayed escalation
    • Weak medication-administration controls
    • Inconsistent wound and chronic-disease management
    • Unreliable therapeutic-diet implementation
    • Sanitation and pest-control deficiencies
    • Housekeeping and room-maintenance inconsistencies
    • Poor family communication and incident notification
    • Front-desk and customer-service deficits
    • Staffing shortages and workload strain
    • Gaps in property and belongings management
    • Unclear visitation and admission processes
    • Perceived inadequate management oversight and financial focus

    Summary of reviews

    Overview: The compiled reviews describe a facility with highly mixed performance. Several families praised individual staff members for attentive nursing care, clear explanations about medications and conditions, and routine housekeeping tasks such as clean linens and trash removal. At the same time, a sizable portion of feedback raises systemic concerns about clinical oversight, day-to-day operations, and environmental maintenance.

    Care quality and clinical issues: The dominant clinical themes are inconsistent monitoring and delayed escalation of medical concerns. Reviewers described missed or delayed medications, inconsistent implementation of physician orders, and variability in wound and diabetic care. These patterns are associated with significant adverse outcomes in individual accounts, including hospital transfers and end-of-life concerns; some reviews also reference external inquiries by regulatory or law-enforcement entities. Overall, the facility appears to struggle with reliable clinical follow-up and adherence to care plans for residents with complex needs.

    Staff and communication: Reports indicate a bifurcated experience with staff. Multiple reviewers singled out specific nurses and aides as compassionate and effective, but others described concerns about staff conduct, rudeness at the front desk, and an inconsistent tone in caregiver–family communication. Families also noted difficulty obtaining timely updates, long on-hold times, and limited responsiveness to questions about changes in condition. Staffing shortages and perceived high workload were frequently cited as contributing factors to these communication and responsiveness gaps.

    Dining and therapeutic diets: Meal quality was characterized as inconsistent. Reviewers reported inadequate provision of therapeutic diets, particularly for residents with diabetes, and occasional inedible meal experiences. There are concerns about continuity of therapeutic meal service and the facility’s ability to reliably implement diet orders for medically indicated nutrition plans.

    Activities and visitation: There is limited commentary about recreational programming in the reviews provided. More prominent were concerns about visitation logistics and admission processes: extended intake times, periods when families were kept waiting without information, and perceived rigidity in visitation policies. Families seeking regular access or clarity about visiting arrangements may find the current processes challenging.

    Facilities, sanitation, and maintenance: Several reviews raised sanitation and pest-control concerns as well as localized odor concerns in common areas. Housekeeping performance appears to be inconsistent across units, with some reports of prompt cleaning and others noting delayed room maintenance, broken bathroom fixtures, or mattresses on the floor. These maintenance and sanitation inconsistencies suggest variable adherence to environmental standards.

    Management, oversight, and patterns of concern: Reviewers express frustration with management responsiveness and decision-making. Common themes include perceived profit-driven priorities, slow admission and transfer coordination, poor handling of belongings and property, and insufficient clinical oversight to prevent repeated care failures. There are also references to serious individual allegations, including concerns about inappropriate staff conduct and financial exploitation; such claims have prompted some families to seek external review. These patterns point toward a need for stronger governance, clearer escalation pathways, and more transparent family communication.

    Bottom line and considerations for families: The facility demonstrates strengths tied to particular staff members and basic housekeeping in some areas, but the aggregated feedback highlights recurring operational weaknesses in clinical consistency, medication management, therapeutic-diet implementation, sanitation, and family communication. Prospective residents and families should verify current staffing levels, clinical oversight procedures, infection-control and pest-management records, therapeutic-diet protocols, and the facility’s regulatory history before making placement decisions. When touring, ask for documentation of incident escalation processes, recent survey results, and examples of how the facility has addressed the specific issues summarized here.

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    Medicare Ratings

    1·/ 5
    Cited by CMS for abuse, or potential for abuse, on its most recent survey cycle.
    • Overall

    • Health Inspection

    • Staffing

    Ratings from the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (Care Compare). View on Medicare.gov

    Location

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    Chelsea Place Care Center, LLC. is located at 25 Lorraine St, Hartford, CT, 06105.

    About Chelsea Place Care Center, LLC.

    Chelsea Place Care Center, LLC sits on Lorraine Street in Hartford, Connecticut, and offers many care options for seniors and adults, so what you get here is a facility that covers both the basics and some specialized needs since they run as a licensed Skilled Nursing Facility under the iCare Health Network and have been doing this work since 1999, though they've been local since 2009, and the management team has Mr. Christopher S. Wright as Managing Member and Ms. Judy Konow handles the administration part. They're set up for folks who need skilled nursing, long-term care, or rehabilitation, with 24-hour nursing care for those who need constant support, and you'll find both inpatient and outpatient rehab with therapy services like physical, occupational, and speech therapy whether someone needs them short-term, long-term, or even before and after joint and spinal surgeries through their "Beyond the Joint" prehab program and their Touchpoints Rehab program that's well-regarded in the area, and for tough cases like CHF, COPD, or recovering from open-heart procedures, they've got Complex Care Programs and Transitional Services, plus there's respite care for caregivers who need a short break from looking after someone full-time.

    Memory care is available for folks with Alzheimer's or other dementias, and they also look after adults facing dual diagnoses like mental health and substance use issues, and adults who might have trouble being placed elsewhere, such as justice-involved individuals. On top of their other work, they run supervised sober living with set rules, no drugs or alcohol, required 12-step meetings, and support through medication-assisted treatment and drug or alcohol detox, plus intensive inpatient rehab using evidence-based therapies like meditation, creative arts, massage, and acupuncture. Men's and women's rehab programs are both available, and the community works with adults who need help with substance use disorders and behavioral health issues, and they take private insurance, Medicaid, and Medicare for payment, which helps many families with costs.

    Chelsea Place Care Center also includes assisted living, independent living, dementia care, and memory care services, so you don't have to worry about finding different places for different stages, because they keep residents comfortable even as their needs change, and for those who are staying long-term, they have skilled nursing, therapies, wound care, diabetes management, cardiac recovery, dietary services, social services, and a mix of recreational and engaging social activities designed to keep people active in body and mind, but there's not much detail available about other specific amenities or office hours from what's provided.

    The staff and providers speak English, and while the Better Business Bureau notes an A+ rating, there isn't any accreditation shown, and details like fax numbers or listed specialties beyond what's here aren't available, though the center operates out of two locations now, one in Hartford at Lorraine Street and another in Manchester on Bidwell Street. The facility stays careful about rules and licensing since the state regulates this industry, and the focus is on day-to-day health and safety whether someone's recovering from surgery, managing a chronic illness, or coping with memory loss. The aim is always to ensure people have a safe, sober, and well-supervised place to live and get the care or therapies they might need, whether that's for a short rehab stay, sober living, or a more permanent home.

    People often ask...

    Chelsea Place Care Center, LLC. offers assisted living, memory care, and skilled nursing.

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    The full address for this community is 25 Lorraine St, Hartford, CT 06105.

    No, Chelsea Place Care Center, LLC. does not offer respite care. Respite care in assisted living communities provides temporary, short-term relief for primary caregivers by offering professional care for their loved ones. It allows individuals to stay in an assisted living community for a limited time, giving caregivers a break while ensuring residents receive necessary support and assistance with daily activities.

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