iCare Health Network

    341 Bidwell St, Manchester, CT 06040
    • Assisted Living
    • Memory Care
    • Skilled Nursing

    Friendly staff clean comfortable rooms

    I'm very pleased with the friendly, attentive staff, clean and comfortable rooms, tasty meals, and a good variety of activities; communication is prompt and my experience has been excellent overall, with just a couple small areas that could be improved.

    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

    2.09·(11)

    Overall rating

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

      1.6
    • Staff

      1.5
    • Meals

      2.1
    • Amenities

      1.0
    • Value

      2.1

    Pros

    • Clinically competent nursing staff

    Cons

    • Medication-management control gaps
    • Inconsistent staff competence and supervision
    • Cleanliness and sanitation shortcomings in resident and dining areas
    • Incomplete clinical documentation and medication lists
    • Poor phone accessibility and front-line communication
    • Rigid visitation policy enforcement
    • Management transparency and integrity concerns
    • Weak hiring and staff-training processes
    • Pest-control concerns in resident areas
    • Inadequate resident comfort and furnishings

    Summary of reviews

    The reviews describe a facility with uneven performance across clinical care, operational processes, and management. Clinical competency appears variable: several accounts praise individual nurses, while other reports point to medication errors and deficits in supervisor oversight. Concerns about medication-management processes recur, including instances of incorrect medications and missing medication lists. These issues together suggest gaps in medication administration protocols, reconciliation practices, and clinical documentation workflows.

    Staffing and day-to-day care are characterized by inconsistent performance and communication challenges. Reviewers describe difficulties reaching a live person by phone and frequent transfers when attempting to get information or services, which contributors linked to delays for both residents and outside providers. Comments also emphasize inconsistent staff competence and a need for stronger frontline supervision and training; at the same time, some nursing staff receive positive remarks, indicating variability rather than uniformly poor clinical skill.

    Dining and facility-related concerns focus on sanitation and maintenance. Reports reference stained dishware and broader cleanliness issues in both resident and dining areas, and there are explicit mentions of pest-control concerns. Reviewers also noted comfort and furnishing issues such as hard beds. Together these points indicate sanitation and facilities maintenance responsibilities that may need attention to meet resident-experience expectations.

    Activities and visitation are less described but visitation policy inflexibility was raised as a problem by families who felt constrained in-room. There is limited information about programming or engagement activities beyond visitation concerns, so prospective families should clarify the facility's activity schedule and visitation guidelines during a tour.

    Management and administrative patterns are an important theme. Reviewers expressed concerns about administrative transparency, honesty, and responsiveness; some described escalations to state or regulatory entities and made allegations about management conduct. Whether isolated or systemic, these statements highlight a need to review the facility's complaint-resolution processes, staffing oversight, and regulatory history when evaluating placement.

    Notable patterns across the reviews include inconsistent application of clinical protocols (especially medication-related), poor accessibility of front-desk/phone support, cleanliness and pest-control issues, and perceived shortcomings in management transparency and staff training. Prospective residents and families should request up-to-date documentation on medication administration procedures, staffing ratios and training programs, recent inspection or survey reports, infection-control and pest-control records, and written visitation policies to verify whether the facility has addressed these areas of concern.

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    iCare Health Network is located at 341 Bidwell St, Manchester, CT, 06040.

    About iCare Health Network

    iCare Health Network runs a group of skilled nursing and long-term care centers, and they've got their own way of doing things, using names like Touchpoints Rehab and Touchpoints Therapy for their trusted rehab programs, and they really lay out the details for folks with the Resident Relocation Guide if someone needs to move in from another spot, which sure helps families keep things organized when switching care settings, and their main focus is on healthcare, which means you'll find programs for all sorts of needs like short-term rehab, long-term care, and specific support for things like COPD, congestive heart failure, and post-surgery recovery, and the teams there use a group approach with staff like nurses, therapists, and social workers all working together. The company got started in 2001 and they've stayed privately owned, with headquarters up in Manchester, Connecticut, and there's a pretty big team across the network, working at about eleven sites in Connecticut and a few in Massachusetts and Vermont, including places like Touchpoints at Bloomfield, Manchester, Chestnut, as well as Silver Springs Care Center, 60 West, Westside Care Center, and others, plus MissionCare at Holyoke, which is a special skilled nursing spot. There's a strong focus on memory care at the Greater Hartford Memory Care Centers for folks living with Alzheimer's or similar conditions, and it's interesting how they also have clinical programs for justice-involved or hard-to-place adults, and support for people who need help with behavioral health or substance use. Touchpoints Rehab is known for inpatient and outpatient therapy, including physical, occupational, and speech therapy, and they go into areas like cardiac, pulmonary, neurologic, and orthopedic rehab, as well as a "Beyond the Joint" program to help get your strength up before joint or spinal surgeries. The company also manages nursing home consulting, healthcare operations, therapy services, food help, pain management, mental health, respite care, hospice care, and offers complex care and transitional services, and you can see they try to keep up a high standard for all their clinical programs, focusing a lot on customer satisfaction, teamwork, and quality improvement through their own management methods. They've got material like brochures and guides to make things easier for professionals making referrals and for moving folks in, and they make sure every service is tailored to each person's needs, no matter how simple or complex, and that kind of attention runs through all their locations, whether it's regular long-term care, special rehab after an operation, or full support for people needing a safe place because of memory loss or health problems that need a lot of oversight.

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    iCare Health Network offers assisted living, memory care, and skilled nursing.

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    The full address for this community is 341 Bidwell St, Manchester, CT 06040.

    No, iCare Health Network 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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