Civita Care Center at Newington

    240 Church St, Newington, CT 06111
    • Assisted Living
    • Memory Care
    • Skilled Nursing

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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

    3.52·(104)

    Overall rating

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

      3.1
    • Staff

      3.4
    • Meals

      2.5
    • Amenities

      3.6
    • Value

      1.5

    Pros

    • Compassionate and attentive nursing aides
    • Skilled physical and occupational therapy team
    • Clean, modern building and therapy gym
    • Inviting, well-appointed dining area
    • Secure memory-care unit with wander-prevention system
    • Helpful social work and admissions support
    • Accessible location with ample parking
    • Active dietitian involvement and weight tracking
    • Efficient admissions and check-in process
    • Homey communal spaces and pleasant room ambiance
    • Collaborative interdisciplinary care when adequately staffed
    • Responsive front-desk and welcoming staff

    Cons

    • Inconsistent clinical care quality and oversight
    • Chronic understaffing limiting individualized care
    • Medication administration and treatment-adherence gaps
    • Delays in responding to call lights and care requests
    • Inconsistent infection-control and PPE implementation
    • Inconsistent food quality and nutrition monitoring
    • Inadequate maintenance and equipment reliability
    • Weak family communication and care-plan transparency
    • Personal property security gaps and item-tracking issues
    • Variable therapy timing and individualized rehab planning
    • Inconsistent sanitation and area-specific cleanliness control
    • Management and leadership communication deficits

    Summary of reviews

    The reviews portray a facility with clear strengths and persistent operational weaknesses. Strengths most often cited include warm, attentive direct-care staff—particularly CNAs—an effective therapy team and a well-equipped therapy gym, and a clean, modern physical plant with an attractive dining room and accessible parking. Families and residents who had positive experiences described collaborative interdisciplinary care, helpful social-work and admissions support, active dietitian involvement, and a generally welcoming, home-like atmosphere in communal spaces.

    Despite these positives, a large portion of commentary highlights inconsistent clinical performance and systems-level failures. Reviewers describe lapses in medication administration and other treatment adherence, delays in attending to call lights and basic care needs, and concerns about infection-control practices. These issues are frequently connected to understaffing and limited availability of one-to-one care, which reviewers say contributes to slower response times, missed or delayed treatments, and variable therapy and care-planning decisions.

    Dining and nutrition feedback is mixed: some reviewers commend the dining environment and certain meals, while others note poor food quality and weight loss or insufficient nutrition monitoring for vulnerable residents. Activity programming appears adequate in some units but limited in memory-care areas, where families report fewer structured activities and more meals served in-room. The therapy department is generally praised for clinical skill, but reviewers also describe inconsistent timing and individualized planning, including instances where therapy pacing was perceived as too aggressive or poorly coordinated with clinical status.

    Facility maintenance and operational reliability are additional, recurring themes. Positive comments about cleanliness and pleasant room ambiance coexist with complaints about maintenance failures (nonfunctional beds or call buttons, slow plumbing repairs), sanitation inconsistencies in some areas, and inadequate controls around personal property—families cited missing items and concerns about item tracking. Communication and leadership are another dividing line: several families praised specific nurses, therapists, and social workers for clear updates and advocacy, while many others describe difficulty reaching management, delayed callbacks, poor transparency around clinical events, and inconsistent staff conduct or tone. A few reviewers raised serious concerns following adverse clinical outcomes, including requests for regulatory review; those items underscore variability in clinical oversight rather than a uniform experience.

    For prospective residents and families, the pattern suggests that care quality may vary by unit, shift, and staffing levels. When staffing and interdisciplinary coordination are strong, outcomes and family satisfaction tend to be positive; when staffing is constrained or leadership communication is weak, families report clinically significant gaps in care, responsiveness, and property security. During a tour or intake conversation, it would be prudent to ask targeted questions about staffing ratios, medication-administration protocols, infection-control procedures, fall-prevention and maintenance response times, property-security measures, and how therapy plans are individualized and communicated to families.

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    Medicare Ratings

    1·/ 5
    • Overall

    • Health Inspection

    • Staffing

    • Quality Measures

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    Location

    Civita Care Center at Newington is located at 240 Church St, Newington, CT, 06111.

    About Civita Care Center at Newington

    Civita Care Center at Newington is a skilled nursing facility at 240 Church St in Newington, Connecticut, and folks say you notice right away that it offers both medical and non-medical care for seniors, so if someone needs IV therapy, peritoneal dialysis services, or help with mental health, the staff handle that kind of thing, and they've been specially trained with things like the Amia Peritoneal Dialysis machine in partnership with Herald Square Dialysis, and they seem to have a mix of therapists for physical, occupational, and speech therapy, plus outpatient rehab if you're not staying overnight, and there's also a secured dementia unit for those who need specialized support, which becomes important for families with these worries. Residents get three meals a day and snacks, and the personal care help covers everything from laundry and grooming to help with walking or using a wheelchair, and staff can even do light housekeeping or assist with in-home care services if someone prefers to be cared for at home, and they'll travel to clients' locations depending on the need, as they're set up as both a nursing home and care provider in the area; they seem to be careful in picking staff too, running background checks, drug tests, immunizations, interviews, and checking references and driving records, and there's always the suggestion to check each staff's credentials if you're thinking about using their services. The facility can help set up dementia care plans, give out senior care resources, and work with either home health care or non-medical care, depending on what's best for the person, and they'll recommend an initial consultation to figure out needs. There's short-term rehabilitation for those needing care between the hospital and home, and the nursing support covers everything from basic needs to more complex cases with frail folks who need extra help, including hospice care if that's required, and while they say their approach is person-centered and tries to bring people together, the place is large, with 180 certified beds and staff like Ralph Campos and Lilianne Rojek listed as being involved in healthcare roles. Civita Care Center at Newington is a privately held company tied to the Civita Care Centers network, and it employs between 51 and 200 people. It's got a record of 3.28 nurse hours per resident per day and offers a variety of therapy and support services intended to match individual needs, though some issues have come up, with 31 deficiencies on inspection reports, including one for infection control and others like not following treatment plans, not updating care plans on time, and not making sure doctors see patients face-to-face as required, plus some concerns about protecting residents from harm, and back in October 2024, the facility received a $60,333 fine after complaint investigations found 5 deficiencies. All in all, Civita Care Center at Newington tries to provide comprehensive support through a mix of health, safety, and personal care, and the facility focuses on making things as safe and comfortable as possible for seniors, even though, like many places, there are some areas where they're working to improve.

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    Civita Care Center at Newington offers assisted living, memory care, and skilled nursing.

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