Apple Rehab Rocky Hill

    45 Elm St, Rocky Hill, CT 06067
    • Assisted Living
    • Memory Care
    • Skilled Nursing

    Caring staff clean rooms comfortable

    I stayed at the Rocky Hill facility and was very pleased with the caring, professional staff-from attentive CNAs to skilled RNs and a proactive social worker (Laura). Communication was solid, nursing and therapy exceeded my expectations, rooms were clean with daily housekeeping, and the upgraded community room (comfy chairs, TV, books/games) made visits pleasant. Front desk and HR were helpful, accessibility and safety precautions were good, and overall I felt well cared for and comfortable.

    Current/former resident
    Sep 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

    2.92·(51)

    Overall rating

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

      2.2
    • Staff

      2.8
    • Meals

      1.8
    • Amenities

      3.2
    • Value

      1.0

    Pros

    • Compassionate and skilled nursing and CNA staff
    • Strong physical and occupational therapy programs
    • Attentive and proactive social work support
    • Responsive floor nurses and helpful human-resources coordination
    • Daily housekeeping and generally clean rooms
    • Comfortable common areas and accessible outdoor space
    • Engaging recreation program (bingo, live music, games, books)
    • Hot meals and generally positive food quality
    • Short-term private-room availability
    • Support for virtual visits and COVID precautions

    Cons

    • Inconsistent staffing levels and caregiver availability
    • Delays in medication administration and medication-management gaps
    • Slow response to call bells and assistance requests
    • Gaps in clinical communication among departments and with families
    • Inconsistent adherence to dietary and clinical care orders
    • Sanitation concerns in some resident rooms and common areas
    • Loss and mismanagement of resident belongings
    • Inadequate accessibility and interpreter services
    • Variable room-temperature control and environmental comfort
    • Weak incident documentation, follow-up, and family notification processes
    • Customer-service and management follow-through deficiencies
    • Privacy and safety process gaps
    • Allegations of theft and physical-injury incidents

    Summary of reviews

    Overall impression: Experiences at this skilled nursing and rehabilitation facility are mixed, with distinct strengths in clinical rehabilitation and social-support services alongside repeated operational weaknesses that affect vulnerable residents. Many families describe positive interactions with therapy teams, social work, and particular nurses or aides who provided effective, comforting care. At the same time, multiple accounts describe systemic issues that have compromised continuity of care and family confidence.

    Care quality: The facility demonstrates clear capability in rehabilitation services; physical-therapy and occupational-therapy teams receive consistent praise for measurable improvements in function. Nursing and CNA performance is described variably: several accounts attest to compassionate, competent caregivers, while other accounts indicate failures in timely clinical care such as delayed medication administration, missed clinical orders, inconsistent dietary adherence, delayed toileting/incontinence-care assistance, unattended bed-bound care needs, and concerns about pressure-injury prevention. These mixed signals suggest uneven execution of clinical protocols across units and shifts.

    Staff and communication: Staff interactions are a notable polarity. Many reviewers singled out individual staff members (nurses, aides, social workers, front-desk personnel) as caring and communicative. Conversely, there are frequent accounts of poor responsiveness to call bells, long wait times for assistance, perceived dismissive or unempathetic communication from some employees, and inadequate interpreter/accessibility support for residents with sensory needs. Communication breakdowns among clinical departments and between staff and families are recurrent themes, including delays in conveying medication changes, state/insurance paperwork delays, and inconsistent management follow-through.

    Dining and activities: Dining receives generally favorable commentary for hot meals and accommodating service, though there are intermittent complaints of meal interruptions and inconsistent food quality. The recreation program and communal amenities are strengths: reviewers note engaging activities (bingo, live music, games, books), an upgraded community room, and accessible walkways and outdoor spaces that support residents’ social engagement and mobility.

    Facilities and housekeeping: Facility condition is described as older in places but functional. Many families report daily housekeeping, cleaned floors, emptied garbage, and comfortable common areas; others cite sanitation concerns in specific rooms or bathrooms and intermittent odor concerns. Room configurations vary by service type (short-term private rooms versus longer-term double occupancy), and reviewers describe variability in environmental comfort such as room temperature control.

    Management, safety, and notable patterns: Management responsiveness elicits mixed reviews—some families praise helpful HR, proactive social work, and attentive front-desk staff; others describe inadequate follow-through, slow responses to complaints, and customer-service failures. Operational weaknesses that recur across accounts include inconsistent staffing, medication-management lapses, slow emergency/assistance response times, lost belongings, and gaps in safety/privacy processes. There are also serious individual allegations involving theft and physical-injury incidents and concerns following a resident's death; these claims indicate the need for careful review of incident logs, regulatory actions, and the facility’s risk-management responses.

    Recommendation for prospective families: Given the polarized experiences, prospective residents and families should verify specific operational elements important to their needs—staffing ratios and overtime/shift coverage, medication-administration protocols, wound- and incontinence-care procedures, interpreter/accessibility services, incident reporting and family-notification processes, and room-assignment policies. Meeting the clinical and therapy teams, touring the specific unit, and asking for recent inspection or quality metrics can help clarify whether the aspects praised by many (therapy, social work, certain nursing staff, and activities) are consistently available for a given admission.

    In summary, the facility shows demonstrable strengths in rehabilitation, certain nursing and therapy staff, social work, and programming, but it also exhibits significant operational inconsistencies that have affected resident safety, responsiveness, and family confidence. Those considering the facility should weigh the positive clinical and recreational offerings against the documented patterns of communication, staffing, medication-management, and sanitation concerns, and seek targeted assurances prior to placement.

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    Medicare Ratings

    1·/ 5
    • Overall

    • Health Inspection

    • Staffing

    • Quality Measures

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    Location

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    Apple Rehab Rocky Hill is located at 45 Elm St, Rocky Hill, CT, 06067.

    About Apple Rehab Rocky Hill

    Apple Rehab Rocky Hill sits at 45 Elm Street in Rocky Hill, Connecticut, where you'll find 120 beds and most days about 86 people living there, and the place mainly focuses on skilled nursing care, with short-term rehab, outpatient rehab, dementia care, IV services, and hospice care as some of the things they do, and you get 24-hour licensed nursing staff along with access to consulting physician specialists, physical and occupational therapists, and speech therapists right on site, and there's a team that includes dietitians, case managers, social workers, certified nursing assistants, and recreation directors, so there's always someone around for daily help or planning. The facility also has a Safe Harbor Neighborhood set aside for memory care needs like Alzheimer's and dementia, and that program uses a holistic approach with extra support and attention. People have said the rooms feel more like hotels, with electric beds, flat-screen TVs, telephones, wireless internet, renovated spaces, and good food served in a pleasant dining area, and the building also has a large rehabilitation gym with new equipment and different therapy options tailored to each person, things like balance training, help with eating, memory and communication programs, and splinting for arms or legs. There's a focus on personal care plans, discharge planning so folks can move home safely, and regular support groups and educational programs for both residents and their families. Some important numbers to know are 3.04 nurse hours per resident each day, a nurse turnover rate of 42.7%, 120 certified beds, and federal certification. The place does keep inspection reports, and their records do mention some deficiencies, mainly with infection control and making sure the place stays safe and homelike, including working on COVID-19 vaccination education, documenting everything properly, and preventing accidents by improving supervision. The facility has been managed by Ryan Vess since 2013, and Brian Foley owns it all under the Apple Rehab group.

    People often ask...

    Apple Rehab Rocky Hill offers assisted living, memory care, and skilled nursing.

    There are 18 photos of Apple Rehab Rocky Hill on Mirador.

    The full address for this community is 45 Elm St, Rocky Hill, CT 06067.

    No, Apple Rehab Rocky Hill 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.

    Safety & Compliance

    In Connecticut, the Department of Public Health licenses assisted living services and residential care homes and posts the resulting inspection reports and plans of correction.

    License number929132
    Facility typeAssisted Living Services Agency
    License classActive
    LicenseeBAL ROCKY HILL LLC
    EffectiveDecember 2nd, 2008
    ExpiresSeptember 30th, 2026
    Special certificationALSA.0000142
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    Inspection Reports

    23

    Reports

    5

    Type A Citations

    1

    Type B Citations

    0

    Complaints

    6

    Years

    04 Mar 2026Inspection
    Investigated a complaint and identified violations of state statutes and agency regulations in the licensed operation.
    • —
    30 Oct 2025Plan of Correction
    Identified violations of state staffing and supervision rules related to after-hours RN coverage and supervision of aides during late shifts.
    • Regulations of Connecticut State Agencies Section 19-13-D105(d)(1) and/or (4)(A) Governing authority of an assisted living service agency and/or (e)(1) General Requirement of assisted living service agency and/or (g)(2)(A) and/or (B) Supervisor of assisted living services and/or (i)(8)(A) and/or (B) Assisted living services agency staffing requirements and/or (1)(5) and/or (A) Supervision of Assisted Living AidesGoverning authority and staffing requirements; supervision of assisted living aides
    02 Sept 2025Inspection
    Identified violations during a complaint investigation following an onsite review, with a census of 60 and Memory Care capacity of 47 recorded. The onsite date was June 25, 2025.
    29 May 2025Plan of Correction
    Investigated a complaint alleging failure to timely identify a change in a resident’s condition and respond appropriately to a skin injury; deficiencies were found in nursing oversight and communication.
    • Type ACT Regulations, Section 19-13-D105(g)Nursing services; timely identification of changes in a resident’s condition
    07 May 2025Plan of Correction
    An unannounced visit identified failures in timely recognition of a client’s condition changes and gaps in nursing assessments and related documentation.
    • Regulations of Connecticut State Agencies Section 19-13-D105(g)(3)(C)Nursing Services provided by an ALSA
    07 May 2025Plan of Correction
    Found a deficiency in updating and implementing a fall-prevention plan and in supervisory oversight for a client with multiple falls.
    • Section 19-13-D105 (e); (g); (m)General Requirements for an assisted living service agency; supervisor of services; Client Bill of Rights
    14 Feb 2025Inspection
    Determined no deficiencies were identified and renewed the license after the onsite inspection.
    05 Apr 2024Inspection
    The inspector identified deficiencies related to nursing oversight and regular assessments of residents, including failure to complete required 120-day assessments and inadequate follow-up after changes in resident conditions.
    • Type ASection 19-13-D105 (h)(3)(c)Nursing assessment and service record documentation
    05 Apr 2024Plan of Correction
    Found a violation for failing to employ an Infection Preventionist as required by state statute.
    • 19-13-D105(d)Governing authority of an assisted living services agency
    • Public Act No. 21-185Infection preventionist requirements
    05 Apr 2024Inspection
    The investigation identified deficiencies related to required Alzheimer’s program verification and infection prevention staffing, and a violation letter was issued.
    • PA 21-185Full-time infection prevention and control specialist and other requirements
    • —Verification of Alzheimer's special care units or programs
    05 Apr 2024Inspection
    Investigated and identified violations of state statutes and agency regulations during an on-site review; a complaint investigation was noted.
    • —
    05 Apr 2024Inspection
    Investigated a complaint and found no violations identified during the licensing process.
    05 Apr 2024Inspection
    Conducted an evaluation of compliance and found no violations identified.
    08 Feb 2024Plan of Correction
    Investigated found safety and policy deficiencies involving a memory-care resident, gaps in daily safety checks, and insufficient supervision of nursing/AL services.
    • Section 19-13-D105 (d)(4)(A) Governing Authority and (m)(5) Client Bill of RightsGoverning Authority and Client Bill of Rights
    • Section 19-13-D105 (g)(2)(D) Standards of Care and PoliciesStandards of Care and Policies
    • Section 19-13-D105 (h)(4)(E) Nursing Services and (j)(7) Assisted Living Services staffing requirementsNursing Services and Assisted Living Services staffing requirements
    10 Jan 2024Inspection
    Found no deficiencies; no violations were identified during the onsite visit. The review noted that no violations of statutes or regulations were identified at the time of the inspection.
    26 Jun 2023Plan of Correction
    Investigated a complaint and documented issues requiring corrective action.
    27 Oct 2022Inspection
    Identified violations and monitoring requirements during the licensing action; noted a complaint investigation.
    • —Violations of the General Statutes and/or regulations identified
    • —Complaint investigation referenced
    03 Oct 2022Inspection
    Identified violations of General Statutes and agency regulations with an attached violation letter.
    • —General Statutes/Regulations Violations
    15 Sept 2022Plan of Correction
    An investigation identified two abuse-related violations involving aides who assisted two clients; actions were taken including documentation review, interviews, and termination of one aide.
    • Type ASection 19-13-D105 (e)General requirements for an assisted living services agency (1) and (m) Client's Bill of Rights and Responsibilities (5)
    • Type BSection 19-13-D105 (e)General requirements for an assisted living services agency (1) and (m) Client's Bill of Rights and Responsibilities (5)
    10 Mar 2022Plan of Correction
    Identified noncompliance with infection prevention requirements due to not employing an Infection Preventionist as required.
    • Regulations of Connecticut State Agencies Section 19-13-D105(d)Governing authority of an assisted living services agency
    • Regulations of Connecticut State Agencies Section 19-13-D105(e)General requirements for an assisted living services agency
    • Public Act No. 21-185Infection preventionist requirement
    13 Dec 2021Plan of Correction
    Investigated an incident involving two clients and supervision of aides; identified deficiencies in assessments, care review, and physician follow-up.
    • Type ASection 19-13-D105 (h)(3)(c)A registered nurse shall be responsible for assessments and service changes
    03 Nov 2021Inspection
    Identified violations of Connecticut General Statutes and agency regulations during the on-site assessment and related complaint investigation.
    02 Sept 2020Plan of Correction
    Identified a deficiency where the ALSA failed to follow its own infection control policies and procedures.
    • Type ASection 19-13-D105 (d) Governing authority of an assisted living services agency (4)(F) and/or (h) Nursing Services provided by an assisted living services agency (1)(i) Assisted living aide services provided by an assisted living services agency (5)(B).Infection control policies and procedures

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