Quinnipiac Valley Center - CLOSED sat on Kondracki Lane in Wallingford and was a part of Genesis HealthCare's network, running as a 180-bed skilled nursing facility before it closed in March 2022. The center provided options like studio and suite rooms, with assisted living, nursing home care, memory care for folks with confusion or wandering risk, and independent living, and included many on-site services such as rehabilitation, respite care, and continuous medication management, plus help with daily activities like bathing, dressing, and transfers for older adults who couldn't do much on their own anymore. It offered 24-hour care, meals all day, a dining room, garden areas, housekeeping, laundry, community-sponsored activities, plus services like a barber, salon, wheelchair accessibility, walking paths, and more, and folks could call for help any time with its alert system and phone access in rooms. The facility also had a barber/salon, arts room, transportation and parking, and it tried to meet dietary needs, even if it was for allergies or diabetes.
People had lived at Quinnipiac Valley Center for years, even those who weren't able to make important decisions or ask for help themselves, but the state ordered all residents to move out in 2022 because of repeated health and safety problems, including serious staff shortages, infection control failures, and mistakes giving vital medications for diabetes and heart conditions. There had been investigations into the center after two patient deaths in January of that year, and state inspections kept finding dangerous issues that put residents in harm's way. The Department of Public Health put a temporary manager in place and kept track of things, but the problems couldn't be fixed, and the state still found the facility breaking rules, issuing a closure order for immediate risk to health and safety after seven violations were found, which led to its shutdown. Genesis HealthCare sold the empty building at 55 Kondracki Lane for $1.6 million to Fifty-Five LLC, a Florida-based company connected to Mindy Schwarz-Raup, who then made plans to turn the former nursing home into seventy-one market-rate apartment units after getting approval from Wallingford's Planning and Zoning Commission.
The center's past average rating was 7.8 out of 10, but its history ended with widespread care concerns and a state moratorium on new nursing homes. The place remains closed, and there's no new information about services or amenities, as the building waits for redevelopment into apartments.
