25 Connecticut Nursing Homes Make 2025 U.S. News 'Best' List

CONNECTICUT —There are 197 nursing homes and skilled nursing facilities in Connecticut. Of these, 25 received an overall rating of 5 out of 5 — the highest possible rating — in the latest U.S. News & World Report’s survey.

The rankings service rated more than 15,000 nursing homes in the country based on patient and resident outcomes, such as infection rates, staffing levels, reliance on antipsychotic drugs, health inspection results, and other quality indicators.

Here are the nursing homes that received an overall rating of five for 2025 in Connecticut:

• Bride Brook Health & Rehabilitation Center, Niantic
• Caleb Hitchcock Health Care Center, Bloomfield
• Edgehill Health Center, Stamford
• Essex Meadows, Essex
• Evergreen Woods - North Branford, North Branford
• Fairview, Groton
• Grimes Center, New Haven
• Jefferson House, Newington
• Jerome Home, New Britain
• Mattatuck Health Care Facility, Waterbury
• McLean Health Center, Simsbury
• Milford Health Care Center, Milford
• Mozaic Senior Life, Bridgeport
• Pilgrim Manor - Cromwell, Cromwell
• Portland Care & Rehabilitation Center, Portland
• Ridge Crest at Meadow Ridge, West Redding
• River Glen Health Care Center, Southbury
• Southington Care Center, Southington
• St. Joseph's Residence, Enfield
• St. Mary Home, West Hartford
• Stoneridge - Mystic, Mystic
• The Springs at Watermark 3030 Park, Bridgeport
• The Springs at Watermark East Hill, Southbury
• Westview Health Care Center - Dayville, Dayville
• Whitney Center, Hamden

Nursing homes offer either short- or long-term care and offer assistance with activities of daily living, such as bathing, dressing, medication management, rehabilitation and chronic disease management.

Overall, the nation's nursing homes did not present a particularly strong showing in the 2025 survey. U.S. News editors recognized fewer than 20 percent of the evaluated U.S. nursing homes as "Best Nursing Homes" in "Short-Term Rehabilitation," "Long-Term Care," or both. Specifically, 1,637 U.S. cities (out of 5,147) have at least one "Best Nursing Home."

U.S. News’ analysts also found that nearly half of U.S. nursing homes do not comply with a federal regulation to provide at least eight registered nurse-staffing hours every day of the year. Among nursing homes that did not comply, the average nursing home had 15 days of inadequate staffing, according to the new report.

"Staffing levels continue to be a major challenge for U.S. nursing homes," U.S. News chief of health analysis and managing editor Ben Harder said in a statement. "U.S. News' latest evaluation reveals the Best Nursing Homes for short-term rehabilitation have an average of 50 percent more total nursing care per resident than facilities rated as below average in short-term rehab, and the Best Nursing Homes for long-term care have double the staff retention rate of nursing homes when compared to underperforming nursing homes."

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