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Autumn Lake Healthcare at Norwalk brings skilled nursing and rehabilitation care to Connecticut families seeking compassionate, medically-focused support. Our Norwalk team combines clinical expertise with personalized attention, helping patients regain strength and independence through evidence-based therapies and around-the-clock nursing care.
Capacity
150 residents
Location
Norwalk, CT
Status
Listed in a public registry
34 MIDROCKS DRIVE, Norwalk, Connecticut 06851
From CMS Care Compare, the federal record every Medicare-certified nursing home is held to. Data as of September 1, 2026. Check it on Medicare.gov
At its most recent standard inspection, on March 17, 2026, state inspectors cited 14 health deficiencies (the Connecticut average is 13.0).
Nurses and nurse aides spend 3 hours 16 minutes with each resident a day, below the Connecticut average of 3 hours 44 minutes.
Medicare fined Autumn Lake Healthcare at Norwalk once in the last three years, $12,834 in total.
| Measure | This home |
|---|---|
| Nurse and aide time per resident, per day | 3 hours 16 minutesBelow the Connecticut average |
| Registered nurse time per resident, per day | 23 minutesBelow the Connecticut average |
| Nursing staff who left in the past year | 30%Below the Connecticut average |
1 administrator has left the home in the past year.
37 health citations in the last three years. Each one is a federal standard inspectors found the home was not meeting.
March 17, 2026 · Standard inspection · 14 citations
Honor the resident's right to a dignified existence, self-determination, communication, and to exercise his or her rights.
Honor the resident's right to and the facility must promote and facilitate resident self-determination through support of resident choice.
Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program.
Ensure drugs and biologicals used in the facility are labeled in accordance with currently accepted professional principles; and all drugs and biologicals must be stored in locked compartments, separately locked, compartments for controlled drugs.
Ensure that nurses and nurse aides have the appropriate competencies to care for every resident in a way that maximizes each resident's well being.
Provide safe, appropriate dialysis care/services for a resident who requires such services.
Develop and implement a complete care plan that meets all the resident's needs, with timetables and actions that can be measured.
Honor the resident's right to share a room with spouse or roommate of choice and receive written notice before a change is made.
Assess the resident completely in a timely manner when first admitted, and then periodically, at least every 12 months.
Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to prevent accidents.
Safeguard resident-identifiable information and/or maintain medical records on each resident that are in accordance with accepted professional standards.
Ensure a licensed pharmacist perform a monthly drug regimen review, including the medical chart, following irregularity reporting guidelines in developed policies and procedures.
Provide appropriate treatment and care according to orders, resident’s preferences and goals.
Create and put into place a plan for meeting the resident's most immediate needs within 48 hours of being admitted
March 19, 2025 · Complaint investigation · 2 citations
Provide basic life support, including CPR, prior to the arrival of emergency medical personnel , subject to physician orders and the resident’s advance directives.
Safeguard resident-identifiable information and/or maintain medical records on each resident that are in accordance with accepted professional standards.
Not transfer or discharge a resident without an adequate reason; and must provide documentation and convey specific information when a resident is transferred or discharged.
Safeguard resident-identifiable information and/or maintain medical records on each resident that are in accordance with accepted professional standards.
Procure food from sources approved or considered satisfactory and store, prepare, distribute and serve food in accordance with professional standards.
Honor the resident's right to a safe, clean, comfortable and homelike environment, including but not limited to receiving treatment and supports for daily living safely.
Provide appropriate treatment and care according to orders, resident’s preferences and goals.
Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to prevent accidents.
PASARR screening for Mental disorders or Intellectual Disabilities
Provide safe, appropriate pain management for a resident who requires such services.
Develop the complete care plan within 7 days of the comprehensive assessment; and prepared, reviewed, and revised by a team of health professionals.
Develop and implement a complete care plan that meets all the resident's needs, with timetables and actions that can be measured.
Allow resident to participate in the development and implementation of his or her person-centered plan of care.
Immediately tell the resident, the resident's doctor, and a family member of situations (injury/decline/room, etc.) that affect the resident.
Ensure services provided by the nursing facility meet professional standards of quality.
Honor the resident's right to request, refuse, and/or discontinue treatment, to participate in or refuse to participate in experimental research, and to formulate an advance directive.
Properly hold, secure, and manage each resident's personal money which is deposited with the nursing home.
Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program.
Honor the resident's right to manage his or her financial affairs.
Provide pharmaceutical services to meet the needs of each resident and employ or obtain the services of a licensed pharmacist.
Provide appropriate pressure ulcer care and prevent new ulcers from developing.
Notify the appropriate authorities when residents with MD or ID services has a significant change in condition.
Develop and implement a complete care plan that meets all the resident's needs, with timetables and actions that can be measured.
1 fine totaling $12,834 in the last three years.
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State inspectors visited on March 17, 2026 and cited 14 health deficiencies, 2 of them from complaint investigations. The Connecticut average is 13.0.
Nurses and aides spend 3 hours 16 minutes with each resident per day, including 23 minutes from registered nurses. 30% of nursing staff left over the past year.
Yes. Medicare fined Autumn Lake Healthcare at Norwalk once in the last three years, totaling $12,834.
Medicare covers up to 100 days of skilled nursing per benefit period after a qualifying 3-day hospital stay — fully for the first 20 days, then with a daily copay. Long-term custodial stays are generally not covered.
A semi-private room averages about $7,900 per month nationally; private rooms cost more. Medicaid is the largest payer for long-term nursing home care.
Medicare rates nursing homes 1 to 5 stars on its Care Compare site. We don't repeat those stars here. Each nursing home page shows Medicare's underlying record instead: inspections, staffing and fines, with a link to check it on Medicare.gov.