Nursing home
The Pines at Bristol for Nursing & Rehabilitation
61 Bellevue Avenue, Bristol, CT 06010 · Map
For profit - Corporation · Part of National Health Care Associates (43 facilities) · 132 certified beds
The Pines at Bristol for Nursing & Rehabilitation is a Medicare-certified nursing home in Bristol, Connecticut. CMS rates it 4 out of 5 stars overall (3/5 for staffing, 3/5 for health inspections). Nurse staffing is 3.65 hours per resident per day, below the Connecticut average of 3.83. Its most recent inspection on Mar 26, 2025 cited 12 deficiencies.
CMS quality ratings
Ratings from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), updated monthly. 5 stars is the highest quality.
How The Pines at Bristol for Nursing & Rehabilitation compares
This facility vs. the Connecticut and national averages, from CMS data. For staffing, higher is generally better; for turnover and deficiencies, lower is better.
| Metric | This facility | Connecticut avg | National avg | Compared with the state |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total nurse staffing (hrs/resident/day) | 3.65 | 3.83 | 3.89 | below avg |
| RN staffing (hrs/resident/day) | 0.54 | 0.70 | 0.68 | below avg |
| Aide staffing (hrs/resident/day) | 2.24 | 2.28 | 2.34 | below avg |
| Nursing staff turnover | 39.0% | 37.9% | 46.4% | above avg |
| Deficiencies cited, last inspection | 12.0 | 12.8 | 9.5 | below avg |
Staffing
Hours per resident per day as reported to CMS. Higher numbers indicate more direct care time.
Staff turnover
Lower turnover typically indicates better working conditions and continuity of care. National average for nursing staff is 46.4%.
Recent health inspection
CMS inspects nursing facilities regularly. Deficiencies are categorized by severity.
- Every deficiency from the March 13, 2026 inspection was corrected by April 22, 2026
What inspectors found at The Pines at Bristol for Nursing & Rehabilitation
Specific deficiencies cited in recent CMS health inspections, most recent first. Severity follows the CMS scope/severity scale. Source: CMS Care Compare.
- Potential for harm
Provide appropriate treatment and care according to orders, resident’s preferences and goals.
Quality of Life and Care Deficiencies · Mar 13, 2026 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Protect each resident from the wrongful use of the resident's belongings or money.
Freedom from Abuse, Neglect, and Exploitation Deficiencies · Mar 13, 2026 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to prevent accidents.
Quality of Life and Care Deficiencies · Feb 20, 2026 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
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.
Nursing and Physician Services Deficiencies · Mar 26, 2025 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Provide appropriate treatment and care according to orders, resident’s preferences and goals.
Quality of Life and Care Deficiencies · Mar 26, 2025 · Full report (PDF)
Show all 12 deficiencies
- Potential for harm
Immediately tell the resident, the resident's doctor, and a family member of situations (injury/decline/room, etc.) that affect the resident.
Resident Rights Deficiencies · Mar 26, 2025 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program.
Infection Control Deficiencies · Mar 26, 2025 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Observe each nurse aide's job performance and give regular training.
Nursing and Physician Services Deficiencies · Mar 26, 2025 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Provide safe, appropriate dialysis care/services for a resident who requires such services.
Quality of Life and Care Deficiencies · Mar 26, 2025 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Provide for the safe, appropriate administration of IV fluids for a resident when needed.
Quality of Life and Care Deficiencies · Mar 26, 2025 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to prevent accidents.
Quality of Life and Care Deficiencies · Mar 26, 2025 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Ensure services provided by the nursing facility meet professional standards of quality.
Resident Assessment and Care Planning Deficiencies · Mar 26, 2025 · Full report (PDF)
Read the full inspection reports on Medicare.gov Each inspection there has a “Read the full report” link with the inspectors’ written findings.
About this facility
- Address
- 61 Bellevue Avenue
Bristol, CT 06010 - CMS certification #
- 075221
- Ownership
- For profit - Corporation
- Certified beds
- 132
- Avg residents/day
- 122.6
- Provider type
- Medicare and Medicaid
- First certified
- 1972-09-07
- Chain
- National Health Care Associates (43 facilities)
- Setting
- Urban
Part of National Health Care Associates
National Health Care Associates operates 43 nursing facilities across the United States. View all National Health Care Associates facilities →
Not SLA enrolled. This facility hasn’t enrolled in resident survey verification. Learn about enrollment →
Location and nearby
Explore the area around The Pines at Bristol for Nursing & Rehabilitation using Google Maps.
Other public records
- Website says Respite stays, nurse 24 hours a day, works with hospice, diabetes care, 3 meals a day
- Workplace safety 1 OSHA workplace safety inspection since 2025, 12 violations cited
Full public records, with dates and sources
Care and services
From the community’s website
What The Pines at Bristol for Nursing & Rehabilitation says about itself, quoted from its own site. We have not checked these claims against licensing records. Ask about each one on a tour.
- Offers respite or short-term stays.
Respite Care
(page, checked Oct 12, 2026) - Nurse on site: 24 hours a day.
24-hour skilled nursing care
(page, checked Oct 12, 2026) - Offers hospice care on site or works with hospice providers.
, we offer access to a continuum of post-acute services including therapy, telehealth, diagnostics, home care, and hospice.
(page, checked Oct 12, 2026) - Offers diabetes care.
Diabetes Management
(page, checked Oct 12, 2026) - 3 meals a day.
3 meals a day, plus an always available menu
(page, checked Oct 12, 2026) - Apartment types named: private room, semi-private room.
Furnished semi-private and private rooms
(page, checked Oct 15, 2026)
Staff pay and workplace safety
Federal records about how the employer here treats its staff.
OSHA workplace safety inspections
OSHA inspects workplaces for staff safety, such as lifting, needles, chemicals and workplace violence. It does not inspect resident care.
- May 29, 2025: programmed (planned) inspection, complete (safety). Case closed Mar 12, 2026. 12 violations cited (5 serious, 7 other). Penalties: $19,826 proposed, $10,421 now. OSHA record. OSHA recorded the employer as Bristol Crossing, LLC.
Details
- Other than serious: Personal protective equipment (general) (1910.132(d)(1)). Penalty $5,426 proposed, $3,000 now. To be fixed by Oct 17, 2025.
- Serious: Eye and face protection (1910.133(a)(1)). Penalty $0 proposed, $0 now.
- Serious: Hand protection (1910.138(a)). Penalty $0 proposed, $0 now.
- Serious: Electrical equipment and installation (1910.303(e)(1)). Penalty $6,149 proposed, $3,000 now.
- Serious: Electrical wiring and grounding (1910.304(a)(2)). Penalty $0 proposed, $0 now.
- Serious: Electrical wiring and grounding (1910.304(g)(5)). Penalty $0 proposed, $0 now.
- Other than serious: Bloodborne pathogens (needles, blood and body fluids) (1910.1030(c)(1)(ii)(b)). Penalty $7,235 proposed, $3,405 now. To be fixed by Oct 17, 2025.
- Other than serious: Bloodborne pathogens (needles, blood and body fluids) (1910.1030(c)(1)(iv)). Penalty $0 proposed, $0 now. To be fixed by Oct 17, 2025.
- Other than serious: Bloodborne pathogens (needles, blood and body fluids) (1910.1030(f)(1)(i)). Penalty $0 proposed, $0 now. To be fixed by Oct 17, 2025.
- Other than serious: Electrical equipment and installation (1910.303(g)(1)(i)(a)). Penalty $0 proposed, $0 now.
- Other than serious: Electrical equipment and installation (1910.303(g)(1)(ii)). Penalty $0 proposed, $0 now.
- Other than serious: Proof that cited hazards were fixed (1903.19(c)(1)). Penalty $1,016 proposed, $1,016 now. To be fixed by Feb 17, 2026.
Source: U.S. Department of Labor OSHA enforcement data, as of Oct 15, 2026, inspections since 2016. Penalties can change while a case is open or contested.
Location and nearby care
- Nearest hospital with an emergency room
- Bristol Hospital, Bristol. 0.3 miles away, straight line. CMS overall hospital rating: 2 of 5 stars.
- Nearest Medicare nursing home
- Ingraham Manor Rehab and Nursing, Bristol. 0.4 miles away, straight line.
- Nearest home health agency office
- Bristol Hospital Home Care Agency, Bristol. 0.4 miles away, straight line. Agencies travel to clients, so ask which ones serve this address.
- Nearest pharmacy
- Walgreens. 0.5 miles away, straight line. From OpenStreetMap, which does not list every pharmacy, so one may be closer.
- Area
- USDA classes ZIP code 06010 as metropolitan (metropolitan core).
- Dialysis within 15 miles
- Fmc Dialysis Services Forestville, Bristol, 1.2 miles away, straight line (CMS rating 3 of 5 stars)
Fresenius Medical Care Of Southington, Plantsville, 5.8 miles away, straight line (CMS rating 4 of 5 stars)
Davita New Britain Dialysis, New Britain, 8.1 miles away, straight line (CMS rating 3 of 5 stars) - Hospice
- 16 Medicare hospices tell CMS they serve ZIP code 06010.
Bristol Home Care And Hospice Agency, Inc., office in Bristol, 0.4 miles away, straight line (CMS family survey rating 5 of 5 stars)
Brighton Hospice Connecticut, LLC, office in Farmington, 6.8 miles away, straight line
Athena Home Health & Hospice, office in Farmington, 8.7 miles away, straight line (CMS family survey rating 1 of 5 stars) - Nearest geriatric medicine practice
- Bristol Hospital Multi Specialty Group, Inc., Bristol. 0.1 miles away, straight line. 1 geriatric medicine doctor listed there.
Distances are straight lines from the community, not driving distance. Hospitals, home health, dialysis, hospice and doctors come from CMS provider data (CMS, hospital list updated Jul 22, 2026). Star ratings are CMS’s own.
Emergency and natural hazard risk
Public hazard maps for this location. Ask the community about its emergency plan, its generator and where residents would go in an evacuation.
- Flood zone
- Outside the high and moderate risk flood areas on FEMA's flood map (Zone X, minimal flood hazard, or not studied). (FEMA flood map)
A flood zone describes the map at this point, not the building's elevation. In an emergency, follow the local emergency management agency.
What we checked
Every public source we searched for this community. “Nothing on record” means we found no record that matched it. A record can be missed when a name or address differs.
| Source | Data as of | What we found |
|---|---|---|
| U.S. Department of Labor wage and hour cases | Oct 15, 2026 | Nothing on record |
| OSHA workplace safety inspections since 2016 | Oct 15, 2026 | See above |
| Hurricane evacuation zone maps | Not in a mapped zone | |
| FEMA flood map | See above | |
| USDA wildfire risk | Apr 15, 2026 | Not shown: no FEMA wildfire rating of moderate or higher here |
| FEMA National Risk Index | Nothing on record | |
| CMS hospitals, home health, dialysis, hospice and doctors; OpenStreetMap pharmacies | See above | |
| HUD Multifamily Properties - Assisted | Jul 6, 2026 | Nothing on record |
| State Veterans Homes (NASVH directory) | Sep 20, 2026 | Nothing on record |
| CMS Hospice - General Information | Aug 19, 2026 | Nothing on record |
| CMS Home Health Care Agencies | May 27, 2026 | Nothing on record |
| The community’s own website | See above |
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Frequently asked questions
Is The Pines at Bristol for Nursing & Rehabilitation a good nursing home?
CMS gives The Pines at Bristol for Nursing & Rehabilitation an overall rating of 4 out of 5 stars, including 3/5 for staffing and 3/5 for health inspections. These ratings come from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and are updated monthly.
How is The Pines at Bristol for Nursing & Rehabilitation staffed?
The Pines at Bristol for Nursing & Rehabilitation reports 3.65 total nurse hours per resident per day, compared with the Connecticut average of 3.83.
Has The Pines at Bristol for Nursing & Rehabilitation had inspection problems?
Its most recent CMS inspection cited 12 deficiencies.
How many beds does The Pines at Bristol for Nursing & Rehabilitation have?
The Pines at Bristol for Nursing & Rehabilitation is certified for 132 beds.