Cobalt Lodge Health Care And Rehabilitation Center
29 Middle Haddam Rd, Cobalt, CT, 06414 · CCN 075232
Cobalt Lodge Health Care And Rehabilitation Center is a CMS-certified skilled nursing facility located in Cobalt, Connecticut. This facility-specific record brings together official CMS provider, inspection, rating, and enforcement data while identifying what is missing or uncertain.
What stands out in the available record
The available records contain 51 cited deficiencies across 8 surveys. 3 were coded at G or above; 1 were coded at immediate-jeopardy levels J through L.
5 of the most frequently cited tags appear more than once in the available history: F0610 (3), F0842 (3), F0689 (3), F0684 (3), F0947 (2). Repetition can indicate a recurring compliance area, but it is not proof that the same underlying problem remained uncorrected.
Survey history
- September 2025 — Health: 2 cited deficiencies
- September 2025 — Health: 6 cited deficiencies
- November 2024 — Health: 24 cited deficiencies
- June 2024 — Health: 1 cited deficiency
- December 2023 — Health: 2 cited deficiencies
- August 2023 — Health: 2 cited deficiencies
- August 2022 — Health: 10 cited deficiencies
- October 2019 — Health: 4 cited deficiencies
Scope and severity distribution
- Scope/severity B: 4 citations
- Scope/severity C: 3 citations
- Scope/severity D: 26 citations
- Scope/severity E: 13 citations
- Scope/severity F: 2 citations
- Scope/severity G: 2 citations
- Scope/severity J: 1 citation
3 available citations were coded at G or above, indicating actual harm or immediate jeopardy; 1 were coded J or above.
Top Deficiency Citations
- F0610 — Respond appropriately to all alleged violations. (3 citations)
- F0842 — Safeguard resident-identifiable information and/or maintain medical records on each resident that are in accordance with accepted professional standards. (3 citations)
- F0689 — Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to prevent accidents. (3 citations)
- F0684 — Provide appropriate treatment and care according to orders, resident’s preferences and goals. (3 citations)
- F0947 — Ensure nurse aides have the skills they need to care for residents, and give nurse aides education in dementia care and abuse prevention. (2 citations)
Deficiency categories
- Quality of Life and Care Deficiencies: 12 citations
- Resident Rights Deficiencies: 7 citations
- Resident Assessment and Care Planning Deficiencies: 7 citations
- Freedom from Abuse, Neglect, and Exploitation Deficiencies: 6 citations
- Nursing and Physician Services Deficiencies: 6 citations
- Infection Control Deficiencies: 5 citations
Official CMS Five-Star context
- Overall: 1 of 5 stars
- Health inspection: 1 of 5 stars
- Staffing: 1 of 5 stars
- Quality measure: 1 of 5 stars
CMS reports 1.77 total nurse staffing hours per resident day.
Five-Star values above are official CMS fields. POCDesk does not calculate or predict the official CMS rating.
Enforcement and penalties
The available CMS enforcement dataset contains 1 penalty action, most recently dated September 2025. Monetary fines in these records total $37,440.
Sources, freshness, and limitations
Source: official CMS datasets, including Provider Information, Health Deficiencies, and Penalties. View the CMS data source. Loaded survey records window — Earliest loaded survey: October 2019; Latest loaded survey: September 2025. These dates describe records loaded by POCDesk, not a CMS release or publication timestamp. Facility statistics refreshed: October 8, 2026 at 9:48 AM UTC. The available rating record has a CMS processing date of September 2026. POCDesk last refreshed that rating record on October 2026.
POCDesk groups citations by survey date, counts recurring F-Tags across the available history, and summarizes CMS scope/severity codes. Those summaries are POCDesk organization and interpretation of public records, not official ratings or survey findings of our own. Read the governing 42 CFR Part 483 and our editorial standards and methodology.
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