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Buchanan County, Virginia

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County inventory for Buchanan County, Virginia is drawn from U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Nursing Home Compare / Home Health Compare (14,710 Medicare-certified nursing homes nationwide) with cost context from the private CareScout 2025 Cost of Care Survey - see our methodology. Home-health agency signature

2 Medicare-certified home-health agencies map into Buchanan County (upper tercile, ≥2) beside 1 nursing home - CareScout 2025 Virginia medians + CMS Five-Star.

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Sheet VA-BUCHANAN-VIRGINIA · Buchanan, VA

NH-ONE · BEDS-FEW · STAR-HIGH · HH-SMALL · RANK-MID · PHOTO-NONE · AL-MID · BOOK-FULL

  • NH-ONE 1 home
  • BEDS-FEW 120 beds
  • STAR-HIGH 4.0★ avg
  • HH-SMALL 2 HH
  • RANK-MID #2,095/2,851
  • PHOTO-NONE No peer
  • AL-MID $6,945/mo
  • BOOK-FULL 1/1 NH · 2/2 HH

Stamps lead with home-health agency tercile (high) plus nursing-home inventory, licensed beds, Five-Star county average, corpus NH-count rank, photo-finish peer, and CareScout assisted-living medians.

What a dense home-health map shows for Buchanan County

Home-health coverage is the standout for Buchanan County: 2 Medicare-certified agencies (upper tercile) sit beside 1 nursing home and 120 licensed beds. CMS nursing-home stars average 4.0/5 on rated homes.

With a thinner CMS book, cost context matters more per facility: CareScout 2025 Virginia medians run assisted living $6,945/mo, semi-private nursing $10,250/mo, private nursing $11,680/mo, home health aide $6,673/mo, adult day $1,750/mo. Verify rates with the named homes below.

Star counts skew stronger here (1 at 4★). Ownership leans For profit - Corporation (100% of 1 homes). Named 4★+ examples include Heritage Hall Grundy. Still weigh inspection history, staffing, bed size, and specialty units (dementia, rehab, ventilator) before visiting.

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Sources: CMS Nursing Home Compare + CareScout 2025 Cost of Care Survey. See methodology.

$6,945
Assisted Living / mo
$10,250
Nursing (Semi) / mo
$6,673
Home Care / mo
4.0
Avg CMS Rating

Nursing Homes in Buchanan County

1 CMS-certified homes in this county book, ordered by overall star rating.

Facility City Rating Beds Ownership
Heritage Hall Grundy Grundy 4/5 120 For profit - Corporation

Home Health Agencies in Buchanan County

Medicare-certified agencies from CMS Home Health Compare, zip-joined into this county inventory.

Agency City Quality Rating
Special Care Home Health Grundy 5.0
Buchanan General Hospital Home Health Agency Grundy 2.5

Read next for home-health-dense Buchanan

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Cost calculator for Buchanan County planning
Home-health-dense path: State CareScout medians rolled into a monthly planning estimate.

Continue on the Virginia elder-care overview or the highest-rated states ranking. Costs shown are Virginia state-level medians from CareScout 2025 (county-level cost data is not available).

Read our methodology - how CMS Care Compare and CareScout 2025 are joined for Buchanan County.