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Forest County, Wisconsin

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County inventory for Forest County, Wisconsin 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

CMS Home Health Compare maps no Medicare-certified home-health agencies into Forest County (lower tercile) beside 1 nursing home - CareScout 2025 Wisconsin medians + CMS Five-Star.

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Sheet WI-FOREST-WISCONSIN · Forest, WI

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

  • NH-ONE 1 home
  • BEDS-FEW 50 beds
  • STAR-MID 3.0★ avg
  • HH-NONE 0 agencies
  • RANK-TAIL #2,262/2,851
  • PHOTO-NONE No peer
  • AL-MID $6,540/mo
  • BOOK-FULL 1/1 NH · 0 HH

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

What a thin home-health map shows for Forest County

Home-health coverage is thin in Forest County: no Medicare-certified agencies map in on the current CMS join beside 1 nursing home and 50 licensed beds. CMS nursing-home stars average 3.0/5 on rated homes.

With a thinner CMS book, cost context matters more per facility: CareScout 2025 Wisconsin medians run assisted living $6,540/mo, semi-private nursing $10,646/mo, private nursing $12,319/mo, home health aide $6,912/mo, adult day $1,517/mo. Verify rates with the named homes below.

Star counts across Forest County break as 1 at 3★. Ownership leans For profit - Corporation (100% of 1 homes). Families typically weigh the ladder alongside bed size, ownership, distance, and specialty units before visiting.

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

$6,540
Assisted Living / mo
$10,646
Nursing (Semi) / mo
$6,912
Home Care / mo
3.0
Avg CMS Rating

Nursing Homes in Forest County

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

Facility City Rating Beds Ownership
Nu Roc Health and Rehabilitation Ctr Laona 3/5 50 For profit - Corporation

Read next when home-health coverage is thin

Decode Five-Star for Forest County homes
Thin-book context for Forest: What a county-average CMS overall rating does — and does not — tell a family.
Choosing among 1 Forest County homes
A visit checklist that starts from CMS stars, then adds staffing, ownership, and specialty units.
Paying for care when Forest AL medians run high
Sparse home-health path: Medicare vs Medicaid vs private pay when CareScout assisted-living medians sit in the upper band.
Cost calculator for Forest County planning
Sparse home-health path: State CareScout medians rolled into a monthly planning estimate.

Continue on the Wisconsin elder-care overview or the highest-rated states ranking. Costs shown are Wisconsin 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 Forest County.