CMS Care Compare · 2026 2 nursing homes Kentucky

Lyon County, Kentucky

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County inventory for Lyon County, Kentucky 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 Lyon County (lower tercile) beside 2 nursing homes - CareScout 2025 Kentucky medians + CMS Five-Star.

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Sheet KY-LYON-KENTUCKY · Lyon, KY

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

  • NH-ONE 2 homes
  • BEDS-FEW 105 beds
  • STAR-MID 3.0★ avg
  • HH-NONE 0 agencies
  • RANK-MID #1,708/2,851
  • PHOTO-NONE No peer
  • AL-MID $5,528/mo
  • BOOK-FULL 2/2 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 Lyon County

Home-health coverage is thin in Lyon County: no Medicare-certified agencies map in on the current CMS join beside 2 nursing homes and 105 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 Kentucky medians run assisted living $5,528/mo, semi-private nursing $9,718/mo, private nursing $11,254/mo, home health aide $6,197/mo, adult day $1,907/mo. Verify rates with the named homes below.

Star counts across Lyon County break as 1 at 2★, 1 at 4★. Ownership leans Non profit - Corporation (50% of 2 homes). Named 4★+ examples include River's Bend Retirement Community. 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.

$5,528
Assisted Living / mo
$9,718
Nursing (Semi) / mo
$6,197
Home Care / mo
3.0
Avg CMS Rating

Nursing Homes in Lyon County

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

Facility City Rating Beds Ownership
River's Bend Retirement Community Kuttawa 4/5 40 Non profit - Corporation
Lake Barkley Health & Rehabilitation Kuttawa 2/5 65 For profit - Limited Liability company

Read next when home-health coverage is thin

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Choosing among 2 Lyon County homes
A visit checklist that starts from CMS stars, then adds staffing, ownership, and specialty units.
Nursing home vs assisted living near Lyon
Sparse home-health path: Care-level and cost differences before you shortlist a CMS-certified facility.
Cost calculator for Lyon County planning
Sparse home-health path: State CareScout medians rolled into a monthly planning estimate.

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