CMS Care Compare · 2026 2 nursing homes Nebraska

Merrick County, Nebraska

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

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Sheet NE-MERRICK-NEBRASKA · Merrick, NE

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

  • NH-ONE 2 homes
  • BEDS-FEW 109 beds
  • STAR-MID 3.0★ avg
  • HH-NONE 0 agencies
  • RANK-MID #1,748/2,851
  • PHOTO-NONE No peer
  • AL-MID $6,350/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 Merrick County

Home-health coverage is thin in Merrick County: no Medicare-certified agencies map in on the current CMS join beside 2 nursing homes and 109 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 Nebraska medians run assisted living $6,350/mo, semi-private nursing $8,377/mo, private nursing $9,216/mo, home health aide $6,864/mo, adult day $3,521/mo. Verify rates with the named homes below.

Star counts across Merrick County break as 1 at 2★, 1 at 4★. Ownership leans Government - County (50% of 2 homes). Named 4★+ examples include Litzenberg Memorial County Hospital. 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.

$6,350
Assisted Living / mo
$8,377
Nursing (Semi) / mo
$6,864
Home Care / mo
3.0
Avg CMS Rating

Nursing Homes in Merrick County

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

Facility City Rating Beds Ownership
Litzenberg Memorial County Hospital Central City 4/5 46 Government - County
The Oaks at Central City Central City 2/5 63 For profit - Limited Liability company

Read next when home-health coverage is thin

Decode Five-Star for Merrick County homes
Thin-book context for Merrick: What a county-average CMS overall rating does — and does not — tell a family.
Choosing among 2 Merrick County homes
A visit checklist that starts from CMS stars, then adds staffing, ownership, and specialty units.
Paying for care when Merrick 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 Merrick County planning
Sparse home-health path: State CareScout medians rolled into a monthly planning estimate.

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