CMS Care Compare · 2026 2 nursing homes Wisconsin

Portage County, Wisconsin

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County inventory for Portage 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

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

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Sheet WI-PORTAGE-WISCONSIN · Portage, WI

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

  • NH-ONE 2 homes
  • BEDS-FEW 98 beds
  • STAR-MID 3.0★ avg
  • HH-SMALL 2 HH
  • RANK-MID #1,831/2,851
  • PHOTO-NONE No peer
  • AL-MID $6,540/mo
  • BOOK-FULL 2/2 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 Portage County

Home-health coverage is the standout for Portage County: 2 Medicare-certified agencies (upper tercile) sit beside 2 nursing homes and 98 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 Portage County break as 1 at 1★, 1 at 5★. Ownership leans Government - County (50% of 2 homes). Named 4★+ examples include Portage Cty Hlth Care Ctr. Families typically weigh the ladder alongside bed size, ownership, distance, and specialty units before visiting.

1★
1
2★
0
3★
0
4★
0
5★
1

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 Portage County

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

Facility City Rating Beds Ownership
Portage Cty Hlth Care Ctr Stevens Point 5/5 48 Government - County
Stevens Point Health Services Stevens Point 1/5 50 For profit - Limited Liability company

Home Health Agencies in Portage County

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

Agency City Quality Rating
International Quality Homecare of Wisconsin, LLC Stevens Point 2.0
Transitions Home Health of Central Wisconsin Stevens Point 2.0

Read next for home-health-dense Portage

Decode Five-Star for Portage County homes
Thin-book context for Portage: What a county-average CMS overall rating does — and does not — tell a family.
Choosing among 2 Portage County homes
A visit checklist that starts from CMS stars, then adds staffing, ownership, and specialty units.
Paying for care when Portage AL medians run high
Home-health-dense path: Medicare vs Medicaid vs private pay when CareScout assisted-living medians sit in the upper band.
Cost calculator for Portage County planning
Home-health-dense 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 Portage County.