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Saunders County, Nebraska

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County inventory for Saunders 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. Nursing-home inventory signature

3 nursing homes place Saunders County mid-pack on nursing-home inventory (3–4 homes) - 242 licensed beds, CareScout 2025 Nebraska cost medians, CMS Five-Star averages.

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Sheet NE-SAUNDERS-NEBRASKA · Saunders, NE

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

  • NH-SMALL 3 homes
  • BEDS-SMALL 242 beds
  • STAR-MID 3.3★ avg
  • HH-SMALL 1 HH
  • RANK-MID #1,304/2,851
  • PHOTO-NONE No peer
  • AL-MID $6,350/mo
  • BOOK-FULL 3/3 NH · 1/1 HH

Stamps lead with nursing-home inventory tercile (mid) plus licensed beds, Five-Star county average, Home Health Compare agencies, corpus NH-count rank, photo-finish peer, and CareScout assisted-living medians, not a generic peer board.

What a mid-pack nursing-home book shows for Saunders County

Saunders County, Nebraska is mid-pack on nursing-home inventory with 3 nursing homes and 242 licensed beds. Rated facilities average 3.3/5 (2 at 4★+, 1 at 1–2★). Home Health Compare maps 1 agency alongside that book.

CareScout 2025 Nebraska medians frame mid-pack counties like this: 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. Local Saunders County providers may sit above or below those state medians.

Star counts across Saunders County break as 1 at 1★, 1 at 4★, 1 at 5★. Ownership leans Government - County (33% of 3 homes). Named 4★+ examples include Saunders Medical Center, South Haven Living Center. Families typically weigh the ladder alongside bed size, ownership, distance, and specialty units before visiting.

1★
1
2★
0
3★
0
4★
1
5★
1

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
3.3
Avg CMS Rating

Top facilities in Saunders, NE

Ranked by CMS overall star rating, not an editorial "best of" pick. Visit in person and consult a care professional before choosing.

  1. 1
    Saunders Medical Center
    5★
  2. 2
    South Haven Living Center
    4★
  3. 3
    The Meadows at Ashland
    1★

Nursing Homes in Saunders County

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

Facility City Rating Beds Ownership
Saunders Medical Center Wahoo 5/5 60 Government - County
South Haven Living Center Wahoo 4/5 85 Non profit - Corporation
The Meadows at Ashland Ashland 1/5 97 For profit - Limited Liability company

Home Health Agencies in Saunders County

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

Agency City Quality Rating
Hospice and Home Healthcare of Saunders County Wahoo 3.0

Read next beside this mid-pack Saunders book

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