CMS Care Compare · 2026 2 nursing homes New Mexico

Sierra County, New Mexico

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

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Sheet NM-SIERRA-NEW-MEXICO · Sierra, NM

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

  • NH-ONE 2 homes
  • BEDS-SMALL 229 beds
  • STAR-MID 3.0★ avg
  • HH-NONE 0 agencies
  • RANK-MID #1,894/2,851
  • PHOTO-NONE No peer
  • AL-MID $5,950/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 Sierra County

Home-health coverage is thin in Sierra County: no Medicare-certified agencies map in on the current CMS join beside 2 nursing homes and 229 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 New Mexico medians run assisted living $5,950/mo, semi-private nursing $9,125/mo, private nursing $10,633/mo, home health aide $5,720/mo, adult day $4,333/mo. Verify rates with the named homes below.

Star counts across Sierra County break as 2 at 3★. Ownership leans Government - State (50% of 2 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.

$5,950
Assisted Living / mo
$9,125
Nursing (Semi) / mo
$5,720
Home Care / mo
3.0
Avg CMS Rating

Nursing Homes in Sierra County

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

Facility City Rating Beds Ownership
New Mexico State Veterans Home Truth or Consequences 3/5 135 Government - State
Paloma Springs Healthcare LLC T Or C 3/5 94 For profit - Corporation

Read next when home-health coverage is thin

Decode Five-Star for Sierra County homes
Thin-book context for Sierra: What a county-average CMS overall rating does — and does not — tell a family.
Choosing among 2 Sierra County homes
A visit checklist that starts from CMS stars, then adds staffing, ownership, and specialty units.
Nursing home vs assisted living near Sierra
Sparse home-health path: Care-level and cost differences before you shortlist a CMS-certified facility.
Cost calculator for Sierra County planning
Sparse home-health path: State CareScout medians rolled into a monthly planning estimate.

Continue on the New Mexico elder-care overview or the highest-rated states ranking. Costs shown are New Mexico 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 Sierra County.