CMS Care Compare · 2026 2 nursing homes Minnesota

Wadena County, Minnesota

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County inventory for Wadena County, Minnesota 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

2 nursing homes keep Wadena County in the lower nursing-home inventory tercile (≤2 homes) - 130 licensed beds, CareScout 2025 Minnesota cost medians, CMS Five-Star averages.

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Sheet MN-WADENA-MINNESOTA · Wadena, MN

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

  • NH-ONE 2 homes
  • BEDS-FEW 130 beds
  • STAR-MID 3.0★ avg
  • HH-SMALL 1 HH
  • RANK-MID #1,954/2,851
  • PHOTO-NONE No peer
  • AL-MID $6,573/mo
  • BOOK-FULL 2/2 NH · 1/1 HH

Stamps lead with nursing-home inventory tercile (low) 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 thin nursing-home book shows for Wadena County

Wadena County, Minnesota sits in the lower nursing-home inventory tercile with 2 nursing homes and 130 licensed beds - a thinner CMS book than most U.S. counties. Rated facilities average 3.0/5 (1 at 4★+, 1 at 1–2★). Home Health Compare still maps 1 agency here.

With a thinner CMS book, cost context matters more per facility: CareScout 2025 Minnesota medians run assisted living $6,573/mo, semi-private nursing $10,646/mo, private nursing $13,870/mo, home health aide $8,389/mo, adult day $2,600/mo. Verify rates with the named homes below.

Star counts across Wadena County break as 1 at 1★, 1 at 5★. Ownership leans Government - City (50% of 2 homes). Named 4★+ examples include Green Pine Acres Nursing Home. Families typically weigh the ladder alongside bed size, ownership, distance, and specialty units before visiting.

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1
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Sources: CMS Nursing Home Compare + CareScout 2025 Cost of Care Survey. See methodology.

$6,573
Assisted Living / mo
$10,646
Nursing (Semi) / mo
$8,389
Home Care / mo
3.0
Avg CMS Rating

Nursing Homes in Wadena County

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

Facility City Rating Beds Ownership
Green Pine Acres Nursing Home Menahga 5/5 65 Government - City
Fair Oaks Nursing & Rehab LLC Wadena 1/5 65 For profit - Corporation

Home Health Agencies in Wadena County

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

Agency City Quality Rating
Caring Hands Home Care Sebeka N/A

Read next for a thin Wadena inventory

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A visit checklist that starts from CMS stars, then adds staffing, ownership, and specialty units.
Paying for care when Wadena AL medians run high
Medicare vs Medicaid vs private pay when CareScout assisted-living medians sit in the upper band.
Cost calculator for Wadena County planning
State CareScout medians rolled into a monthly planning estimate.

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