Best Nursing Homes in South Dakota — 2026 Directory

South Dakota has 97 CMS-certified skilled nursing facilities. 96 of 97 listed facilities have linked deficiency history in the loaded CMS-derived records. Among those 96 facilities, the average is 15.4 cited deficiencies and 0 have zero citations in that loaded history. Facilities with unavailable history are not ranked as zero-citation facilities.

All CMS-Certified Nursing Homes in South Dakota

This complete state directory provides a direct path to each facility's inspection profile. Facilities with available history are ordered by citation count; records without matched history appear afterward and are not treated as zero.

  1. Estelline Nursing And Care Center — Estelline (1 deficiencies)
  2. Good Samaritan Society Howard — Howard (2 deficiencies)
  3. Pioneer Memorial Nursing Home — Viborg (3 deficiencies)
  4. Walworth County Care Center, Inc — Selby (3 deficiencies)
  5. White River Health Care Center — White River (3 deficiencies)
  6. Avantara Lake Norden — Lake Norden (4 deficiencies)
  7. Avantara Clark City — Clark (5 deficiencies)
  8. Avera Brady Health And Rehab — Mitchell (5 deficiencies)
  9. Bowdle Nursing Home — Bowdle (5 deficiencies)
  10. Clarkson Health Care — Rapid City (5 deficiencies)
  11. Eastern Star Home Of South Dakota, Inc — Redfield (5 deficiencies)
  12. Faulkton Senior Living — Faulkton (5 deficiencies)
  13. Good Samaritan Society Scotland — Scotland (5 deficiencies)
  14. Prairie Heights Healthcare — Aberdeen (5 deficiencies)
  15. Sd Human Services Center - Geriatric Program — Yankton (5 deficiencies)
  16. Wakonda Heritage Manor — Wakonda (5 deficiencies)
  17. Weskota Manor Inc — Wessington Springs (5 deficiencies)
  18. Avera Sister James Care Center — Yankton (6 deficiencies)
  19. Bethesda Home — Webster (6 deficiencies)
  20. Avantara Watertown — Watertown (7 deficiencies)
  21. Bethesda Home Of Aberdeen — Aberdeen (7 deficiencies)
  22. Dow Rummel Village — Sioux Falls (7 deficiencies)
  23. Platte Care Center — Platte (7 deficiencies)
  24. Tieszen Memorial Home — Marion (7 deficiencies)
  25. Avera Eureka Health Care Center — Eureka (8 deficiencies)
  26. Good Samaritan Society Canton — Canton (8 deficiencies)
  27. The Neighborhoods At Brookview — Brookings (8 deficiencies)
  28. Avera Maryhouse Long Term Care — Pierre (9 deficiencies)
  29. Avera Oahe Manor — Gettysburg (9 deficiencies)
  30. Avera Rosebud Country Care Center — Gregory (9 deficiencies)
  31. Westhills Village Health Care Facility — Rapid City (9 deficiencies)
  32. Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe Care Center — Flandreau (10 deficiencies)
  33. Good Samaritan Society Tyndall — Tyndall (10 deficiencies)
  34. Kadoka Nursing Home — Kadoka (10 deficiencies)
  35. Sanford Care Center Vermillion — Vermillion (10 deficiencies)
  36. Seven Sisters Living Center — Hot Springs (10 deficiencies)
  37. Alcester Care And Rehab Center, Inc — Alcester (11 deficiencies)
  38. Avantara Huron — Huron (11 deficiencies)
  39. Avera Bormann Manor — Parkston (11 deficiencies)
  40. Good Samaritan Society Luther Manor — Sioux Falls (11 deficiencies)
  41. Menno-Olivet Care Center — Menno (11 deficiencies)
  42. Oakview Terrace — Freeman (11 deficiencies)
  43. Prairie View Healthcare Center — Woonsocket (11 deficiencies)
  44. Bethany Home Sioux Falls — Sioux Falls (12 deficiencies)
  45. Bethel Lutheran Home — Madison (12 deficiencies)
  46. Good Samaritan Society Canistota — Canistota (12 deficiencies)
  47. Good Samaritan Society Corsica — Corsica (12 deficiencies)
  48. Scotchman Living Center — Philip (13 deficiencies)
  49. Sunset Manor Avera Health — Irene (13 deficiencies)
  50. Good Samaritan Society Sioux Falls Center — Sioux Falls (14 deficiencies)
  51. Wheatcrest Hills Healthcare Center — Britton (14 deficiencies)
  52. Good Samaritan Society Miller — Miller (15 deficiencies)
  53. Michael J Fitzmaurice South Dakota Veterans Home — Hot Springs (15 deficiencies)
  54. Aurora Brule Nursing Home Inc — White Lake (16 deficiencies)
  55. Avantara Mountain View — Rapid City (16 deficiencies)
  56. Dells Nursing And Rehab Center Inc — Dell Rapids (16 deficiencies)
  57. Sanford Chamberlain Care Center — Chamberlain (16 deficiencies)
  58. Avera Prince Of Peace — Sioux Falls (17 deficiencies)
  59. Fountain Springs Healthcare — Rapid City (17 deficiencies)
  60. Good Samaritan Society De Smet — De Smet (17 deficiencies)
  61. Avantara Milbank — Milbank (18 deficiencies)
  62. Avantara Saint Cloud — Rapid City (18 deficiencies)
  63. Avera Mother Joseph Manor Retirement Community — Aberdeen (18 deficiencies)
  64. Wilmot Care Center Inc — Wilmot (18 deficiencies)
  65. Winner Regional Healthcare Center — Winner (18 deficiencies)
  66. Centerville Care And Rehab Center Inc — Centerville (19 deficiencies)
  67. Good Samaritan Society - St Martin Village — Rapid City (19 deficiencies)
  68. Avantara North — Rapid City (20 deficiencies)
  69. Avantara Redfield — Redfield (20 deficiencies)
  70. Custer Care And Rehab Center — Custer (20 deficiencies)
  71. Monument Health Sturgis Care Center — Sturgis (20 deficiencies)
  72. Spearfish Canyon Healthcare — Spearfish (20 deficiencies)
  73. Sun Dial Manor — Bristol (20 deficiencies)
  74. Lake Andes Senior Living — Lake Andes (21 deficiencies)
  75. Avantara Groton — Groton (22 deficiencies)
  76. Tekakwitha Living Center — Sisseton (22 deficiencies)
  77. United Living Community — Brookings (22 deficiencies)
  78. Bethany Home - Brandon — Brandon (23 deficiencies)
  79. Highmore Health — Highmore (23 deficiencies)
  80. St William's Care Center — Milbank (23 deficiencies)
  81. Strand-Kjorsvig Community Rest Home — Roslyn (23 deficiencies)
  82. Bethesda Of Beresford — Beresford (25 deficiencies)
  83. Diamond Care Center — Bridgewater (25 deficiencies)
  84. Jenkin's Living Center — Watertown (25 deficiencies)
  85. Medicine Wheel Village — Eagle Butte (25 deficiencies)
  86. Palisade Healthcare Center — Garretson (26 deficiencies)
  87. Aberdeen Health And Rehab — Aberdeen (27 deficiencies)
  88. Rolling Hills Healthcare — Belle Fourche (27 deficiencies)
  89. Good Samaritan Society New Underwood — New Underwood (29 deficiencies)
  90. Firesteel Healthcare Center — Mitchell (30 deficiencies)
  91. Riverview Healthcare Center — Flandreau (30 deficiencies)
  92. Five Counties Nursing Home — Lemmon (34 deficiencies)
  93. Avantara Pierre — Pierre (35 deficiencies)
  94. Avantara Arrowhead — Rapid City (37 deficiencies)
  95. Good Samaritan Society Sioux Falls Village — Sioux Falls (43 deficiencies)
  96. Avantara Norton — Sioux Falls (77 deficiencies)
  97. Good Samaritan Society - Wagner — Wagner (deficiency history unavailable)

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Sources and limits

Source: CMS nursing-home Provider Data. POCDesk orders only facilities with linked, loaded deficiency history by citation count; this is not an official CMS ranking or a quality recommendation. See our editorial standards and methodology.

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