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Lancaster County

Nursing homes in Lincoln, Nebraska

7
rated one or two stars
2
with an immediate jeopardy finding
5 of 13
staffed below the research benchmark for the residents they have
$126,382
in federal fines since 2023 across these 13 homes

There are 13 Medicare-certified nursing homes in Lincoln. 7 of them are rated one or two stars, the lowest two grades Medicare gives. Medicare grades inspections on a curve inside each state, so those stars are a rank inside Nebraska, not a national score.

All 13 nursing homes in Lincoln

Every Medicare-certified nursing home with a Lincoln address. The labels on each card come from Medicare’s own records. What each one counts is below.

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Emerald Nursing & Rehab Lancaster LLC 1001 South Street, Lincoln 68502 · 293 beds Special Focus Facility candidate2 immediate jeopardy findings on 2 inspections2 findings of actual harm32% below expected staffing$79,725 in federal fines
1 out of 5
 Emerald Nursing & Rehab Brookside LLC 4735 South 54th Street, Lincoln 68516 · 173 beds 1 immediate jeopardy finding37% below expected staffing$37,998 in federal fines
1 out of 5
 Eventide Lincoln Care Center 4720 Randolph Street, Lincoln 68510 · 197 beds 1 finding of actual harm
1 out of 5
 Gateway Vista 225 North 56th Street, Lincoln 68504 · 80 beds 1 finding of actual harm$8,659 in federal fines
3 out of 5
 Hillcrest Firethorn 8601 Firethorn Lane, Lincoln 68520 · 72 beds 1 finding of actual harm21% below expected staffing
4 out of 5
 Holmes Lake Rehabilitation & Care Center 6101 Normal Blvd, Lincoln 68506 · 97 beds 36% below expected staffing
2 out of 5
 Ambassador Health of Lincoln 4405 Normal Blvd, Lincoln 68506 · 122 beds No harm or jeopardy findings
2 out of 5
 Eastmont 6315 O Street, Lincoln 68510 · 23 beds No harm or jeopardy findings
2 out of 5
 Heartland Ridge Care Center 5431 South 16th Street, Lincoln 68512 · 47 beds No harm or jeopardy findings
2 out of 5
 Sumner Place 1750 South 20th Street, Lincoln 68502 · 104 beds 17% below expected staffing
4 out of 5
 St. Jane de Chantal 2200 South 52nd Street, Lincoln 68506 · 103 beds No harm or jeopardy findings
4 out of 5
 Southlake Village Rehabilitation & Care Center 9401 Andermatt Drive, Lincoln 68526 · 126 beds No harm or jeopardy findings
5 out of 5
 Eventide Williamsburg 6120 South 34th Street, Lincoln 68516 · 50 beds No harm or jeopardy findings
5 out of 5

What the labels on each card mean

What a star means here

Medicare grades the inspection part of a star rating on a curve inside each state, so a star here is a rank against other Nebraska homes, not a national score. Medicare withholds the rating altogether from homes on its Special Focus Facility list, so a withheld rating is a warning, not missing data.

Short on staffing

The home reports fewer nurse and aide hours per resident per day than a published research benchmark expects for the residents it actually has. The benchmark is not a Medicare figure: we work it out from the home's own Medicare case-mix score using the CASE formula (Harrington and others, Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 2025). It is not a legal limit, and there is no federal minimum number of nursing hours per resident per day.

Immediate jeopardy

The most serious result an inspection can have. It means inspectors found a resident was in danger of serious harm or death. A finding of actual harm is the level below that. Both are counts of inspection tags across the last three inspection cycles on record, not counts of separate incidents. Fines are federal penalties recorded between 2023 and 2024.

Abuse, counted two ways

There are two official measures and they do not agree. Medicare puts an abuse warning on a home's profile when abuse was found and a resident was harmed, or when it happened twice, and takes the warning off after a year. Separately, inspectors cite homes under the abuse, resident property and involuntary seclusion tags, and those findings stay on the record. A home can carry one label, both, or neither, so the two are labeled separately on every card.

The Special Focus list

Medicare's list of homes with a persistent record of serious problems. Each state gets a small number of places on it. A candidate is a home in line for one of those places.

Lancaster County has 14 Medicare-certified nursing homes. The 1 outside Lincoln is in Waverly.