North Dakota Elderly & Nursing Home Care Centers

North Dakota is the third least populated state in the nation, so it comes as no surprise that it has the fewest assisted living residences and nursing homes in the Midwest. It also has some of the lowest assisted living prices in the country. But North Dakota’s home health-care prices are among the highest nationwide.

 

Approximate number of facilities:

• Nursing homes: 84
• Assisted living residences: 111*

 

Types of care available:

• Adult day care
• Home care
• Home health-care
• Continuing-care retirement communities
• Assisted living facilities
• Basic-care facilities
• Residential care homes (adult family foster care)
• Nursing homes

 

Estimated average prices:**

• Adult day care: $78 per day
• Home care: $23 per hour
• Home health-care: $24 per hour
• Assisted living: $ 2,596  per month
• Nursing home, semi-private room: $175 per day
• Nursing home, private room: $195 per day

 

State websites for seniors:

• Insurance Department: “Annuities and Senior Citizens”
• Department of Health (including information about basic-care facilities)
• Assisted living facilities regulations (PDF download)

 

Where to report elder abuse:

• In domestic/community care: 1-800-451-8693
• In nursing homes: 1-800-451-8693

 

Financial assistance (partial list):

• Medicaid
• State Health Insurance Counseling Program

 

Top-10 largest cities:

•  Fargo
•  Bismarck
•  Grand Forks
•  Minot
•  Mandan
•  Dickinson
•  Jamestown
•  West Fargo
•  Williston
• Wahpeton

 

Top nursing homes, based on Medicare ratings:***

 

Bismarck
St. Alexius Medical Center Transitional Care Unit

 

Dickinson
St. Benedict’s Health Center

 

Ellendale
Prince of Peace Care Center

 

Fargo
Elim Care Center
Villa Maria

 

Grafton
Lutheran Sunset Home

 

Hankinson
St. Gerard’s Community Nursing Home

 

Hatton
Hatton Prairie Village

 

Jamestown
Eventide at Hi-Acres Manor

 

Lisbon
North Dakota Veteran Home
Parkside Lutheran Home

 

Mandan
Dakota Alpha

 

Mayville
Luther Memorial Home

 

Osnabrock
Good Samaritan Society – Osnabrock

 

Richardton
Richardton Health Center

 

West Fargo
Sheyenne Crossings Care Center/Transitional Care Unit

 

*Assisted-living residence numbers are from the Department of Health and Human Services’ 2007 Residential Care and Assisted Living Compendium. According to the National Center for Assisted Living, this is the industry’s only resource for such data. Depending on the state, the number may or may not include small residential-care homes, such as adult foster care.

**Senior-care price estimates are based on the 2011 MetLife Market Survey of Long-Term Care Costs, which reports average rates,and the Genworth 2011 Cost of Care Survey, which reports median rates.

***Medicare rates nursing homes in four categories using a five-star system. These are the nursing homes with five stars in the “Overall” category. The ratings were accessed on Medicare’s Nursing Home Compare site in November or December 2011 and are subject to change. The Medicare ratings system isn’t perfect, so use additional criteria to evaluate nursing homes as well.