South Dakota Senior Care – Adult Nursing Home & Elder Care

South Dakota ranks among the states with the lowest assisted living prices. Its adult day-care and nursing home rates run low too.

 

Approximate number of facilities:

• Nursing homes:  111
• Assisted living residences: 157*

 

Types of care available:

• Adult day care
• Home care
• Home health-care
• Continuing-care retirement communities
• Assisted living centers (including rest homes and boarding homes)
• Residential care homes (adult foster care homes)
• Nursing homes

 

Estimated average prices:**

• Adult day care: $58 per day
• Home care: $21 per hour
• Home health-care: $22 per hour
• Assisted living: $ 2,688 per month
• Nursing home, semi-private room: $173 per day
• Nursing home, private room: $191 per day

 

State websites for seniors:

• Office of Health Facilities Licensure & Certification
• Medical facilities regulations (DOC download)

 

Where to report elder abuse:

• In domestic/community care: 605-773-3656
• In nursing homes: 605-773-3656

 

Financial assistance (partial list):

• Medical Assistance Programs (Medicaid)
• Senior Health Information and Insurance Education

 

Top-10 largest cities:

• Sioux Falls
• Rapid City
• Aberdeen
• Watertown
• Brookings
• Mitchell
• Pierre
• Yankton
• Huron
• Vermillion

 

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

 

Beresford
Bethesda of Beresford

 

Bryant
Bryant Parkview Care Center

 

Clark
Golden LivingCenter – Clark

 

Elk Point
Prairie Estates Care Center

 

Estelline
Estelline Nursing & Care Center

 

Flandreau
Riverview Manor

 

Freeman
Oakview Terrace

 

Gettysburg
Oahe Manor

 

Lake Andes
Lake Andes Health Care Center

 

Madison
Golden LivingCenter – Madison

 

Menno
Menno-Olivet Care Center

 

Milbank
Golden LivingCenter – Milbank

 

Mitchell
Avera Brady Health & Rehab

 

Platte
Platte Care Center

 

Rapid City
Westhills Village Health Care Facility

 

Redfield
Eastern Star Home of South Dakota

 

Rosholt
Rosholt Care Center

 

Scotland
Good Samaritan Society – Scotland

 

Vermillion
Sanford Care Center – Vermillion

 

Viborg
Pioneer Memorial Nursing Home

 

Webster
Bethesda Home

 

Wessington Springs
Weskota Manor

 

White
White Healthcare Center

 

Yankton
South Dakota Human Services Center – Geriatric

 

*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.