Clara City Care Center is certified as a Medicare and Medicaid facility and has been approved to provide these services since 1991-10-01. Medicare covers short-term skilled nursing care (typically up to 100 days after a qualifying hospital stay). Medicaid covers long-term care for residents who meet financial eligibility requirements. Contact the facility at (320) 847-2221 or your local Medicaid office to verify current eligibility.

Clara City Care Center holds an overall CMS (Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services) rating of 2 out of 5 stars. This is made up of three components: Health Inspection (1★), Staffing (5★), and Quality of Resident Care (3★). Our independent composite quality score — which uses the raw underlying CMS numbers to break ties between similarly-rated facilities — is 70.5/100, placing it #8060 of 14703 facilities nationally and #186 of 338 in Minnesota. Star ratings are a useful starting point, but the composite score and individual sub-ratings give a more complete picture for families comparing facilities.

Each resident at Clara City Care Center receives a reported average of 4 hours 44 minutes of total nurse staffing per day. This breaks down as: Registered Nurse (RN) coverage — 1 hour 13 minutes; Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) — 27 minutes; Nurse Aide — 3 hours 4 minutes. On weekends, total nurse staffing is 3 hours 46 minutes per resident per day. The CMS Staffing Rating for this facility is 5 out of 5. The national average for total nursing hours is approximately 3.5 hrs/day. Total nursing staff turnover is 53.6%. Families are encouraged to ask about current staffing schedules during their facility visit.

The facility has received 4 fine(s) over the 5-year period, totaling $34,300. No substantiated complaints have been recorded in the available data. There were 1 Medicare payment denial(s) in the current period. In the most recent CMS reporting period, the facility received 0 fine(s) totaling $0, and 1 Medicare payment denial(s). Total penalties: 1. The Total Weighted Health Survey Score is 149.5 (lower scores are better). Full inspection history and complaint details are available at medicare.gov/care-compare.

Nationally, Clara City Care Center ranks 8060th out of 14,703 facilities (composite score: 70.5/100), placing it in the below average nationwide. Within MN, it ranks 186th out of 338 nursing homes. For 2026 staffing: total nurse hours rank #1,713 nationally and RN hours rank #1,061 nationally (#83 in MN). Our composite quality score of 70.5/100 weighs health inspections, quality of resident care, staffing hours, compliance record, and five-year performance trends — giving a more complete picture than CMS star ratings alone, which can place hundreds of facilities in the same 5-star bucket. To browse and compare all nursing homes in Clara City, visit: https://nursinghomesnearme.org/minnesota/clara-city/