Center At Waterfront Llc is certified as a Medicare and Medicaid facility and has been approved to provide these services since 2019-05-02. 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 (316) 358-6400 or your local Medicaid office to verify current eligibility.

Center At Waterfront Llc holds an overall CMS (Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services) rating of 3 out of 5 stars. This is made up of three components: Health Inspection (2★), Staffing (3★), and Quality of Resident Care (5★). Our independent composite quality score — which uses the raw underlying CMS numbers to break ties between similarly-rated facilities — is 86.0/100, placing it #1366 of 14703 facilities nationally and #31 of 297 in Kansas. 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 Center At Waterfront Llc receives a reported average of 5 hours 8 minutes of total nurse staffing per day. This breaks down as: Registered Nurse (RN) coverage — 27 minutes; Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) — 1 hour 46 minutes; Nurse Aide — 2 hours 55 minutes. On weekends, total nurse staffing is 4 hours 27 minutes per resident per day. The CMS Staffing Rating for this facility is 3 out of 5. The national average for total nursing hours is approximately 3.5 hrs/day. Total nursing staff turnover is 59.8%. Families are encouraged to ask about current staffing schedules during their facility visit.

In the current reporting period, the facility received 1 fine(s) totaling $12,740. No substantiated complaints have been recorded in the available data. In the most recent CMS reporting period, the facility received 1 fine(s) totaling $12,740, and 0 Medicare payment denial(s). Total penalties: 1. The Total Weighted Health Survey Score is 88.0 (lower scores are better). Full inspection history and complaint details are available at medicare.gov/care-compare.

Nationally, Center At Waterfront Llc ranks 1366th out of 14,703 facilities (composite score: 86.0/100), placing it in the top 10% nationwide. Within KS, it ranks 31st out of 297 nursing homes. In Wichita, it ranks 4th out of 22 facilities. Among facilities sharing its ZIP code, it ranks 2nd of 3. For 2026 staffing: total nurse hours rank #1,001 nationally and RN hours rank #9,714 nationally (#227 in KS). Our composite quality score of 86.0/100 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 Wichita, visit: https://nursinghomesnearme.org/kansas/wichita/