Salem Care Center is certified as a Medicare and Medicaid facility and has been approved to provide these services since 2024-04-26. 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 (573) 729-6649 or your local Medicaid office to verify current eligibility.

Salem 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 (3★), Staffing (2★), and Quality of Resident Care (1★). Our independent composite quality score — which uses the raw underlying CMS numbers to break ties between similarly-rated facilities — is 54.5/100, placing it #13346 of 14703 facilities nationally and #344 of 487 in Missouri. 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 Salem Care Center receives a reported average of 3 hours 19 minutes of total nurse staffing per day. This breaks down as: Registered Nurse (RN) coverage — 50 minutes; Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) — 17 minutes; Nurse Aide — 2 hours 12 minutes. On weekends, total nurse staffing is 2 hours 52 minutes per resident per day. The CMS Staffing Rating for this facility is 2 out of 5. The national average for total nursing hours is approximately 3.5 hrs/day. 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 $3,174. No substantiated complaints have been recorded in the available data. In the most recent CMS reporting period, the facility received 1 fine(s) totaling $3,174, and 0 Medicare payment denial(s). Total penalties: 1. The Total Weighted Health Survey Score is 79.0 (lower scores are better). Full inspection history and complaint details are available at medicare.gov/care-compare.

Nationally, Salem Care Center ranks 13346th out of 14,703 facilities (composite score: 54.5/100), placing it in the bottom 25% nationwide. Within MO, it ranks 344th out of 487 nursing homes. In Salem, it ranks 2nd out of 3 facilities. Among facilities sharing its ZIP code, it ranks 2nd of 3. For 2026 staffing: total nurse hours rank #10,897 nationally and RN hours rank #3,240 nationally (#22 in MO). Our composite quality score of 54.5/100 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 Salem, visit: https://nursinghomesnearme.org/missouri/salem/