Estelline Nursing And Care Center is certified as a Medicare and Medicaid facility and has been approved to provide these services since 1996-05-01. 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 (605) 873-2278 or your local Medicaid office to verify current eligibility.

Estelline Nursing And Care Center holds an overall CMS (Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services) rating of 4 out of 5 stars. This is made up of three components: Health Inspection (3★), 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 79.7/100, placing it #3832 of 14703 facilities nationally and #21 of 97 in South Dakota. 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 Estelline Nursing And Care Center receives a reported average of 3 hours 13 minutes of total nurse staffing per day. This breaks down as: Registered Nurse (RN) coverage — 44 minutes; Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) — 19 minutes; Nurse Aide — 2 hours 10 minutes. On weekends, total nurse staffing is 2 hours 34 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. 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 $16,826. No substantiated complaints have been recorded in the available data. In the most recent CMS reporting period, the facility received 1 fine(s) totaling $16,826, and 0 Medicare payment denial(s). Total penalties: 1. The Total Weighted Health Survey Score is 37.5 (lower scores are better). Full inspection history and complaint details are available at medicare.gov/care-compare.

Nationally, Estelline Nursing And Care Center ranks 3832nd out of 14,703 facilities (composite score: 79.7/100), placing it in the above average nationwide. Within SD, it ranks 21st out of 97 nursing homes. For 2026 staffing: total nurse hours rank #11,841 nationally and RN hours rank #4,450 nationally (#52 in SD). Our composite quality score of 79.7/100 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 Estelline, visit: https://nursinghomesnearme.org/south_dakota/estelline/