Littlefork, Minnesota · CCN 245542 · Phone: 2182786634 · 42 beds · Ownership: Non Profit - Corporation
Littlefork Care Center is a Medicare-certified skilled nursing facility (CCN 245542) in Littlefork, Minnesota. It holds a CMS overall Five-Star rating of 1 of 5 stars on CMS Care Compare. FileFlo scores its CMS survey-readiness at 27/100 (High Risk).
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Littlefork Care Center is a Medicare- and Medicaid-certified skilled nursing facility in Littlefork, Minnesota, operating under CMS Certification Number (CCN) 245542. 42-bed facility. Non Profit - Corporation. Part of the St. Francis Health Services chain. The facility is required to comply with the Requirements for Long-Term Care Facilities at 42 CFR Part 483.
Littlefork Care Center has held its Medicare/Medicaid certification for approximately 35 years (certification date on file: 1991-04-24). Long-tenured facilities (15+ years) often have established F-tag remediation playbooks and a deeper standard-survey trail; newly-certified facilities (under 3 years) are subject to a different initial survey cadence under 42 CFR 488.308.
Local market context (Koochiching County): Littlefork Care Center is the only Medicare-certified skilled nursing facility in the same-county sample for Minnesota. Sole-provider counties concentrate post-acute placement decisions into a single facility, which can either be operational leverage or a regulatory-visibility risk depending on quality trajectory.
CMS publishes Five-Star ratings for nursing homes monthly, drawn from the most recent three years of standard surveys, complaint surveys, and Minimum Data Set (MDS) submissions.
Long-Stay Quality Measure rating: ★★☆☆☆ (2 of 5). Long-stay measures cover residents in the facility 100+ days and include indicators like residents experiencing one or more falls with major injury, residents whose ability to move independently worsened, and residents with a urinary tract infection.
Differentiating long-stay from short-stay QMs matters for placement decisions — a facility with strong short-stay QMs may still underperform on long-stay metrics, and vice versa.
Littlefork Care Center has none of the four CMS-published red-flag indicators active at the most recent publish: not on the Special Focus Facility list, no Abuse Icon on Care Compare, no overdue inspection flag, and no recent change-of-ownership flag. Absence of these flags does not mean the facility is deficiency-free — see the survey history below.
Recent health deficiencies cited at last standard survey: 14. National average for facilities of this size is approximately 8 deficiencies per cycle. In its most recent reporting cycle, Littlefork Care Center received 1 CMS fine totaling $179,075. Last documented standard health survey: 2025-12-10. CMS conducts standard surveys at most every 15 months for SNFs, with substandard-quality findings triggering more frequent revisits.
CMS health survey weighted score: 128.25. The weighted score multiplies deficiency severity (A-L) by scope (isolated, pattern, widespread); higher weighted scores translate directly into the Health Inspection star rating tier breakpoints CMS publishes monthly.
Total enforcement penalties assessed in the most recent reporting window: $1. This figure aggregates Civil Money Penalties (CMPs), DPNA-equivalent revenue impacts, and other monetary remedies under 42 CFR Part 488 Subpart F.
At today's staffing levels, Littlefork Care Center would not meet the cadre-specific minimums scheduled to take effect on the May 2029 timeline under 89 FR 40876: nurse-aide HPRD is 1.762 vs the 2.45 floor, a 0.69-hour gap. Closing this gap typically requires either net new hires at the specific cadre, shifted scheduling that reallocates existing FTEs to direct-care hours, or a hardship exemption application under 42 CFR 483.35.
Total nurse staffing: 3.223 hours per resident day (HPRD), which is 0.26 hours below the 3.48 total HPRD floor scheduled to take effect for rural-facility facilities by May 2029 (89 FR 40876, May 2024); facilities projected to remain below the floor at the effective date must either close the gap, qualify for a hardship exemption, or face citation under 42 CFR 483.35.
Staffing mix: RN 0.856 HPRD, LPN 0.606 HPRD, CNA 1.762 HPRD. The same CMS final rule also phases in cadre-specific minimums of 0.55 RN HPRD and 2.45 nurse aide HPRD on the 2029 timeline; RN-specific shortfalls have historically been the most common single-facility staffing deficiency at standard surveys.
Weekend RN staffing: 0.627 HPRD. Weekend RN coverage is a separately reported CMS measure; facilities with low weekend RN HPRD frequently see resident-acuity-driven adverse events spike on the weekend shift.
Total nurse staff turnover: 39.4% annualized — moderate.
RN-specific turnover: 50% annualized. RN turnover above 50% is the single strongest correlate with QM rating decline in CMS's own internal analyses.
Littlefork Care Center is operated as part of St. Francis Health Services, a chain operating 14 Medicare-certified facilities (CMS chain identifier 487). Chain-operated facilities tend to share corporate compliance staff, standard operating procedures, and survey-prep resources — but also share enforcement exposure when CMS designates a chain-wide issue under the system-wide quality assurance framework.
Provider type designation: Medicare And Medicaid.
The facility is classified by CMS as rural (outside metropolitan statistical areas). Rural SNFs face different challenges — referral pipeline depth, RN availability, ambulance distance for transfers — and CMS applies certain modifiers to the staffing minimums under hardship exemption pathways for rural facilities.
Peer comparisons use a same-state cohort of 200 Medicare-certified SNFs, pulled live from CMS Provider Data. The cohort excludes terminated and surrendered certifications.
FileFlo's compliance indicator for Littlefork Care Center is 27/100 (High Risk). The score is derived from publicly published health-deficiency counts, weighted survey scores, infection-control citations, fines, and staffing hours per resident day. It is not a CMS rating. The full survey-readiness audit (covering F-tags from the most recently cited deficiencies, infection control, staffing minimums, MDS accuracy) is at /tools/cms-survey-readiness-score.
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Littlefork Care Center (CCN 245542) holds a CMS overall Five-Star rating of 1 of 5 stars on CMS Care Compare. CMS updates these ratings quarterly from the facility's submitted assessment and claims data.
Littlefork Care Center is a Medicare-certified skilled nursing facility (CMS Certification Number 245542) in Littlefork, Minnesota.
FileFlo scores Littlefork Care Center's CMS survey-readiness at 27/100 (High Risk). This is a FileFlo indicator built from CMS-published data, not an official CMS rating.
As a Medicare-certified skilled nursing facility, Littlefork Care Center is surveyed against the Conditions of Participation in 42 CFR Part 483 — covering patient/resident rights, assessment and care planning, quality (QAPI), infection control, and aide services. Each CoP section is linked on this page.
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