Five Counties Nursing Home — Skilled Nursing Facility Profile (CCN #435090)

Lemmon, South Dakota · CCN 435090 · Phone: 6053743871 · 38 beds · Ownership: Non Profit - Corporation

Five Counties Nursing Home is a Medicare-certified skilled nursing facility (CCN 435090) in Lemmon, South Dakota. It holds a CMS overall Five-Star rating of 1 of 5 stars on CMS Care Compare. FileFlo scores its CMS survey-readiness at 15/100 (High Risk).

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Compliance Indicator: 15/100 — High Risk

About Five Counties Nursing Home

Five Counties Nursing Home is a Medicare- and Medicaid-certified skilled nursing facility in Lemmon, South Dakota, operating under CMS Certification Number (CCN) 435090. 38-bed facility. Non Profit - Corporation. Independent (not part of a multi-facility chain). The facility is required to comply with the Requirements for Long-Term Care Facilities at 42 CFR Part 483.

Five Counties Nursing Home has held its Medicare/Medicaid certification for approximately 30 years (certification date on file: 1995-09-01). 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 (Perkins County): Five Counties Nursing Home is the only Medicare-certified skilled nursing facility in the same-county sample for South Dakota. 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 Five-Star Quality Ratings

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 vs Short-Stay Quality Measures

Long-Stay Quality Measure rating: ★☆☆☆☆ (1 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.

Compliance Red Flags

Special Focus Facility status: Five Counties Nursing Home appears on the CMS Special Focus Facility list (status: SFF Candidate). SFF designation is reserved for facilities with a persistent pattern of substandard quality of care — typically high deficiency counts across consecutive surveys. CMS conducts a standard survey approximately every six months on SFF facilities (vs. up to fifteen months for non-SFF) and tracks two consecutive improved surveys as the exit criterion. Facilities that fail to improve over 18-24 months on the SFF list face termination of their Medicare provider agreement under 42 CFR 488.456.

Survey History and Deficiencies

Recent health deficiencies cited at last standard survey: 27. National average for facilities of this size is approximately 8 deficiencies per cycle. In its most recent reporting cycle, Five Counties Nursing Home received 1 CMS fine totaling $20,703. Last documented standard health survey: 2025-03-12. CMS conducts standard surveys at most every 15 months for SNFs, with substandard-quality findings triggering more frequent revisits.

Infection Control and Deficiency Weighting

CMS health survey weighted score: 356.5. 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.

CMS Enforcement Actions

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.

Staffing Detail

Detailed staffing hours-per-resident-day data is not currently published for Five Counties Nursing Home in CMS Provider Data. The CMS Minimum Staffing Standards rule (89 FR 40876, May 2024) phases in a 3.48 total HPRD floor for non-rural facilities by May 2027 (rural facilities by May 2029), absent a hardship exemption under 42 CFR 483.35.

Chain Context and Facility Type

Five Counties Nursing Home is independently operated (not part of a multi-facility chain). Independent SNFs typically rely on internal compliance staff or contracted consultants rather than corporate-level survey-prep teams; this affects both how quickly Plans of Correction are produced and how F-tag remediation is documented across multiple shifts.

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.

How Five Counties Nursing Home Compares to Peers in South Dakota

Peer comparisons use a same-state cohort of 96 Medicare-certified SNFs, pulled live from CMS Provider Data. The cohort excludes terminated and surrendered certifications.

FileFlo Compliance Indicator

FileFlo's compliance indicator for Five Counties Nursing Home is 15/100 (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.

Why This Page Exists

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Frequently asked questions about Five Counties Nursing Home

What is Five Counties Nursing Home's CMS overall Five-Star rating?

Five Counties Nursing Home (CCN 435090) 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.

Is Five Counties Nursing Home Medicare-certified, and where is it located?

Five Counties Nursing Home is a Medicare-certified skilled nursing facility (CMS Certification Number 435090) in Lemmon, South Dakota.

How survey-ready is Five Counties Nursing Home?

FileFlo scores Five Counties Nursing Home's CMS survey-readiness at 15/100 (High Risk). This is a FileFlo indicator built from CMS-published data, not an official CMS rating.

Which CMS Conditions of Participation must Five Counties Nursing Home meet?

As a Medicare-certified skilled nursing facility, Five Counties Nursing Home 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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Conditions of Participation Five Counties Nursing Home is surveyed against

The 42 CFR Part 483 CoP sections a CMS survey actually checks, in plain English:

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