CCN 435090 · Perkins County, South Dakota
Five Counties Nursing Home
405 6th Avenue West, Lemmon, SD 57638
Five Counties Nursing Home is a 38-bed nonprofit nursing home in Lemmon, South Dakota, first certified for Medicare or Medicaid in 1995. CMS rates it 1 out of 5 stars overall in its September 2026 data, and it averaged 34.5 residents a day, about 91% of its certified beds. We found no FHA-insured Section 232 loan for it in HUD's healthcare endorsement database (fiscal 2001 onward).
Facility facts
- Certified beds
- 38
- Average residents per day
- 34.5 (90.8% of beds)
- Ownership type
- Non profit - Corporation
- Certification
- Medicare and Medicaid
- Legal business name
- Lemmon Area Medical Association
- Certified since
- Sep 1, 1995
- Chain or affiliated group
- None listed by CMS
- Location
- Rural
Ratings and staffing
Star ratings run from 1 to 5. Staffing is nurse hours per resident per day from CMS Payroll Based Journal data; turnover is the CMS annual nursing staff turnover rate. Occupancy is CMS's average daily census divided by certified beds.
| Measure | This facility | South Dakota median | US median |
|---|---|---|---|
| Overall rating | 1 of 5 | State spread: 19 at 1, 22 at 2, 18 at 3, 16 at 4, 19 at 5 | |
| Health inspections | 1 of 5 | ||
| Quality measures | 1 of 5 | ||
| Staffing | 2 of 5 | ||
| Total nurse hours per resident per day | 2.90 | 3.62 | 3.68 |
| RN hours per resident per day | 0.76 | 0.76 | 0.58 |
| Weekend nurse hours per resident per day | 2.51 | ||
| Nursing staff turnover | not reported | 46.6% | 44.9% |
| Occupancy (residents / beds) | 90.8% | 90.3% | 85.7% |
| Fines reported by CMS | 1 totaling $20,703 | ||
| Health deficiencies, latest standard survey | 4 (May 7, 2026) | ||
HUD 223(f) Express Lane: the CMS part
HUD gives 223(f) applications queue priority when the facility has CMS overall and health inspection ratings of at least 2 stars and no abuse icon, among other tests (ORCF criteria of March 31, 2026). Five Counties Nursing Home does not meet it today: overall rating 1, health inspection rating 1. The loan-to-value, coverage and operator tests depend on the deal. All the criteria.
Who owns and operates it
CMS lists no 5% owners or managing organizations for this facility in its current ownership file.
Changes of ownership
No change of ownership for this facility appears in the CMS change-of-ownership file, which starts in January 2016.
HUD Section 232 loans
No FHA-insured loan matching this facility appears in HUD's database of healthcare endorsements, which covers fiscal 2001 onward (HUD data run of July 8, 2026). A loan could still exist under a different project name or from before 2001.
Sources and dates
Facility, rating, staffing and ownership data: CMS Provider Information and CMS Ownership, processing date September 2026. Private equity, REIT and mortgage-interest flags and changes of ownership: CMS Skilled Nursing Facility All Owners and Change of Ownership files (2026-10-01). FHA-insured loans: HUD Office of Healthcare Programs endorsement database, data run July 8, 2026. How we join them, and what the join can get wrong: methodology.
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