CCN 525265 · La Crosse County, Wisconsin
Bethany St Joseph Care Ctr
2501 Shelby Rd., La Crosse, WI 54601
Bethany St Joseph Care Ctr is a 100-bed nonprofit nursing home in La Crosse, Wisconsin, first certified for Medicare or Medicaid in 1977. CMS rates it 4 out of 5 stars overall in its September 2026 data, and it averaged 71.3 residents a day, about 71% 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
- 100
- Average residents per day
- 71.3 (71.3% of beds)
- Ownership type
- Non profit - Corporation
- Certification
- Medicare and Medicaid
- Legal business name
- Bethany-St Joseph Corporation
- Certified since
- Jan 17, 1977
- Chain or affiliated group
- None listed by CMS
- Location
- Urban
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 | Wisconsin median | US median |
|---|---|---|---|
| Overall rating | 4 of 5 | State spread: 70 at 1, 66 at 2, 59 at 3, 52 at 4, 74 at 5 | |
| Health inspections | 3 of 5 | ||
| Quality measures | 2 of 5 | ||
| Staffing | 5 of 5 | ||
| Total nurse hours per resident per day | 4.21 | 4.02 | 3.68 |
| RN hours per resident per day | 1.57 | 0.93 | 0.58 |
| Weekend nurse hours per resident per day | 3.77 | ||
| Nursing staff turnover | 40.4% | 46.2% | 44.9% |
| Occupancy (residents / beds) | 71.3% | 75.1% | 85.7% |
| Fines reported by CMS | None | ||
| Health deficiencies, latest standard survey | 6 (Jun 19, 2025) | ||
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). Bethany St Joseph Care Ctr meets that part today: 4 stars overall, 3 on health inspections, no abuse icon. The loan-to-value, coverage and operator tests depend on the deal. All the criteria.
Who owns and operates it
These are the owners and operators the facility reported to CMS: anyone with a 5% or greater direct or indirect stake, and any organization with operational or managerial control.
| Name | Role | Share | Since |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wipfli LLPOrganization | Operational / Managerial Control | n/a | 01/23/2025 |
| Barton, ScottIndividual | Operational / Managerial Control | n/a | 08/09/1999 |
| Bennett, TishaIndividual | Operational / Managerial Control | n/a | 11/18/2015 |
| Berra, KayIndividual | Operational / Managerial Control | n/a | 01/07/2025 |
| Braley, MatthewIndividual | Operational / Managerial Control | n/a | 12/26/2024 |
| Feirtag, MeganIndividual | Operational / Managerial Control | n/a | 01/31/2017 |
| Gochanour, KimberlyIndividual | Operational / Managerial Control | n/a | 03/25/2024 |
| Hanson, CharlesIndividual | Operational / Managerial Control | n/a | 01/06/2025 |
| Kite, CindiIndividual | Operational / Managerial Control | n/a | 01/06/2025 |
| Kutt, DawnIndividual | Operational / Managerial Control | n/a | 01/07/2025 |
| Maki, ErickIndividual | Operational / Managerial Control | n/a | 01/07/2025 |
| Malone, EdwardIndividual | Operational / Managerial Control | n/a | 12/31/2024 |
| Martin, SeanIndividual | Operational / Managerial Control | n/a | 01/07/2025 |
| Passe, NicholasIndividual | Operational / Managerial Control | n/a | 01/06/2025 |
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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