Fonteum Care Compare · Kansas · Topeka
Nursing homes in Topeka, Kansas: 14 Medicare-certified facilities.
CMS overall star rating, staffing rating, health inspection rating, and ownership type for every Medicare-certified nursing home in Topeka — every column traced to the CMS Care Compare NH Provider Information dataset (4pq5-n9py).
Average CMS overall rating in Topeka: 2.7 / 5
How Topeka compares
Topeka vs the Kansas state average
Overall ★ — this city
2.7
State avg 3.0 / 5
-0.3 vs state
Staffing ★ — this city
2.6
State avg 3.4 / 5
-0.7 vs state
Facilities — this city
14
297 statewide
State averages are CMS-published per-state means from the same snapshot; the city figure is the mean across the 14 rated facilities above.
Where Topeka sits
All 14 Medicare-certified nursing homes in Topeka sit in Shawnee County, Kansas. County is the geographic unit CMS uses for staffing-desert and access analysis.
All Medicare-certified nursing homes in Topeka, Kansas
Brewster Health Center
1001 Sw 29th St · CCN 175044 · Non profit - Church related
97 certified beds · 75.7 avg daily residents · 5.63 total nurse hrs/resident-day · QM 5 / 5 · Last standard survey June 11, 2025
5
Overall
4
Staffing
4 / 5
Health Insp.
Lexington Park Nursing & Post Acute Center
1031 Sw Fleming Court · CCN 175154 · For profit - Corporation
90 certified beds · 80.2 avg daily residents · 4.51 total nurse hrs/resident-day · QM 4 / 5 · Last standard survey July 17, 2024
5
Overall
5
Staffing
5 / 5
Health Insp.
Mccrite Plaza Health Center
1610 Sw 37th Street · CCN 175171 · For profit - Corporation
80 certified beds · 61.4 avg daily residents · 4.93 total nurse hrs/resident-day · QM 5 / 5 · Last standard survey August 7, 2024
5
Overall
4
Staffing
4 / 5
Health Insp.
The Healthcare Resort Of Topeka
6300 Sw 6th Avenue · CCN 175555 · For profit - Corporation
70 certified beds · 65.9 avg daily residents · 4.59 total nurse hrs/resident-day · QM 5 / 5 · Last standard survey December 18, 2025
5
Overall
4
Staffing
5 / 5
Health Insp.
Brighton Place North
1301 Ne Jefferson Street · CCN 17E256 · For profit - Corporation
34 certified beds · 33.8 avg daily residents · 1.99 total nurse hrs/resident-day · QM 5 / 5 · Last standard survey October 15, 2025
4
Overall
2
Staffing
3 / 5
Health Insp.
Countryside Health Center
440 Se Woodland Avenue · CCN 17E528 · For profit - Corporation
97 certified beds · 93.6 avg daily residents · 1.78 total nurse hrs/resident-day · QM 5 / 5 · Last standard survey April 30, 2025
4
Overall
2
Staffing
3 / 5
Health Insp.
Rolling Hills Health Center
2400 Sw Urish Road · CCN 175165 · For profit - Limited Liability company
70 certified beds · 42.6 avg daily residents · 3.14 total nurse hrs/resident-day · QM 2 / 5 · Last standard survey July 29, 2025
2
Overall
3
Staffing
2 / 5
Health Insp.
Brighton Place West
331 Sw Oakley Street · CCN 175547 · For profit - Corporation
50 certified beds · 49.5 avg daily residents · 2.36 total nurse hrs/resident-day · QM 5 / 5 · Last standard survey October 17, 2024
2
Overall
1
Staffing
2 / 5
Health Insp.
Legacy On 10th Avenue
2015 Se 10th Avenue · CCN 175113 · For profit - Limited Liability company
60 certified beds · 55 avg daily residents · 2.92 total nurse hrs/resident-day · QM 2 / 5 · Last standard survey October 9, 2024
1
Overall
2
Staffing
1 / 5
Health Insp.
Plaza West Healthcare And Rehab
1570 Sw Westport Drive · CCN 175255 · For profit - Limited Liability company
151 certified beds · 127.8 avg daily residents · 3.68 total nurse hrs/resident-day · QM 3 / 5 · Last standard survey March 19, 2025
1
Overall
1
Staffing
1 / 5
Health Insp.
Topeka Presbyterian Manor
4712 Sw 6th Ave · CCN 175297 · Non profit - Corporation
68 certified beds · 59.9 avg daily residents · 4.58 total nurse hrs/resident-day · QM 1 / 5 · Last standard survey December 11, 2024
1
Overall
4
Staffing
2 / 5
Health Insp.
The Gardens At Aldersgate
3220 Sw Albright Drive · CCN 175340 · For profit - Limited Liability company
175 certified beds · 162.6 avg daily residents · 4.00 total nurse hrs/resident-day · QM 3 / 5 · Last standard survey January 7, 2026
1
Overall
3
Staffing
1 / 5
Health Insp.
Providence Living Center
1112 Se Republican Avenue · CCN 175418 · For profit - Corporation
78 certified beds · 68 avg daily residents · 2.43 total nurse hrs/resident-day · QM 4 / 5 · Last standard survey December 18, 2025
1
Overall
1
Staffing
1 / 5
Health Insp.
Tanglewood Nursing & Rehabilitation
5015 Sw 28th Street · CCN 175463 · For profit - Corporation · SFF Candidate
54 certified beds · 45.3 avg daily residents · 3.14 total nurse hrs/resident-day · QM 4 / 5 · Last standard survey October 17, 2024
1
Overall
1
Staffing
1 / 5
Health Insp.
Reading the data
What these CMS ratings mean
Every star column on this page comes straight from CMS’s Five-Star Quality Rating System. Fonteum re-publishes the federal numbers without re-scoring them — the definitions below are CMS’s, not ours.
- Overall star rating
- A 1-to-5 summary CMS derives from the health-inspection, staffing, and quality-measure ratings. It is a relative ranking, not an absolute score — roughly the top fifth of facilities earn 5 stars and the bottom fifth earn 1.
- Health inspection rating
- Based on the three most recent state standard surveys plus any complaint investigations, weighted toward recency. More and more severe deficiencies lower the rating.
- Staffing rating
- Built from payroll-based (PBJ) nurse staffing hours per resident day, case-mix adjusted, including registered-nurse hours and weekend coverage.
- Quality-measure (QM) rating
- Drawn from a set of MDS- and claims-based clinical measures (e.g. pressure ulcers, falls, hospitalisation, antipsychotic use) across short- and long-stay residents.
- Special Focus Facility (SFF)
- A separate CMS program flagging facilities with a persistent pattern of serious health-inspection problems. “SFF” marks an active designation; “SFF Candidate” marks a facility on the candidate list.
Full methodology: how Fonteum sources and signs CMS nursing-home data.
Other Kansas cities with nursing homes
Compare Topeka with nearby markets — facility counts from the same CMS snapshot.
Fonteum research on nursing-home quality
Star ratings vs actual resident harm
Where CMS overall stars diverge from documented harm-level deficiencies.
Nursing-home staffing deserts by county
Counties where reported nurse hours per resident day fall furthest behind.
Nursing-home ownership networks
How chain ownership concentrates across Medicare-certified facilities.
Facilities banned from new Medicare admissions
Payment-denial enforcement actions and the facilities they hit.