500 Park Street East, Annandale, MN 55302 (opens Google Maps) · Wright County · (320) 274-3737· 42 certified beds · avg 39 residents/day · certified since Nov 1, 1986 · Medicare and Medicaid certified
Certified for both programmes. Certification means the facility can bill Medicaid — it does not mean a Medicaid-funded bed is free right now, so ask directly. Who pays for nursing home care →
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Health inspection rating: ★★★★★5/5 · CMS overall rating: 5/5 · how star ratings work →
The health inspection star above is graded on a curve within each state — a set share of each state's facilities gets each star level — so a facility can have few citations and still rate 2–3 stars if others in its state did even better. The overall rating combines that inspection score with staffing and quality measures from resident assessments and claims.
▲ Actual harm, isolated · Jun 17, 2025 · F-0689 · triggered by a complaint
The facility did not keep the environment free of accident hazards, or did not provide enough supervision to prevent accidents like falls.
Why it matters: This is one of the most common citations and directly relates to falls and injuries, which can be devastating for older adults.
Severity (G): Actual harm was cited, below immediate jeopardy. The scope was isolated: limited residents, staff, or locations were affected. Scope describes the extent of the deficiency, not whether it happened on previous inspections.
Corrected: Jul 23, 2025 (Deficient, Provider has date of correction)
Showing the latest 3 of 5 inspection findings. Open the full record below to read every finding.
The facility did not label drugs according to professional standards or did not store them in locked compartments, with controlled drugs (medications with a high risk of misuse) kept under a separate lock. · from a complaint F-0761
The facility did not keep the environment free of accident hazards, or did not provide enough supervision to prevent accidents like falls. · from a complaint F-0689
The facility did not keep the environment free of accident hazards, or did not provide enough supervision to prevent accidents like falls. · from a complaint F-0689
CMS publishes roughly the last three inspection cycles plus recent complaint investigations. Older surveys drop out of the record as new ones are completed — that window is CMS's, not ours. Within it, every citation CMS publishes for this facility is listed here: none excluded.
| Date | Severity | What the facility was cited for |
|---|---|---|
| Aug 13, 2025 | D · Potential for more than minimal harm, isolated | The facility did not label drugs according to professional standards or did not store them in locked compartments, with controlled drugs (medications with a high risk of misuse) kept under a separate lock. · from a complaint · F-0761 |
| Jun 17, 2025 | ▲ G · Actual harm, isolated | The facility did not keep the environment free of accident hazards, or did not provide enough supervision to prevent accidents like falls. · from a complaint · F-0689 |
| Oct 23, 2024 | D · Potential for more than minimal harm, isolated | The facility did not keep the environment free of accident hazards, or did not provide enough supervision to prevent accidents like falls. · from a complaint · F-0689 |
| Jul 26, 2023 | D · Potential for more than minimal harm, isolated | The facility did not provide routine dental care and 24-hour emergency dental care for residents. · F-0790 |
| Jul 26, 2023 | D · Potential for more than minimal harm, isolated | The facility did not develop and follow policies and procedures for offering residents flu and pneumonia vaccinations. · F-0883 |
All bars start at zero. Exact values and supporting details remain below.
| Year | Citations | Serious (G–L) | Worst severity that year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 2 | 0 | D |
| 2024 | 1 | 0 | D |
| 2025 | 2 | 1 | G ▲ |
Counts reflect the current CMS public record (~3 inspection cycles plus complaint investigations); years with no surveys show no row. Inspection frequency varies, so compare severity as well as counts.
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0 fines totaling $0, plus 1 Medicare payment denial period.
Every penalty CMS publishes for this facility in the 3-year window is listed —none excluded. The count and the dollar total come from two different CMS datasets and agree for this facility. Penalties older than the window are dropped by CMS before publication, not by us.
| Date | Type | Amount / length |
|---|---|---|
| Jun 17, 2025 | Payment Denial | 6 days from Jul 17, 2025 |
What these staffing numbers mean →
All bars start at zero. Exact values and supporting details remain below.
| Measure | This facility | Minnesota avg | U.S. avg | Where it stands |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total nurse staffing (hours per resident per day) | 4.64 | 4.83 | 3.95 | bottom 44% in Minnesota; top 20% in the U.S. |
| Registered Nurse hours | 1.07 | 1.22 | 0.69 | bottom 43% in Minnesota; top 13% in the U.S. |
| Weekend total nurse staffing | 3.90 | 4.27 | 3.50 | bottom 34% in Minnesota; top 26% in the U.S. |
| Weekend RN hours (not acuity-adjusted) | 0.45 | 0.69 | 0.48 | bottom 28% in Minnesota; top 39% in the U.S. |
| Total nursing staff turnover (%) | 47.5 | 42.2 | 45.8 | bottom 32% in Minnesota; bottom 43% in the U.S. |
| RN turnover (%) | 45.5 | 38.6 | 42.9 | bottom 36% in Minnesota; bottom 43% in the U.S. |
Hours are per resident per day for the most recent quarter of payroll data in this CMS release (2026-08-01) — the same quarter for every facility — case-mix adjusted by CMS so facilities caring for sicker residents can be compared fairly (same basis as the CMS staffing star). "Top X%" means better than most facilities: more staffing hours, or lower turnover. Raw (unadjusted) reported hours: total 4.41, RN 1.01, weekend 3.70.Comparing with Medicare Care Compare? Care Compare shows the raw figure (4.41 here, displayed there as hours and minutes), not the adjusted one above. Both are correct; they answer different questions. Staffing rating: 4/5.
Note: CMS combines facility-reported resident assessments (MDS) with claims-based measures. These are different sources from on-site inspection findings. Read the measures alongside inspection and staffing records; a high QM rating does not establish that a home is safe.
Quality measures rating: 4/5 · long-stay residents: 4/5 · short-stay residents: 4/5
Price evidence · separate from quality
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Ownership records as published by CMS on 2026-08-01. CMS records when an owner joined but not when they left. Listed here and no longer involved? Tell us →
Non profit - Corporation
| Owner / manager | Type | Role | Stake | Since |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brown, Sheldon | Individual | Corporate Director | NOT APPLICABLE | 04/01/2024 |
| Dircks, Linda | Individual | Corporate Officer | NOT APPLICABLE | 04/01/2020 |
| Gruys, Katherine | Individual | Corporate Director | NOT APPLICABLE | 03/01/2023 |
| Manuel, Angela | Individual | Corporate Officer | NOT APPLICABLE | 04/01/2022 |
| Miller, Mark | Individual | Corporate Officer | NOT APPLICABLE | 04/01/2015 |
| Millner, Roger | Individual | Corporate Director | NOT APPLICABLE | 04/01/2013 |
| Niska, Elsa | Individual | Corporate Officer | NOT APPLICABLE | 01/11/2023 |
| Niska, Elsa | Individual | Operational/Managerial Control | NOT APPLICABLE | 01/11/2023 |
| Niska, Elsa | Individual | ADP of the SNF | NOT APPLICABLE | 01/11/2023 |
| Watkins, Douglas | Individual | Operational/Managerial Control | NOT APPLICABLE | 05/01/2023 |
| Watkins, Douglas | Individual | ADP of the SNF | NOT APPLICABLE | 05/01/2023 |
All 11 owning or managing parties CMS has on file are shown — none excluded.
Generated from this facility's actual citation record — bring them to a tour and ask the administrator directly.
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CMS records place this facility in Wright, MN — 7 certified facilities there. These are outside the 20-mile list above, or far enough down it not to appear.
Listed by facility name — not a ranking. Homes already in the table above are not repeated here.
Facility data as of CMS processing date 2026-08-01. CCN 245364.
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