204 W Washington Avenue, Sterling, KS 67579 (opens Google Maps) · Rice County · (620) 278-3651· 45 certified beds · avg 28 residents/day · certified since Jul 1, 1994 · 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 →
Part of chain: GRACE TEAM SERVICES (9 facilities, chain avg rating 2.6★)
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Health inspection rating: ★★☆☆☆2/5 · CMS overall rating: 3/5 · 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 · Jan 23, 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: Feb 18, 2025 (Deficient, Provider has date of correction)
▲ Actual harm, isolated · Jan 4, 2023 · F-0689
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: Feb 2, 2023 (Deficient, Provider has date of correction)
Showing the latest 3 of 18 inspection findings. Open the full record below to read every finding.
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 employ enough qualified food and nutrition staff, including a qualified dietician, to properly run its food service. · from a complaint F-0801
The facility did not get its food from approved, safe sources, or did not store, prepare, and serve food according to professional food safety standards. · from a complaint F-0812
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Jan 23, 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 |
| Jan 23, 2025 | F · Potential for more than minimal harm, widespread | The facility did not employ enough qualified food and nutrition staff, including a qualified dietician, to properly run its food service. · from a complaint · F-0801 |
| Jan 23, 2025 | F · Potential for more than minimal harm, widespread | The facility did not get its food from approved, safe sources, or did not store, prepare, and serve food according to professional food safety standards. · from a complaint · F-0812 |
| Jan 23, 2025 | F · Potential for more than minimal harm, widespread | The facility did not have or follow an effective program to prevent and control infections — such as proper hand washing, cleaning, and isolation practices. This is the most commonly cited deficiency nationwide. · F-0880 |
| Jan 23, 2025 | E · Potential for more than minimal harm, pattern | The facility did not have a licensed pharmacist review each resident's complete medication regimen and medical chart every month, or did not follow its own rules for reporting medication problems. · F-0756 |
| Jan 23, 2025 | D · Potential for more than minimal harm, isolated | The facility did not provide enough food and fluids to keep residents healthy, such as preventing unplanned weight loss or dehydration. · F-0692 |
| Jan 23, 2025 | D · Potential for more than minimal harm, isolated | The facility did not make sure its nurse aides had the skills needed to care for residents, including training in dementia care and abuse prevention. · F-0947 |
| Jan 4, 2023 | ▲ 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. · F-0689 |
| Jan 4, 2023 | F · Potential for more than minimal harm, widespread | The facility did not get its food from approved, safe sources, or did not store, prepare, and serve food according to professional food safety standards. · F-0812 |
| Jan 4, 2023 | D · Potential for more than minimal harm, isolated | The facility did not give the resident or their representative written notice of how long it would hold the resident's bed during a hospital stay or approved leave. · F-0625 |
| Jan 4, 2023 | D · Potential for more than minimal harm, isolated | The facility did not develop a resident's complete plan of care within 7 days of the full assessment, or the plan wasn't prepared, reviewed, and updated by a team of health professionals as required. · F-0657 |
| Jan 4, 2023 | D · Potential for more than minimal harm, isolated | The facility did not provide proper care for pressure ulcers (bedsores) or did not do enough to prevent new ones from forming. Bedsores develop when residents stay in one position too long without help moving. · F-0686 |
| Jan 4, 2023 | D · Potential for more than minimal harm, isolated | The facility did not provide safe and appropriate respiratory care — such as oxygen, breathing treatments, or care for residents on breathing equipment — for residents who needed it. · F-0695 |
| Jan 4, 2023 | D · Potential for more than minimal harm, isolated | The facility did not have a licensed pharmacist review each resident's complete medication regimen and medical chart every month, or did not follow its own rules for reporting medication problems. · F-0756 |
| Jan 4, 2023 | D · Potential for more than minimal harm, isolated | The facility did not keep residents' medications free from unnecessary drugs. Residents should only take medicines they truly need, at the right dose, for a clear reason. · F-0757 |
| Jan 4, 2023 | D · Potential for more than minimal harm, isolated | The facility did not try to gradually reduce doses of mood- and mind-altering medications or use non-drug approaches first, as required, or used 'as needed' psychiatric drugs without proper limits. · F-0758 |
| Jun 8, 2021 | E · Potential for more than minimal harm, pattern | 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. · F-0761 |
| Jun 8, 2021 | D · Potential for more than minimal harm, isolated | The facility did not have a licensed pharmacist review each resident's complete medication regimen and medical chart every month, or did not follow its own rules for reporting medication problems. · F-0756 |
Citations from standard inspections stayed about the same across the last two inspection cycles (9 → 7).
All bars start at zero. Exact values and supporting details remain below.
| Year | Citations | Serious (G–L) | Worst severity that year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 2 | 0 | E |
| 2023 | 9 | 1 | G ▲ |
| 2025 | 7 | 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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1 fine totaling $24,206.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Jan 23, 2025 | Fine | $24,206 |
What these staffing numbers mean →
All bars start at zero. Exact values and supporting details remain below.
| Measure | This facility | Kansas avg | U.S. avg | Where it stands |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total nurse staffing (hours per resident per day) | 5.36 | 4.58 | 3.95 | top 20% in Kansas; top 9% in the U.S. |
| Registered Nurse hours | 0.87 | 0.81 | 0.69 | top 34% in Kansas; top 22% in the U.S. |
| Weekend total nurse staffing | 4.92 | 4.05 | 3.50 | top 18% in Kansas; top 7% in the U.S. |
| Weekend RN hours (not acuity-adjusted) | 0.53 | 0.49 | 0.48 | top 35% in Kansas; top 29% in the U.S. |
| Total nursing staff turnover (%) | 33.3 | 48.1 | 45.8 | top 15% in Kansas; top 20% in the U.S. |
| RN turnover (%) | 33.3 | 42.0 | 42.9 | top 34% in Kansas; top 33% 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 4.42, RN 0.72, weekend 4.05.Comparing with Medicare Care Compare? Care Compare shows the raw figure (4.42 here, displayed there as hours and minutes), not the adjusted one above. Both are correct; they answer different questions. Staffing rating: 5/5.
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: 2/5 · long-stay residents: 2/5 · short-stay residents: 1/5
Price evidence · separate from quality
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How to read ownership records →
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Agewise Living INC | Organization | 5% or Greater Direct Ownership Interest | 100% | 06/17/2016 |
| Aegis Therapies, INC. | Organization | Operational/Managerial Control | NOT APPLICABLE | 11/01/2018 |
| Aegis Therapies, INC. | Organization | ADP of the SNF | NOT APPLICABLE | 07/24/2025 |
| Agewise Living INC | Organization | Operational/Managerial Control | NOT APPLICABLE | 06/17/2019 |
| Ball, Monte | Individual | Managing Control - Governing Body | NOT APPLICABLE | 02/10/2020 |
| Ball, Monte | Individual | Corporate Director | NOT APPLICABLE | 02/10/2020 |
| Bennett, Sheri | Individual | Corporate Director | NOT APPLICABLE | 03/01/2025 |
| Bland & Associates, P.C. | Organization | Operational/Managerial Control | NOT APPLICABLE | 11/01/2018 |
| Bland & Associates, P.C. | Organization | ADP of the SNF | NOT APPLICABLE | 07/24/2025 |
| Decker, James | Individual | Operational/Managerial Control | NOT APPLICABLE | 01/01/2025 |
| Decker, James | Individual | ADP of the SNF | NOT APPLICABLE | 07/24/2025 |
| Flint Hills Billing and Consulting LLC | Organization | Operational/Managerial Control | NOT APPLICABLE | 11/01/2018 |
| Flint Hills Billing and Consulting LLC | Organization | ADP of the SNF | NOT APPLICABLE | 07/24/2025 |
| Foster, Amy | Individual | Managing Control - Governing Body | NOT APPLICABLE | 02/10/2020 |
| Foster, Amy | Individual | Corporate Director | NOT APPLICABLE | 02/10/2020 |
| Fulton, Erric | Individual | Managing Control - Governing Body | NOT APPLICABLE | 02/10/2020 |
| Fulton, Erric | Individual | Corporate Director | NOT APPLICABLE | 02/10/2020 |
| Grace Team LLC | Organization | Operational/Managerial Control | NOT APPLICABLE | 03/20/2019 |
| Grace Team LLC | Organization | ADP of the SNF | NOT APPLICABLE | 07/10/2025 |
| Grace, Ryan | Individual | Operational/Managerial Control | NOT APPLICABLE | 03/20/2019 |
Showing 20 of 26 parties CMS has on file for this facility; 6 are not displayed. The full list is in the CMS Ownership dataset.
CMS lists this facility under the chain Grace Team Services — 9 facilities in the current records. Chain membership says who operates these homes. It says nothing about how any individual one of them was inspected; each has its own record.
Listed by state, then facility name — not a ranking.
Generated from this facility's actual citation record — bring them to a tour and ask the administrator directly.
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Facility data as of CMS processing date 2026-08-01. CCN 175299.
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