Good Shepherd Lutheran Home
800 Home Street, Box 747, Rushford, MN 55971 · Fillmore County · (507) 864-7714
65 certified beds, about 50 residents a day · Non profit - Other · Medicare and Medicaid since 1986
CMS Care Compare ratings, data as of September 1, 2026 · CCN 245393 · See it on Medicare.gov · Compare with other homes
The record in brief
At its most recent standard inspection, on May 12, 2026, inspectors cited 2 health deficiencies (the Minnesota average is 7.1, the national average 9.2).
None of its 5 health citations since January 2024 was rated as actual harm or immediate jeopardy.
CMS lists no fines against this home in the last three years.
Nurses and nurse aides worked 3.98 hours per resident per day, against 4.19 across Minnesota and 3.86 nationally. Registered nurses accounted for 0.70 of those hours.
50.0% of nursing staff left within the year CMS measured (Minnesota average 42.2%).
Health inspections
Federal rules call for a standard inspection at least every 15 months, plus a visit whenever a complaint is filed. Each mark below is one citation, colored by how serious inspectors rated it. How to read a citation.
Under each citation, the quoted text is the inspector's own summary from the federal statement of deficiencies (CMS form 2567), word for word apart from a privacy scrub; CMS removes residents' and staff names before it publishes the text. The full notes are on Medicare.gov.
Where its citations fall on CMS's grid
CMS rates every citation by how much harm it caused (rows) and how many residents it touched (columns). The count in each box is this home's, across all 5 health citations on file.
May 12, 2026Standard inspection · 2 citations · risk-based survey (a shorter visit CMS gives only to higher performing homes)
- D Provide care and assistance to perform activities of daily living for any resident who is unable.
Inspectors wroteBased on observation, interview, and document review, the facility failed to ensure routine personal hygiene (i.e., nail care) was completed and provided for 1 of 1 resident (R7) reviewed for activities of daily living (ADLs) and who was dependent on staff for their care. Findings Include:R7's comprehensive Minimum Data Set (MDS) assessment, dated 4/3/26, identified R7 had severe cognitive impairment, and was dependent for personal hygiene which include nails care. R7's care plan dated 3/8/24 indicated bath and nailcare will be offered by nurse aid every week. R7s electronic medical record (EMR) lacked weekly nail care provided with baths. Facility Nursing Assistant Bath Day sheet dated 5/7/26 indicated nails were cleaned and not needed to be clipped. [...]
- C Provide the required documentation or notification related to the resident's needs, appeal rights, or bed-hold policies.
Inspectors wroteBased on interview and document review, the facility failed to notify the Office of the State Long-Term Cate (LTC) Ombudsman for calendar years 2025 and 2026, reviewed for hospitalizations, discharges, and transfers. Findings Include: During an interview on 5/7/26 at 4:07 p.m., ombudsman (OM)-A stated she had not received any hospitalizations, discharges, and transfer notices for the year of 2025 and no notices for 2026. During an interview on 5/11/26 at 2:46 p.m., social services (SS)-A stated she is responsible for sending notification to the ombudsman about hospitalizations, discharges, and transfers; these notifications are supposed to be sent monthly. SS-A confirmed she is behind a little with submitting the notifications to the ombudsman. [...]
March 12, 2025Standard inspection · 0 citations
February 12, 2025Complaint inspection · 1 citation
- D Provide appropriate treatment and care according to orders, resident’s preferences and goals.
Inspectors wroteBased on observation, interview, and record review the facility failed to comprehensively assess and monitor high blood pressure and rectal bleeding for 1 of 3 residents (R2) reviewed for change in condition.
January 25, 2024Standard inspection · 2 citations
- D Allow residents to self-administer drugs if determined clinically appropriate.
Inspectors wroteBased on observation, interview, and document review, the facility failed to assess resident for safety and the ability to self-administer medications (SAM) for 1 of 1 resdient (R99) with nebulizer treatment.
- D Ensure medication error rates are not 5 percent or greater.
Inspectors wroteBased on observation, interview, and record review, the facility failed to ensure a medication administration error rate of less than 5 percent (%). Six medication administration errors occurred out of 26 opportunities resulting in a 23.08 % medication error rate for 1 of 4 residents (R99) observed during medication pass.
Fire safety inspections
10 fire safety citations on file: 3 on March 12, 2025, 7 on January 25, 2024.
Every fire safety citation10 citations
- F Inspect, test, and maintain automatic sprinkler systems.
- F Install smoke barrier doors that can resist smoke for at least 20 minutes.
- F To conduct inspection, testing and maintenance of fire doors by qualified individuals.
- F Have approved installation, maintenance and testing program for fire alarm systems.
- F Inspect, test, and maintain automatic sprinkler systems.
- F Install smoke barrier doors that can resist smoke for at least 20 minutes.
- F Have proper medical gas storage and administration areas.
- D Install emergency lighting that can last at least 1 1/2 hours.
- D Provide properly protected cooking facilities.
- D Properly select, install, inspect, or maintain portable fire extinguishes.
Fines and payment denials
CMS lists no fines or payment denials against this home in the last three years. The national average is 0.9 fines per home.
Staffing
Hours of care per resident per day, from the payroll records every home sends CMS. Higher means more staff time with each resident.
| Measure | This home | Minnesota | United States |
|---|---|---|---|
| All nursing staff (RN, LPN and aides) | 3.98 | 4.19 | 3.86 |
| Registered nurses | 0.70 | 1.06 | 0.69 |
| All nursing staff on weekends | 3.48 | 3.71 | 3.42 |
| Nurse aides | 2.51 | ||
| Licensed practical nurses | 0.77 | ||
| Nursing staff turnover (share who left in a year) | 50.0% | 42.2% | 45.8% |
| Registered nurse turnover | 16.7% | 38.6% | 42.9% |
| Administrators who left | 0 |
CMS expects 2.92 hours a day for residents as sick as this home's (its case-mix figure). The staffing star compares the two.
Staffing by quarter, from daily payroll records
Every nursing home sends CMS its staff hours for each day (the Payroll Based Journal). Here they are added up by quarter. The latest quarter is the one behind the figures above. In January to March 2026, nursing staff hours per resident were 4.19 on weekdays and 3.48 on weekends, 17% lower on weekends (nationally, weekends ran 15% lower). Contract or agency staff worked 13.2% of nursing hours, against 5.3% nationally. Total nursing hours per resident went from 4.27 in April to June 2025 to 3.98 in January to March 2026.
| Quarter | All nursing staff | Registered nurses | Weekdays | Weekends | Contract staff share | Days with no RN hours | Residents a day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan to Mar 2026 | 3.98 | 0.70 | 4.19 | 3.48 | 13.2% | 2 of 90 | 50 |
| Oct to Dec 2025 | 3.97 | 0.54 | 4.15 | 3.50 | 15.7% | 0 of 92 | 51 |
| Jul to Sep 2025 | 4.23 | 0.57 | 4.52 | 3.49 | 23.6% | 0 of 92 | 50 |
| Apr to Jun 2025 | 4.27 | 0.60 | 4.59 | 3.45 | 27.6% | 0 of 91 | 49 |
| United States, Jan to Mar 2026 | 3.75 | 0.62 | 3.92 | 3.33 | 5.3% | 0.5% of days | |
| Minnesota, Jan to Mar 2026 | 4.19 | 1.05 | 4.38 | 3.73 | 5.2% | 0.8% of days |
Hours per resident per day: staff hours in the quarter divided by resident days (the daily census CMS derives from resident assessments). Registered nurses include the director of nursing and RNs with administrative duties; aides include nurse aides in training and medication aides, as in CMS's own staffing measure. How these are calculated.
Staff pay reports
Staff pay at this home
No staff pay figure for this home has passed review yet. A figure appears only after at least 5 reports from at least 3 different people, sent over at least 60 days, have passed review. If you work here, your report helps start one.
Official wage estimates for Minnesota
| Job | Median | Middle half | Employed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Minnesota, all employers | |||
| CNAs (nursing assistants) | $22.44 | $19.39 to $23.72 | 29,120 |
| LPNs and LVNs | $30.65 | $28.83 to $34.26 | 12,840 |
| Registered nurses | $48.80 | $42.76 to $55.17 | 70,110 |
| United States, nursing care facilities | |||
| CNAs (nursing assistants) | $20.67 | $17.91 to $22.55 | 534,270 |
| LPNs and LVNs | $33.86 | $30.05 to $37.40 | 188,210 |
| Registered nurses | $41.11 | $37.85 to $47.68 | 142,270 |
Hourly wages; the middle half runs from the 25th to the 75th percentile. Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025. BLS has no separate estimate for medication aides. These are survey estimates for whole occupations, not figures for any one home.
Quality measures
The measures CMS uses for the quality star. Lower is better for every one of them.
| Measure | This home | Minnesota | US |
|---|---|---|---|
| Percentage of long-stay residents whose need for help with daily activities has increased Long Stay residents, 2025Q2-2026Q1 | 16.9 | 18.2 | 13.9 |
| Percentage of long-stay residents with a catheter inserted and left in their bladder Long Stay residents, 2025Q2-2026Q1 | 2.9 | 1.9 | 0.8 |
| Percentage of long-stay residents with a urinary tract infection Long Stay residents, 2025Q2-2026Q1 | 1.1 | 2.6 | 1.6 |
| Percentage of long-stay residents experiencing one or more falls with major injury Long Stay residents, 2025Q2-2026Q1 | 2.6 | 4.0 | 3.2 |
| Percentage of short-stay residents who newly received an antipsychotic medication Short Stay residents, 2025Q2-2026Q1 | 0.0 | 1.9 | 1.6 |
| Percentage of long-stay residents whose ability to walk independently worsened Long Stay residents, 2025Q2-2026Q1 | 15.7 | 20.5 | 14.1 |
| Percentage of long-stay residents with pressure ulcers Long Stay residents, 2025Q2-2026Q1 | 2.4 | 5.2 | 4.6 |
| Percentage of long-stay residents who received an antipsychotic medication Long Stay residents, 2025Q2-2026Q1 | 4.9 | 17.1 | 15.4 |
Short-term rehab results
For a stay to recover after a hospital visit, these are the results CMS publishes for Good Shepherd Lutheran Home's Medicare short-stay residents. How to read these, and what Medicare pays for.
CMS reports none of these results for this home: The number of residents or resident stays is too small to report. Call the facility to discuss this quality measure.
Source: CMS Skilled Nursing Facility Quality Reporting Program - Provider Data, released 2026-09-30. Better, no different and worse are CMS's own comparisons with the national rate, after adjusting for how sick residents were. Medians of homes and the state counts are worked out by us from the same file.
Owners and operators
Legal business name: GOOD SHEPHERD LUTHERAN HOME.
| Name | Role | Type | Share | Since |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Usda Department of Agriculture Rural Development | 5% or greater mortgage interest | Organization | 10/01/2024 | |
| Benson, Randy | Corporate director | Individual | 04/01/2024 | |
| Cook, Sonja | Corporate director | Individual | 05/01/2023 | |
| Culhane, John | Corporate director | Individual | 04/01/2024 | |
| Dvorak, Luanne | Corporate director | Individual | 04/01/2021 | |
| Ebner, Wendy | Corporate director | Individual | 04/01/2024 | |
| Hatlevig, Dean | Corporate director | Individual | 04/01/2024 | |
| Ingram, Kathryn | Corporate director | Individual | 04/01/2023 | |
| Pronk, Judith | Corporate director | Individual | 04/01/2024 | |
| Snyder, Nancy | Corporate director | Individual | 04/01/2021 | |
| Zoelle-Johnson, Barbara | Corporate director | Individual | 05/01/2023 | |
| Culhane, John | Corporate officer | Individual | 04/01/2024 | |
| Snyder, Nancy | Corporate officer | Individual | 04/01/2021 | |
| Spece, Rhonda | Corporate officer | Individual | 02/12/2018 | |
| Zoelle-Johnson, Barbara | Corporate officer | Individual | 04/01/2024 | |
| Colbenson, Samantha | Operational/managerial control | Individual | 04/11/2021 | |
| Spece, Rhonda | Operational/managerial control | Individual | 02/18/2000 | |
| A & H Pharmacist Consultant Service | Adp of the SNF | Organization | 10/01/2024 | |
| Cliftonlarsonallen LLP | Adp of the SNF | Organization | 10/01/2025 | |
| Grape Tree Medical Staffing LLC | Adp of the SNF | Organization | 10/01/2024 | |
| Onestaff Medical | Adp of the SNF | Organization | 10/01/2024 | |
| Prime Time Healthcare LLC | Adp of the SNF | Organization | 10/01/2024 | |
| Triage LLC | Adp of the SNF | Organization | 10/01/2024 | |
| Colbenson, Samantha | Adp of the SNF | Individual | 04/11/2021 | |
| Modjeski, Nicholas | Adp of the SNF | Individual | 04/01/2024 | |
| Spece, Rhonda | Adp of the SNF | Individual | 02/12/2018 |
As listed in the CMS ownership file, which names owners with a 5% or greater stake and the people and companies with operational or managerial control.
Questions to ask on a visit
Chosen from this home's own inspection record.
- How do you prevent falls and pressure injuries, and how are families told when one happens?Inspectors cited 2 problems in this area, most recently on May 12, 2026: "Provide care and assistance to perform activities of daily living for any resident who is unable."
- How do residents and families raise a complaint or grievance, and how fast is it answered?Inspectors cited 2 problems in this area, most recently on May 12, 2026: "Provide the required documentation or notification related to the resident's needs, appeal rights, or bed-hold policies."
- How are medications reviewed, and how often are antipsychotic or sedating drugs used?Inspectors cited 1 problem in this area, most recently on January 25, 2024: "Ensure medication error rates are not 5 percent or greater."
- Who is on the floor on Saturday and Sunday, and how many residents does each aide care for?Weekend nurse staffing here was 3.48 hours per resident per day, below the Minnesota average of 3.71.
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- Sauer Health Care Winona, 17.9 mi · 1 of 5 stars · 19 citations
- Sainte Anne Extended Healthcare Winona, 18.1 mi · 4 of 5 stars · 22 citations
- Whitewater Health Services St. Charles, 19.3 mi · 2 of 5 stars · 21 citations
- Green Lea Senior Living Mabel, 20.8 mi · 1 of 5 stars · 38 citations
- Chosen Valley Care Center Chatfield, 21.2 mi · 5 of 5 stars · 9 citations
Minnesota contacts for a concern about a nursing home
These are the official offices in Minnesota. NursingHomeClear cannot take or act on complaints.
- Inspections and complaints: Minnesota Department of Health, Health Regulation Division, the state agency that inspects nursing homes for CMS and takes complaints about care.
- Resident advocate: Minnesota Office of Ombudsman for Long-Term Care, 1-800-657-3591. The long-term care ombudsman is a free, confidential advocate for residents and families, set up under the federal Older Americans Act.
- State inspection reports: MDH Nursing and Boarding Care Home Survey and Complaint Inspection Findings, where Minnesota publishes its own records on licensed homes.
Common questions
- What is Good Shepherd Lutheran Home's Medicare star rating?
- CMS rates Good Shepherd Lutheran Home 5 out of 5 stars overall, with 5 for health inspections, 5 for staffing and 4 for quality measures (CMS data as of September 1, 2026).
- How many deficiencies did Good Shepherd Lutheran Home get at its last inspection?
- 2 health deficiencies at the standard inspection on May 12, 2026. The Minnesota average is 7.1.
- Has Good Shepherd Lutheran Home been fined?
- CMS lists no fines in the last three years.
- Does Good Shepherd Lutheran Home accept Medicaid?
- It is certified to take Medicaid (CMS lists it as "Medicare and Medicaid"). Certification does not mean a Medicaid bed is open: ask the admissions office.
- Who owns Good Shepherd Lutheran Home?
- CMS lists 26 owners and managers. Legal business name: GOOD SHEPHERD LUTHERAN HOME.
Sources
- Ratings, staffing and fines: CMS Provider Information, released September 30, 2026, data as of September 1, 2026.
- Citations: CMS Health Deficiencies and Fire Safety Deficiencies.
- Owners: CMS Ownership. Penalties: CMS Penalties.
- Staffing by quarter: CMS Payroll Based Journal Daily Nurse Staffing, April 2025 to March 2026, summed by NursingHomeClear.
- Inspector summaries: CMS Full Statement of Deficiencies (CMS-2567 text), data as of September 1, 2026. Each quote is the part of the statement before the detailed findings.
- Inspection reports with the inspectors' full notes are on this home's Medicare.gov page.
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