Fair Meadow Nursing Home: Staffing, Turnover, and Inspection Record
Fair Meadow Nursing Home is a 42-bed nonprofit nursing home in Fertile, Minnesota. In the CMS August 2026 release it reported 3.58 nurse aide hours per resident per day, 42% above the Minnesota average of 2.52.
Fair Meadow Nursing Home
300 Garfield Avenue SoutheastFertile, MN 56540
Polk County
CMS Care Compare, August 2026 release
How many staff hours residents get
CMS reports staffing as hours per resident per day, from the payroll records each home submits. At Fair Meadow Nursing Home, nurse aides logged 3.58 hours per resident per day, 42% above the Minnesota average. With about 39 residents a day, that works out to roughly 140 aide hours a day, or about 18 eight-hour aide shifts across day, evening, and night. On weekends, total nursing hours per resident ran 22% below the all-days figure.
| Hours per resident per day | This home | Minnesota avg | US avg |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nurse aides (CNAs) | 3.58 | 2.52 | 2.32 |
| Licensed practical nurses | 1.01 | 0.61 | 0.86 |
| Registered nurses | 0.65 | 1.06 | 0.69 |
| All nursing staff | 5.24 | 4.19 | 3.86 |
| All nursing staff, weekends | 4.11 | 3.71 | 3.42 |
CMS Care Compare, August 2026 release: reported staffing hours from Payroll-Based Journal data, and CMS state and US averages.
Staff turnover
CMS publishes no nursing staff turnover figure for Fair Meadow Nursing Home in this release.
CMS note: Staffing data not submitted or not valid for calculating turnover.
Inspections and penalties
State inspectors last completed a standard health inspection on Sep 10, 2025. The most recent inspection cycle, which also counts complaint and infection-control inspections from the past 12 months, found 8 health deficiencies (Minnesota average 7.0). CMS lists no fines or payment denials for this home in the last three years.
CMS star ratings
CMS rates every nursing home from one to five stars overall and on health inspections, staffing, and quality measures. Fair Meadow Nursing Home holds 4 of 5 overall; the Minnesota average is 3.2.
About Fair Meadow Nursing Home
- Ownership: Non profit - Other
- Legal name: Village of Fertile
- Medicare and Medicaid certified since: Feb 1, 1991
- Councils: resident council
- Area: urban
Nursing homes near Fair Meadow Nursing Home
The closest homes by distance, with the same CMS figures. Select a column to sort.
| Benedictine Care Community Ada | 19.8 | 49 | 1.85 | 3.16 | 60.4% | 1 | $154,460 |
| McIntosh Senior Living McIntosh | 20.0 | 45 | 3.58 | 4.92 | 27.0% | 5 | None |
| Mahnomen Health Center Mahnomen | 20.7 | 32 | 2.89 | 4.24 | — | 2 | $12,534 |
| Villa St. Vincent Crookston · abuse citation | 22.5 | 100 | 2.61 | 3.96 | 42.3% | 1 | $29,234 |
| First Care Living Center Fosston | 25.2 | 36 | 2.98 | 5.35 | 41.7% | 4 | $14,433 |
| Halstad Living Center Halstad | 28.1 | 44 | 2.36 | 3.66 | 38.6% | 4 | None |
| Viking Manor Nursing Home Ulen | 30.8 | 45 | 2.38 | 3.42 | 12.2% | 5 | None |
| Sanford Hillsboro Care Center Hillsboro | 37.4 | 34 | 2.94 | 4.52 | 38.6% | 3 | $42,488 |
Aide hrs and all nurse hrs are staff hours per resident per day. Fines are the CMS total for the last three years. Turnover is the share of nursing staff who left over a year. All figures from CMS Care Compare.
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Source: CMS Care Compare Provider Information, State and US Averages, and Penalties files, August 2026 release. Figures are as CMS publishes them; check Medicare Care Compare for the latest. Methodology.