Nursing Homes in Idaho: Staffing, Turnover, and Penalties
Idaho has 80 Medicare- or Medicaid-certified nursing homes in 40 cities. On CMS's August 2026 figures, nurse aides there log 2.44 hours per resident per day, 5% above the US average of 2.32, and 50.3% of nursing staff leave in a year (US 45.8%).
Idaho averages
Aide hours per resident per day is the nurse aide time a home logged for each resident across a whole day, from the payroll records every home submits to CMS. More hours per resident means more hands on the floor for the same number of residents. Turnover is the share of nursing staff who left over a year. Fines and payment denials are CMS penalties from the last three years.
CMS Care Compare State and US Averages, August 2026 release
Nursing homes by city
The most nursing homes are in Boise (10), Lewiston (6), Nampa (6). Each city page compares every home on staffing, turnover, CMS stars, and fines.
- American Falls (1)
- Ammon (1)
- Ashton (1)
- Bellevue (1)
- Blackfoot (2)
- Boise (10)
- Bonners Ferry (1)
- Buhl (1)
- Burley (2)
- Caldwell (2)
- Coeur d'Alene (5)
- Emmett (2)
- Gooding (1)
- Grangeville (1)
- Homedale (1)
- Idaho Falls (3)
- Kellogg (1)
- Kimberly (1)
- Lewiston (6)
- Malad (1)
- McCall (1)
- Meridian (3)
- Montpelier (1)
- Moscow (2)
- Mountain Home (1)
- Nampa (6)
- Orofino (1)
- Payette (1)
- Pocatello (4)
- Post Falls (2)
- Preston (1)
- Rexburg (2)
- Rupert (1)
- Salmon (1)
- Sandpoint (2)
- Shoshone (1)
- Silverton (1)
- St Maries (1)
- Twin Falls (3)
- Weiser (1)
Largest nursing home chains in Idaho
CMS links 64 of Idaho's homes to these 10 chains. A chain is a group of homes under common ownership or management, as CMS records it.
| Chain | Homes in ID | Homes nationwide |
|---|---|---|
| Cascadia Healthcare | 25 | 46 |
| The Ensign Group | 15 | 342 |
| Life Care Centers of America | 8 | 194 |
| Cascades Healthcare | 5 | 19 |
| Tanabell Health Services | 4 | 5 |
| Advanced Health Care | 2 | 26 |
| Pacs Group | 2 | 274 |
| Humangood | 1 | 17 |
| Promontory Healthcare Management | 1 | 2 |
| Sunterra Springs | 1 | 4 |
Chain as recorded in the CMS Provider Information file, August 2026 release