The 10 Worst Nursing Homes in Indiana

  Worst Nursing Homes in Indiana By City

Every city in Indiana has its own set of challenges and standards when it comes to nursing home care. To help you find the information most relevant to your location, we've compiled city-specific rankings of the worst-rated nursing homes. Click on the links below to explore the detailed lists for each city.

Worst Nursing Homes in Indianapolis

• Tranquility Nursing and Rehab (586.25)
• Install smoke barrier doors that can resist smoke for at least 20 minutes. (2025-06-10)
• Establish policies and procedures for medical documentation. (2025-05-08)
• Allison Pointe Healthcare Center (142.75)
• Provide safe, appropriate pain management for a resident who requires such services. (2025-05-14)
• Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program. (2025-05-14)
• Westside Retirement Village (137)
• Install emergency lighting that can last at least 1 1/2 hours. (2025-03-03)
• Conduct testing and exercise requirements. (2025-03-03)
• Majestic Care of Southport (124.75)
• Safeguard resident-identifiable information and/or maintain medical records on each resident that are in accordance with accepted professional standards. (2025-03-12)
• Protect each resident from all types of abuse such as physical, mental, sexual abuse, physical punishment, and neglect by anybody. (2025-03-05)
• Envive of Indianapolis (117)
• Ensure that testing and maintenance of electrical equipment is performed. (2025-10-31)
• Install corridor and hallway doors that block smoke. (2025-10-31)
• The Waters of Castleton Skilled Nursing Facility (94)
• Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to prevent accidents. (2025-05-09)
• Provide pharmaceutical services to meet the needs of each resident and employ or obtain the services of a licensed pharmacist. (2025-05-09)
• Westminster Village North (91)
• Ensure each resident receives an accurate assessment. (2025-01-31)
• Provide the appropriate treatment and services to a resident who displays or is diagnosed with dementia. (2025-01-31)
• Community Nursing and Rehabilitation Center (86)
• Make sure that the nursing home area is safe, easy to use, clean and comfortable for residents, staff and the public. (2025-07-02)
• Procure food from sources approved or considered satisfactory and store, prepare, distribute and serve food in accordance with professional standards. (2025-07-02)
• Eagle Valley Meadows (82)
• Allow residents to self-administer drugs if determined clinically appropriate. (2024-11-01)
• Provide enough food/fluids to maintain a resident's health. (2024-11-01)
• Hawthorne Healthcare Center (80)
• Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to prevent accidents. (2025-04-14)
• Conduct testing and exercise requirements. (2025-01-31)

Worst Nursing Homes in Fort Wayne

• University Park Rehabilitation and Healthcare (129.75)
• Provide properly protected cooking facilities. (2025-06-01)
• Meet other general requirements that are deficient. (2025-06-01)
• Grey Stone Health and Rehabilitation Center (119.25)
• Provide appropriate treatment and care according to orders, resident?s preferences and goals. (2025-05-04)
• Provide appropriate treatment and care according to orders, resident?s preferences and goals. (2025-04-18)
• Chateau Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center (117.25)
• Provide appropriate pressure ulcer care and prevent new ulcers from developing. (2025-05-06)
• Make sure that the nursing home area is safe, easy to use, clean and comfortable for residents, staff and the public. (2025-02-08)
• Kingston Care Center of Fort Wayne (69.75)
• Honor the resident's right to voice grievances without discrimination or reprisal and the facility must establish a grievance policy and make prompt efforts to resolve grievances. (2025-05-30)
• Provide appropriate treatment and care according to orders, resident?s preferences and goals. (2025-03-24)
• Golden Years Homestead (53.75)
• Provide appropriate treatment and care according to orders, resident?s preferences and goals. (2025-06-13)
• Ensure each resident must receive and the facility must provide necessary behavioral health care and services. (2025-06-13)
• Majestic Care of Jefferson Pointe (51)
• Inspect, test, and maintain automatic sprinkler systems. (2025-07-02)
• Have approved installation, maintenance and testing program for fire alarm systems. (2025-07-02)
• Sage Bluff Health and Rehab Center (39)
• Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to prevent accidents. (2025-05-23)
• Honor each resident's preferences, choices, values and beliefs. (2025-04-18)
• Ashton Creek Health and Rehabilitation Center (33)
• Provide safe, appropriate pain management for a resident who requires such services. (2024-09-27)
• Provide care and assistance to perform activities of daily living for any resident who is unable. (2024-08-16)
• Majestic Care of West Allen (29)
• Install corridor and hallway doors that block smoke. (2025-06-28)
• Inspect, test, and maintain automatic sprinkler systems. (2025-06-28)
• Celebrate Senior Living of Fort Wayne (27)
• Ensure that waiting areas, nurse?s stations, gift shops, and cooking facilities, open to the corridor are properly protected. (2025-06-30)
• Inspect, test, and maintain automatic sprinkler systems. (2025-06-30)

Worst Nursing Homes in South Bend

• Majestic Care of South Bend (261)
• Provide properly protected cooking facilities. (2024-11-11)
• Give residents notice of Medicaid/Medicare coverage and potential liability for services not covered. (2024-11-07)
• Healthwin Health and Rehabilitation (110.75)
• Install proper backup exit lighting. (2025-05-23)
• Have exits that are accessible at all times. (2025-05-23)
• Briarcliff Health and Rehabilitation Center (59)
• Ensure proper usage of power strips and extension cords. (2024-09-27)
• Have properly installed electrical wiring and gas equipment. (2024-09-27)
• The Milton Home (43)
• Conduct risk assessment and an All-Hazards approach. (2024-12-21)
• Develop and maintain an Emergency Preparedness Program (EP). (2024-12-21)
• West Bend Nursing and Rehabilitation (42)
• Have properly located and lighted "Exit" signs. (2025-02-04)
• Conduct testing and exercise requirements. (2025-02-04)
• Holy Cross Rehabilitation and Wellness (36)
• Establish staff and initial training requirements. (2025-07-06)
• Provide emergency officials' contact information. (2025-07-06)
• Southfield Village (34)
• Provide properly protected cooking facilities. (2024-12-31)
• Establish procedures for tracking staff and patients during an emergency. (2024-12-31)
• Wellbrooke of South Bend (28)
• Have properly located and lighted "Exit" signs. (2025-04-01)
• Provide properly protected cooking facilities. (2025-03-27)
• Trailpoint Village (19)
• Conduct testing and exercise requirements. (2025-04-25)
• Create arrangements with other facilities to receive patients. (2025-04-25)
• Cardinal Nursing and Rehabilitation Center (19)
• Provide properly protected cooking facilities. (2025-05-28)
• Ensure smoke barriers are constructed to a 1 hour fire resistance rating. (2024-07-25)

Worst Nursing Homes in Evansville

• Evansville Manor Nursing and Rehab, LLC (211)
• Timely report suspected abuse, neglect, or theft and report the results of the investigation to proper authorities. (2025-06-09)
• Respond appropriately to all alleged violations. (2025-06-09)
• Envive of Evansville (151.5)
• Develop the complete care plan within 7 days of the comprehensive assessment; and prepared, reviewed, and revised by a team of health professionals. (2025-03-25)
• Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to prevent accidents. (2025-03-25)
• River Bend Nursing and Rehabilitation (124.5)
• Establish staff and initial training requirements. (2024-12-30)
• Create arrangements with other facilities to receive patients. (2024-12-30)
• Aperion Care Lincoln (115)
• Create arrangements with other facilities to receive patients. (2025-05-16)
• Develop and maintain an Emergency Preparedness Program (EP). (2025-05-16)
• Bethel Manor (109.5)
• Procure food from sources approved or considered satisfactory and store, prepare, distribute and serve food in accordance with professional standards. (2025-04-03)
• Provide doctor's orders for the resident's immediate care at the time the resident was admitted. (2024-09-26)
• Brickyard Healthcare - Woodbridge Care Center (95)
• Provide safe, appropriate dialysis care/services for a resident who requires such services. (2025-03-27)
• Protect each resident from the wrongful use of the resident's belongings or money. (2024-12-09)
• Columbia Healthcare Center (80)
• Make sure that the nursing home area is safe, easy to use, clean and comfortable for residents, staff and the public. (2025-03-11)
• Provide safe and appropriate respiratory care for a resident when needed. (2025-01-30)
• North Park Nursing Center (75)
• Provide doctor's orders for the resident's immediate care at the time the resident was admitted. (2025-04-17)
• Install an approved automatic sprinkler system. (2024-11-11)
• Heritage Center (67.5)
• Honor the resident's right to a dignified existence, self-determination, communication, and to exercise his or her rights. (2025-06-03)
• Assess the resident completely in a timely manner when first admitted, and then periodically, at least every 12 months. (2025-06-03)
• Evansville Protestant Home (60)
• Ensure that testing and maintenance of electrical equipment is performed. (2025-05-16)
• Install resident room doors of proper design and width. (2025-05-09)

Worst Nursing Homes in Lafayette

• River Oaks Retirement Manor (212.75)
• Have generator or other power source capable of supplying service within 10 seconds. (2024-09-27)
• Ensure that special areas are constructed so that walls can resist fire for one hour or have an approved fire extinguishing system. (2024-09-27)
• Camelot Rehabilitation at Magnolia Park (191.75)
• Provide safe and appropriate respiratory care for a resident when needed. (2025-04-08)
• Ensure each resident receives an accurate assessment. (2025-04-08)
• Knollwood Manor (172.25)
• Timely report suspected abuse, neglect, or theft and report the results of the investigation to proper authorities. (2022-09-08)
• Assure that each resident?s assessment is updated at least once every 3 months. (2022-09-08)
• Mohawk Meadows (167.5)
• Ensure receptacles at patient bed locations and where general anesthesia is administered, are tested after initial installation, replacement or servicing. (2024-12-15)
• Provide properly protected cooking facilities. (2024-12-13)
• Cornerstone at The Ranch (127)
• Immediately tell the resident, the resident's doctor, and a family member of situations (injury/decline/room, etc.) that affect the resident. (2024-11-30)
• Safeguard resident-identifiable information and/or maintain medical records on each resident that are in accordance with accepted professional standards. (2024-11-30)
• Maison De Lafayette (85)
• Assess the resident completely in a timely manner when first admitted, and then periodically, at least every 12 months. (2025-05-09)
• Develop and implement a complete care plan that meets all the resident's needs, with timetables and actions that can be measured. (2025-05-09)
• Majestic Care of Lafayette (58)
• Follow proper procedures when the automatic sprinkler systems was out of service for more than 10 hours. (2024-11-22)
• Follow proper procedures when the fire alarm was out of service for more than 4 hours. (2024-11-22)
• Coal Creek Post Acute and Assisted Living (54)
• Ensure services provided by the nursing facility meet professional standards of quality. (2024-12-16)
• Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to prevent accidents. (2024-12-16)
• Creasy Springs Health Campus (50)
• Honor the resident's right to a dignified existence, self-determination, communication, and to exercise his or her rights. (2025-02-27)
• Honor the resident's right to request, refuse, and/or discontinue treatment, to participate in or refuse to participate in experimental research, and to formulate an advance directive. (2025-02-27)
• Courtyard Manor Nurse Care Center and Assisted Liv (50)
• Reasonably accommodate the needs and preferences of each resident. (2024-11-18)
• Immediately tell the resident, the resident's doctor, and a family member of situations (injury/decline/room, etc.) that affect the resident. (2024-11-18)

  Related Lists and Resources

While it's important to be aware of the lowest-rated facilities, we also provide resources to help you find the best care available. Check out our other lists to find top-rated nursing homes and facilities that excel in specific areas.

• Best Nursing Homes in Indiana
• Analysis of Nursing Homes in Indiana

  Making Informed Decisions

Understanding our rankings and how they are derived can empower you to make better choices for your loved ones. Remember, a low rating in one area doesn't necessarily mean a facility is entirely unsuitable; it's a starting point for further investigation.

  Tips for Evaluating Nursing Homes in Indiana:

• Schedule visits to potential facilities
• Speak with staff and residents
• Review recent inspection reports
• Consider the specific needs of your loved one

Disclaimer: NursingHomeDatabase.com does not have a relationship, either commercial or otherwise, with any of the skilled nursing facilities referred to on this site. This is an independent resource that tries to make more and better information available to the public.

  More Resources for Families

Navigating the world of nursing home care can be overwhelming. Here are some resources to help you make the best decisions for your family:

• The Role of Family in Nursing Home Care
• Navigating Medicaid for Nursing Home Care
• How to Handle a Nursing Home Discharge
• Understanding Nursing Home Ratings and What They Mean
• Questions to Ask During a Nursing Home Visit

  How We Compile Nursing Home Ratings in Indiana

Every month, we rank all of the skilled nursing facilities in Indiana. These rankings are based on data provided by The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid measures ("CMS"), including the CMS 5-Star Rating System and the Health Inspection Scores. The list of the Worst Skilled Nursing Facilities in Indiana is based on the weighted overall health inspection score which is a composite of CMS's three most recent skilled nursing home inspection scores weighted to give the most recent inspection more importance.

The CMS 5-Star Rating System rates skilled nursing facilities from one to five stars, with one star being the lowest and five stars being the highest. The rating system also rates Indiana nursing homes across five different dimensions including overall rating, health inspection rating, quality measures rating, overall staffing rating, and RN staffing rating (RN is an acronym for Registered Nurse).

In addition to the 5-Star Rating System, CMS provides numerical metrics that summarize:

• Health Inspection Domain. The health inspection rating is based on the three most recent standard surveys for each nursing home, results from any complaint investigations during the most recent three-year period, and any repeat revisits needed to verify that required corrections have brought the facility back into compliance. CMS calculates a weighted deficiency score based on points assigned to health deficiencies identified in each active provider’s current health inspection survey and the two prior surveys (including revisits), as well as deficiency findings from the most recent three years of complaint investigations. More recent surveys are weighted more heavily than older surveys: the most recent period (cycle 1) is assigned a weighting factor of 1/2, the previous period (cycle 2) has a weighting factor of 1/3, and the second prior survey (cycle 3) has a weighting factor of 1/6. The weighted time period scores are then summed to create the survey score for each facility.
• Staffing Domain. Using multiple reporting methods, CMS calculates the amount of time that the nursing staff spends with residents. This is measured across multiple dimensions, one each for three different levels of nursing, including Registered Nurses (“RNs”), Licensed Practical Nurses (“LPNs”), and Certified Nursing Assistants (“CNAs”), plus one metric that totals all contributions. These metrics are expressed in hours per resident per day. CMS also provides state-level and national averages for the metrics to allow for additional comparisons.
• Quality Measures Domain. A set of quality measures (QMs) has been developed from MDS-based indicators to describe the quality of care provided in nursing homes. These measures address a broad range of functioning and health status in multiple care areas. The facility rating for the QM domain is based on performance on a subset of 11 (out of 18) of the QMs. Ratings for the QM domain are calculated using the three most recent quarters for which data are available. This time period specification was selected to increase the number of assessments available for calculating the QM rating, increasing the stability of estimates and reducing the number of facilities that do not have enough data to report QM ratings.
• Abuse Flag. Abuse is always a concern in skilled nursing facilities. To highlight the issue, CMS has extracted this feature as its own flag. Facilities with an actual abuse event or where the potential for abuse has been shown for the past two years are flagged. The Health Inspection Score is capped at 2-stars for nursing homes that have been flagged for abuse.

Skilled nursing facilities that are new and do not have at least two surveys completed are not rated by CMS. These facilities may have health inspection scores that can be used to evaluate the facility.

One complication in Indiana nursing home inspections is the COVID-19 pandemic. Although inspections should be performed every 12 months, COVID has decreased this frequency. While CMS admits that only in “rare cases” do these inspections increase to 15 months, our analysis suggests that this time frame may be even longer. This report shows that the time between inspections is now just under 500 days (more than sixteen months). There are now hundreds of skilled nursing homes in the United States that have not been inspected in more than 24 months. This list shows the skilled nursing homes with the longest period since being inspected. According to the CMS data, these homes have not been inspected since 2018!