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South Peninsula Hospital LTC

4300 Bartlett Street, Homer, AK 99603 · Government - City/county · 28 certified beds · (907) 235-0235 Medicare & Medicaid certified

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Resident-funds citations (F0567, F0568)
Insights

The public record raises real questions here. Weigh the concerns below carefully.

In its favor
  • a strong health-inspection score (5/5) — the hardest rating to game (though it’s ranked within its own state, not nationally)
  • no harm-level citations in the current inspection record
  • no federal fines or payment denials on record
  • a high payroll-based staffing rating (5/5)
Worth asking about
  • it has citations for mishandling residents’ money or property (F0567, F0568)

One thing this read cannot see: what residents and families actually experience day to day. Public data misses the feel of a place — visit unannounced, ideally at a mealtime or on a weekend, talk to staff and families, and ask your tour questions.

A plain-English summary of the public record below — not a rating, ranking, or recommendation. We take no money from any facility.

5/5
CMS overall
5 of 5
Health inspectionSurveyor-assigned, ranked within your stateInspector-verified 5 of 5
StaffingFrom payroll records (PBJ) 5 of 5
Quality measuresSelf-reported by the facility 4 of 5

Location & what’s nearby

Hospital
Emergency dept. usually open 24/7 · ER 24/7
Urgent care / clinic
3959 Ben Walters Ln · (907) 235-3436 · Call to confirm hours
Pharmacy
90 Sterling Hwy · (907) 226-1060 · Call to confirm hours
Grocery
3611 Greatland St · (907) 235-8661 · Call to confirm hours
Park
360 W Fairview Ave · (907) 235-1583 · Typically dawn to dusk
Place of worship

Nearest of each type, straight-line distance. Hospitals come from the CMS Hospital General Information registry; everything else from Overture Maps (public data). Hospital and park hours are typical — call ahead to confirm.

Quality measures — how residents actually fare

Overall quality measures 4 of 5
Long-stay residentspeople who live here 4 of 5

Quality-measure stars summarize outcomes CMS tracks from the assessments each home submits — avoidable hospitalizations and ER visits, falls with injury, pressure ulcers, unplanned weight loss, and long-term antipsychotic use. Because the underlying data is self-reported, weigh a high score against the independent inspection record. Long-stay = permanent residents; short-stay = rehab and post-hospital stays.

Trend — is this home getting better or worse?

Over 2025-02 to 2026-06, this home’s CMS overall rating held steady at 5 stars. From monthly CMS archive snapshots.

Horizontal axis runs 2025-02 to 2026-06. That is where CMS’s monthly archive ends, so the right-hand edge of each line is that month — not today.

Overall rating5★
Inspection scorelower = better
See all quality measures vs. state & national benchmarks
MeasureThis homeState avgTypical statevs typical state
Long-stay residents whose need for help with daily activities increased16.1%16.7%15.4%typical
Long-stay residents who lose too much weight2.6%5.3%5.4%better
Long-stay residents with a catheter left in their bladder2.2%1.4%0.9%worse
Long-stay residents with a urinary tract infection0.0%2.5%2.0%better
Long-stay residents with depressive symptoms5.8%6.5%6.5%better
Long-stay residents who were physically restrained0.0%0.2%0.1%better
Long-stay residents with falls causing major injury1.9%3.2%3.3%better
Long-stay residents whose ability to walk worsened32.9%19.5%16.1%worse
Long-stay residents on antianxiety or hypnotic medication2.6%14.7%18.9%better
Long-stay residents given the seasonal flu vaccine96.0%96.0%95.3%typical
Long-stay residents with pressure ulcers1.4%6.9%4.7%better
Long-stay residents with worsening bladder/bowel control19.1%20.0%21.2%better
Long-stay residents who got an antipsychotic medication — see the note below the table24.2%18.8%17.1%worse
Long-stay hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days0.651.001.67better
Long-stay outpatient ER visits per 1,000 resident days1.711.361.80typical

§ Antipsychotics carry an FDA boxed warning — they raise the risk of death in older people with dementia-related psychosis, and are not approved for that use. So this measure is partly a read on whether a home sedates residents instead of staffing for them. But read a low rate carefully in both directions: CMS excludes residents coded with schizophrenia (and Tourette's or Huntington's) from this measure, and federal auditors have found implausible increases in schizophrenia coding since the measure was published — so a very low rate can reflect recoding rather than less prescribing. Ask the home what share of its residents carry a schizophrenia diagnosis, and how it handles behavioral symptoms without medication.

CMS quality measures, as Care Compare shows them. For most rows lower is better (fewer falls, ulcers, hospitalizations); vaccination rates are the exception. Not every row is risk-adjusted. CMS adjusts some measures for resident mix, but falls with major injury, antipsychotic use, physical restraints and the vaccination rates are unadjusted rates — so a home caring for heavier or more behaviorally complex residents can look worse on them without providing worse care. The “typical state” column is the median of the 50 state averages — not a national average of all homes. We use it because a plain average across homes is pulled badly off course by a few states’ reporting habits (long-stay depressive symptoms is the clearest case: Illinois codes it several times higher than most states, which alone lifted the all-homes figure to about twice what a typical state records). The median of state averages resists that — but it does weigh every state equally, so a large state counts no more than a small one, and it is a benchmark of our construction rather than a CMS-published figure. better/worse means the home differs from that benchmark by more than 10% of it; closer than that reads typical. CMS does not publish how many residents each measure covers, and the counts are often small — a single resident can move a rate by several points — so treat small gaps as noise. These come from data the facility reports, so weigh them against the independent inspection record above.

Staffing

2.63
RN hours/ resident / day
0.52
LPN hours/ resident / day
5.72
Aide hours/ resident / day
8.87
Total nurse hours/ resident / day
1.69
RN hoursweekends
36.8%
Total nursing turnover
16.7%
RN turnover

How full it usually is: this home is certified for 28 beds and averages 26.0 residents a day — about 93% occupied, or roughly 2 beds typically open. It runs fairly full. This is a CMS average, not live availability — no public source publishes real-time vacancies, and a home can be full the day you call. Confirm with the home, and if you need a Medicaid bed specifically, ask about that separately: a home with open beds may still not have an open Medicaid bed.

Against a benchmark — not a legal minimum. In May 2024 CMS finalized the first federal staffing floor for nursing homes: 3.48 total nurse hours per resident per day, including 0.55 RN hours and 2.45 nurse-aide hours. Its hour requirements never took effect and are no longer on the books. Homes had until 2026 (2027 if rural) to comply, and that deadline never arrived: a federal court vacated the hour requirements in April 2025 (CMS has appealed), Congress then barred enforcement until 2034, and CMS formally repealed them by rule effective February 2026. This home is not required to meet these numbers, and is not violating anything by missing them. We still show the comparison because the figures are CMS’s own published estimate of adequate staffing, which makes them a useful yardstick — but they are our benchmark, not federal law: this home’s total nurse staffing of 8.87 hrs/resident/day is at or above the 3.48-hour benchmark and RN staffing of 2.63 is at or above the 0.55-hour RN benchmark and nurse-aide staffing of 5.72 is at or above the 2.45-hour aide benchmark. What federal law does require today is unchanged: “sufficient” nursing staff for residents’ needs and an RN on duty at least 8 consecutive hours a day, 7 days a week (42 CFR 483.35). Those are judged by inspectors on site, not by these averages, so read this comparison alongside the inspection record rather than as a pass/fail.

This home’s total nursing-staff turnover of 37% is about the same as the national median of 45%.

Payroll-based (PBJ) staffing hours, as reported for Jan–Mar 2026 (CMS PBJ CY2026Q1) — the most recent quarter CMS has published, so they can lag a change of operator or staffing agency. Higher is generally better. Registered-nurse coverage and weekend staffing are the numbers families most often overlook — an RN on site matters most when something goes wrong, and coverage usually thins on weekends. High turnover means residents rarely see the same caregiver twice. One caveat: these are hours as reported, not adjusted for how sick or heavy-care this home’s residents are. CMS separately publishes a case-mix-adjusted view; we show the reported hours. A home caring for higher-acuity residents needs more hours to deliver the same care, so compare these figures against homes doing similar work, and read them next to the inspection record rather than alone.

Inspection trend

2
deficiencies at the latest standard inspection (2025-09-12)
2
at the previous standard inspection (2024-08-23)

Deficiencies are unchanged from the previous inspection. Fewer citations over time suggests a home is fixing problems; a rising count is a warning sign — though two surveys are a short record, and survey teams differ. These counts are from the standard annual health survey only; the full citation list below may also include findings from complaint investigations, so the two won’t always add up.

Inspection deficiencies

State health-inspection citations, most serious first. Each carries an F-code (the federal rule it cites, e.g. F-684 = quality of care) and a letter A–L marking how serious and how widespread the problem was — we translate that grid into the plain tiers shown here. Wording is the official federal description.

ABCDEFGHIJKL

Each letter is a CMS scope-severity level; highlighted ones are where this home has citations. A–C = no harm found; D–F = potential for harm; G–I = actual harm; J–L = immediate jeopardy. Within each band the later letter is the more widespread finding (an isolated G is one resident; a widespread I is a pattern), so rightward and downward is worse.

  • Potential for harm · E2025-09-12 · tag F0567 — failed to protect residents' money held by the home — pattern
    Honor the resident's right to manage his or her financial affairs.
    What the surveyor found here — an excerpt from the official record, may be distressing

    Based on record review and interview, the facility failed to ensure that interest earned on residents' trust accounts was correctly credited to the residents' accounts. This failure affected 23 of 26 residents reviewed (Residents #1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 24, 25, and 26). The facility did not apply the interest earned to either the residents' actual account balances or to their account statements. As a result, residents and/or their representatives were not given timely or accurate information about the interest accrued in their personal funds.Findings:.Past non-compliance: The last standard recertification survey was conducted on 8/23/24. During the Recertification survey conducted on 9/12/25 past noncompliance was identified at F567. The state agency verified that the facility took appropriate corrective actions for noncompliance found at F567 with a correction date of 8/6/25. During the 9/8-12/25 recertification survey, it was found that the facility failed to include the trust account interest in the residents' trust account…

    This is the beginning of the surveyor’s statement, cut to keep the page readable — the full 2567 continues past this point and often ends with the findings that matter most, such as whether an immediate jeopardy was removed before the surveyors left. The complete statement of deficiencies is a public record: request it from your state survey agency, or ask the home for its 2567 and plan of correction — it must make them available to residents and families.

    Resident Rights Deficiencies · Past Non-Compliance
  • Potential for harm · D2025-09-12 · tag F0657 — failed to keep the care plan current — isolated
    Develop the complete care plan within 7 days of the comprehensive assessment; and prepared, reviewed, and revised by a team of health professionals.
    What the surveyor found here — an excerpt from the official record, may be distressing

    Based on record review and interview, the facility failed to ensure residents and/or resident representatives' participation in the development of the residents' care plan and document in the medical record an explanation of the residents and resident representatives' inability to participate for 2 residents (#3 and #20) out of 12 sampled residents. This failed practice denied the residents and/or resident's representatives the opportunity to make decisions regarding residents' care and treatment .Findings:.Resident #3Record review on 9/8-12/25, revealed Resident #3 was admitted to the facility with diagnoses that included nonrheumatic aortic valve stenosis (a type of heart valve disease wherein the valve is narrowed and doesn't open fully), unspecified dementia (loss of cognitive functioning) and major depression.Review of the Minimum Data Set (MDS - a federally required assessment) quarterly assessment, dated 8/26/25, revealed Resident #3 had a BIMS (Brief Interview of Mental Status) score of 15 (meaning the resident was cognitively intact).During an interview on 9/9/25 at 11:20…

    This is the beginning of the surveyor’s statement, cut to keep the page readable — the full 2567 continues past this point and often ends with the findings that matter most, such as whether an immediate jeopardy was removed before the surveyors left. The complete statement of deficiencies is a public record: request it from your state survey agency, or ask the home for its 2567 and plan of correction — it must make them available to residents and families.

    Resident Assessment and Care Planning Deficiencies · Deficient, Provider has date of correction
  • Potential for harm · F2024-08-23 · tag F0812 — failed to store, cook, and serve food safely — widespread
    Procure food from sources approved or considered satisfactory and store, prepare, distribute and serve food in accordance with professional standards.
    What the surveyor found here — an excerpt from the official record, may be distressing

    NOTE- TERMS IN BRACKETS HAVE BEEN EDITED TO PROTECT CONFIDENTIALITY . Based on observations, interview, and record review the facility failed to ensure storage and preparation of food in accordance with professional standards for food service safety for 24 residents (#1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6, #7, #8, #9, #10, #11, #12, #13, #14, #15, #16, #17, #18, #19, #20, #21, #23, #24, #25) out of 25 residents who received meals from the kitchen. This failed practice placed all residents at risk to receive contaminated food and placed these 24 residents at risk of foodborne illnesses. Findings: Food Storage: During an initial tour of the kitchen, on 8/19/24 at 11:03 AM, revealed in the stand-alone refrigerator near the preparation station in the main kitchen, unlabeled food items were stored such as: one unlabeled bag of frozen breaded items resembling chicken, one unlabeled bag of frozen breaded items resembling Chicken Cordon Blue, one unlabeled brown bag resembling frozen potato fries, one unlabeled rectangular container of what appeared to be pre-made chicken salad wrapped in saran wrap.…

    This is the beginning of the surveyor’s statement, cut to keep the page readable — the full 2567 continues past this point and often ends with the findings that matter most, such as whether an immediate jeopardy was removed before the surveyors left. The complete statement of deficiencies is a public record: request it from your state survey agency, or ask the home for its 2567 and plan of correction — it must make them available to residents and families.

    Nutrition and Dietary Deficiencies · Deficient, Provider has date of correction
  • Potential for harm · F2023-05-12 · tag F0804 — failed to serve food at safe, palatable temperature — widespread
    Ensure food and drink is palatable, attractive, and at a safe and appetizing temperature.
    What the surveyor found here — an excerpt from the official record, may be distressing

    NOTE- TERMS IN BRACKETS HAVE BEEN EDITED TO PROTECT CONFIDENTIALITY . Based on observation, interview, and record review, the facility failed to ensure food was served at a palatable temperature. This failed practice had the potential to place all residents, based on a census of 25, at risk for poor nutrition due to foods served outside of palatable temperatures. Findings: During an observation beginning in the main kitchen on 5/8/23 at 12:20 PM, [NAME] #1 placed all the food from the steam table onto a cart and delivered the food to the Long-Term Care (LTC) kitchen. Upon reaching the LTC kitchen he/she washed his/her hands, put on gloves, prepared a pail of bleach water, wiped the steam table and placed the pans from the cart onto the steam table. He/she removed gloves, sanitized his/her hands and put on new gloves. Then, the cook began plating food according to each resident's diet card. The [NAME] did not check the temperature of the food which included mechanically altered food such as pork, potato, gravy, and soup. During an interview on 5/8/23 at 1:10 PM, Resident #17…

    This is the beginning of the surveyor’s statement, cut to keep the page readable — the full 2567 continues past this point and often ends with the findings that matter most, such as whether an immediate jeopardy was removed before the surveyors left. The complete statement of deficiencies is a public record: request it from your state survey agency, or ask the home for its 2567 and plan of correction — it must make them available to residents and families.

    Nutrition and Dietary Deficiencies · Deficient, Provider has date of correction
  • Potential for harm · D2023-05-12 · tag F0759 — failed to keep medication error rate low — isolated
    Ensure medication error rates are not 5 percent or greater.
    What the surveyor found here — an excerpt from the official record, may be distressing

    Based on record review, observation and interview, the facility failed to ensure their medication error rate was below 5%. Specifically, errors for 3 out of 27 medication opportunities during medication administration review resulted in a 11% error rate. This failed practice placed 2 residents (#'s 77 and 18) at risk for adverse effects. Findings: Resident #77: Record review from 5/8-12/23 revealed Resident #77 was admitted to the facility with diagnoses that included dementia and hypothyroidism. Review of Resident #77's current Physician's Orders revealed an order for Levothyroxine Sodium Oral Tablet [Synthroid-a thyroid medication] 75 mcg [micrograms] .one time a day related to HYPOTHYROIDISM, UNSPECIFIED. During an observation on 5/10/23 at 8:50 AM, Licensed Nurse (LN) #3 began preparing Resident #77's morning medications, which included the Levothyroxine Sodium Oral Tablet. The Resident was observed to be seated in the dining room eating his/her breakfast when LN #3 administered the medications to the resident. During an interview on 5/11/23 at 10:42 AM, when asked the…

    This is the beginning of the surveyor’s statement, cut to keep the page readable — the full 2567 continues past this point and often ends with the findings that matter most, such as whether an immediate jeopardy was removed before the surveyors left. The complete statement of deficiencies is a public record: request it from your state survey agency, or ask the home for its 2567 and plan of correction — it must make them available to residents and families.

    Pharmacy Service Deficiencies · Deficient, Provider has date of correction
  • No harm found · C2024-08-23 · tag F0568 — widespread
    Properly hold, secure, and manage each resident's personal money which is deposited with the nursing home.
    What the surveyor found here — an excerpt from the official record, may be distressing

    Based on interview and record review, the facility failed to ensure full and complete accounting of personal funds were reported quarterly to all 25 residents (#s 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10,11,12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 26) out of 25 residents residing at the facility, or their representatives with personal funds being managed by the facility. This failed practice denied the residents and/or representatives the right to be informed of a detailed accounting of their personal funds. Findings: During a joint interview on 8/21/24 at 4:09 PM with Account Specialist (AS) #1, Business Office Supervisor (BOS), Activities Coordinator (AC), Director of Nursing (DON), and Social Worker (SW), AS #1 stated the facility managed the residents' personal funds. The BOS stated each resident had an individual personal fund account recorded in Point Click Care (PCC). She stated all residents' personal funds were deposited in one trust account at the bank. The trust account was an interest-bearing account. The interest would be divided based on the individual accounts of the…

    This is the beginning of the surveyor’s statement, cut to keep the page readable — the full 2567 continues past this point and often ends with the findings that matter most, such as whether an immediate jeopardy was removed before the surveyors left. The complete statement of deficiencies is a public record: request it from your state survey agency, or ask the home for its 2567 and plan of correction — it must make them available to residents and families.

    Resident Rights Deficiencies · Deficient, Provider has date of correction
Worried about a resident here? There are three different people you can turn to, and they do different jobs:
  • Long-Term Care Ombudsman — a free, confidential advocate for the resident. They act only with the resident’s consent and work to resolve the problem. Find yours at theconsumervoice.org/get_help.
  • Adult Protective Services — the state agency that investigates suspected abuse, neglect, or exploitation of a vulnerable adult. Not sure of your state’s APS number? The federal Eldercare Locator will route you: 1-800-677-1116 or eldercare.acl.gov.
  • State survey agency — the regulator that licenses and inspects the home. Every state has an official nursing-home complaint line and most take complaints online; the Ombudsman or Eldercare Locator can connect you.
Not sure where to start, or need other help? Dial 2-1-1 for local resources — and if a call is hard or impossible for you, many local 211s also take a text (send your ZIP code to 898-211) or a web chat at 211.org; both vary by area, and 211.org will show what yours offers. Deaf or hard of hearing: dial 711 for the telecommunications relay service, then any number above. In an emergency, call 911.
It is illegal for a facility to retaliate against a resident or family for reporting a concern: federal law gives a resident the right to voice grievances — to the home or to any outside agency — without discrimination or reprisal (42 CFR §483.10(j)(1)). You may report anonymously.

Fines & penalties

No federal fines in the current CMS record.

Who owns this facility

Owner / managerTypeRoleSince
BULLARD, MATTHEWIndividualCORPORATE DIRECTORsince 01/24/2024
DYE, MICHAELIndividualCORPORATE DIRECTORsince 09/25/2024
FROST, KIMIndividualCORPORATE DIRECTORsince 01/29/2025
KNAPP, EDSONIndividualCORPORATE DIRECTORsince 03/01/2020
LANDESS, CHRISTOPHERIndividualCORPORATE DIRECTORsince 05/22/2024
SIMMONS, PRESTONIndividualCORPORATE DIRECTORsince 01/24/2024
WEISSER, AARONIndividualCORPORATE DIRECTORsince 01/01/2022
WILSON, BERNADETTEIndividualCORPORATE DIRECTORsince 11/01/2006
WYTHE, MARYIndividualCORPORATE DIRECTORsince 01/22/2020
GALL, AMBERIndividualCORPORATE OFFICERsince 07/13/2025
HERMANSON, ANNAIndividualCORPORATE OFFICERsince 01/25/2023
KINCAID, RACHAELIndividualCORPORATE OFFICERsince 07/13/2025
PARTRIDGE, WALTERIndividualCORPORATE OFFICERsince 06/01/2018
SMITH, RYANIndividualCORPORATE OFFICERsince 07/29/2019
SOUTH PENINSULA HOSPITAL INCOrganizationOPERATIONAL/MANAGERIAL CONTROLsince 04/12/2008
BRIDGES, JANYCEIndividualOPERATIONAL/MANAGERIAL CONTROLsince 06/19/2022
LLENOS, JOEIndividualOPERATIONAL/MANAGERIAL CONTROL; ADP OF THE SNFsince 08/01/2025
MARTIN, KATIEIndividualOPERATIONAL/MANAGERIAL CONTROL; ADP OF THE SNFsince 01/01/2025

CMS files one row per role, so the 20 rows in the source record cover these 18 parties — each is shown once here with every role it holds. Nothing is omitted. The source lists no ownership percentage for any of them — PECOS records a share only for equity interests, not for board or management roles.

1 organizational owner listed — a facility can be part of a larger chain. CMS ownership data is known to under-report private-equity and REIT ties; treat as a starting point.

What families pay in AK

Paying with Medicaid

This is a Medicare- and Medicaid-certified nursing home, so it can accept Medicaid for long-term care — like nearly all U.S. nursing homes. The private-pay figures below are what families without Medicaid pay; once a resident qualifies for Medicaid, out-of-pocket cost for covered nursing-home care is typically close to $0 (almost all of their income goes to the home as their share of the cost; they keep a small personal needs allowance — for clothing, haircuts, a phone — and Medicaid pays the rest). The amount of that allowance is set by each state. Confirm Medicaid-bed availability with the home, and see the Alaska Medicaid page.

Typical monthly cost in Alaska
$27,831/mo
Nursing home (semi-private)
$10,798/mo
Nursing home (private)*
$9,882/mo
Assisted living

Median private-pay cost, CareScout (Genworth) 2025 Cost of Care Survey — a regional midpoint, not any single community’s rate. Private rooms and higher care levels cost more; ask for a current quote. Project your own in the cost-of-care planner. The starred figure is the national median (no state figure published).

Every figure above is reproduced from the CMS Provider Data Catalog (a public record), from the CMS extract processed 2026-08-01 — CMS provider number 025031. CMS refreshes its data monthly, and the star rating rests on the last standard inspection — dated 2025-09-12, which can lag current conditions. Staffing hours are CMS PBJ CY2026Q1 (Jan–Mar 2026). Check this record against the government’s own page for it: this home on Medicare Care Compare ↗ — the authoritative source, and the place to confirm anything here before you act on it. How we present it →

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