Assisted living in Tupelo, MS
5 licensed communities, listed alphabetically — Mississippi publishes no bulk inspection record, so nothing here is ranked by one.
We don’t publish this state’s inspection record yet — so nothing below is ranked by it.
Assisted living is licensed by the state, not Medicare, and Mississippi State Dept. of Health doesn’t release its inspection and complaint records as a bulk file we can ingest. Several states in this position still let you look up one community at a time on their own site — so the record may well exist; we just don’t have it. We will not invent one: no community below is marked clean, because we have nothing to clear it with. To check a specific community, ask the Mississippi SDH ↗ for its inspection and complaint history, or call your Long-Term Care Ombudsman ↗ — a free, independent advocate.
Memory care isn’t marked here — because the state doesn’t publish it.
Mississippi State Dept. of Health’s licensing file carries no memory-care or dementia-unit designation, so we cannot tell you which of these communities has one. There certainly are memory-care communities in this state — we just have no authoritative list of them, and we won’t guess from a community’s name. Ask any community directly whether it runs a secured dementia unit, and ask your Long-Term Care Ombudsman ↗ which local communities take dementia residents.
What’s actually in Tupelo
All 5 hold the same licence: PCH-AL.
They range from 28 to 122 licensed beds (median 72).
What it costs around here
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.
† Memory care is our estimate, not survey data: CareScout does not survey memory care, so we take the assisted-living median for the state and add $1,200/month — the typical secured-dementia-unit premium. It is a planning figure with no state-level detail behind it, and real memory-care pricing varies far more than that. Treat it as a starting point and ask the community for its own memory-care rate.
Estimated cost range · regional
In Mississippi, assisted living typically runs about $3,500–$5,250/month.
This is a regional estimate modeled from published survey data (the CareScout/Genworth state median, ±20%) — not this community’s actual price, which it sets privately. Ask the community for its current all-in monthly rate and what each care level adds.
Paying with Medicaid
Mississippi Medicaid can help pay for assisted living — through a waiver, not through regular Medicaid.
The Mississippi waiver that can pay for it:
- Assisted Living Waiver — covers assisted living (services only, not room & board)
In Mississippi: apply or check eligibility ↗ or call 800-421-2408.
A waiver pays for care, not for rent. Even where the state covers assisted-living services, room and board is still the resident’s to pay. Full eligibility limits — income, assets, the look-back — are on our Mississippi Medicaid page.
Nearby towns in this state
Assisted living is a local decision, but the right community is often one town over — and a 20-minute difference in drive time decides how often anyone actually visits, which is the single thing that most affects how a resident does.
- Belden — 1 community, about 6 mi away
- Plantersville — 1 community, about 6 mi away
- Saltillo — 2 communities, about 9 mi away
- Mantachie — 1 community, about 17 mi away
- Ecru — 1 community, about 17 mi away
- Fulton — 3 communities, about 21 mi away
- New Albany — 3 communities, about 24 mi away
- Amory — 1 community, about 25 mi away