Best nursing homes in Louisville, KY
These are the 35 CMS-certified nursing homes in Louisville, Kentucky, ranked best-first by the home’s CMS overall star rating. When two homes tie, we break the tie by the health-inspection rating — the domain assigned by independent state surveyors rather than self-reported by the facility. Nothing on this page is sponsored: no home pays to appear or to rank higher.
Check the certification chip before anything else. Most homes here are certified for both Medicare and Medicaid, but CMS certifies some for only one — and a 5-star home that doesn’t take your programme is not an option, however it ranks. Certification is not a quality measure and we don’t rank on it; we label it, because it decides whether the rest of the row matters to you.
How to read this: a high overall star can be lifted by self-reported quality-measure and payroll-staffing scores, so we surface the inspection rating and any serious citations, fines, abuse flags or ownership changes right on the row. A lower-ranked home with a clean inspection record can be the better fit than a higher-ranked one carrying red flags — open each profile.
- 1Medicare & Medicaid certifiedNo major red flags on record2000 Newburg Road, Louisville, KY
- 2Medicare & Medicaid certified3 serious citations4700 Quinn Drive, Louisville, KY
- 3Medicare & Medicaid certifiedNo major red flags on record2120 Payne Street, Louisville, KY
- 4Medicare & Medicaid certified9 immediate-jeopardy citations3526 Dutchman's Lane, Louisville, KY
- 5Medicare & Medicaid certifiedNo major red flags on record1801 Lynn Way, Louisville, KY
- 6Medicare & Medicaid certifiedNo major red flags on record2200 Stony Brook Drive, Louisville, KY
- 7Medicare & Medicaid certifiedNo major red flags on record4247 Westport Road, Louisville, KY
- 8Medicare & Medicaid certifiedNo major red flags on record4120 Wooded Acre Lane, Louisville, KY
- 9Medicare & Medicaid certifiedNo major red flags on record9700 Stonestreet Road, Louisville, KY
- 10Medicare & Medicaid certifiedNo major red flags on record5012 East Manslick Road, Louisville, KY
- 11Medicare & Medicaid certified2 immediate-jeopardy citationsSelf-reported scores 2★ above inspection6415 Calm River Way, Louisville, KY
- 12Medicare & Medicaid certified5 serious citations$33,062 in federal finesSelf-reported scores 2★ above inspection3802 Klondike Lane, Louisville, KY
- 13Medicare & Medicaid certifiedSelf-reported scores 2★ above inspection1705 Herr Lane, Louisville, KY
- 14Medicare & Medicaid certifiedSelf-reported scores 2★ above inspection1120 Cristland Road, Louisville, KY
- 15Medicare & Medicaid certified$10,364 in federal finesSelf-reported scores 2★ above inspection7504 Westport Road, Louisville, KY
- 16Medicare & Medicaid certifiedSelf-reported scores 3★ above inspection3625 Fern Valley Road, Louisville, KY
- 17Medicare & Medicaid certified$12,740 in federal finesSelf-reported scores 3★ above inspection4200 Browns Lane, Louisville, KY
- 18Medicare & Medicaid certifiedSelf-reported scores 3★ above inspection3001 N. Hurstbourne Parkway, Louisville, KY
- 19Medicare & Medicaid certifiedNo major red flags on record9600 Lamborne Boulevard, Louisville, KY
- 20Medicare & Medicaid certifiedNo major red flags on record15 Audubon Plaza Drive, Louisville, KY
- 21Medicare & Medicaid certified1 immediate-jeopardy citation$12,054 in federal finesSelf-reported scores 2★ above inspection2100 Cherokee Ridge Way, Louisville, KY
- 22Medicare & Medicaid certified5 serious citations$17,523 in federal fines1705 Stevens Avenue, Louisville, KY
- 23Medicare & Medicaid certified2 immediate-jeopardy citations1100 East Market Street, Louisville, KY
- 24Medicare & Medicaid certified2 immediate-jeopardy citations$64,799 in federal finesSelf-reported scores 2★ above inspection1313 St. Anthony Place, Louisville, KY
- 25Medicare & Medicaid certified2 immediate-jeopardy citations$10,364 in federal finesSelf-reported scores 2★ above inspection2529 Six Mile Lane, Louisville, KY
- 26Medicare & Medicaid certified2 serious citations$21,879 in federal fines2141 Sycamore Avenue, Louisville, KY
- 27Medicare & Medicaid certified2 immediate-jeopardy citations$182,488 in federal finesSelf-reported scores 4★ above inspection1877 Farnley Road, Louisville, KY
- 28Medicare & Medicaid certified$17,963 in federal finesSelf-reported scores 4★ above inspection300 Shelby Station Drive, Louisville, KY
- 29Medicare & Medicaid certified4 immediate-jeopardy citations$10,209 in federal fines900 Gagel Avenue, Louisville, KY
- 30Medicare & Medicaid certified$6,380 in federal fines920 South 4th Street, Louisville, KY
- 31Medicare & Medicaid certified3 immediate-jeopardy citationsSelf-reported scores 3★ above inspection1015 West Magazine Street, Louisville, KY
- 32Medicare & Medicaid certifiedSpecial Focus candidate (CMS is watching this home)9 immediate-jeopardy citationsSelf-reported scores 3★ above inspection446 Mt. Holly Avenue, Louisville, KY
- 33Medicare & Medicaid certified5 immediate-jeopardy citations$10,868 in federal finesSelf-reported scores 2★ above inspection1155 Eastern Parkway, Louisville, KY
- 34Medicare & Medicaid certified2 immediate-jeopardy citations$16,724 in federal finesSelf-reported scores 3★ above inspection211 West Oak Street, Louisville, KY
- 35Medicare & Medicaid certifiedSpecial Focus Facility (federal watch list)2 immediate-jeopardy citations$20,563 in federal fines1101 Lyndon Lane, Louisville, KY
Keep looking: read the Kentucky state guides — nursing homes and assisted living — for how the state’s system works, find the closest homes to your ZIP or location, filter every facility by rating, cost and inspection record, or compare any of these side by side. Or see assisted living in Louisville, KY. Back to every Kentucky city.
How we rank
We order this list strictly by each home’s CMS overall star rating — the government’s own rating, not a score of our own. When two homes carry the same overall rating we break the tie by the health-inspection rating — the domain scored by independent state surveyors rather than self-reported — and then alphabetically. Homes with no rating on file sink to the bottom.
We should be straight with you about a tension here. The CMS overall star is a blend of three domains, and elsewhere on this site we argue that blend can be misleading: the staffing and quality-measure components lean on data facilities report about themselves, and they can lift a home’s overall star above what inspectors actually found. We still sort by it, for one reason — it is the only ranking of nursing homes the government publishes, and the alternative is us deciding which domain ought to count, which is our opinion dressed up as an official rating. We won’t do that. (It is the same reason we refuse to rank assisted living at all.) So instead of quietly re-sorting to our taste, we un-blend the star on every row: the inspection rating sits next to the overall one, and serious citations, fines and abuse flags are on the row too. Where the two disagree, trust the inspection record and the citations — and treat our sort order as the government’s claim, not ours. See our methodology.
No home pays to appear here or to rank higher. There is no sponsored placement, no paid listing, and no referral fee. The page carries ordinary Google display advertising, sold against the page by Google: it cannot move a home up or down this list, and no advertiser sees who you are. The ratings, citations and fines are assigned by government inspectors (CMS), not by Eldercare Lens.
Common questions
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Ratings and citations are assigned by government inspectors (CMS), not by Eldercare Lens. The absence of a citation does not guarantee the absence of problems. Always verify with the facility and your state Long-Term Care Ombudsman.