Best nursing homes in Saint Louis, MO
These are the 36 CMS-certified nursing homes in Saint Louis, Missouri, 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 certified1 serious citation5943 Telegraph Road, Saint Louis, MO
- 2Medicare & Medicaid certifiedNo major red flags on record11160 Village North Drive, Saint Louis, MO
- 3Medicare & Medicaid certified1 serious citation$23,520 in federal fines5300 Butler Hill Road, Saint Louis, MO
- 4Medicare only — no MedicaidNo major red flags on recordTwo McKnight Place, Saint Louis, MO
- 5Medicare & Medicaid certified$15,646 in federal finesSelf-reported scores 2★ above inspection3520 Chouteau Ave, Saint Louis, MO
- 6Medicare & Medicaid certified1 serious citation6637 Berthold Avenue, Saint Louis, MO
- 7Medicare & Medicaid certifiedNo major red flags on record401 Corporate Park Drive, Saint Louis, MO
- 8Medicare & Medicaid certified1 immediate-jeopardy citation$88,946 in federal fines9645 Big Bend Blvd, Saint Louis, MO
- 9Medicare & Medicaid certified1 serious citation$14,433 in federal fines12651 Village Circle Drive, Saint Louis, MO
- 10Medicare & Medicaid certified1 immediate-jeopardy citation$73,048 in federal finesSelf-reported scores 3★ above inspection5460 Delmar Blvd, Saint Louis, MO
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- 12Medicare & Medicaid certifiedNo major red flags on record11278 Schuetz Road, Saint Louis, MO
- 13Medicare & Medicaid certified1 immediate-jeopardy citation$38,520 in federal finesSelf-reported scores 2★ above inspection4005 Ripa Avenue, Saint Louis, MO
- 14Medicare & Medicaid certified3 serious citations$13,042 in federal finesSelf-reported scores 4★ above inspection2939 Magazine Street, Saint Louis, MO
- 15Medicare & Medicaid certified$13,409 in federal fines5303 Bermuda Drive, Saint Louis, MO
- 16Medicare & Medicaid certified1 immediate-jeopardy citation$157,667 in federal fines2600 Redman Road, Saint Louis, MO
- 17Medicare & Medicaid certifiedAbuse icon3 serious citations3625 Magnolia Avenue, Saint Louis, MO
- 18Medicare & Medicaid certified$37,388 in federal fines4335 West Pine Blvd, Saint Louis, MO
- 19Medicare & Medicaid certified1 immediate-jeopardy citation$126,118 in federal fines3645 Cook Ave, Saint Louis, MO
- 20Medicare & Medicaid certified1 immediate-jeopardy citation$15,015 in federal fines4624 Lansdowne Avenue, Saint Louis, MO
- 21Medicare & Medicaid certified1 serious citation$11,928 in federal fines#2 Nazareth Lane, Saint Louis, MO
- 22Medicare & Medicaid certifiedAbuse icon2 serious citations$9,315 in federal fines7301 St Charles Rock Rd, Saint Louis, MO
- 23Medicare & Medicaid certifiedNo major red flags on record3333 Brown Road, Saint Louis, MO
- 24Medicare & Medicaid certified1 immediate-jeopardy citation$15,949 in federal fines1301 Partridge Avenue, Saint Louis, MO
- 25Medicare & Medicaid certified4 immediate-jeopardy citations$234,836 in federal finesSelf-reported scores 2★ above inspection9350 Green Park Road, Saint Louis, MO
- 26Medicare & Medicaid certified6 serious citations$92,561 in federal fines5000 South Broadway, Saint Louis, MO
- 27Medicare & Medicaid certified3 serious citationsSelf-reported scores 2★ above inspection1127 Timber Run Drive, Saint Louis, MO
- 28Medicare & Medicaid certified2 immediate-jeopardy citations$57,868 in federal finesSelf-reported scores 3★ above inspection610 Prigge Road, Saint Louis, MO
- 29Medicare & Medicaid certified1 serious citation$66,640 in federal finesSelf-reported scores 3★ above inspection2115 Kappel Drive, Saint Louis, MO
- 30Medicare & Medicaid certified2 immediate-jeopardy citations$105,665 in federal fines10954 Kennerly Road, Saint Louis, MO
- 31Medicare & Medicaid certifiedSpecial Focus candidate (CMS is watching this home)Abuse icon10 immediate-jeopardy citations$424,748 in federal finesSelf-reported scores 3★ above inspection4401 North Hanley Road, Saint Louis, MO
- 32Medicare & Medicaid certified1 immediate-jeopardy citation$123,610 in federal finesChanged owner in last 12 months11728 Hidden Lake Drive, Saint Louis, MO
- 33Medicare & Medicaid certifiedAbuse icon2 immediate-jeopardy citations$209,790 in federal finesSelf-reported scores 3★ above inspection3421 Gasconade, Saint Louis, MO
- 34Medicare & Medicaid certified2 immediate-jeopardy citations$31,665 in federal finesSelf-reported scores 3★ above inspection4359 Taft Avenue, Saint Louis, MO
- 35Medicare & Medicaid certifiedSpecial Focus Facility (federal watch list)Abuse icon5 immediate-jeopardy citations$168,680 in federal finesChanged owner in last 12 months1265 McLaran Avenue, Saint Louis, MO
- 36Medicare & Medicaid certifiedNo major red flags on record5408 South Broadway, Saint Louis, MO
Keep looking: read the Missouri 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 Saint Louis, MO. Back to every Missouri 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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What does the star rating mean?
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.