Best nursing homes in Wyoming
These are all 36 CMS-certified nursing homes in Wyoming, ranked best-first by the home’s CMS overall star rating, with the independent health-inspection rating as the tie-break. No Wyoming city has enough certified homes to be worth its own page, so we rank the whole state here — which is the comparison CMS itself makes, since it assigns the inspection star by ranking each home against others in its own state. Nothing here 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 record1445 Uinta Dr, Green River, WY
- 2Medicare & Medicaid certifiedNo major red flags on record625 East Broadway, Building b, Jackson, WY
- 3Medicare & Medicaid certifiedNo major red flags on record130 Hospital Lane, Afton, WY
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- 5Medicare & Medicaid certified1 serious citation1330 Prairie Ave, Cheyenne, WY
- 6Medicare & Medicaid certified$13,388 in federal fines475 Yellow Creek Rd, Evanston, WY
- 7Medicare & Medicaid certified1 serious citation1990 West Loucks St, Sheridan, WY
- 8Medicare & Medicaid certifiedSelf-reported scores 2★ above inspection4041 South Poplar St, Casper, WY
- 9Medicare & Medicaid certifiedNo major red flags on record707 Sheridan Ave, Cody, WY
- 10Medicare & Medicaid certified$5,168 in federal fines4 North Fork Rd, Fort Washakie, WY
- 11Medicare & Medicaid certifiedNo major red flags on record150 Caring Way, Lander, WY
- 12Medicare & Medicaid certified1 serious citation$9,718 in federal finesSelf-reported scores 2★ above inspection550 Fremont Lake Road, Pinedale, WY
- 13Medicare & Medicaid certified1 serious citation$29,617 in federal fines2009 Laramie St, Torrington, WY
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- 15Medicare & Medicaid certified2 immediate-jeopardy citations$14,433 in federal finesChanged owner in last 12 months542 16th St, Rawlins, WY
- 16Medicare & Medicaid certified$8,278 in federal finesChanged owner in last 12 months1325 Sage St, Rock Springs, WY
- 17Medicare & Medicaid certified1 immediate-jeopardy citation$27,072 in federal finesChanged owner in last 12 months1210 Canyon Hills Rd, Thermopolis, WY
- 18Medicare & Medicaid certifiedAbuse icon2 serious citations$7,521 in federal finesSelf-reported scores 3★ above inspection1111 Lane 12, Lovell, WY
- 19Medicaid only — no MedicareSelf-reported scores 3★ above inspection711 Onyx St, Kemmerer, WY
- 20Medicare & Medicaid certified1 serious citation$8,981 in federal fines713 Oak St, Sundance, WY
- 21Medicare & Medicaid certified3 serious citations$15,548 in federal finesSelf-reported scores 2★ above inspectionChanged owner in last 12 months3128 Boxelder Dr, Cheyenne, WY
- 22Medicare & Medicaid certifiedAbuse icon1 serious citation$35,880 in federal fines503 S 18th St, Laramie, WY
- 23Medicare & Medicaid certifiedAbuse icon5 serious citations$50,980 in federal finesSelf-reported scores 2★ above inspection8204 Wyoming State Highway 789, Lander, WY
- 24Medicare & Medicaid certifiedAbuse icon2 serious citations$29,120 in federal finesSelf-reported scores 3★ above inspection777 Avenue H, Powell, WY
- 25Medicare & Medicaid certifiedAbuse icon1 serious citationSelf-reported scores 2★ above inspection1124 Washington Blvd, Newcastle, WY
- 26Medicare & Medicaid certified2 serious citations$25,984 in federal finesSelf-reported scores 2★ above inspectionChanged owner in last 12 months1002 Forest Dr, Riverton, WY
- 27Medicare & Medicaid certifiedAbuse icon1 serious citationSelf-reported scores 2★ above inspection700 Veteran's Lane, Buffalo, WY
- 28Medicare & Medicaid certifiedAbuse icon5 serious citations$146,485 in federal fines890 Us Hwy 20 South, Basin, WY
- 29Medicare & Medicaid certifiedSpecial Focus candidate (CMS is watching this home)2 serious citations$7,163 in federal finesSelf-reported scores 2★ above inspection1851 Big Horn Ave, Sheridan, WY
- 30Medicare & Medicaid certifiedSpecial Focus candidate (CMS is watching this home)2 serious citations$62,647 in federal finesSelf-reported scores 2★ above inspectionChanged owner in last 12 months4305 S Poplar, Casper, WY
- 31Medicare & Medicaid certifiedSpecial Focus candidate (CMS is watching this home)1 serious citation$61,929 in federal finesSelf-reported scores 3★ above inspection2311 Shirley Cove, Sheridan, WY
- 32Medicare & Medicaid certifiedSpecial Focus candidate (CMS is watching this home)Abuse icon2 serious citations$62,647 in federal finesSelf-reported scores 2★ above inspection2700 E 12th Street, Cheyenne, WY
- 33Medicare & Medicaid certified4 serious citations$97,031 in federal finesSelf-reported scores 2★ above inspectionChanged owner in last 12 months60 Magnolia St, Casper, WY
- 34Medicare & Medicaid certifiedAbuse icon2 serious citations$34,646 in federal finesSelf-reported scores 3★ above inspectionChanged owner in last 12 months1108 Birch Street, Douglas, WY
- 35Medicare & Medicaid certifiedSpecial Focus candidate (CMS is watching this home)Abuse icon1 immediate-jeopardy citation$41,746 in federal fines1901 Howell Ave, Worland, WY
- 36Medicare & Medicaid certifiedSpecial Focus Facility (federal watch list)3 serious citations$115,597 in federal fines1000 S Douglas Way, Gillette, WY
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.
Keep looking: read the Wyoming state guides — nursing homes and assisted living — find the closest homes to your ZIP, filter every facility by rating, cost and inspection record, or see how Wyoming Medicaid pays for long-term care. Back to every state.
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.