Lake Mills, WI · Jefferson County
★★★★☆CMS 4/550 bedsFor-profitMedicaid
- Nurse hours
- 3.54 /day
- Staff turnover
- 38%
- Serious cites
- 0
Lake Mills Health Services is a 50-bed for-profit home in Jefferson County, and the numbers tell a mixed story. Nurse staffing sits at 3.54 hours per resident day, about 8% under the national average, and weekends run thinner still, roughly 6% below its own weekday levels, so care gets leanest exactly when families tend to visit. Turnover is the bright spot: 37.9% against a national 45.8%, which suggests some stability in who's actually on the floor. But the inspection record pulls the other way: 18 deficiencies, one serious enough to reach harm or jeopardy, and a $120,900 fine. The most recent inspection was March 2025, so the picture is current, not stale.
Jefferson, WI · Jefferson County
★☆☆☆☆CMS 1/5120 bedsFor-profitMedicaid
- Nurse hours
- 3.64 /day
- Staff turnover
- 42%
- Serious cites
- 0
The inspection record is the part that should worry you most. Fifty-five deficiencies on file, ten of them serious enough to involve actual harm or jeopardy, and nine tied to abuse, that's a pattern, not a one-time slip. Nurse staffing sits about six percent under the national average, and weekends run roughly seventeen percent thinner than weekdays, so coverage gets weakest exactly when families tend to visit. Staff turnover of 42.2% is slightly better than average, which is the one number here that isn't discouraging. This is a for-profit corporate home with four fines totaling $337,376 and a 2025 inspection already on the books.
Fort Atkinson, WI · Jefferson County
★☆☆☆☆CMS 1/587 bedsFor-profitMedicaid
- Nurse hours
- 4.36 /day
- Staff turnover
- 70%
- Serious cites
- 0
Rock River runs more nurse hours per resident than the typical U.S. nursing home, and its most recent inspection came in December 2025, so the record isn't stale. The problem is what that record contains: 118 deficiencies, including 10 at the level where residents were actually harmed or put in immediate jeopardy, plus 9 tied to abuse. Two fines total $136,384, and CMS has placed the home in its Special Focus Facility program, a designation reserved for the country's poorest performers.
Staffing tells a similar story from the inside. Turnover sits at 70.2% against a national average near 46%, meaning most of the people caring for residents this year likely won't be there next year, and weekend coverage drops about 11% below the home's own weekday level. More hours on paper, but a workforce that keeps emptying out.