zReports Research Institute · Updated August 2026
Kentucky has 268 active licensed nursing homes on the state's public file. zReports analyzed CMS Nursing Home Compare data to produce a records layer grade for every one, the government's own verdicts, mapped through one fixed rule. No facility can pay to change a score, and the grade is free.
| Statistic | Value |
|---|---|
| Active licensed nursing homes | 268 |
| Cities covered | 153 |
| Statewide average records layer score | 74.8 |
| Grade A facilities | 109 (40.7%) |
| Grade B facilities | 55 (20.5%) |
| Grade C facilities | 47 (17.5%) |
| Grade D facilities | 52 (19.4%) |
| Grade F facilities | 5 (1.9%) |
| Facilities with a clean record (no deficiencies on file) | 268 (100%) |
| Serious (high severity) findings on the record | 0 |
| Moderate findings on the record | 0 |
| Combined licensed capacity | 25,426 |
#1 Laurel Heights Home For The Elderly London · A
#2 Kenwood Health And Rehabilitation Center Richmond · A
#3 Twin Rivers Nursing And Rehabilitation Center Owensboro · A
#4 Nazareth Home Louisville · A
#5 Cedar Ridge Health Campus Cynthiana · A
#6 Christian Health Center Hopkinsville · A
#7 Riverview Health Care Center Prestonsburg · A
#8 Rockcastle Regional Hospital And Respiratory Care Mount Vernon · A
#9 Hopkins Nursing And Rehabilitation Center Woodburn · A
#10 Signature Healthcare Of Monroe County Rehab And We Tompkinsville · A
#11 Signature Healthcare At Jefferson Manor Rehab & We Louisville · A
#12 Helmwood Healthcare Elizabethtown · A
#13 Maysville Nursing And Rehabilitation Facility Maysville · A
#14 Providence Pointe Healthcare Paducah · A
#15 Elkhorn Health & Rehabilitation Elkhorn City · A
#16 Calvert City Convalescent Center Calvert City · A
#17 Middlesboro Nursing And Rehabilitation Facility Middlesboro · A
#18 Shady Lawn Nursing And Rehabilitation Center Cadiz · A
#19 Jeffersontown Rehabilitation Jeffersontown · A
#20 Loretto Living Center At Loretto Motherhouse, INC Nerinx · A
#21 Redbanks Colonial Terrace Sebree · A
#22 Prestonsburg Health Care Center Prestonsburg · A
#23 Signature Healthcare At Rockford Rehab & Wellness Louisville · A
#24 Greenville Nursing And Rehabilitation Greenville · A
#25 Life Care Center Of La Center La Center · A
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The free grade on this page contains zero zReports judgment: it maps the state's own published licensing and enforcement verdicts through one fixed rule, applied identically to every nursing home in America. Where the record and public reputation diverge, a highly reviewed facility with serious findings on file, the paid Consumer Intelligence Report™ surfaces it through the composite Consumer Z Score™ and our published ten point methodology. Facilities are never contacted and cannot pay to change a score. Read the full methodology →
Nursing Homes in Kentucky are overseen by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), whose certification, inspection, and quality-reporting data is published on the public record. This page is computed from CMS Nursing Home Compare data, the government’s own filings, not reviews or advertising.
Kentucky has 268 active licensed nursing homes on the state's public file, across 153 cities, with a combined licensed capacity of 25,426. Every one has a free records layer grade on zReports.
Louisville, with 35 licensed nursing homes, followed by Lexington (13) and Owensboro (7).
The free records layer grade contains zero zReports judgment. It maps the government's own published verdicts, CMS Nursing Home Compare data, through one fixed rule, applied identically to every nursing home in the country. The paid Consumer Intelligence Report™ adds the composite Consumer Z Score™, which audits the record against public reputation through our published ten point methodology.
Reviews and records are different surfaces. Reviews reflect what visitors chose to write, and can be managed by the business. Inspection and enforcement records are filed by the state, are mandatory, and cannot be edited by the facility. When the two diverge, the record is the surface worth checking. That divergence is exactly what zReports was built to surface.
Rankings refresh whenever Kentucky republishes its licensing data; facility pages carry the records-verified date for each provider. This page was generated from the current file as of August 2026.
No. Facilities are never contacted, never notified, and cannot pay to be listed, delisted, or re-scored. zReports has no business relationship with any facility it grades, independence is the product.
This report was generated from the zReports Consumer Records Database™, a continuously updated database that normalizes official government licensing, inspection, enforcement, ownership, and safety records across multiple federal and state agencies. Every statistic in this report is traceable to its originating public record. Facilities cannot pay to alter scores, rankings, or findings.
Data source: zReports Consumer Intelligence Database™ v2026.08 · Built from: CMS Provider Data Catalog · HHS OIG Exclusions List (LEIE) · Public consumer review signals (audited, never trusted, in the composite Consumer Z Score™) · Proprietary Consumer Z Score™ methodology · Updated: August 2026
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