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Facility lookup · Dodge County

Fairview Care Center

Nursing home in Dodge Center, Dodge County, Minnesota

The state's license record

License type
SKILLED NURSING FACILITY/NURSING FACILIT
License number
424882
Licensed capacity
46 residents
Ownership on file
COUNTY
License effective
May 1, 2026
License expires
April 30, 2027
Address on file
702 10th Avenue NW, Dodge Center, MN, 55927
Telephone on file
507-374-2578

Source: Minnesota Department of Health, Health Care Provider Lookup, checked August 20, 2026. This record comes from the state and cannot be edited by the facility or by anyone else.

Medicare's ratings for this nursing home

Overall rating
3 of 5

A combined score Medicare computes from the three domains below, starting from the health inspection rating and adjusting up or down for staffing and quality measures.

What it misses: It is a formula, not a judgment about whether a place will feel right for your family, and a single recent problem can hide inside a decent average.

Health inspections
3 of 5

Results of the state's unannounced on-site inspections and complaint investigations over roughly the last three years, weighted toward the most recent cycle. This is the only domain based entirely on independent observers walking the building.

What it misses: Inspections are a sample of days, not a camera in the hallway. A facility can look fine on inspection day and still be short-staffed on weekends.

Staffing
4 of 5

Nurse and aide hours per resident per day, from payroll records, adjusted for how sick the residents are. Staffing level is one of the strongest predictors of care quality that exists in the data.

What it misses: Averages can mask thin weekends and overnight shifts, and hours say nothing about turnover in the people your parent will actually know. We show weekend hours and turnover separately below for that reason.

Quality measures
4 of 5

Rates of things like pressure sores, falls with injury, infections, and hospital readmissions, computed from the facility's own required resident assessments and claims data.

What it misses: Much of it is self-reported by the facility. Treat a low score seriously; treat a high score as a starting point to verify, not a promise.

Staffing, in actual hours

Hours of direct nursing care per resident per day, from payroll records. The weekend number matters: staffing is usually thinnest then.

Total nursing
3.87 hrs
Registered nurses
0.75 hrs
RN hours, weekends
0.48 hrs
Nursing staff turnover
not published
RN turnover
not published
Administrators left, 12 mo
1

Federal penalties, last three years

No federal fines or Medicare payment denials appear in the current CMS penalty file for this facility.

Source: CMS Care Compare monthly public files, data processed July 1, 2026, checked August 2, 2026. Verify anytime at medicare.gov Care Compare.

State inspection and investigation findings

MDH surveys facilities on a regular cycle and investigates complaints, including allegations of abuse, neglect, or financial misuse. Each finding below links the state's own report. An unsubstantiated investigation means the allegation was not verified, not that nothing was alleged.

41 investigations (35 substantiated) and 2 routine surveys on file.

Showing the 40 most recent of 43 findings. The full list is on the MDH site linked below.

Source: MDH Health Care Provider Evaluation and Investigation Results, checked August 20, 2026. Verify anytime at the MDH findings search.

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