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Skilled nursing facilities licensed in Indiana as Comprehensive Care Facilities, a separate license from assisted living, providing 24-hour licensed nursing care and short-term rehabilitation.

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Indiana regulates nursing homes through the Indiana Department of Health.

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A skilled nursing facility provides 24-hour licensed nursing. Indiana licenses these as Comprehensive Care Facilities, a separate license from the Residential Care Facility (assisted living) rule chapter. Two different populations often live under the same roof: short-term rehab patients and long-term residents.

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We list 25 verified nursing homes providers across your metro. A skilled nursing facility provides 24-hour licensed nursing.

Three things worth knowing first

  • Medicare may cover a short rehab stay after a qualifying inpatient hospital admission, but it does not pay for long-term custodial nursing care.
  • Nursing facilities are the one senior care category with federal CMS star ratings.
  • Indiana's 2025 CareScout medians are $8,943/month semi-private and $10,326/month private -- semi-private is often Medicaid-weighted and lower than a private-pay quote.
How Indiana licenses assisted living. Indiana licenses assisted living as a Residential Care Facility (RCF) under 410 IAC 16.2-5 -- one license type, not tiered like Texas's Type A/B. Read the full explanation →

Verified nursing homes across the region

We list 25 verified nursing homes providers across your metro. The full table with addresses and counties lives in the directory.

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Nursing Homes by city

Nursing Homes in Indianapolis

11 verified · Marion County

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Nursing Homes in Carmel

3 verified · Hamilton County

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Nursing Homes in Fishers

1 verified · Hamilton County

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Nursing Homes in Noblesville

2 verified · Hamilton County

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Nursing Homes in Greenwood

3 verified · Johnson County

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Nursing Homes in Avon

1 verified · Hendricks County

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Nursing Homes in Plainfield

1 verified · Hendricks County

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Nursing Homes in Zionsville

0 verified · Boone County

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Questions families ask

What should I do if someone is in immediate danger?

Call 911 first. Adult Protective Services is not an emergency responder and does not dispatch immediate help -- it investigates reports after the fact. Use 911 for anything urgent, then follow up with APS or the ombudsman as appropriate.

Who has to report suspected elder abuse in Indiana?

Indiana is a mandatory-reporting state: anyone who suspects neglect, battery, or exploitation of an endangered adult (18 or older, incapacitated, and harmed or threatened) is required to report it, not just healthcare or facility staff.

My parent is being discharged from an Indianapolis hospital in 72 hours. What now?

Ask the case manager for the discharge plan in writing, confirm whether your parent was admitted as an inpatient or held under observation status (only inpatient stays count toward Medicare's skilled-nursing benefit), and ask which facilities have actually accepted the referral -- not just which ones were contacted.

Does Medicare pay for a nursing home stay after a hospitalization?

Medicare covers a limited skilled-nursing-facility stay only after a qualifying inpatient hospital admission, for rehabilitation, not long-term placement. Time spent under observation status does not count, even after multiple nights in a hospital bed -- ask the hospital directly which status applies.

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