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Avantara Groton is a senior living community in Groton, South Dakota offering Skilled Nursing / Long Term Care. Amenities include Restaurant style Dining Room, Gathering / Activity Spaces and Social Activities. Families rate it 4.5 out of 5 across 26 reviews.
Avantara Groton is a rehabilitation and skilled nursing facility in Groton, South Dakota, offering post-hospital recovery care and specialized medical services with a personalized approach. The community provides daily physical, occupational, and speech therapies delivered by trained professionals, along with comprehensive nursing care in a medically supervised environment.
The facility specializes in several focused rehabilitation programs, including cardiac rehabilitation for patients recovering from heart disease or cardiac surgery, orthopedic rehabilitation following hip, knee, or spine surgeries, and short-term rehabilitation for recovery from general surgery or illness. Avantara Groton also offers oncology recovery care with nursing, rehabilitation, and dietary services tailored to cancer patients, as well as hospice care.
Additional clinical services include wound care using advanced treatments such as E-Stim, ultrasound, and negative pressure therapies, managed by certified wound care nurses on-site, and a respiratory program for patients with lung disease and chronic respiratory conditions designed to optimize physical abilities and slow disease progression.
The community emphasizes a relaxing and supportive environment, with all spaces designed to provide a sense of tranquility and restfulness. Residents participate in daily activities and meals served on-site, with the facility fostering a community of friendly residents and engaged staff across all departments.
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Help Me Choose4.5overall · 26 ratings combined
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Kristi Wherry
Oct 2025
We could not be happier with the care our mother has received at Avantara Groton! Every employee is professional, gentle, kind and fun. The residents are treated with respect and dignity. The staff treats each one as an individual. That is huge! There are always fun activites going on. Mom loves it here. Thank you for all you do for her. 🩷
Jody T
Sep 2025
Avantara has had my mother, brother, and my dad live with them. Their care is second to none!!! I am a retired RN who worked my last 9 years in Geriatrics!! I would highly recommend Avantara. They are kind and compassionate, have a wonderful activity Director and the residents have a great time. I have NEVER seen such great care at a nursing home. When you walk in the door, everyone is friendly, the smell is amazing. I can't say enough good about the staff. They are engaged and it's easy to tell they love their jobs🩵💜 Would give them a 10 out of 5 if possible 💙🩵💜
Hayden Bohl
Jun 2025
compassionate staff, spotless facility, and a warm, family-like atmosphere
Kristina Walsh
Jun 2025
Great place. The staff and the residents at the Avantara in Groton are absolutely amazing. Best care facility I have ever been to.
Hayden Bohl
May 2025
We recently placed my grandmother at Avantara Groton Nursing Home for a short-term rehab stay, and we couldn't be more grateful for the care she received. From the moment she arrived, the staff made her feel welcomed, comfortable, and truly cared for. The nurses, aides, and therapists were not only skilled and attentive but also incredibly kind and compassionate — it made all the difference during her recovery.
4 inspection visits in the last three years, 28 citations on file. Inspections are conducted by state agencies on behalf of the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).
Create and put into place a plan for meeting the resident's most immediate needs within 48 hours of being admitted
Severity F of L: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, widespreadCorrected Jan 25, 2026
Ensure each resident receives an accurate assessment.
Severity E of L: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, patternCorrected Jan 25, 2026
Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program.
Severity E of L: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, patternCorrected Jan 25, 2026
Ensure drugs and biologicals used in the facility are labeled in accordance with currently accepted professional principles; and all drugs and biologicals must be stored in locked compartments, separately locked, compartments for controlled drugs.
Severity E of L: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, patternCorrected Jan 25, 2026
Ensure menus must meet the nutritional needs of residents, be prepared in advance, be followed, be updated, be reviewed by dietician, and meet the needs of the resident.
Severity D of L: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, isolatedCorrected Jan 25, 2026
Procure food from sources approved or considered satisfactory and store, prepare, distribute and serve food in accordance with professional standards.
Severity D of L: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, isolatedCorrected Jan 25, 2026
Have generator or other power source capable of supplying service within 10 seconds.
Severity D of L: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, isolatedCorrected Jan 29, 2026
Add doors in an exit area that do not require the use of a key from the exit side unless in case of special locking arrangements.
Severity D of L: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, isolatedCorrected Jan 29, 2026
Honor the resident's right to request, refuse, and/or discontinue treatment, to participate in or refuse to participate in experimental research, and to formulate an advance directive.
Severity D of L: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, isolatedCorrected Jan 25, 2026
Ensure services provided by the nursing facility meet professional standards of quality.
Severity D of L: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, isolatedCorrected Jan 25, 2026
Try different approaches before using a bed rail. If a bed rail is needed, the facility must (1) assess a resident for safety risk; (2) review these risks and benefits with the resident/representative; (3) get informed consent; and (4) Correctly install and maintain the bed rail.
Severity D of L: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, isolatedCorrected Jan 25, 2026
Honor the resident's right to request, refuse, and/or discontinue treatment, to participate in or refuse to participate in experimental research, and to formulate an advance directive.
Severity G of L: actual harm, isolatedFound during a complaint inspectionCorrected Oct 24, 2024
Properly select, install, inspect, or maintain portable fire extinguishes.
Severity E of L: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, patternCorrected Aug 27, 2024
Develop the complete care plan within 7 days of the comprehensive assessment; and prepared, reviewed, and revised by a team of health professionals.
Severity E of L: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, patternCorrected Aug 27, 2024
Ensure medication error rates are not 5 percent or greater.
Severity E of L: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, patternCorrected Aug 27, 2024
Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program.
Severity E of L: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, patternCorrected Aug 27, 2024
Install an approved automatic sprinkler system.
Severity D of L: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, isolatedCorrected Aug 1, 2024
Create and put into place a plan for meeting the resident's most immediate needs within 48 hours of being admitted
Severity E of L: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, patternCorrected May 29, 2023
Assess the resident completely in a timely manner when first admitted, and then periodically, at least every 12 months.
Severity E of L: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, patternCorrected May 29, 2023
Ensure drugs and biologicals used in the facility are labeled in accordance with currently accepted professional principles; and all drugs and biologicals must be stored in locked compartments, separately locked, compartments for controlled drugs.
Severity E of L: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, patternCorrected May 29, 2023
Ensure a licensed pharmacist perform a monthly drug regimen review, including the medical chart, following irregularity reporting guidelines in developed policies and procedures.
Severity D of L: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, isolatedCorrected May 29, 2023
Develop and implement policies and procedures for flu and pneumonia vaccinations.
Severity D of L: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, isolatedCorrected May 29, 2023
Ensure services provided by the nursing facility meet professional standards of quality.
Severity D of L: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, isolatedCorrected May 29, 2023
Honor the resident's right to and the facility must promote and facilitate resident self-determination through support of resident choice.
Severity D of L: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, isolatedCorrected May 29, 2023
Honor the resident's right to share a room with spouse or roommate of choice and receive written notice before a change is made.
Severity D of L: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, isolatedCorrected May 29, 2023
Honor the resident's right to a dignified existence, self-determination, communication, and to exercise his or her rights.
Severity D of L: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, isolatedCorrected May 29, 2023
Add doors in an exit area that do not require the use of a key from the exit side unless in case of special locking arrangements.
Severity D of L: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, isolatedCorrected May 23, 2023
Ensure that special areas are constructed so that walls can resist fire for one hour or have an approved fire extinguishing system.
Severity D of L: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, isolatedCorrected Apr 15, 2023
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Avantara Groton offers Skilled Nursing / Long Term Care.
Avantara Groton is located at 1106 North Second Street in Groton, South Dakota.
Avantara Groton had 4 government inspection visits in the last three years, with 28 citations on file according to CMS Care Compare data. The full history, including what each citation was for and whether it was corrected, is in the inspection section on this page.
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