Creejade J
May 2026
Why is there never any answer during business hours?!?!?
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Avantara Pierre is a senior living community in Pierre, South Dakota offering Memory Care and Skilled Nursing / Long Term Care. Amenities include Gathering / Activity Spaces, Social Activities and Housekeeping. Families rate it 4.1 out of 5 across 15 reviews.
Avantara Pierre is a skilled nursing and rehabilitation facility in Pierre, South Dakota, offering specialized post-acute care including short-term rehabilitation, memory care, and wound management. The community provides comprehensive medical services with an emphasis on personalized attention and one-on-one care from an experienced clinical team.
The facility's memory care program serves individuals with Alzheimer's and Dementia, featuring round-the-clock secure supervision, assistance with daily living, and specialized programming designed to ensure safety and quality of life. For those recovering from surgery or illness, Avantara Pierre offers post-surgical care encompassing incisional and wound management, suture removal, and rehabilitation services to promote healing in a supportive environment.
The community provides specialized rehabilitation services including daily physical, occupational, and speech therapies conducted by trained professionals. These programs focus on improving strength, mobility, range of motion, and independence. Tailored programs address cardiac rehabilitation for heart disease or cardiac surgery recovery, orthopedic rehabilitation following hip, knee, spine, and other surgeries, and pulmonary rehabilitation for patients with lung disease and chronic respiratory problems.
Avantara Pierre offers advanced wound care utilizing an interdisciplinary approach with treatments such as E-Stim, ultrasound, and negative pressure therapies, supported by certified wound care nurses. The facility also provides comprehensive oncology recovery care and hospice services. Post-hospital rehabilitation is delivered in a medically supervised environment with on-site clinical equipment and services to enhance mobility, function, and independence.
The community has designed its spaces to provide a calm, nurturing environment intended to support the rehabilitation process. The facility emphasizes making residents and their visitors feel supported and at ease throughout their stay.
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Creejade J
May 2026
Why is there never any answer during business hours?!?!?
Patrick Baker
Jul 2025
The staff are so kind and helpful to patients/residents. It wasn’t an easy journey over 5 months of PT/OT rehabilitation, but it was also hard to say goodbye!
Barbara Jensen
May 2025
Just wanted to say how much I love the people who take care of the residents at avantara. The nurses, the CNA’s and all the other staff that work there. The place is really clean, just know you guys are doing an awesome job.
Vicky Hall
Jan 2025
Awful
4 inspection visits in the last three years, 38 citations on file. Inspections are conducted by state agencies on behalf of the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).
Provide safe, appropriate pain management for a resident who requires such services.
Severity D of L: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, isolatedFound during a complaint inspectionCorrected Apr 24, 2025
Protect each resident from all types of abuse such as physical, mental, sexual abuse, physical punishment, and neglect by anybody.
Severity G of L: actual harm, isolatedFound during a complaint inspectionCorrected May 1, 2025
Provide appropriate pressure ulcer care and prevent new ulcers from developing.
Severity G of L: actual harm, isolatedCorrected May 1, 2025
Inform resident or representatives choice to enter into binding arbitration agreement and right to refuse.
Severity F of L: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, widespreadCorrected May 1, 2025
Develop and implement a complete care plan that meets all the resident's needs, with timetables and actions that can be measured.
Severity E of L: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, patternCorrected May 1, 2025
Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program.
Severity E of L: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, patternCorrected May 1, 2025
Honor the resident's right to a safe, clean, comfortable and homelike environment, including but not limited to receiving treatment and supports for daily living safely.
Severity E of L: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, patternCorrected May 1, 2025
Conduct risk assessment and an All-Hazards approach.
Severity D of L: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, isolatedCorrected Apr 28, 2025
Develop and maintain an Emergency Preparedness Program (EP).
Severity D of L: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, isolatedCorrected Apr 28, 2025
Notify the resident or the resident’s representative in writing how long the nursing home will hold the resident’s bed in cases of transfer to a hospital or therapeutic leave.
Severity D of L: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, isolatedCorrected May 1, 2025
Allow residents to self-administer drugs if determined clinically appropriate.
Severity D of L: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, isolatedCorrected May 1, 2025
Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to prevent accidents.
Severity D of L: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, isolatedCorrected May 1, 2025
Arrange for the provision of hospice services or assist the resident in transferring to a facility that will arrange for the provision of hospice services.
Severity F of L: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, widespreadCorrected Feb 20, 2024
Have a plan that describes the process for conducting QAPI and QAA activities.
Severity F of L: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, widespreadCorrected Feb 20, 2024
Procure food from sources approved or considered satisfactory and store, prepare, distribute and serve food in accordance with professional standards.
Severity F of L: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, widespreadCorrected Feb 20, 2024
Administer the facility in a manner that enables it to use its resources effectively and efficiently.
Severity F of L: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, widespreadCorrected Feb 20, 2024
Post nurse staffing information every day.
Severity E of L: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, patternCorrected Feb 20, 2024
Provide enough food/fluids to maintain a resident's health.
Severity D of L: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, isolatedCorrected Feb 20, 2024
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 Feb 20, 2024
Notify the resident or the resident’s representative in writing how long the nursing home will hold the resident’s bed in cases of transfer to a hospital or therapeutic leave.
Severity D of L: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, isolatedCorrected Feb 20, 2024
Create and put into place a plan for meeting the resident's most immediate needs within 48 hours of being admitted
Severity D of L: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, isolatedCorrected Feb 20, 2024
Provide appropriate treatment and care according to orders, resident’s preferences and goals.
Severity D of L: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, isolatedCorrected Feb 20, 2024
Provide safe and appropriate respiratory care for a resident when needed.
Severity D of L: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, isolatedCorrected Feb 20, 2024
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 D of L: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, isolatedCorrected Feb 20, 2024
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 Feb 20, 2024
Provide basic life support, including CPR, prior to the arrival of emergency medical personnel , subject to physician orders and the resident’s advance directives.
Severity D of L: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, isolatedFound during a complaint inspectionCorrected Jan 4, 2024
Honor each resident's preferences, choices, values and beliefs.
Severity G of L: actual harm, isolatedCorrected Feb 11, 2023
Ensure meals and snacks are served at times in accordance with resident’s needs, preferences, and requests. Suitable and nourishing alternative meals and snacks must be provided for residents who want to eat at non-traditional times or outside of scheduled meal times.
Severity F of L: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, widespreadCorrected Feb 11, 2023
Have a plan that describes the process for conducting QAPI and QAA activities.
Severity F of L: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, widespreadCorrected Feb 11, 2023
Procure food from sources approved or considered satisfactory and store, prepare, distribute and serve food in accordance with professional standards.
Severity F of L: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, widespreadCorrected Feb 11, 2023
Ensure services provided by the nursing facility meet professional standards of quality.
Severity E of L: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, patternCorrected Feb 11, 2023
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 Feb 11, 2023
Have simulated fire drills held at unexpected times.
Severity D of L: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, isolatedCorrected Feb 20, 2023
Provide appropriate pressure ulcer care and prevent new ulcers from developing.
Severity D of L: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, isolatedCorrected Feb 11, 2023
Provide enough food/fluids to maintain a resident's health.
Severity D of L: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, isolatedCorrected Feb 11, 2023
Provide sufficient support personnel to safely and effectively carry out the functions of the food and nutrition service.
Severity D of L: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, isolatedCorrected Feb 11, 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 Jan 15, 2023
Provide properly protected cooking facilities.
Severity D of L: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, isolatedCorrected Jan 23, 2023
Source: CMS Care Compare, public federal data covering certified nursing facilities, refreshed monthly. Citations range from A (least serious) to L (most serious) on the federal scope and severity scale. Most citations are corrected quickly; review the details and ask the community about anything that concerns you.
Avantara Pierre offers Memory Care and Skilled Nursing / Long Term Care.
Avantara Pierre is located at 950 East Park Street in Pierre, South Dakota.
Avantara Pierre had 4 government inspection visits in the last three years, with 38 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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