North Woods Nursing Center

Care and services

From the community’s website

What North Woods Nursing Center says about itself, quoted from its own site. We have not checked these claims against licensing records. Ask about each one on a tour.

• Nurse on site: 24 hours a day. 24-Hour Licensed Nursing Care (page, checked Oct 15, 2026)
• Offers hospice care on site or works with hospice providers. Located in a serene wooded setting, North Woods is a skilled nursing facility that offers short-term rehabilitation rooms for those recovering from surgery or injury, as well as extended nursing care beds for those individuals needing hospice, medically complex, wellness or memory care services. (page, checked Oct 15, 2026)
• Apartment types named: private room, semi-private room. Private and semi-private rooms (page, checked Oct 15, 2026)

Staff pay and workplace safety

Federal records about how the employer here treats its staff.

Federal wage and hour cases

The Department of Labor checks that staff are paid minimum wage and overtime as the law requires.

• Findings for Oct 30, 2017 to Oct 29, 2019. Violations found: Overtime. Back wages: $1,738 owed to 33 employees. Employer as DOL recorded it: The Peplinski Group (The Peplinski Group, Inc.). Case 1898023.

Source: U.S. Department of Labor, Wage and Hour Division enforcement data, loaded Oct 15, 2026. Concluded cases only. The dates are the period in which DOL found violations, not when the case opened or closed. Back wages are what the employer agreed to pay; penalties are what DOL assessed. DOL does not publish a page for each case, so search the dataset by case number.

OSHA workplace safety inspections

OSHA inspects workplaces for staff safety, such as lifting, needles, chemicals and workplace violence. It does not inspect resident care.

• Jan 11, 2017: programmed (planned) inspection, complete (health). Case closed Mar 28, 2017. 3 violations cited (2 serious, 1 other). Penalties: $1,800 proposed, $900 now. OSHA record. OSHA recorded the employer as North Woods Nursing CTR.
  Details

  • Serious: Cited rule 408.10034(3). Penalty $1,000 proposed, $500 now. To be fixed by May 1, 2017.
  • Serious: Cited rule 325.47201(3). Penalty $800 proposed, $400 now.
  • Other than serious: Hazard communication (chemical labels, safety data sheets, training) (1910.1200(e)(1)(i)). Penalty $0 proposed, $0 now.

Source: U.S. Department of Labor OSHA enforcement data, as of Oct 15, 2026, inspections since 2016. Penalties can change while a case is open or contested.

Location and nearby care

Nearest hospital with an emergency room

Mclaren Central Michigan, Mount Pleasant. 19.4 miles away, straight line. CMS overall hospital rating: 3 of 5 stars.

Nearest Medicare nursing home

Medilodge of Clare, Clare. 7.7 miles away, straight line.

Nearest home health agency office

Mclaren Home Care, Mount Pleasant. 19.1 miles away, straight line. Agencies travel to clients, so ask which ones serve this address.

Nearest pharmacy

Pharmacy. 11.8 miles away, straight line. From OpenStreetMap, which does not list every pharmacy, so one may be closer.

Area

USDA classes ZIP code 48622 as rural (rural area).

Hospice

13 Medicare hospices tell CMS they serve ZIP code 48622.
Mymichigan Home Care, office in Mount Pleasant, 18.0 miles away, straight line (CMS family survey rating 4 of 5 stars)

Nearest geriatric medicine practice

Powerback Rehabilitation LLC, Midland. 35.0 miles away, straight line. 1 geriatric medicine doctor listed there.

Distances are straight lines from the community, not driving distance. Hospitals, home health, dialysis, hospice and doctors come from CMS provider data (CMS, hospital list updated Jul 22, 2026). Star ratings are CMS’s own.

Emergency and natural hazard risk

Public hazard maps for this location. Ask the community about its emergency plan, its generator and where residents would go in an evacuation.

Flood zone

Outside the high and moderate risk flood areas on FEMA's flood map (Zone X, minimal flood hazard, or not studied). (FEMA flood map)

FEMA National Risk Index

Overall: relatively low. By hazard: hurricane very low, inland flooding relatively low, wildfire very low, tornado relatively moderate, heat wave very low, earthquake very low. These are FEMA’s ratings for the census tract, compared with tracts nationwide. (FEMA, December 2025)

A flood zone describes the map at this point, not the building's elevation. In an emergency, follow the local emergency management agency.

What we checked

Every public source we searched for this community. “Nothing on record” means we found no record that matched it. A record can be missed when a name or address differs.