Elwood Care Center

Care and services

From the community’s website

What Elwood Care 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.

• Offers respite or short-term stays. Our hospice teams offers guidance, counseling, and respite to loved ones, helping them navigate this difficult journey with compassion and clarity. (page, checked Oct 15, 2026)
• Nurse on site: 24 hours a day. For our nursing home, both nurses and caregivers are available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. (page, checked Oct 12, 2026)
• Offers hospice care on site or works with hospice providers. We partner with a number of hospice teams that proivde hospice services in addition to our palliative care. (page, checked Oct 15, 2026)
• 3 meals a day. We serve three balanced meals each day—breakfast, lunch, and dinner—along with snacks which are available throughout the day. (page, checked Oct 12, 2026)
• Apartment types named: companion suite, private room. We offer both private rooms and companion rooms. (page, checked Oct 12, 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 23, 2004 to Oct 7, 2006. Violations found: Overtime, Child labor. Back wages: $5,434 owed to 7 employees. Civil money penalties assessed: $1,485. Employer as DOL recorded it: Elwood Care Ctr (Elwood Care Center). Case 1458673.

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.

Location and nearby care

Nearest hospital with an emergency room

Lexington Regional Health Center, Lexington. 14.8 miles away, straight line.

Nearest Medicare nursing home

Bertrand Nursing Home, Bertrand. 12.8 miles away, straight line.

Nearest home health agency office

Central Plains Home Health, Cozad. 19.9 miles away, straight line. Agencies travel to clients, so ask which ones serve this address.

Nearest pharmacy

Pamida Pharmacy. 27.0 miles away, straight line. From OpenStreetMap, which does not list every pharmacy, so one may be closer.

Area

USDA classes ZIP code 68937 as rural (rural area).

Hospice

3 Medicare hospices tell CMS they serve ZIP code 68937.
Central Plains Hospice, office in Cozad, 19.9 miles away, straight line

Nearest geriatric medicine practice

Unmc Physicians, Omaha. 196.4 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 high. By hazard: inland flooding relatively low, wildfire relatively low, tornado relatively high, heat wave relatively 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.