Assisted Living
Whispering Winds
700 S Main St · Howard, SD 57349 · Lic. #46902 (SD) · 16 certified beds
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About Whispering Winds
Whispering Winds is an assisted living community in Howard, South Dakota, in Miner County. The SD licensing record reads "Licensed" for this listing. Its reported capacity is 16 beds. Every fact above comes from the public records listed in the sources section on this page. The newest source file we hold for this listing is dated August 2026.
Public record
Ratings
South Dakota publishes no quality rating for assisted living, so no community in this state carries one. CMS star ratings cover the providers Medicare certifies, which does not include assisted living.
Inspection history
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Penalties
Fines against an assisted living community are a state matter. CMS publishes civil money penalties for the nursing homes it certifies, and assisted living is not certified by CMS, so no community appears in that file. South Dakota publishes no assisted living penalty list we can read.
Staffing
Staffing hours are published for nursing homes and for no other kind of provider. Federal law requires Medicare- and Medicaid-certified nursing homes to file payroll-based nurse hours with CMS every quarter, and no agency collects the same return from assisted living communities.
Ownership
Ownership information not yet on file.
Recent changes to this listing
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Aug 7, 2026First appeared in our data
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Reported by South Dakota DOH
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Typical cost
Genworth CareScout Cost of Care Survey · 2025
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Assisted Living
Median · SD$4,900/moNearby alternatives
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Where this information came from
Each block below is one file we read, the date on that file, and the fields on this page that came from it. The date is when the source published or we retrieved it, not the day we last looked at this listing.
- South Dakota DOHas of August 2026
- Care types, City, County, License lookup link, License number, License status, Licensed capacity, Licensing state, Map location, Name, Phone number, State, Street address, ZIP code
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