Nursing Homes in Howard County, MD
County directory of licensed nursing homes providers, cities in Howard County, and real Area Agency on Aging / state Medicaid contacts. We never invent county Medicaid offices.
Licensed nursing homes providers: 6
A note on counting: we show 6 licensed nursing homes listed for Howard County proper. Other sites show bigger numbers when they count a wide radius. Nearby options are linked below, labeled by city.
Encore at Turf Valley
The Lutheran Village at Miller's Grant
Lorien Health Systems - Columbia
Ellicott City Healthcare Center
Lorien Nursing & Rehab CTR - Elkridge
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Cities in Howard County
- Ellicott City · 3
- Columbia · 2
- Elkridge · 1
What federal inspectors recorded here
Howard County, MD has 6 facilities certified by Medicare or Medicaid, as of the CMS penalty file published August 1, 2026. CMS publishes what it fined them, when it stopped paying for new admissions, how many nursing hours they staffed, and what its inspectors wrote up. These are those records counted. A penalty is an enforcement action on a date, not a verdict on the care a resident receives today.
- Facilities with a federal penalty
17%1 of 6 (17%)
A civil money penalty, a payment denial, or both, among the penalties CMS recorded between July 17, 2023 and July 29, 2026.
- Facilities where CMS stopped paying for new admissions
0%0 of 6 (0%)
A payment denial is CMS refusing to pay for newly admitted Medicare and Medicaid residents until the facility corrects the problem it cited.
- Median penalty total, among facilities that were fined
Only 1 facility here has a fine on record. We publish a median at 5 values or more, because below that the middle of the list is one building's number.
- Median nurse staffing hours per resident day
4.27hours · 6 facilities
0.67 hours above the Maryland median of 3.60 hours.
Total nurse hours per resident per day from payroll records CMS collects, quarter Q1 2026. Staffing is an input, not an outcome.
- Facilities with an inspection citation in the last 12 months
67%4 of 6 (67%)
Counts facilities with at least one deficiency CMS inspectors wrote up in the last 365 days. The most recent one here is dated March 19, 2026. A facility inspected and found compliant records no citation, so this is not a survey date.
These figures cover nursing homes and nothing else on this site. Penalties, payroll staffing and inspection citations in this form are federal records that CMS keeps for Medicare and Medicaid certified nursing homes. Assisted living, memory care and in-home agencies are licensed by each state under different rules, and the state penalty files we hold are not comparable to these. We would rather show one honest set of numbers than a national-looking figure stitched from regulators that do not measure the same thing.
Every share above is printed with the number of facilities behind it. Where a place has too few facilities for a share to mean anything, we print the count and say so rather than a percentage. How we count, and what we will not count, is in our methodology.
Local aging & Medicaid contacts
Area Agency on Aging
Office on Aging and Independence · (410) 313-1234
Source: State aging agency.GOVAging & Disability Resource Center
Maryland Access Point · 1-844-627-5465
Source: Aging & disability resource center.GOVMaryland Medicaid HCBS / LTSS programs
State-level Medicaid waiver contacts (not invented county Medicaid offices). Official agency pages only.
- Home and Community Based Options Waiver. Maryland 1915(c) Home and Community Based Options Waiver for adults 65+ and adults 18–64 with physical disabilities (CMS factsheet).
Questions families ask
How many nursing homes are listed in Howard County, MD?
We currently list 6 licensed nursing homes in Howard County, MD.
Which cities in Howard County have nursing homes listings?
We track 3 cities in Howard County with nursing homes. See the city list on this page.
Who is the Area Agency on Aging for Howard County?
Office on Aging and Independence is the Area Agency on Aging covering Howard County. Contact details on this page come from official aging-network sources.
How do families in Howard County learn about Medicaid long-term care options?
Maryland publishes named Medicaid HCBS / LTSS waiver programs. We link official state pages on this county page and do not invent county Medicaid office contacts.
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