LINCOLN — The September announcement of the Blue Hill Care Center’s planned closing hit Brenda Trumble hard. The home’s closure would have forced her 90-year-old mother, Lois Mohlman, to leave the south-central Nebraska town where she had lived for more than 30 years.

A total of 34 Nebraska nursing homes have closed during the past eight years. All but two were in rural counties. The trend worries nursing home associations and advocacy groups alike, especially as they look ahead to the baby boom generation reaching advanced age. And some state senators say Nebraska needs to be looking at ways to keep rural homes open.

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