Fonteum Care Compare · Washington · Tacoma
Nursing homes in Tacoma, Washington: 11 Medicare-certified facilities.
CMS overall star rating, staffing rating, health inspection rating, and ownership type for every Medicare-certified nursing home in Tacoma — every column traced to the CMS Care Compare NH Provider Information dataset (4pq5-n9py).
Average CMS overall rating in Tacoma: 2.5 / 5
How Tacoma compares
Tacoma vs the Washington state average
Overall ★ — this city
2.5
State avg 3.3 / 5
-0.9 vs state
Staffing ★ — this city
3.2
State avg 3.4 / 5
-0.2 vs state
Facilities — this city
11
194 statewide
State averages are CMS-published per-state means from the same snapshot; the city figure is the mean across the 11 rated facilities above.
Where Tacoma sits
All 11 Medicare-certified nursing homes in Tacoma sit in Pierce County, Washington. County is the geographic unit CMS uses for staffing-desert and access analysis.
All Medicare-certified nursing homes in Tacoma, Washington
Tacoma Nursing And Rehabilitation Center
2102 South 96th Street · CCN 505154 · For profit - Limited Liability company
150 certified beds · 92.4 avg daily residents · 5.01 total nurse hrs/resident-day · QM 5 / 5 · Last standard survey April 24, 2025
5
Overall
3
Staffing
5 / 5
Health Insp.
The Oaks At Lakewood
11411 Bridgeport Way · CCN 505347 · For profit - Limited Liability company
80 certified beds · 72.4 avg daily residents · 4.05 total nurse hrs/resident-day · QM 5 / 5 · Last standard survey January 29, 2026
5
Overall
3
Staffing
5 / 5
Health Insp.
Avamere Transitional Care Of Puget Sound
630 South Pearl Street · CCN 505529 · For profit - Limited Liability company
60 certified beds · 53.3 avg daily residents · 4.92 total nurse hrs/resident-day · QM 4 / 5 · Last standard survey November 25, 2025
5
Overall
5
Staffing
4 / 5
Health Insp.
Eliseo
1301 N Highlands Parkway · CCN 505435 · Non profit - Corporation
187 certified beds · 123.6 avg daily residents · 4.52 total nurse hrs/resident-day · QM 5 / 5 · Last standard survey May 9, 2025
3
Overall
3
Staffing
2 / 5
Health Insp.
Avalon Healthcare - Tacoma
7411 Pacific Avenue · CCN 505183 · For profit - Limited Liability company
81 certified beds · 49.9 avg daily residents · 4.95 total nurse hrs/resident-day · QM 3 / 5 · Last standard survey July 30, 2025
2
Overall
4
Staffing
2 / 5
Health Insp.
Birch Creek Post Acute & Rehabilitation
5601 S Orchard Street · CCN 505289 · For profit - Limited Liability company
124 certified beds · 110 avg daily residents · 3.69 total nurse hrs/resident-day · QM 4 / 5 · Last standard survey March 13, 2026
2
Overall
3
Staffing
2 / 5
Health Insp.
Orchard Park Health Care & Rehab Center
4755 South 48th · CCN 505093 · For profit - Limited Liability company
147 certified beds · 111.5 avg daily residents · 3.81 total nurse hrs/resident-day · QM 3 / 5 · Last standard survey June 12, 2025
1
Overall
4
Staffing
1 / 5
Health Insp.
Park Rose Care Center
3919 South 19th Street · CCN 505239 · For profit - Corporation
139 certified beds · 99.7 avg daily residents · 5.10 total nurse hrs/resident-day · QM 3 / 5 · Last standard survey July 2, 2025
1
Overall
1
Staffing
2 / 5
Health Insp.
Avamere At Pacific Ridge
3625 East B Street · CCN 505264 · For profit - Corporation
102 certified beds · 61.1 avg daily residents · 6.07 total nurse hrs/resident-day · QM 2 / 5 · Last standard survey March 27, 2025
1
Overall
4
Staffing
1 / 5
Health Insp.
Heartwood Extended Healthcare
1649 East 72nd · CCN 505326 · For profit - Individual
120 certified beds · 91.4 avg daily residents · 3.88 total nurse hrs/resident-day · QM 3 / 5 · Last standard survey February 13, 2025
1
Overall
3
Staffing
1 / 5
Health Insp.
Alaska Gardens Health And Rehabilitation
6220 South Alaska Street · CCN 505483 · For profit - Individual
123 certified beds · 110.9 avg daily residents · 3.86 total nurse hrs/resident-day · QM 4 / 5 · Last standard survey May 23, 2025
1
Overall
2
Staffing
1 / 5
Health Insp.
Reading the data
What these CMS ratings mean
Every star column on this page comes straight from CMS’s Five-Star Quality Rating System. Fonteum re-publishes the federal numbers without re-scoring them — the definitions below are CMS’s, not ours.
- Overall star rating
- A 1-to-5 summary CMS derives from the health-inspection, staffing, and quality-measure ratings. It is a relative ranking, not an absolute score — roughly the top fifth of facilities earn 5 stars and the bottom fifth earn 1.
- Health inspection rating
- Based on the three most recent state standard surveys plus any complaint investigations, weighted toward recency. More and more severe deficiencies lower the rating.
- Staffing rating
- Built from payroll-based (PBJ) nurse staffing hours per resident day, case-mix adjusted, including registered-nurse hours and weekend coverage.
- Quality-measure (QM) rating
- Drawn from a set of MDS- and claims-based clinical measures (e.g. pressure ulcers, falls, hospitalisation, antipsychotic use) across short- and long-stay residents.
- Special Focus Facility (SFF)
- A separate CMS program flagging facilities with a persistent pattern of serious health-inspection problems. “SFF” marks an active designation; “SFF Candidate” marks a facility on the candidate list.
Full methodology: how Fonteum sources and signs CMS nursing-home data.
Other Washington cities with nursing homes
Compare Tacoma with nearby markets — facility counts from the same CMS snapshot.
Fonteum research on nursing-home quality
Star ratings vs actual resident harm
Where CMS overall stars diverge from documented harm-level deficiencies.
Nursing-home staffing deserts by county
Counties where reported nurse hours per resident day fall furthest behind.
Nursing-home ownership networks
How chain ownership concentrates across Medicare-certified facilities.
Facilities banned from new Medicare admissions
Payment-denial enforcement actions and the facilities they hit.