Nursing home
Bear Mountain Health and Rehabilitation
500 Beaverdam Road, Asheville, NC 28804 · Map
For profit - Limited Liability company · Part of Ascent Healthcare Management (6 facilities) · 77 certified beds
Bear Mountain Health and Rehabilitation is a Medicare-certified nursing home in Asheville, North Carolina. CMS rates it 3 out of 5 stars overall (2/5 for staffing, 3/5 for health inspections). Nurse staffing is 3.02 hours per resident per day, below the North Carolina average of 3.78. Its most recent inspection on May 9, 2025 cited 8 deficiencies.
- 1 fine totaling $11,170In CMS records: 1 total penalty.
CMS quality ratings
Ratings from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), updated monthly. 5 stars is the highest quality.
How Bear Mountain Health and Rehabilitation compares
This facility vs. the North Carolina and national averages, from CMS data. For staffing, higher is generally better; for turnover and deficiencies, lower is better.
| Metric | This facility | North Carolina avg | National avg | Compared with the state |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total nurse staffing (hrs/resident/day) | 3.02 | 3.78 | 3.89 | below avg |
| RN staffing (hrs/resident/day) | 0.38 | 0.59 | 0.68 | below avg |
| Aide staffing (hrs/resident/day) | 2.04 | 2.33 | 2.34 | below avg |
| Nursing staff turnover | 63.9% | 50.4% | 46.4% | above avg |
| Deficiencies cited, last inspection | 8.0 | 5.6 | 9.5 | above avg |
Staffing
Hours per resident per day as reported to CMS. Higher numbers indicate more direct care time.
Staff turnover
Lower turnover typically indicates better working conditions and continuity of care. National average for nursing staff is 46.4%.
Recent health inspection
CMS inspects nursing facilities regularly. Deficiencies are categorized by severity.
Penalties in CMS records: 1 fine totaling $11,170, 1 total penalty.
What inspectors found at Bear Mountain Health and Rehabilitation
Specific deficiencies cited in recent CMS health inspections, most recent first. Severity follows the CMS scope/severity scale. Source: CMS Care Compare.
- Potential for harm
Provide or obtain laboratory tests/services when ordered and promptly tell the ordering practitioner of the results.
Administration Deficiencies · Dec 30, 2025 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Ensure services provided by the nursing facility meet professional standards of quality.
Resident Assessment and Care Planning Deficiencies · Dec 30, 2025 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to prevent accidents.
Quality of Life and Care Deficiencies · May 9, 2025 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Ensure services provided by the nursing facility meet professional standards of quality.
Resident Assessment and Care Planning Deficiencies · May 9, 2025 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Honor the resident's right to a dignified existence, self-determination, communication, and to exercise his or her rights.
Resident Rights Deficiencies · May 9, 2025 · Full report (PDF)
Show all 12 deficiencies
- Potential for harm
Provide appropriate care for residents who are continent or incontinent of bowel/bladder, appropriate catheter care, and appropriate care to prevent urinary tract infections.
Quality of Life and Care Deficiencies · May 9, 2025 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Coordinate assessments with the pre-admission screening and resident review program; and referring for services as needed.
Resident Assessment and Care Planning Deficiencies · May 9, 2025 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Ensure each resident receives an accurate assessment.
Resident Assessment and Care Planning Deficiencies · May 9, 2025 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Ensure services provided by the nursing facility meet professional standards of quality.
Resident Assessment and Care Planning Deficiencies · Mar 7, 2024 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Coordinate assessments with the pre-admission screening and resident review program; and referring for services as needed.
Resident Assessment and Care Planning Deficiencies · Mar 7, 2024 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Allow residents to self-administer drugs if determined clinically appropriate.
Resident Rights Deficiencies · Mar 7, 2024 · Full report (PDF) - Minimal
Set up an ongoing quality assessment and assurance group to review quality deficiencies and develop corrective plans of action.
Administration Deficiencies · Mar 7, 2024 · Full report (PDF)
Read the full inspection reports on Medicare.gov Each inspection there has a “Read the full report” link with the inspectors’ written findings.
About this facility
- Address
- 500 Beaverdam Road
Asheville, NC 28804 - CMS certification #
- 345010
- Ownership
- For profit - Limited Liability company
- Certified beds
- 77
- Avg residents/day
- 68.7
- Provider type
- Medicare and Medicaid
- First certified
- 1967-10-01
- Chain
- Ascent Healthcare Management (6 facilities)
- Setting
- Urban
Part of Ascent Healthcare Management
Ascent Healthcare Management operates 6 nursing facilities across the United States. View all Ascent Healthcare Management facilities →
Not SLA enrolled. This facility hasn’t enrolled in resident survey verification. Learn about enrollment →
Location and nearby
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Other public records
- Workplace safety 2 OSHA workplace safety inspections since 2019, 17 violations cited
- Emergency In FEMA's high-risk flood area (Zone AE)
Full public records, with dates and sources
Staff pay and workplace safety
Federal records about how the employer here treats its staff.
OSHA workplace safety inspections
OSHA inspects workplaces for staff safety, such as lifting, needles, chemicals and workplace violence. It does not inspect resident care.
- Nov 5, 2025: programmed (planned) inspection, complete (safety). Case closed Jan 13, 2026. 2 violations cited (2 other). Penalties: $0 proposed, $0 now. OSHA record. OSHA recorded the employer as 159984 - Asheville Beaverdam NC Opco LLC. Matched by street address; the name OSHA recorded differs from the community's.
Details
- Other than serious: Bloodborne pathogens (needles, blood and body fluids) (1910.1030(h)(2)(i)). Penalty $0 proposed, $0 now. To be fixed by Dec 8, 2025.
- Other than serious: Hazard communication (chemical labels, safety data sheets, training) (1910.1200(g)(8)). Penalty $0 proposed, $0 now. To be fixed by Dec 8, 2025.
- Sep 20, 2019: programmed (planned) inspection, complete (health). Case closed Oct 22, 2020. 15 violations cited (6 serious, 9 other). Penalties: $8,800 proposed, $6,180 now. OSHA record. OSHA recorded the employer as 143576 - Accordius Health LLC. Matched by street address; the name OSHA recorded differs from the community's.
Details
- Serious: Fall protection (1910.28(b)(11)(ii)). Penalty $4,000 proposed, $2,900 now. To be fixed by Dec 6, 2019.
- Serious: Keeping exit routes clear and marked (1910.37(a)(3)). Penalty $0 proposed, $0 now. To be fixed by Dec 6, 2019.
- Serious: Keeping exit routes clear and marked (1910.37(b)(1)). Penalty $0 proposed, $0 now. To be fixed by Dec 6, 2019.
- Serious: Keeping exit routes clear and marked (1910.37(b)(4)). Penalty $0 proposed, $0 now. To be fixed by Dec 6, 2019.
- Serious: Keeping exit routes clear and marked (1910.37(b)(5)). Penalty $0 proposed, $0 now. To be fixed by Dec 6, 2019.
- Serious: Bloodborne pathogens (needles, blood and body fluids) (1910.1030(c)(1)(i)). Penalty $4,000 proposed, $2,900 now. To be fixed by Jan 16, 2020.
- Other than serious: Giving injury records to OSHA when asked (1904.40(a)). Penalty $800 proposed, $380 now. To be fixed by Nov 26, 2019.
- Other than serious: Personal protective equipment (general) (1910.132(d)(2)). Penalty $0 proposed, $0 now. To be fixed by Jan 16, 2020.
- Other than serious: Sanitation (1910.141(a)(4)(i)). Penalty $0 proposed, $0 now. To be fixed by Dec 6, 2019.
- Other than serious: Electrical equipment and installation (1910.303(b)(2)). Penalty $0 proposed, $0 now. To be fixed by Nov 26, 2019.
- Other than serious: Electrical wiring methods and equipment (1910.305(a)(2)(x)). Penalty $0 proposed, $0 now. To be fixed by Dec 6, 2019.
- Other than serious: Hazard communication (chemical labels, safety data sheets, training) (1910.1200(e)(1)). Penalty $0 proposed, $0 now. To be fixed by Jan 16, 2020.
- Other than serious: Hazard communication (chemical labels, safety data sheets, training) (1910.1200(e)(1)(i)). Penalty $0 proposed, $0 now. To be fixed by Dec 6, 2019.
- Other than serious: Hazard communication (chemical labels, safety data sheets, training) (1910.1200(g)(1)). Penalty $0 proposed, $0 now. To be fixed by Nov 26, 2019.
- Other than serious: Hazard communication (chemical labels, safety data sheets, training) (1910.1200(h)(3)(iv)). Penalty $0 proposed, $0 now. To be fixed by Jan 16, 2020.
Source: U.S. Department of Labor OSHA enforcement data, as of Oct 15, 2026, inspections since 2016. Penalties can change while a case is open or contested.
Location and nearby care
- Nearest hospital with an emergency room
- Memorial Mission Hospital And Asheville Surgery Ce, Asheville. 4.5 miles away, straight line. CMS overall hospital rating: 3 of 5 stars.
- Nearest Medicare nursing home
- Emerald Ridge Health and Rehabilitation, Asheville. 2.8 miles away, straight line.
- Nearest home health agency office
- Carepartners Home Health Services, Asheville. 3.7 miles away, straight line. Agencies travel to clients, so ask which ones serve this address.
- Nearest pharmacy
- Walgreens. 1.7 miles away, straight line. From OpenStreetMap, which does not list every pharmacy, so one may be closer.
- Area
- USDA classes ZIP code 28804 as metropolitan (metropolitan core).
- Dialysis within 15 miles
- Davita Asheville Kidney Center, Asheville, 3.0 miles away, straight line (CMS rating 5 of 5 stars)
Davita Weaverville Dialysis, Weaverville, 3.6 miles away, straight line (CMS rating 4 of 5 stars)
Davita Biltmore Home Training, Asheville, 4.3 miles away, straight line - Hospice
- 6 Medicare hospices tell CMS they serve ZIP code 28804.
Carepartners Hospice & Palliative Care Services, office in Asheville, 5.6 miles away, straight line (CMS family survey rating 4 of 5 stars)
Hospice Of Yancey County, office in Burnsville, 23.7 miles away, straight line (CMS family survey rating 5 of 5 stars)
Four Seasons The Care You Trust, office in Flat Rock, 24.3 miles away, straight line (CMS family survey rating 5 of 5 stars) - Nearest geriatric medicine practice
- Nm Pacs 2 LLC, Weaverville. 4.7 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
- Zone AE: 1% annual chance flood area (high risk); base flood elevation set. This is inside FEMA's Special Flood Hazard Area, where flood insurance is required for federally backed mortgages. (FEMA flood map)
- FEMA National Risk Index
- Overall: relatively low. By hazard: hurricane very low, inland flooding relatively moderate, wildfire very low, tornado 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.
| Source | Data as of | What we found |
|---|---|---|
| U.S. Department of Labor wage and hour cases | Oct 15, 2026 | Nothing on record |
| OSHA workplace safety inspections since 2016 | Oct 15, 2026 | See above |
| Hurricane evacuation zone maps | Not in a mapped zone | |
| FEMA flood map | See above | |
| USDA wildfire risk | Apr 15, 2026 | Not shown: FEMA rates wildfire risk here very low |
| FEMA National Risk Index | See above | |
| CMS hospitals, home health, dialysis, hospice and doctors; OpenStreetMap pharmacies | See above | |
| HUD Multifamily Properties - Assisted | Jul 6, 2026 | Nothing on record |
| State Veterans Homes (NASVH directory) | Sep 20, 2026 | Nothing on record |
| CMS Hospice - General Information | Aug 19, 2026 | Nothing on record |
| CMS Home Health Care Agencies | May 27, 2026 | Nothing on record |
| The community’s own website | Could not read the site |
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Frequently asked questions
Is Bear Mountain Health and Rehabilitation a good nursing home?
CMS gives Bear Mountain Health and Rehabilitation an overall rating of 3 out of 5 stars, including 2/5 for staffing and 3/5 for health inspections. These ratings come from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and are updated monthly.
How is Bear Mountain Health and Rehabilitation staffed?
Bear Mountain Health and Rehabilitation reports 3.02 total nurse hours per resident per day, compared with the North Carolina average of 3.78.
Has Bear Mountain Health and Rehabilitation had inspection problems?
Its most recent CMS inspection cited 8 deficiencies.
How many beds does Bear Mountain Health and Rehabilitation have?
Bear Mountain Health and Rehabilitation is certified for 77 beds.