Nursing home
Carver Living Center
303 East Carver Street, Durham, NC 27704 · Map
For profit - Limited Liability company · Part of Cch Healthcare (32 facilities) · 232 certified beds
Carver Living Center is a Medicare-certified nursing home in Durham, North Carolina. CMS rates it 1 out of 5 stars overall (1/5 for staffing, 1/5 for health inspections). Its most recent inspection on Feb 7, 2025 cited 20 deficiencies. Note: it is a CMS Special Focus Facility under enhanced oversight and it carries a CMS abuse icon.
- CMS abuse iconThis facility has an active abuse icon on its CMS record.
- Special Focus Facility candidateCMS lists this facility as a candidate for enhanced oversight.
- 4 fines totaling $128,554In CMS records: 5 total penalties, 1 Medicare payment denial.
CMS quality ratings
Ratings from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), updated monthly. 5 stars is the highest quality.
How Carver Living Center 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) | — | 3.78 | 3.89 | — |
| RN staffing (hrs/resident/day) | — | 0.59 | 0.68 | — |
| Aide staffing (hrs/resident/day) | — | 2.33 | 2.34 | — |
| Nursing staff turnover | —% | 50.4% | 46.4% | — |
| Deficiencies cited, last inspection | 20.0 | 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: 4 fines totaling $128,554, 5 total penalties, 1 Medicare payment denial.
What inspectors found at Carver Living Center
Specific deficiencies cited in recent CMS health inspections, most recent first. Severity follows the CMS scope/severity scale. Source: CMS Care Compare.
- Immediate jeopardy
Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program.
Infection Control Deficiencies · May 22, 2025 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Ensure drugs and biologicals used in the facility are labeled in accordance with currently accepted professional principles; and all drugs and biologicals must be stored in locked compartments, separately locked, compartments for controlled drugs.
Pharmacy Service Deficiencies · May 22, 2025 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Ensure the resident's doctor reviews the resident's care, writes, signs and dates progress notes and orders, at each required visit.
Nursing and Physician Services Deficiencies · May 22, 2025 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Honor the resident's right to voice grievances without discrimination or reprisal and the facility must establish a grievance policy and make prompt efforts to resolve grievances.
Resident Rights Deficiencies · May 22, 2025 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Keep residents' personal and medical records private and confidential.
Resident Rights Deficiencies · May 22, 2025 · Full report (PDF)
Show all 12 deficiencies
- Potential for harm
Immediately tell the resident, the resident's doctor, and a family member of situations (injury/decline/room, etc.) that affect the resident.
Resident Rights Deficiencies · May 22, 2025 · Full report (PDF) - Immediate jeopardy
Protect each resident from all types of abuse such as physical, mental, sexual abuse, physical punishment, and neglect by anybody.
Freedom from Abuse, Neglect, and Exploitation Deficiencies · Apr 11, 2025 · Full report (PDF) - Immediate jeopardy
Ensure that nurses and nurse aides have the appropriate competencies to care for every resident in a way that maximizes each resident's well being.
Nursing and Physician Services Deficiencies · Feb 7, 2025 · Full report (PDF) - Immediate jeopardy
Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program.
Infection Control Deficiencies · Feb 7, 2025 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Protect each resident from all types of abuse such as physical, mental, sexual abuse, physical punishment, and neglect by anybody.
Freedom from Abuse, Neglect, and Exploitation Deficiencies · Feb 7, 2025 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Ensure drugs and biologicals used in the facility are labeled in accordance with currently accepted professional principles; and all drugs and biologicals must be stored in locked compartments, separately locked, compartments for controlled drugs.
Pharmacy Service Deficiencies · Feb 7, 2025 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Safeguard resident-identifiable information and/or maintain medical records on each resident that are in accordance with accepted professional standards.
Resident Assessment and Care Planning Deficiencies · Feb 7, 2025 · 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
- 303 East Carver Street
Durham, NC 27704 - CMS certification #
- 345434
- Ownership
- For profit - Limited Liability company
- Certified beds
- 232
- Avg residents/day
- 178.9
- Provider type
- Medicare and Medicaid
- First certified
- 1993-04-12
- Chain
- Cch Healthcare (32 facilities)
- Setting
- Urban
Part of Cch Healthcare
Cch Healthcare operates 32 nursing facilities across the United States. View all Cch Healthcare facilities →
Not SLA enrolled. This facility hasn’t enrolled in resident survey verification. Learn about enrollment →
Location and nearby
Explore the area around Carver Living Center using Google Maps.
Other public records
- Website says A memory care unit, respite stays, nurse 24 hours a day
- Staff pay 1 federal wage case with violations found, since 2011
- Workplace safety 3 OSHA workplace safety inspections since 2017, 11 violations cited
Full public records, with dates and sources
Care and services
From the community’s website
What Carver Living Center says about itself, quoted from its own site. We have not checked these claims against licensing records. Ask about each one on a tour.
- Has a separate memory care unit, wing or neighborhood.
Serenity Gardens: Secure Memory Care Unit
(page, checked Oct 15, 2026) - Offers respite or short-term stays.
We offer short-term rehabilitation, long-term care and respite stays.
(page, checked Oct 12, 2026) - Nurse on site: 24 hours a day.
24/7 nursing care
(page, checked Oct 15, 2026) - Apartment types named: private room.
Our designated Rehab Hall is designed exclusively for short-term rehab patients, featuring spacious private rooms and bathrooms to ensure comfort during recovery.
(page, checked Oct 12, 2026)
Staff pay and workplace safety
Federal records about how the employer here treats its staff.
Federal wage and hour cases
The Department of Labor checks that staff are paid minimum wage and overtime as the law requires.
- Findings for Jun 24, 2011 to Jun 15, 2013. Violations found: Overtime. Back wages: $8,713 owed to 3 employees. Employer as DOL recorded it: Carver Living Center (Apex Healthcare Solutions LLC). Case 1696536.
Source: U.S. Department of Labor, Wage and Hour Division enforcement data, loaded Oct 15, 2026. Concluded cases only. The dates are the period in which DOL found violations, not when the case opened or closed. Back wages are what the employer agreed to pay; penalties are what DOL assessed. DOL does not publish a page for each case, so search the dataset by case number.
OSHA workplace safety inspections
OSHA inspects workplaces for staff safety, such as lifting, needles, chemicals and workplace violence. It does not inspect resident care.
- Jan 9, 2020: unprogrammed, related to another inspection inspection, partial (safety). Case closed Apr 9, 2020. 6 violations cited (5 serious, 1 other). Penalties: $5,400 proposed, $5,400 now. OSHA record. OSHA recorded the employer as 144423 - CCH Healthcare NC, LLC. Matched by street address; the name OSHA recorded differs from the community's.
Details
- Serious: Machine guarding (1910.212(a)(5)). Penalty $2,700 proposed, $2,700 now. To be fixed by Mar 31, 2020.
- Serious: Mechanical power transmission guarding (1910.219(d)(1)). Penalty $0 proposed, $0 now. To be fixed by Mar 31, 2020.
- Serious: Electrical equipment and installation (1910.303(b)(1)(ii)). Penalty $2,700 proposed, $2,700 now. To be fixed by Mar 31, 2020.
- Serious: Use of electrical equipment (1910.334(a)(2)(i)). Penalty $0 proposed, $0 now. To be fixed by Mar 31, 2020.
- Serious: Use of electrical equipment (1910.334(a)(2)(ii)). Penalty $0 proposed, $0 now. To be fixed by Mar 31, 2020.
- Other than serious: Electrical wiring methods and equipment (1910.305(j)(3)(iii)). Penalty $0 proposed, $0 now. To be fixed by Mar 31, 2020.
- Mar 8, 2019: complaint inspection, partial (health). Case closed Apr 10, 2019. No violations cited. OSHA record. OSHA recorded the employer as 141416 - CCH Healthcare NC, LLC. Matched by street address; the name OSHA recorded differs from the community's.
- Aug 15, 2017: programmed (planned) inspection, complete (safety). Case closed Jan 23, 2018. 5 violations cited (2 serious, 3 other). Penalties: $2,250 proposed, $1,687 now. OSHA record. OSHA recorded the employer as 135484 - Carver Healthcare LLC.
Details
- Serious: Floors and walking surfaces (slips, trips and falls) (1910.22(a)(3)). Penalty $2,250 proposed, $1,687 now. To be fixed by Oct 6, 2017.
- Serious: Floors and walking surfaces (slips, trips and falls) (1910.22(d)(2)). Penalty $0 proposed, $0 now. To be fixed by Oct 6, 2017.
- Other than serious: Electrical equipment and installation (1910.303(b)(7)(iv)). Penalty $0 proposed, $0 now. To be fixed by Oct 6, 2017.
- Other than serious: Electrical equipment and installation (1910.303(g)(1)). Penalty $0 proposed, $0 now. To be fixed by Oct 6, 2017.
- Other than serious: Electrical equipment and installation (1910.303(g)(1)(ii)). Penalty $0 proposed, $0 now. To be fixed by Oct 6, 2017.
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
- Duke Regional Hospital, Durham. 0.3 miles away, straight line. CMS overall hospital rating: 5 of 5 stars.
- Nearest Medicare nursing home
- Accordius Health at Rose Manor LLC, Durham. 0.7 miles away, straight line.
- Nearest home health agency office
- Duke Home Health, Durham. 0.5 miles away, straight line. Agencies travel to clients, so ask which ones serve this address.
- Nearest pharmacy
- CVS Pharmacy. 0.3 miles away, straight line. From OpenStreetMap, which does not list every pharmacy, so one may be closer.
- Area
- USDA classes ZIP code 27704 as metropolitan (metropolitan core).
- Dialysis within 15 miles
- Davita Durham Regional Dialysis, Durham, 0.3 miles away, straight line (CMS rating 3 of 5 stars)
Fmc - Freedom Lake Dialysis Unit, Durham, 0.4 miles away, straight line (CMS rating 3 of 5 stars)
Fmc West Pettigrew Dialysis Center, Durham, 2.9 miles away, straight line (CMS rating 1 of 5 stars) - Hospice
- 10 Medicare hospices tell CMS they serve ZIP code 27704.
Duke Hospice, office in Durham, 7.5 miles away, straight line (CMS family survey rating 4 of 5 stars)
Transitions Lifecare, office in Raleigh, 18.3 miles away, straight line (CMS family survey rating 5 of 5 stars)
Heartland Hospice (Raleigh ), office in Raleigh, 20.9 miles away, straight line (CMS family survey rating 2 of 5 stars) - Nearest geriatric medicine practice
- The United Methodist Retirement Homes, Incorporated, Durham. 2.7 miles away, straight line. 3 geriatric medicine doctors 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
- Outside the high and moderate risk flood areas on FEMA's flood map (Zone X, minimal flood hazard, or not studied). (FEMA flood map)
- FEMA National Risk Index
- Overall: relatively moderate. By hazard: hurricane relatively moderate, inland flooding relatively moderate, wildfire very low, tornado relatively high, heat wave relatively high, earthquake relatively 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 | See above |
| 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 | See above |
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Frequently asked questions
Is Carver Living Center a good nursing home?
CMS gives Carver Living Center an overall rating of 1 out of 5 stars, including 1/5 for staffing and 1/5 for health inspections. These ratings come from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and are updated monthly.
Has Carver Living Center had inspection problems?
Its most recent CMS inspection cited 20 deficiencies. This facility is on CMS's Special Focus list for enhanced oversight.
How many beds does Carver Living Center have?
Carver Living Center is certified for 232 beds.