Nursing home
Edgecombe Health Center by Harborview
1000 Western Boulevard, Tarboro, NC 27886 · Map
For profit - Individual · Part of Harborview Health Systems (21 facilities) · 159 certified beds
Edgecombe Health Center by Harborview is a Medicare-certified nursing home in Tarboro, North Carolina. CMS rates it 3 out of 5 stars overall (2/5 for staffing, 3/5 for health inspections). Nurse staffing is 3.36 hours per resident per day, below the North Carolina average of 3.78. Its most recent inspection on Mar 13, 2025 cited 6 deficiencies.
CMS quality ratings
Ratings from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), updated monthly. 5 stars is the highest quality.
How Edgecombe Health Center by Harborview 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) | 3.36 | 3.78 | 3.89 | below avg |
| RN staffing (hrs/resident/day) | 0.47 | 0.59 | 0.68 | below avg |
| Aide staffing (hrs/resident/day) | 2.20 | 2.33 | 2.34 | below avg |
| Nursing staff turnover | 48.4% | 50.4% | 46.4% | below avg |
| Deficiencies cited, last inspection | 6.0 | 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.
What inspectors found at Edgecombe Health Center by Harborview
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
Ensure each resident receives an accurate assessment.
Resident Assessment and Care Planning Deficiencies · Mar 13, 2025 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Ensure each resident’s drug regimen must be free from unnecessary drugs.
Pharmacy Service Deficiencies · Mar 13, 2025 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Try different approaches before using a bed rail. If a bed rail is needed, the facility must (1) assess a resident for safety risk; (2) review these risks and benefits with the resident/representative; (3) get informed consent; and (4) Correctly install and maintain the bed rail.
Quality of Life and Care Deficiencies · Mar 13, 2025 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Develop and implement a complete care plan that meets all the resident's needs, with timetables and actions that can be measured.
Resident Assessment and Care Planning Deficiencies · Mar 13, 2025 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Give residents notice of Medicaid/Medicare coverage and potential liability for services not covered.
Resident Rights Deficiencies · Mar 13, 2025 · Full report (PDF)
Show all 12 deficiencies
- Potential for harm
Honor the resident's right to request, refuse, and/or discontinue treatment, to participate in or refuse to participate in experimental research, and to formulate an advance directive.
Resident Rights Deficiencies · Mar 13, 2025 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Provide appropriate treatment and care according to orders, resident’s preferences and goals.
Quality of Life and Care Deficiencies · Jan 25, 2024 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program.
Infection Control Deficiencies · Jan 25, 2024 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Set up an ongoing quality assessment and assurance group to review quality deficiencies and develop corrective plans of action.
Administration Deficiencies · Jan 25, 2024 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Provide safe and appropriate respiratory care for a resident when needed.
Quality of Life and Care Deficiencies · Jan 25, 2024 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Ensure each resident receives an accurate assessment.
Resident Assessment and Care Planning Deficiencies · Jan 25, 2024 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Allow resident to participate in the development and implementation of his or her person-centered plan of care.
Resident Rights Deficiencies · Jan 25, 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
- 1000 Western Boulevard
Tarboro, NC 27886 - CMS certification #
- 345195
- Ownership
- For profit - Individual
- Certified beds
- 159
- Avg residents/day
- 138.5
- Provider type
- Medicare and Medicaid
- First certified
- 1979-10-01
- Chain
- Harborview Health Systems (21 facilities)
- Setting
- Urban
Part of Harborview Health Systems
Harborview Health Systems operates 21 nursing facilities across the United States. View all Harborview Health Systems facilities →
Not SLA enrolled. This facility hasn’t enrolled in resident survey verification. Learn about enrollment →
Location and nearby
Explore the area around Edgecombe Health Center by Harborview using Google Maps.
Other public records
- Website says Nurse 24 hours a day
- Workplace safety 1 OSHA workplace safety inspection since 2019, 8 violations cited
Full public records, with dates and sources
Care and services
From the community’s website
What Edgecombe Health Center by Harborview says about itself, quoted from its own site. We have not checked these claims against licensing records. Ask about each one on a tour.
- Nurse on site: 24 hours a day.
24-Hour Skilled Nursing Services and So Much More
(page, checked Oct 15, 2026)
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.
- Oct 10, 2019: programmed (planned) inspection, complete (health). Case closed Jan 31, 2020. 8 violations cited (1 serious, 7 other). Penalties: $900 proposed, $675 now. OSHA record. OSHA recorded the employer as 143784 - Tarboro Operating Company LLC. Matched by street address; the name OSHA recorded differs from the community's.
Details
- Serious: Machine guarding (1910.212(a)(5)). Penalty $900 proposed, $675 now. To be fixed by Dec 23, 2019.
- Other than serious: Floors and walking surfaces (slips, trips and falls) (1910.22(a)(1)). Penalty $0 proposed, $0 now. To be fixed by Jan 16, 2020.
- Other than serious: Respiratory protection (respirators, N95 fit testing) (1910.134(c)(2)(i)). Penalty $0 proposed, $0 now. To be fixed by Jan 16, 2020.
- Other than serious: Electrical equipment and installation (1910.303(b)(2)). Penalty $0 proposed, $0 now. To be fixed by Dec 23, 2019.
- Other than serious: Electrical wiring methods and equipment (1910.305(g)(1)(iv)(d)). Penalty $0 proposed, $0 now. To be fixed by Jan 16, 2020.
- Other than serious: Electrical wiring methods and equipment (1910.305(g)(2)(iii)). Penalty $0 proposed, $0 now. To be fixed by Dec 23, 2019.
- Other than serious: Use of electrical equipment (1910.334(a)(2)(i)). Penalty $0 proposed, $0 now. To be fixed by Dec 23, 2019.
- Other than serious: Bloodborne pathogens (needles, blood and body fluids) (1910.1030(g)(2)(vii)(a)). 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
- Vidant Edgecombe Hospital, Tarboro. 1.8 miles away, straight line. CMS overall hospital rating: 3 of 5 stars.
- Nearest Medicare nursing home
- Tarboro Health and Rehabilitation, Tarboro. 0.1 miles away, straight line.
- Nearest home health agency office
- Healthview Home Health & Hospice, LLC, Rocky Mount. 13.9 miles away, straight line. Agencies travel to clients, so ask which ones serve this address.
- Nearest pharmacy
- Bethel Pharmacy Inc. 11.9 miles away, straight line. From OpenStreetMap, which does not list every pharmacy, so one may be closer.
- Area
- USDA classes ZIP code 27886 as micropolitan (micropolitan core).
- Dialysis within 15 miles
- Fmc Edgecombe Home Dialysis, Tarboro, 1.8 miles away, straight line (CMS rating 5 of 5 stars)
Fresenius Medical Care - Tarboro, Tarboro, 1.8 miles away, straight line (CMS rating 4 of 5 stars)
Fresenius Kidney Care Boice-Willis, Rocky Mount, 12.1 miles away, straight line (CMS rating 3 of 5 stars) - Hospice
- 12 Medicare hospices tell CMS they serve ZIP code 27886.
Kindred Hospice, office in Tarboro, 0.4 miles away, straight line
Pruitthealth Hospice - Rocky Mount, office in Rocky Mount, 13.8 miles away, straight line (CMS family survey rating 4 of 5 stars)
Hospice And Palliative Care Of Nash General Hospital, office in Rocky Mount, 17.1 miles away, straight line (CMS family survey rating 5 of 5 stars) - Nearest geriatric medicine practice
- Triangle Geriatric And Memory Clinic PLLC, Raleigh. 57.9 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
- 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 high, wildfire relatively low, tornado relatively high, heat wave relatively moderate, 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 | 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 relatively 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 Edgecombe Health Center by Harborview a good nursing home?
CMS gives Edgecombe Health Center by Harborview 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 Edgecombe Health Center by Harborview staffed?
Edgecombe Health Center by Harborview reports 3.36 total nurse hours per resident per day, compared with the North Carolina average of 3.78.
Has Edgecombe Health Center by Harborview had inspection problems?
Its most recent CMS inspection cited 6 deficiencies.
How many beds does Edgecombe Health Center by Harborview have?
Edgecombe Health Center by Harborview is certified for 159 beds.