Assisted Living in Oregon: A Family Guide
What assisted living is called in Oregon, what it costs, how Medicaid can help, how to check a community’s license and inspections, and who to call if something goes wrong. Every fact links to the official source.
- Licensed by
- Oregon Department of Human Services (ODHS), Safety, Oversight and Quality, Community-Based Care Facility Licensing1
- Licensed communities on Lilisity
- 574 assisted living, 249 with memory care
- Typical cost
- $6,875 a month (state median, CareScout 2025)
- Long-term care ombudsman
- (800) 522-26022
- File a complaint
- 844-503-47733
What assisted living is called in Oregon
- Assisted Living FacilityServes six or more people. It must have private apartments, and each apartment has a kitchenette and a private bathroom.4
- Residential Care FacilitySimilar services to assisted living for six or more people, but rooms can be shared and private bathrooms or kitchenettes are not required.4
- Memory Care CommunityA secure setting for people with dementia. It is licensed as assisted living, residential care, or a nursing facility and must also meet the state's extra memory care rules.5
Memory care rules
Memory care communities must be licensed as assisted living, residential care, or a nursing facility and meet extra state memory care requirements. All staff must be trained in dementia care, and each community must give a Uniform Disclosure Statement to anyone who asks.5
Questions to ask memory care about nights.
What assisted living costs in Oregon
The median cost of assisted living in Oregon is $6,875 a month, above the national median of $6,200 (CareScout Cost of Care Survey 2025, collected July to November 2025). Prices vary with the apartment, the level of care and the community, so ask each one for its current rate sheet, including care-level fees.
If more care is needed later: nursing home costs in Oregon, with CareScout medians and the private-pay rates Oregon nursing homes publish.
Plan with our free tools: how long will the money last? and home care or assisted living?
Paying for assisted living in Oregon
Medicare does not pay for assisted living. Families pay from savings and income, long-term care insurance, or benefits such as VA Aid and Attendance (estimate it). Who actually pays for long-term care.
Medicaid. If you can't pay, your local ADRC can help find out if you qualify for Medicaid. Ask each assisted living or residential care facility whether it accepts Medicaid payment. The state Medicaid agency can confirm whether it pays for services in assisted living.4 Medicaid does not pay rent or meals in assisted living in any state, and not every community accepts it, so ask each one.
How to check a community in Oregon
Look up a license. View open and closed nursing facilities, assisted living and residential care facilities (including memory care), and adult foster homes as a list, or open ones on a map. The site gives access to provider profiles, inspection reports, substantiated violations, and regulatory actions. Information updates every 24 hours. Search Oregon’s records.6
Inspection reports. Look up the facility on the Licensed Long-Term Care Settings Search. It posts routine inspections and inspections after complaint investigations.7
Lilisity shows Oregon’s inspection record on each community’s page where the state publishes one: the state’s own records, dated and linked to the official source.
Always visit in person, at a mealtime or in the evening if you can. Bring the tour scorecard and the 8 tour questions.
If something goes wrong
Complaints about care or conditions. Report a licensing violation at an assisted living or residential care facility, including those with memory care, to the ODHS Licensing Complaint Unit by phone or email (licensing.complaint@odhs.oregon.gov). Call 844-503-4773 or file online.3
Abuse, neglect or exploitation. Call 855-503-7233. How to report.8 If someone is in danger, call 911.
The long-term care ombudsman is a free advocate for residents of assisted living and nursing homes: they help resolve problems with a community, including move-out notices. Call (800) 522-2602 or find your local ombudsman.2
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Common questions
If you can't pay, your local ADRC can help find out if you qualify for Medicaid. Ask each assisted living or residential care facility whether it accepts Medicaid payment. The state Medicaid agency can confirm whether it pays for services in assisted living. Medicaid does not pay rent or meals in assisted living.
The median is $6,875 a month (CareScout Cost of Care Survey 2025), compared with $6,200 nationally.
Oregon Department of Human Services (ODHS), Safety, Oversight and Quality, Community-Based Care Facility Licensing.
Report a licensing violation at an assisted living or residential care facility, including those with memory care, to the ODHS Licensing Complaint Unit by phone or email (licensing.complaint@odhs.oregon.gov). Phone: 844-503-4773.
View open and closed nursing facilities, assisted living and residential care facilities (including memory care), and adult foster homes as a list, or open ones on a map. The site gives access to provider profiles, inspection reports, substantiated violations, and regulatory actions. Information updates every 24 hours.
Sources
- Licensing agency (oregon.gov)
- Ombudsman (oltco.org)
- Complaints (oregon.gov)
- License types, Medicaid (adrcoforegon.org)
- License types, memory care rules (adrcoforegon.org)
- License lookup (ltclicensing.oregon.gov)
- Inspection reports (ltclicensing.oregon.gov)
- Reporting abuse (oregon.gov)
- CareScout Cost of Care Survey 2025 (state medians)
Facts checked against these official sources on September 28, 2026. Rules and programs change; confirm with the agency before making a decision. General information, not legal or financial advice.
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