Nursing home
Cascade Terrace Post Acute
5601 Se 122Nd Avenue, Portland, OR 97236 · Map
For profit - Limited Liability company · Part of Pacs Group (264 facilities) · 105 certified beds
Cascade Terrace Post Acute is a Medicare-certified nursing home in Portland, Oregon. CMS rates it 1 out of 5 stars overall (3/5 for staffing, 1/5 for health inspections). Nurse staffing is 4.81 hours per resident per day, below the Oregon average of 4.95. Its most recent inspection on Apr 28, 2025 cited 19 deficiencies.
- 2 fines totaling $185,923In CMS records: 2 total penalties.
CMS quality ratings
Ratings from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), updated monthly. 5 stars is the highest quality.
How Cascade Terrace Post Acute compares
This facility vs. the Oregon and national averages, from CMS data. For staffing, higher is generally better; for turnover and deficiencies, lower is better.
| Metric | This facility | Oregon avg | National avg | Compared with the state |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total nurse staffing (hrs/resident/day) | 4.81 | 4.95 | 3.89 | below avg |
| RN staffing (hrs/resident/day) | 0.52 | 0.68 | 0.68 | below avg |
| Aide staffing (hrs/resident/day) | 3.43 | 3.37 | 2.34 | above avg |
| Nursing staff turnover | 52.1% | 49.1% | 46.4% | above avg |
| Deficiencies cited, last inspection | 19.0 | 10.4 | 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.
- Every deficiency from the February 18, 2026 inspection was corrected by March 16, 2026
Penalties in CMS records: 2 fines totaling $185,923, 2 total penalties.
What inspectors found at Cascade Terrace Post Acute
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
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 · Feb 18, 2026 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Timely report suspected abuse, neglect, or theft and report the results of the investigation to proper authorities.
Freedom from Abuse, Neglect, and Exploitation Deficiencies · Feb 18, 2026 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Honor the resident's right to be treated with respect and dignity and to retain and use personal possessions.
Resident Rights Deficiencies · Feb 18, 2026 · 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 · Dec 26, 2025 · Full report (PDF) - Actual harm
Ensure each resident’s drug regimen must be free from unnecessary drugs.
Pharmacy Service Deficiencies · Nov 6, 2025 · Full report (PDF)
Show all 12 deficiencies
- Immediate jeopardy
Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to prevent accidents.
Quality of Life and Care Deficiencies · Apr 28, 2025 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Conduct mandatory training, for all staff, on the facility’s Quality Assurance and Performance Improvement Program.
Administration Deficiencies · Apr 28, 2025 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Electronically submit to CMS complete and accurate direct care staffing information, based on payroll and other verifiable and auditable data.
Administration Deficiencies · Apr 28, 2025 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Procure food from sources approved or considered satisfactory and store, prepare, distribute and serve food in accordance with professional standards.
Nutrition and Dietary Deficiencies · Apr 28, 2025 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Provide each resident with a nourishing, palatable, well-balanced diet that meets his or her daily nutritional and special dietary needs.
Nutrition and Dietary Deficiencies · Apr 28, 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 · Apr 28, 2025 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Post nurse staffing information every day.
Nursing and Physician Services Deficiencies · Apr 28, 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
- 5601 Se 122Nd Avenue
Portland, OR 97236 - CMS certification #
- 385187
- Ownership
- For profit - Limited Liability company
- Certified beds
- 105
- Avg residents/day
- 80.2
- Provider type
- Medicare and Medicaid
- First certified
- 1988-07-11
- Chain
- Pacs Group (264 facilities)
- Setting
- Urban
Part of Pacs Group
Pacs Group operates 264 nursing facilities across the United States. View all Pacs Group 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
- Website says Transportation
- Staff pay 1 federal wage case with violations found, since 2010
- Workplace safety 3 OSHA workplace safety inspections since 2016, 6 violations cited
Full public records, with dates and sources
Care and services
From the community’s website
What Cascade Terrace Post Acute says about itself, quoted from its own site. We have not checked these claims against licensing records. Ask about each one on a tour.
- Provides transportation.
Transportation Assistance
(page, checked Oct 12, 2026) - Apartment types named: private room, semi-private room.
We offer 24/7 personalized healthcare services and functional support within a beautiful, state-of-the-art facility featuring private and semi-private rooms.
(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 Apr 26, 2010 to Apr 25, 2012. Violations found: Overtime. Back wages: $21,368 owed to 19 employees. Employer as DOL recorded it: Cascade Terrace (Cascade Terrace, Inc.). Case 1653359.
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.
- Apr 28, 2026: programmed (planned) inspection, complete (safety). Case open. 2 violations cited (1 serious, 1 other). Penalties: $2,550 proposed, $2,550 now. OSHA record. OSHA recorded the employer as 317743993 - Cascade Terrace SNF Healthcare LLC.
Details
- Serious: Cited rule OAR. Penalty $2,550 proposed, $2,550 now. To be fixed by Apr 28, 2026.
- Other than serious: Lockout of equipment during maintenance (1910.147(c)(6)(i)). Penalty $0 proposed, $0 now. To be fixed by Aug 31, 2026.
- Oct 2, 2024: programmed (planned) inspection, complete (safety). Case closed Jul 12, 2025. 3 violations cited (1 serious, 2 other). Penalties: $2,820 proposed, $2,820 now. OSHA record. OSHA recorded the employer as 317738003 - Care Center (cascade Terrace) INC.
Details
- Serious: Ladders (1910.23(c)(11)). Penalty $2,420 proposed, $2,420 now. To be fixed by Nov 18, 2024.
- Other than serious: Cited rule OAR. Penalty $400 proposed, $400 now. To be fixed by Nov 4, 2024.
- Other than serious: Cited rule OAR. Penalty $0 proposed, $0 now. To be fixed by Nov 18, 2024.
- Sep 27, 2016: programmed (planned) inspection, complete (safety). Case closed Mar 16, 2017. 1 violation cited (1 other). Penalties: $0 proposed, $0 now. OSHA record. OSHA recorded the employer as 317714195 - Care Center (cascade Terrace) INC.
Details
- Other than serious: Hazard communication (chemical labels, safety data sheets, training) (1910.1200(f)(6)). Penalty $0 proposed, $0 now. To be fixed by Dec 1, 2016.
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
- Adventist Health Portland, Portland. 2.2 miles away, straight line. CMS overall hospital rating: 4 of 5 stars.
- Nearest Medicare nursing home
- Avalon Care Center - Portland, Portland. 1.0 mile away, straight line.
- Nearest home health agency office
- Affordable Home Health Care Agency, Inc., Portland. 1.6 miles away, straight line. Agencies travel to clients, so ask which ones serve this address.
- Nearest pharmacy
- Safeway. 1.0 mile away, straight line. From OpenStreetMap, which does not list every pharmacy, so one may be closer.
- Area
- USDA classes ZIP code 97236 as metropolitan (metropolitan core).
- Dialysis within 15 miles
- Usrc East Portland Home Dialysis, Portland, 2.6 miles away, straight line
Usrc Portland Dialysis, Portland, 2.6 miles away, straight line (CMS rating 2 of 5 stars)
Kaiser Sunnybrook Peritoneal Dialysis Facility, Clackamas, 3.5 miles away, straight line (CMS rating 4 of 5 stars) - Hospice
- 23 Medicare hospices tell CMS they serve ZIP code 97236.
Pinnacle Hospice Care Of Portland, office in Portland, 2.6 miles away, straight line
Agape Hospice Nw, office in Clackamas, 3.5 miles away, straight line (CMS family survey rating 1 of 5 stars)
Bristol Hospice Oregon LLC, office in Clackamas, 3.7 miles away, straight line (CMS family survey rating 3 of 5 stars) - Nearest geriatric medicine practice
- Daiya Healthcare PLLC, Portland. 1.0 mile away, straight line. 2 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: inland flooding relatively moderate, wildfire very low, tornado very low, heat wave relatively moderate, earthquake relatively high. 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 |
| 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 Cascade Terrace Post Acute a good nursing home?
CMS gives Cascade Terrace Post Acute an overall rating of 1 out of 5 stars, including 3/5 for staffing and 1/5 for health inspections. These ratings come from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and are updated monthly.
How is Cascade Terrace Post Acute staffed?
Cascade Terrace Post Acute reports 4.81 total nurse hours per resident per day, compared with the Oregon average of 4.95.
Has Cascade Terrace Post Acute had inspection problems?
Its most recent CMS inspection cited 19 deficiencies.
How many beds does Cascade Terrace Post Acute have?
Cascade Terrace Post Acute is certified for 105 beds.