Nursing home
Cedar Crossings
6003 Se 136Th Avenue, Portland, OR 97236 · Map
For profit - Corporation · Part of Sapphire Health Services (8 facilities) · 89 certified beds
Cedar Crossings is a Medicare-certified nursing home in Portland, Oregon. CMS rates it 2 out of 5 stars overall (3/5 for staffing, 1/5 for health inspections). Nurse staffing is 4.95 hours per resident per day, below the Oregon average of 4.95. Its most recent inspection on Jan 17, 2025 cited 15 deficiencies.
- 3 fines totaling $44,133In CMS records: 3 total penalties.
CMS quality ratings
Ratings from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), updated monthly. 5 stars is the highest quality.
How Cedar Crossings 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) | 4.95 | 4.95 | 3.89 | below avg |
| RN staffing (hrs/resident/day) | 0.50 | 0.68 | 0.68 | below avg |
| Aide staffing (hrs/resident/day) | 3.45 | 3.37 | 2.34 | above avg |
| Nursing staff turnover | —% | 49.1% | 46.4% | — |
| Deficiencies cited, last inspection | 15.0 | 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.
Penalties in CMS records: 3 fines totaling $44,133, 3 total penalties.
What inspectors found at Cedar Crossings
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 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 · Jan 17, 2025 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Observe each nurse aide's job performance and give regular training.
Nursing and Physician Services Deficiencies · Jan 17, 2025 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Provide enough nursing staff every day to meet the needs of every resident; and have a licensed nurse in charge on each shift.
Nursing and Physician Services Deficiencies · Jan 17, 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 · Jan 17, 2025 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Honor the resident's right to a safe, clean, comfortable and homelike environment, including but not limited to receiving treatment and supports for daily living safely.
Resident Rights Deficiencies · Jan 17, 2025 · Full report (PDF)
Show all 12 deficiencies
- Potential for harm
Ensure nurse aides have the skills they need to care for residents, and give nurse aides education in dementia care and abuse prevention.
Nursing and Physician Services Deficiencies · Jan 17, 2025 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program.
Infection Control Deficiencies · Jan 17, 2025 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Dispose of garbage and refuse properly.
Nutrition and Dietary Deficiencies · Jan 17, 2025 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Ensure a licensed pharmacist perform a monthly drug regimen review, including the medical chart, following irregularity reporting guidelines in developed policies and procedures.
Pharmacy Service Deficiencies · Jan 17, 2025 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Provide safe, appropriate dialysis care/services for a resident who requires such services.
Quality of Life and Care Deficiencies · Jan 17, 2025 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Provide safe and appropriate respiratory care for a resident when needed.
Quality of Life and Care Deficiencies · Jan 17, 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 17, 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
- 6003 Se 136Th Avenue
Portland, OR 97236 - CMS certification #
- 385284
- Ownership
- For profit - Corporation
- Certified beds
- 89
- Avg residents/day
- 81.6
- Provider type
- Medicare and Medicaid
- First certified
- 2021-07-01
- Chain
- Sapphire Health Services (8 facilities)
- Setting
- Urban
Part of Sapphire Health Services
Sapphire Health Services operates 8 nursing facilities across the United States. View all Sapphire Health Services 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 5 OSHA workplace safety inspections since 2017, 15 violations cited
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.
- Jan 15, 2026: programmed (planned) inspection, complete (safety). Case open. 1 violation cited (1 other). Penalties: $0 proposed, $0 now. OSHA record. OSHA recorded the employer as 317742999 - Sapphire at Cedar Crossings LLC.
Details
- Other than serious: Electrical equipment and installation (1910.303(g)(1)(ii)). Penalty $0 proposed, $0 now. To be fixed by Jan 15, 2026.
- Dec 5, 2024: complaint inspection, partial (health). Case closed Mar 7, 2026. 4 violations cited (4 other). Penalties: $0 proposed, $0 now. OSHA record. OSHA recorded the employer as 317738674 - Sapphire at Cedar Crossings LLC.
Details
- Other than serious: Cited rule OAR. Penalty $0 proposed, $0 now. To be fixed by Dec 5, 2024.
- Other than serious: Bloodborne pathogens (needles, blood and body fluids) (1910.1030(h)(2)(i)(a)). Penalty $0 proposed, $0 now. To be fixed by May 5, 2025.
- Other than serious: Bloodborne pathogens (needles, blood and body fluids) (1910.1030(h)(2)(i)(c)). Penalty $0 proposed, $0 now. To be fixed by May 5, 2025.
- Other than serious: Bloodborne pathogens (needles, blood and body fluids) (1910.1030(h)(2)(i)(d)). Penalty $0 proposed, $0 now. To be fixed by May 5, 2025.
- Mar 31, 2023: programmed (planned) inspection, complete (health). Case closed May 9, 2024. 9 violations cited (9 serious). Penalties: $420 proposed, $420 now. OSHA record. OSHA recorded the employer as 317732672 - Sapphire at Cedar Crossings LLC.
Details
- Serious: Respiratory protection (respirators, N95 fit testing) (1910.134(e)(1)). Penalty $210 proposed, $210 now. To be fixed by Aug 31, 2023.
- Serious: Respiratory protection (respirators, N95 fit testing) (1910.134(f)(2)). Penalty $0 proposed, $0 now. To be fixed by Aug 31, 2023.
- Serious: Bloodborne pathogens (needles, blood and body fluids) (1910.1030(c)(1)(iv)). Penalty $210 proposed, $210 now. To be fixed by Aug 31, 2023.
- Serious: Bloodborne pathogens (needles, blood and body fluids) (1910.1030(c)(2)(i)). Penalty $0 proposed, $0 now. To be fixed by Aug 31, 2023.
- Serious: Bloodborne pathogens (needles, blood and body fluids) (1910.1030(f)(2)(iv)). Penalty $0 proposed, $0 now. To be fixed by Aug 31, 2023.
- Serious: Bloodborne pathogens (needles, blood and body fluids) (1910.1030(g)(2)(vii)(a)). Penalty $0 proposed, $0 now. To be fixed by Aug 31, 2023.
- Serious: Bloodborne pathogens (needles, blood and body fluids) (1910.1030(g)(2)(vii)(d)). Penalty $0 proposed, $0 now. To be fixed by Aug 31, 2023.
- Serious: Bloodborne pathogens (needles, blood and body fluids) (1910.1030(h)(2)(i)). Penalty $0 proposed, $0 now. To be fixed by Aug 31, 2023.
- Serious: Cited rule OAR. Penalty $0 proposed, $0 now. To be fixed by Aug 31, 2023.
- Mar 9, 2023: programmed (planned) inspection, complete (safety). Case closed Mar 13, 2024. 1 violation cited (1 serious). Penalties: $750 proposed, $750 now. OSHA record. OSHA recorded the employer as 317732522 - Sapphire at Cedar Crossings LLC.
Details
- Serious: Cited rule OAR. Penalty $750 proposed, $750 now. To be fixed by Mar 9, 2023.
- Sep 7, 2017: programmed (planned) inspection, complete (safety). Case closed Sep 7, 2017. No violations cited. OSHA record. OSHA recorded the employer as 317718224 - St Jude Operating Company LLC. Matched by street address; the name OSHA recorded differs from the community's.
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. 2.9 miles away, straight line. CMS overall hospital rating: 4 of 5 stars.
- Nearest Medicare nursing home
- Cascade Terrace Post Acute, Portland. 1.0 mile away, straight line.
- Nearest home health agency office
- Affordable Home Health Care Agency, Inc., Portland. 2.3 miles away, straight line. Agencies travel to clients, so ask which ones serve this address.
- Nearest pharmacy
- Safeway. 1.5 miles 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, 3.2 miles away, straight line
Usrc Portland Dialysis, Portland, 3.2 miles away, straight line (CMS rating 2 of 5 stars)
Kaiser Sunnybrook Peritoneal Dialysis Facility, Clackamas, 3.7 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, 3.2 miles away, straight line
Agape Hospice Nw, office in Clackamas, 3.7 miles away, straight line (CMS family survey rating 1 of 5 stars)
Bristol Hospice Oregon LLC, office in Clackamas, 4.0 miles away, straight line (CMS family survey rating 3 of 5 stars) - Nearest geriatric medicine practice
- Daiya Healthcare PLLC, Portland. 1.9 miles 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: very low. By hazard: inland flooding relatively low, wildfire very low, tornado very low, heat wave relatively low, earthquake relatively moderate. 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 |
| 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 |
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Frequently asked questions
Is Cedar Crossings a good nursing home?
CMS gives Cedar Crossings an overall rating of 2 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 Cedar Crossings staffed?
Cedar Crossings reports 4.95 total nurse hours per resident per day, compared with the Oregon average of 4.95.
Has Cedar Crossings had inspection problems?
Its most recent CMS inspection cited 15 deficiencies.
How many beds does Cedar Crossings have?
Cedar Crossings is certified for 89 beds.