Nursing home
Corwin Center At Emerald Heights
10901 - 176Th Circle Northeast, Redmond, WA 98052 · Map
Non profit - Corporation · 61 certified beds
Corwin Center At Emerald Heights is a Medicare-certified nursing home in Redmond, Washington. CMS rates it 4 out of 5 stars overall (5/5 for staffing, 3/5 for health inspections). Nurse staffing is 4.89 hours per resident per day, above the Washington average of 4.39. Its most recent inspection on Apr 23, 2025 cited 14 deficiencies.
- 1 fine totaling $39,468In CMS records: 1 total penalty.
CMS quality ratings
Ratings from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), updated monthly. 5 stars is the highest quality.
How Corwin Center At Emerald Heights compares
This facility vs. the Washington and national averages, from CMS data. For staffing, higher is generally better; for turnover and deficiencies, lower is better.
| Metric | This facility | Washington avg | National avg | Compared with the state |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total nurse staffing (hrs/resident/day) | 4.89 | 4.39 | 3.89 | above avg |
| RN staffing (hrs/resident/day) | 1.05 | 0.88 | 0.68 | above avg |
| Aide staffing (hrs/resident/day) | 3.13 | 2.69 | 2.34 | above avg |
| Nursing staff turnover | 31.2% | 46.7% | 46.4% | below avg |
| Deficiencies cited, last inspection | 14.0 | 17.1 | 9.5 | below 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 April 23, 2025 inspection was corrected by June 6, 2025
Penalties in CMS records: 1 fine totaling $39,468, 1 total penalty.
What inspectors found at Corwin Center At Emerald Heights
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
Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program.
Infection Control Deficiencies · Apr 23, 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 · Apr 23, 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 23, 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 23, 2025 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Regularly inspect all bed frames, mattresses, and bed rails (if any) for safety; and all bed rails and mattresses must attach safely to the bed frame.
Environmental Deficiencies · Apr 23, 2025 · Full report (PDF)
Show all 12 deficiencies
- Potential for harm
Develop and implement policies and procedures for flu and pneumonia vaccinations.
Infection Control Deficiencies · Apr 23, 2025 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Implement gradual dose reductions(GDR) and non-pharmacological interventions, unless contraindicated, prior to initiating or instead of continuing psychotropic medication; and PRN orders for psychotropic medications are only used when the medication is necessary and PRN use is limited.
Pharmacy Service Deficiencies · Apr 23, 2025 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Ensure each resident’s drug regimen must be free from unnecessary drugs.
Pharmacy Service Deficiencies · Apr 23, 2025 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Provide enough food/fluids to maintain a resident's health.
Quality of Life and Care Deficiencies · Apr 23, 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 · Apr 23, 2025 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
PASARR screening for Mental disorders or Intellectual Disabilities
Resident Assessment and Care Planning Deficiencies · Apr 23, 2025 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Ensure each resident receives an accurate assessment.
Resident Assessment and Care Planning Deficiencies · Apr 23, 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
- 10901 - 176Th Circle Northeast
Redmond, WA 98052 - CMS certification #
- 505478
- Ownership
- Non profit - Corporation
- Certified beds
- 61
- Avg residents/day
- 54.0
- Provider type
- Medicare and Medicaid
- First certified
- 1992-12-08
- Setting
- Urban
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Location and nearby
Explore the area around Corwin Center At Emerald Heights using Google Maps.
Other public records
- Kitchen 10 inspections by Public Health - Seattle & King County since 2023; latest Satisfactory, score 0, grade Not Rated (February 2026)
Full public records, with dates and sources
Kitchen inspections
The local health department inspects the kitchen that serves residents. Results are in the agency's own words.
Public Health - Seattle & King County: Emerald Heights - Corwin Center
- Feb 13, 2026 (routine inspection/field review): Satisfactory, score 0, grade Not Rated. No violations listed.
- Sep 23, 2025 (routine inspection/field review): Satisfactory, score 0, grade Not Rated. No violations listed.
- Jan 16, 2025 (routine inspection/field review): Satisfactory, score 0, grade Not Rated. No violations listed.
- May 2, 2024 (routine inspection/field review): Unsatisfactory, score 10, grade Not Rated.
1 violation
- Adequate handwashing facilities (Red)
- Dec 15, 2023 (routine inspection/field review): Satisfactory, score 0, grade Not Rated. No violations listed.
Source: the agency's records, inspections since Oct 16, 2023, as of Oct 15, 2026. Red violation: The county's high-risk (red) violation, most likely to cause foodborne illness. Blue violation: The county's lower-risk (blue) maintenance and sanitation violation. Score: Total violation points at the inspection; 0 is a perfect inspection, higher means more violations. Rating: The county's food safety rating (Excellent, Good, Okay, Needs to Improve), based on the last four routine inspections.
Public Health - Seattle & King County: EMERALD HEIGHTS - Main Dining
- Feb 13, 2026 (routine inspection/field review): Satisfactory, score 5, grade Not Rated.
1 violation
- Food-contact surfaces maintained, cleaned, sanitized (Blue)
- Sep 23, 2025 (routine inspection/field review): Unsatisfactory, score 17, grade Not Rated.
3 violations
- Proper cold holding temperatures; greater than 45 degrees Fahrenheit (F) (7 degrees Celsius (C)) (Red)
- Physical facilities properly installed, maintained, cleaned; unnecessary persons excluded from establishment (Blue)
- Potential food contamination prevented during delivery, preparation, storage, display (Blue)
- Jan 16, 2025 (routine inspection/field review): Satisfactory, score 0, grade Not Rated. No violations listed.
- May 2, 2024 (routine inspection/field review): Unsatisfactory, score 25, grade Not Rated.
1 violation
- Proper hot holding temperatures; less than 130 degrees Fahrenheit (F) (54 degrees Celsius (C)) (Red)
- Dec 15, 2023 (routine inspection/field review): Unsatisfactory, score 25, grade Not Rated.
1 violation
- Proper hot holding temperatures; less than 130 degrees Fahrenheit (F) (54 degrees Celsius (C)) (Red)
Source: the agency's records, inspections since Oct 16, 2023, as of Oct 15, 2026. Red violation: The county's high-risk (red) violation, most likely to cause foodborne illness. Blue violation: The county's lower-risk (blue) maintenance and sanitation violation. Score: Total violation points at the inspection; 0 is a perfect inspection, higher means more violations. Rating: The county's food safety rating (Excellent, Good, Okay, Needs to Improve), based on the last four routine inspections.
Location and nearby care
- Nearest hospital with an emergency room
- Evergreenhealth Medical Center, Kirkland. 3.5 miles away, straight line. CMS overall hospital rating: 5 of 5 stars.
- Nearest Medicare nursing home
- Redmond Care and Rehabilitation Center, Redmond. 2.1 miles away, straight line.
- Nearest home health agency office
- Brookdale Home Health, Redmond. 2.0 miles away, straight line. Agencies travel to clients, so ask which ones serve this address.
- Nearest pharmacy
- CVS Pharmacy. 1.3 miles away, straight line. From OpenStreetMap, which does not list every pharmacy, so one may be closer.
- Area
- USDA classes ZIP code 98052 as metropolitan (metropolitan core).
- Dialysis within 15 miles
- Nkc Kirkland Kidney Center, Kirkland, 3.8 miles away, straight line (has a shift starting after 5 pm; CMS rating 3 of 5 stars)
Nkc Bellevue Kidney Center, Bellevue, 6.3 miles away, straight line (has a shift starting after 5 pm; CMS rating 3 of 5 stars)
Seattle Childrens Hospital Dialysis, Seattle, 8.4 miles away, straight line - Hospice
- 10 Medicare hospices tell CMS they serve ZIP code 98052.
Evergreen Health Hospice Care, office in Kirkland, 3.6 miles away, straight line (CMS family survey rating 3 of 5 stars)
Kaiser Permanente Washington Hospice, office in Seattle, 10.8 miles away, straight line (CMS family survey rating 3 of 5 stars)
Continuum Care Of Snohomish, LLC, office in Lynnwood, 11.8 miles away, straight line (CMS family survey rating 3 of 5 stars) - Nearest geriatric medicine practice
- King County Public Hospital District No 2, Redmond. 1.3 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: inland flooding relatively moderate, wildfire very low, tornado very low, heat wave relatively low, 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 | Nothing on record |
| OSHA workplace safety inspections since 2016 | Oct 15, 2026 | Nothing on record |
| Public Health - Seattle & King County kitchen inspections | 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 Corwin Center At Emerald Heights a good nursing home?
CMS gives Corwin Center At Emerald Heights an overall rating of 4 out of 5 stars, including 5/5 for staffing and 3/5 for health inspections. These ratings come from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and are updated monthly.
How is Corwin Center At Emerald Heights staffed?
Corwin Center At Emerald Heights reports 4.89 total nurse hours per resident per day, compared with the Washington average of 4.39.
Has Corwin Center At Emerald Heights had inspection problems?
Its most recent CMS inspection cited 14 deficiencies.
How many beds does Corwin Center At Emerald Heights have?
Corwin Center At Emerald Heights is certified for 61 beds.