Nursing Homes in Pierce County, WA
County directory of licensed nursing homes providers, cities in Pierce County, and real Area Agency on Aging / state Medicaid contacts. We never invent county Medicaid offices.
Licensed nursing homes providers: 22
A note on counting: we show 22 licensed nursing homes listed for Pierce County proper. Other sites show bigger numbers when they count a wide radius. Nearby options are linked below, labeled by city.
Eliseo
WASHINGTON SOLDIERS HOME
- Veterans option
Tacoma WA CLC
- Veterans option
Avalon Healthcare - Tacoma
Agility Health and Rehabilitation
Birch Creek Post Acute & Rehabilitation
Gig Harbor Health and Rehabilitation
Alaska Gardens Health and Rehabilitation
The Oaks at Lakewood
Heartwood Extended Healthcare
Tacoma Nursing and Rehabilitation Center
Avamere Transitional Care of Puget Sound
Orchard Park Health Care & Rehab Center
Linden Grove Health Care Center
Life Care Center of South Hill
Rainier Rehabilitation
Park Rose Care Center
Avamere at Pacific Ridge
Life Care Center of Puyallup
Cottesmore of Life Care
Puyallup Post Acute
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Cities in Pierce County
- Tacoma · 12
- Puyallup · 5
- Gig Harbor · 3
- ORTING · 1
- University Place · 1
What federal inspectors recorded here
Pierce County, WA has 21 facilities certified by Medicare or Medicaid, as of the CMS penalty file published August 1, 2026. CMS publishes what it fined them, when it stopped paying for new admissions, how many nursing hours they staffed, and what its inspectors wrote up. These are those records counted. A penalty is an enforcement action on a date, not a verdict on the care a resident receives today.
- Facilities with a federal penalty
76%16 of 21 (76%)
A civil money penalty, a payment denial, or both, among the penalties CMS recorded between July 17, 2023 and July 29, 2026.
- Facilities where CMS stopped paying for new admissions
14%3 of 21 (14%)
A payment denial is CMS refusing to pay for newly admitted Medicare and Medicaid residents until the facility corrects the problem it cited.
- Median penalty total, among facilities that were fined
$36,446in fines · 15 facilities
The middle facility's total across every civil money penalty CMS recorded for it in this window, not the amount of a single fine.
- Median nurse staffing hours per resident day
4.32hours · 20 facilities
0.22 hours above the Washington median of 4.10 hours.
Total nurse hours per resident per day from payroll records CMS collects, quarter Q1 2026. Staffing is an input, not an outcome.
- Facilities with an inspection citation in the last 12 months
90%19 of 21 (90%)
Counts facilities with at least one deficiency CMS inspectors wrote up in the last 365 days. The most recent one here is dated June 22, 2026. A facility inspected and found compliant records no citation, so this is not a survey date.
These figures cover nursing homes and nothing else on this site. Penalties, payroll staffing and inspection citations in this form are federal records that CMS keeps for Medicare and Medicaid certified nursing homes. Assisted living, memory care and in-home agencies are licensed by each state under different rules, and the state penalty files we hold are not comparable to these. We would rather show one honest set of numbers than a national-looking figure stitched from regulators that do not measure the same thing.
Every share above is printed with the number of facilities behind it. Where a place has too few facilities for a share to mean anything, we print the count and say so rather than a percentage. How we count, and what we will not count, is in our methodology.
Local aging & Medicaid contacts
Area Agency on Aging
Pierce County Aging and Disability Resources · (253) 798-4600
Source: State aging agency.GOVAging & Disability Resource Center
Community Living Connections · 1-855-567-0252
Source: Aging & disability resource center.GOVWashington Medicaid HCBS / LTSS programs
State-level Medicaid waiver contacts (not invented county Medicaid offices). Official agency pages only.
- Community Options Program Entry System (COPES). Apple Health HCS home and community-based waiver (COPES chapter).
Questions families ask
How many nursing homes are listed in Pierce County, WA?
We currently list 22 licensed nursing homes in Pierce County, WA.
Which cities in Pierce County have nursing homes listings?
We track 5 cities in Pierce County with nursing homes. See the city list on this page.
Who is the Area Agency on Aging for Pierce County?
Pierce County Aging and Disability Resources is the Area Agency on Aging covering Pierce County. Contact details on this page come from official aging-network sources.
How do families in Pierce County learn about Medicaid long-term care options?
Washington publishes named Medicaid HCBS / LTSS waiver programs. We link official state pages on this county page and do not invent county Medicaid office contacts.
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