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Santiam Gardens Residential Care

1625 CENTER ST NE, Salem, OR 97301 · Residential care · 55 licensed beds · Open

55 abuse/neglect finding(s) on record149 state violations on recordAccepts Medicaid

What the licence record says about this community

Oregon licence type
Residential care. One of 332 in Oregon with this licence.
Licensed beds
55 — a mid-size community — the size most families picture as assisted living. Larger than 56% of licensed communities in Oregon (state median 49).
Choices in this town
32 licensed communities in Salem, 22 with this same licence type. 19 with a memory-care designation.

Oregon publishes memory-care designations and this community does not carry one. If dementia is part of the picture, ask what happens as it progresses — and ask what behaviour triggers a discharge notice, in writing.

State inspection record

Assisted living is licensed and inspected by the state, not by Medicare/Medicaid — so there is no federal 5-star rating. Below is this community’s record from the state licensing agency.

149 findings from state inspections, most recent first.

  • Abuse: Neglect9/15/2024 · 00354900-AP-305213
    Failed to properly plan care
  • Abuse: Neglect9/05/2014 · DA148630
    Failed to provide oversight and monitoring of change of condition
  • Licensing Violation8/28/2024 · OR0005293700
    Failed to provide appropriate housekeeping services
  • Licensing Violation8/28/2013 · MV134260
    Failed to provide safe environment
  • Licensing Violation8/25/2025 · CALMS - 00088629
    Failed to use an ABST
  • Abuse: Neglect8/22/2025 · 00423759-AP-375233
    Failed to provide safe environment
  • Abuse: Neglect8/20/2014 · CO14193
    Failed to provide oversight and monitoring of change of condition
  • Abuse: Neglect8/15/2017 · MV173116A
    Failed to administer medication as ordered
  • Abuse: Neglect8/15/2017 · MV173116B
    Failed to protect resident from rough treatment
  • Licensing Violation8/08/2024 · OR0005285901
    Failed to provide appropriate activities
  • Licensing Violation8/08/2024 · OR0005285904
    Failed to provide safe environment
  • Licensing Violation8/08/2024 · OR0005285905
    Failed to provide service
  • Abuse: Neglect8/08/2017 · MV172898
    Failed to administer medication as ordered
  • Licensing Violation8/08/2017 · OR0001345000
    Failed to provide appropriate staffing
  • Licensing Violation8/08/2017 · OR0001345002
    Failed to provide medical treatment as ordered
  • Licensing Violation8/08/2017 · OR0001345003
    Failed to provide service
  • Licensing Violation8/07/2020 · 00096923-AP-073385
    Failed to provide safe environment
  • Licensing Violation8/07/2020 · 00096928-AP-073392
    Failed to provide safe environment
  • Licensing Violation8/07/2017 · OR0001343600
    Failed to provide safe environment
  • Licensing Violation8/07/2017 · OR0001343601
    Failed to provide service
  • Licensing Violation8/07/2017 · OR0001343602
    Failed to perform adequate screening or assessment
  • Licensing Violation7/31/2017 · OR0001337801
    Retaliated against resident/complainant
  • Licensing Violation7/31/2017 · OR0001337803
    Failed to administer medication as ordered
  • Licensing Violation7/31/2017 · OR0001337804
    Failed to provide or assist with hygiene
  • Abuse: Neglect7/30/2020 · 00095418-AP-072202
    Failed to provide a safe medication administration system
  • Abuse: Neglect7/28/2025 · 00416838-AP-368102
    Failed to provide a safe medication administration system
  • Licensing Violation7/28/2025 · CALMS - 00088632
    Failed to use an ABST
  • Abuse: Neglect7/27/2012 · CO12091
    Failed to provide oversight and monitoring of change of condition
  • Abuse: Neglect7/26/2019 · 00042106AP-029561
    Failed to follow care plan
  • Abuse: Financial abuse7/24/2015 · MV152856
    Failed to provide safe environment
  • Licensing Violation7/20/2017 · OR0001331900
    Failed to provide appropriate staffing
  • Licensing Violation7/20/2017 · OR0001331901
    Failed to provide service
  • Licensing Violation7/20/2017 · OR0001331902
    Failed to provide or assist with hygiene
  • Licensing Violation7/16/2025 · CALMS - 00088631
    Failed to use an ABST
  • Licensing Violation7/16/2017 · MV172609
    Failed to administer medication as ordered
  • Licensing Violation7/14/2016 · OR0001138700
    Failed to provide appropriate staffing
  • Licensing Violation7/11/2017 · MV172414
    Failed to administer medication as ordered
  • Licensing Violation7/08/2022 · CALMS - 00029957
    Failed to obtain a facility license
  • Licensing Violation7/07/2020 · OR0002553100
    Failed to provide a safe medication administration system
  • Licensing Violation7/07/2020 · OR0002553101
    Failed to provide a safe medication administration system
  • Licensing Violation7/07/2020 · OR0002553102
    Failed to provide a safe medication administration system
  • Licensing Violation7/05/2024 · 00340468-AP-291325
    Failed to provide a safe medication administration system
  • Licensing Violation7/05/2024 · OR0005202700
    Failed to have medication available
  • Licensing Violation7/02/2018 · MV188945
    Failed to provide service
  • Licensing Violation7/01/2022 · CALMS - 00029838
    Failed to submit timely or adequate staffing documentation
  • Abuse: Financial abuse6/30/2016 · MV166563
    Failed to provide safe environment
  • Abuse: Neglect6/28/2019 · 00038111AP-026766
    Failed to provide safe environment
  • Abuse: Neglect6/28/2019 · 00038118AP-026770
    Failed to provide safe environment
  • Licensing Violation6/28/2019 · SR19283
    Failed to report potential or suspected abuse
  • Licensing Violation6/28/2019 · SR19284
    Failed to report potential or suspected abuse
  • Abuse: Neglect6/26/2025 · 00414514-AP-365762
    Failed to provide a safe medication administration system
  • Licensing Violation6/26/2025 · CALMS - 00088630
    Failed to use an ABST
  • Abuse: Sexual abuse6/21/2017 · MV172115A
    Failed to protect resident from inappropriate sexual contact
  • Abuse: Neglect6/20/2020 · 00089541-AP-067217
    Failed to properly plan care
  • Licensing Violation6/17/2025 · CALMS - 00088626
    Failed to use an ABST
  • Licensing Violation6/17/2020 · OR0002516300
    Failed to provide service
  • Licensing Violation6/17/2020 · OR0002516301
    Failed to assure food safety
  • Abuse: Neglect6/08/2020 · 00087429-AP-065484
    Failed to properly plan care
  • Abuse: Neglect6/06/2019 · 00043453AP-030440
    Failed to follow care plan
  • Licensing Violation6/06/2019 · SR20026
    Failed to report potential or suspected abuse
  • Licensing Violation6/05/2020 · OR0002497800
    Failed to provide service
  • Licensing Violation6/05/2020 · OR0002497801
    Failed to provide safe environment
  • Licensing Violation6/05/2020 · OR0002497802
    Failed to properly plan care
  • Licensing Violation6/05/2020 · OR0002497803
    Failed to control pests
  • Licensing Violation6/03/2024 · 00334616-AP-285621
    Failed to provide a safe medication administration system
  • Licensing Violation6/02/2020 · 00087360-AP-065424
    Failed to provide safe environment
  • Licensing Violation6/01/2011 · MV117150
    Failed to provide a safe medication administration system
  • Abuse: Neglect5/28/2020 · 00085961-AP-064237
    Failed to properly plan care
  • Abuse: Neglect5/27/2019 · 00032841AP-024084
    Failed to provide a safe medication administration system
  • Abuse: Neglect5/27/2019 · 00034250AP-024087
    Failed to provide a safe medication administration system
  • Abuse: Neglect5/27/2019 · 00034267AP-024104
    Failed to provide a safe medication administration system
  • Abuse: Neglect5/27/2014 · DA147804
    Failed to provide service
  • Licensing Violation5/24/2024 · OR0005077500
    Failed to assure resident rights
  • Licensing Violation5/24/2024 · OR0005077502
    Failed to maintain functional door alarm or call system
  • Licensing Violation5/23/2024 · OR0005068300
    Failed to administer medication as ordered
  • Licensing Violation5/18/2025 · CALMS - 00088625
    Failed to use an ABST
  • Abuse: Neglect5/18/2011 · MV117077
    Failed to administer ordered medication
  • Licensing Violation5/13/2024 · OR0005042500
    Failed to use an ABST
  • Abuse: Neglect5/11/2024 · 00330941-AP-282222
    Failed to provide a safe medication administration system
  • Licensing Violation5/05/2024 · OR0005025000
    Failed to provide safe environment
  • Licensing Violation5/05/2020 · OR0002455100
    Failed to assure resident was safe
  • Licensing Violation5/05/2020 · OR0002455101
    Failed to assure resident was safe
  • Licensing Violation5/03/2019 · OR0001882201
    Failed to answer call light in a timely manner
  • Abuse: Neglect5/02/2014 · MV146991B
    Failed to adequately care plan related to falls
  • Abuse: Neglect4/21/2011 · MV116910
    Failed to provide peri care
  • Licensing Violation4/17/2025 · CALMS - 00088622
    Failed to use an ABST
  • Licensing Violation4/16/2025 · CALMS - 00088623
    Failed to use an ABST
  • Abuse: Neglect4/01/2019 · 00034255AP-024093
    Failed to provide a safe medication administration system
  • Abuse: Neglect4/01/2019 · 00034260AP-024096
    Failed to provide a safe medication administration system
  • Licensing Violation3/30/2017 · MV170518A
    Failed to provide a safe medication administration system
  • Abuse: Neglect3/28/2020 · 00077579-AP-057276
    Failed to follow care plan
  • Licensing Violation3/27/2024 · OR0004931200
    Failed to provide safe environment
  • Abuse: Neglect3/24/2020 · 00077046-AP-056854
    Failed to properly plan care
  • Licensing Violation3/19/2024 · OR0004880801
    Failed to provide inservice
  • Abuse: Neglect3/15/2015 · MV150674
    Failed to intervene when resident's condition changed
  • Licensing Violation3/12/2025 · CALMS - 00088620
    Failed to use an ABST
  • Licensing Violation3/07/2025 · 00387610-AP-338102
    Failed to provide a safe medication administration system
  • Licensing Violation3/06/2020 · 00074689-AP-054917
    Failed to provide safe environment
  • Abuse: Neglect3/03/2020 · 00075383-AP-055512
    Failed to properly plan care
  • Abuse: Neglect2/28/2020 · 00073400-AP-053808
    Failed to properly plan care
  • Licensing Violation2/28/2020 · 00074090-AP-054421
    Failed to provide safe environment
  • Licensing Violation2/27/2020 · OR0002367400
    Failed to answer call light in a timely manner
  • Licensing Violation2/25/2020 · OR0002344701
    Failed to maintain functional door alarm or call system
  • Licensing Violation2/24/2020 · 00073559-AP-053928
    Failed to provide safe environment
  • Licensing Violation2/24/2020 · 00073563-AP-053933
    Failed to provide safe environment
  • Licensing Violation2/22/2019 · OR0001770100
    Failed to answer call light in a timely manner
  • Abuse: Neglect2/22/2011 · CO11027
    Failed to provide service
  • Licensing Violation2/21/2020 · OR0002359300
    Failed to provide or assist with hygiene
  • Abuse: Neglect2/15/2019 · 00019185AP-013659
    Failed to answer call light in a timely manner
  • Abuse: Neglect2/12/2020 · 00073362-AP-053767
    Failed to properly plan care
  • Licensing Violation2/12/2019 · SR19181
    Failed to report potential or suspected abuse
  • Licensing Violation2/08/2024 · OR0004832701
    Failed to provide appropriate staffing
  • Licensing Violation2/08/2019 · OR0001750501
    Failed to provide appropriate staffing
  • Licensing Violation2/03/2020 · 00069673-AP-050675
    Failed to provide safe environment
  • Abuse: Neglect2/01/2015 · MV150676
    Failed to provide a safe medication administration system
  • Abuse: Neglect12/20/2023 · 00302847-AP-255867
    Failed to properly plan care
  • Licensing Violation12/19/2019 · OR0002259100
    Failed to provide service
  • Licensing Violation12/19/2019 · OR0002259101
    Failed to answer call light in a timely manner
  • Licensing Violation12/18/2019 · OR0002256901
    Failed to provide service
  • Abuse: Neglect12/16/2023 · 00302338-AP-255402
    Failed to follow care plan
  • Licensing Violation12/16/2023 · 00302338-AP-255854
    Failed to provide safe environment
  • Abuse: Neglect12/16/2023 · 00302828-AP-255886
    Failed to properly plan care
  • Abuse: Neglect12/10/2015 · MV153920
    Failed to properly plan care
  • Licensing Violation12/10/2014 · MV149557
    Failed to follow care plan
  • Licensing Violation12/09/2025 · 00444360-AP-396334
    Failed to provide safe environment
  • Licensing Violation12/03/2025 · CALMS - 00095551
    Failed to provide safe environment
  • Abuse: Neglect12/02/2019 · 00060464AP-043101
    Failed to follow care plan
  • Licensing Violation12/02/2019 · SR20064
    Failed to report potential or suspected abuse
  • Licensing Violation12/02/2013 · MV135284B
    Failed to assure resident was safe
  • Abuse: Neglect12/01/2020 · 00114015-AP-088024
    Failed to follow care plan
  • Licensing Violation11/26/2018 · SR19118
    Failed to report potential or suspected abuse
  • Abuse: Financial abuse11/23/2015 · MV153916
    Failed to provide safe environment
  • Abuse: Neglect11/05/2020 · 00111478-AP-085902
    Failed to provide service
  • Abuse: Financial abuse10/28/2015 · MV153815
    Failed to provide safe environment
  • Abuse: Neglect10/24/2019 · 00062778AP-045059
    Failed to follow care plan
  • Licensing Violation10/24/2019 · SR20067
    Failed to report potential or suspected abuse
  • Abuse: Neglect10/14/2018 · 00009477AP-006886
    Failed to answer call light in a timely manner
  • Abuse: Neglect10/07/2019 · 00053394AP-037232
    Failed to assist with toileting
  • Licensing Violation10/07/2019 · SR20052
    Failed to report potential or suspected abuse
  • Abuse: Neglect10/01/2024 · 00370065-AP-320419
    Failed to provide a safe medication administration system
  • Licensing Violation1/30/2020 · 00069682-AP-050686
    Failed to provide safe environment
  • Licensing Violation1/29/2019 · 00069646-AP-050653
    Failed to provide safe environment
  • Licensing Violation1/28/2020 · 00069638-AP-050645
    Failed to provide safe environment
  • Licensing Violation1/24/2020 · 00069662-AP-050666
    Failed to provide safe environment
  • Licensing Violation1/21/2020 · 00067954-AP-049236
    Failed to follow care plan
  • Abuse: Financial abuse1/18/2018 · MV185714
    Failed to provide safe environment
  • Licensing Violation1/14/2020 · 00069651-AP-050658
    Failed to provide safe environment
  • Licensing Violation1/13/2017 · MV179346
    Failed to provide safe environment
  • Abuse: Neglect1/05/2020 · 00074338-AP-054631
    Failed to follow care plan

Inspections

7 state inspections on record, citing 23 deficiencies in total.

What it costs around here

Typical monthly cost in Oregon
$6,875/mo
Assisted living
$8,075/mo
Memory care†our estimate — not surveyed

Median private-pay cost, CareScout (Genworth) 2025 Cost of Care Survey — a regional midpoint, not any single community’s rate. Private rooms and higher care levels cost more; ask for a current quote. Project your own in the cost-of-care planner.

† Memory care is our estimate, not survey data: CareScout does not survey memory care, so we take the assisted-living median for the state and add $1,200/month — the typical secured-dementia-unit premium. It is a planning figure with no state-level detail behind it, and real memory-care pricing varies far more than that. Treat it as a starting point and ask the community for its own memory-care rate.

Estimated cost range · regional

In Oregon, assisted living typically runs about $5,500–$8,250/month.

This is a regional estimate modeled from published survey data (the CareScout/Genworth state median, ±20%) — not this community’s actual price, which it sets privately. Ask the community for its current all-in monthly rate and what each care level adds.

Does this community take Medicaid?

Yes — Oregon’s licensing record lists this community as accepting Medicaid. That is not the same as having a Medicaid place open now: ask whether one is available today, and what happens if a resident’s savings run out later.

Oregon Medicaid helps pay for assisted living only in limited circumstances. A waiver pays for care, never for room and board. Which Oregon waivers, waitlists and how to apply →

Cost

Assisted-living and memory-care prices are set by each community and not publicly disclosed — no state or federal source publishes them, and the “starting at” figures on referral sites are estimates, not this community’s real rate. Ask the community directly for its current monthly price and what it includes (base rent versus care-level add-ons and memory-care premiums).

Worried about someone here? How to report it

If you have seen something that concerns you — neglect, an injury, medication problems, or a resident who seems afraid — you do not need proof to report it. Reporting is what triggers an inspection, and inspections are what put a record on this page in the first place.

  • The state licensing agency — Oregon licenses this community and is the body that can inspect it and act on a complaint. Complaints can usually be made anonymously.
  • Your Long-Term Care Ombudsman — free, independent, and works for the resident, not the state or the company. They will visit and advocate. Find yours via the Eldercare Locator at 1-800-677-1116 or theconsumervoice.org/get_help ↗.
  • Adult Protective Services — for suspected abuse, neglect or financial exploitation of a vulnerable adult. The Eldercare Locator above routes you to your local APS office.
  • If someone is in immediate danger, call 911 first. Report to the agencies above afterwards — the two are separate, and one does not do the job of the other.

We are a data site, not a regulator: we cannot investigate or intervene, and there is no point reporting it to us. The three routes above are the ones with actual power.

Location & what’s nearby

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Hospital
OREGON STATE HOSPITAL DISTINCT PART0.8 mi
 
Urgent care / clinic
Summit Orthotics & Prosthetics<0.1 mi
454 17th St NE · (503) 364-6006 · Call to confirm hours
Pharmacy
Great Earth Vitamins0.9 mi
191 High St SE · (503) 371-7554 · Call to confirm hours
Grocery
Turtle Island Indigenous Market<0.1 mi
1667 Center St NE · (971) 239-8190 · Call to confirm hours
Park
McRae Park0.3 mi
2051 Chemeketa St NE · (503) 588-6336 · Typically dawn to dusk
Place of worship
Harvest Time Pentecostal Church0.2 mi
600 16th St NE · (503) 362-4321

Nearest of each type, straight-line distance. Hospitals come from the CMS Hospital General Information registry; everything else from Overture Maps (public data). Hospital and park hours are typical — call ahead to confirm.

Source: Oregon DHS Office of Licensing & Regulatory Oversight (public record), last pulled from the state 2026-07-15.

What to do next

Understand itQuestions to ask on a tourThe things staffing brochures leave out — what to ask and what to watch for.→Afford itCan you afford it, long-term?Assisted living runs private-pay. Model the years and taxes in My Plan — free, private.→DecideIs assisted living the right fit?A two-minute check: assisted living, memory care, home help, or skilled nursing.→