Cascades At Port Arthur
6600 9TH AVE., Port Arthur, TX, 77642
Federal Quality Data
Official records from CMS Care Compare — reported by the facility and audited by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. We present them unmodified. Refreshed March 2026.
CMS Abuse Flag
CMS has flagged this facility for a substantiated finding of resident abuse, neglect, or exploitation in its current or recent inspection cycle. Ask the facility for the specific citation and corrective-action plan during your visit, and consider contacting your state's long-term care ombudsman for context.
Source: CMS Care Compare.
CMS Star Ratings
Facility & Staffing
- Ownership
- For profit - Corporation · Chain: Cascades Healthcare
- Certified beds
- 150 · avg 74 residents/day
- Total nursing staff turnover
- 71.6% — higher than most Texas nursing homesTexas avg: 51.5% · National avg: 46.4% · per CMS Care Compare
- Administrators who left
- 1 departed — near the Texas averageTexas avg: 0.6 · National avg: 0.5 · per CMS Care Compare
Enforcement & Citations
- Fines (past 3 years)
- 8 fines · $365,561 total
- Payment denials
- 1 denial
State licensing & capacity
- License number
- 312442
- Service type
- Medicare/medicaid
- Licensed capacity
- 150 beds
- Bed type breakdown
- 41 Medicare-only · 109 Medicaid/Medicare
- Current license effective
- May 1, 2025
- Current license expires
- May 1, 2028
- Initial license date
- August 30, 1993
Texas HHS licensing registry · as of April 16, 2026
Ownership & operations
- Licensee
- Winniestowell Hospital District (HOSPITAL DISTRICT/AUTHORITY)
- Operator / manager
- Cascades At Port Arthur Rehab Lp
- Administrator
- James N Davidson
Texas HHS licensing registry · as of April 16, 2026
About this community
Cascades at Port Arthur is a 150-bed nursing home in Port Arthur, TX, licensed through May 2028 and operating under a hospital district license with for-profit management by Cascades Healthcare. CMS rates it 1 star overall, with a 1-star staffing rating and 1-star health inspection rating. CMS has substantiated findings of resident abuse or neglect here within the past 36 months. Eight fines totaling $365,561 have been assessed. The facility is running at roughly 49% of licensed capacity.
Written from CMS Care Compare and state licensing records · last updated April 19, 2026
What the data says
CMS rates this facility 1 star on staffing — the bottom tier in Texas, shared by about 38% of nursing homes statewide. Each resident receives roughly 202 minutes of nursing care per day, about 39 minutes less than at a 4-star-staffing facility in Texas. Residents here require more hands-on care than at a typical facility — sicker, or less mobile on average — so those 202 minutes stretch thinner than the number alone suggests. Registered nurses account for just 19 of those minutes, against a 4-star Texas benchmark of 37.
Approximately 7 in 10 nursing staff left in the past year. For a long-stay resident, that means going through two or three primary caregivers in the course of a single year.
CMS has substantiated findings of resident abuse or neglect here within the past 36 months.
Eight CMS fines totaling $365,561 have been assessed. The median fine total among Texas nursing homes that have any fines at all is $20,699; this facility's total is roughly 17 times that figure. About 30% of Texas nursing homes have no fines.
The facility is operating at roughly 49% of its 150 licensed beds, with 73.8 residents per day on average. That low occupancy, alongside the safety and staffing signals above, is part of the full picture.
The quality-of-care measures CMS tracks — things like residents developing pressure wounds, losing mobility, or needing emergency hospitalization — rate 4 stars overall and 5 stars for long-stay residents. Short-stay residents (typically those recovering from a hospital stay) rate 3 stars on those same measures.
Written from CMS Care Compare and state licensing records · last updated April 19, 2026
Questions to ask when you tour
Abuse findings and current safeguards
CMS has substantiated abuse or neglect findings here in the past 36 months — ask what specific incidents occurred, what changed afterward, and how staff are monitored today.
Staffing coverage on nights and weekends
With 202 daily nursing minutes per resident and a thin resident mix, ask how many nurses and aides are on the floor during overnight and weekend shifts specifically.
Caregiver continuity for your parent
Seven in 10 nursing staff left last year — ask how assignments are structured so a resident reliably sees the same aides and nurses from week to week.
Eight fines over the inspection record
The facility has paid $365,561 in CMS fines — ask which deficiencies drove the largest fines and what corrective steps were taken after each.
Why half the beds are empty
The facility is running at roughly 49% occupancy; ask whether that reflects a recent discharge trend, admission freezes, or another cause, and how it affects daily staffing levels.
Quality measures versus inspection record
Long-stay quality measures rate 5 stars while health inspections rate 1 star — ask how to reconcile those two scores and which deficiencies the inspections flagged.
Where this information comes from
- License, capacity, ownership, administrator: Texas HHS licensing registry, snapshot as of April 16, 2026.
- Star ratings, staffing, fines, deficiencies: CMS Care Compare, processed March 1, 2026.
- Summary, insights, and tour questions: Written from the state licensing and CMS records above, last updated April 19, 2026.
Read our methodology for how this information is collected and verified.