Windsor Health and Rehabilitation Center

    820 Cottage St NE, Salem, OR 97301
    • Assisted Living
    • Memory Care
    • Skilled Nursing
    3.1ยท44 reviews

    Compassionate staff, clean homey facility

    I stayed here and felt genuinely cared for - compassionate, knowledgeable staff and awesome CNAs made me comfortable and safe. The facility is clean and homey, meals are tasty (biscuits & gravy, meatballs, pot roast were favorites), and PT/OT (David, Emily) and activities helped me get stronger and make friends. Overall a very good, welcoming experience and I would recommend returning.

    Current/former resident
    Jul 2026

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    Amenities

    Healthcare services

    • Activities of daily living assistance
    • Assistance with bathing
    • Assistance with dressing
    • Assistance with transfers
    • Medication management
    • Mental wellness program

    Healthcare staffing

    • 12-16 hour nursing
    • 24-hour call system
    • 24-hour supervision

    Meals and dining

    • Diabetes diet
    • Meal preparation and service
    • Restaurant-style dining
    • Special dietary restrictions

    Room

    • Air-conditioning
    • Cable
    • Fully furnished
    • Housekeeping and linen services
    • Kitchenettes
    • Private bathrooms
    • Telephone
    • Wifi

    Transportation

    • Community operated transportation
    • Transportation arrangement
    • Transportation arrangement (non-medical)

    Common areas

    • Beauty salon
    • Computer center
    • Dining room
    • Fitness room
    • Gaming room
    • Garden
    • Outdoor space
    • Small library
    • Wellness center

    Community services

    • Concierge services
    • Fitness programs
    • Move-in coordination

    Activities

    • Community-sponsored activities
    • Planned day trips
    • Resident-run activities
    • Scheduled daily activities

    Reviews

    3.14ยท(44)

    Overall rating

    1. 5
    2. 4
    3. 3
    4. 2
    5. 1
    • Care

      3.4
    • Staff

      3.4
    • Meals

      2.1
    • Amenities

      3.0
    • Value

      1.7

    Pros

    • Strong physical and occupational therapy services
    • Compassionate and attentive nursing staff
    • Caring and personable certified nursing assistants (CNAs)
    • Supportive and responsive administrative and maintenance staff
    • Engaged interdisciplinary teamwork
    • Home-style, customizable meal options
    • Comfortable, home-like atmosphere
    • Meaningful resident activities and social engagement
    • Reliable transportation scheduling

    Cons

    • Inconsistent staffing levels and slow call-response times
    • Gaps in wound-care expertise and medication administration timeliness
    • Inconsistent meal quality and limited therapeutic-diet variety
    • Sanitation and linen-change deficiencies
    • Unreliable handling of laundry, deliveries, and personal belongings
    • Dated physical plant and limited modern amenities (e.g., no Wiโ€‘Fi)
    • Variable professionalism and family communication
    • Insufficient supervision and safety monitoring for cognitively impaired residents
    • Lack of transparent ownership and management practices
    • High cost relative to perceived service continuity

    Summary of reviews

    Reviewer feedback for Windsor Health and Rehabilitation Center shows a clear pattern of strong rehabilitative services and a core of compassionate caregiving staff, combined with operational weaknesses that can affect day-to-day resident experience. Therapy servicesโ€”physical and occupational therapyโ€”are consistently cited as a major strength and appear to contribute to measurable recovery for many residents. Numerous reviewers also highlight individual staff members (nurses, CNAs, therapists, maintenance and administrative staff) as caring, knowledgeable, and effective at providing emotional support and family communication when available.

    Care quality is mixed. Clinical strengths include attentive nursing and capable CNAs in many cases, and positive interdisciplinary teamwork. However, recurring concerns relate to response times and staffing consistency: slow call-light responses, delayed assistance with toileting and bathing, and inconsistent medication timing. Multiple comments point to gaps in wound-care expertise and periodic inconsistencies in clinical follow-through; these represent operational risks that prospective families should clarify during intake. Safety monitoring for residents with cognitive impairment is another recurrent concern, with reports suggesting variability in supervision and contingency coverage.

    Dining receives polarized feedback. Several reviewers praise home-style, customizable menu items and specific dishes, while an approximately equal number describe inconsistent food quality, repetitive therapeutic-diet choices (notably for low-sodium/diabetic meals), undercooked or poorly executed entrรฉes, and limited breakfast options. Meal portions and variety were identified as uneven, and some reviewers felt therapeutic diets lacked creativity and adequate monitoring for nutrition needs.

    Facilities and amenities are a mix of strengths and limitations. The building is described as older but often clean and homey; however, others characterized parts of the environment as dated or dark and in need of renovation. Practical amenity limitations were noted (for example, absence of Wiโ€‘Fi in some accounts), and some design elements (art placement, accessibility) may not be optimized for mobility device users. Laundry and package-handling processes were cited as unreliable in several accounts, creating concerns about lost or missing personal items.

    Management and culture show divided perceptions. Many families commend frontline staff and point to a family-like, welcoming atmosphere with engaged activity programming. At the same time, there are recurrent observations about unclear management practices, inconsistent communication with families, defensive leadership responses, and questions about ownership transparency. These issues are amplified when paired with staffing shortages or high occupancy: reviewers linked these operational stressors to slower responses and uneven care continuity.

    Notable patterns for prospective residents and families to consider: the facility demonstrates clear strengths in therapy and in many individual caregivers, but those strengths coexist with variable operational reliabilityโ€”especially around staffing consistency, wound care and medication timeliness, meal quality for therapeutic diets, and handling of personal belongings. When evaluating Windsor, families may want to observe call-light response times, ask about wound-care protocols and staff training, sample therapeutic-diet options, confirm laundry/package procedures, and request clarity on ownership and staffing ratios. Doing so will help assess whether the facilityโ€™s rehabilitative and relational strengths align with a prospective residentโ€™s day-to-day care and safety needs.

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    Medicare Ratings

    3ยท/ 5
    • Overall

    • Health Inspection

    • Staffing

    • Quality Measures

    Ratings from the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (Care Compare). View on Medicare.gov

    Location

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    Windsor Health and Rehabilitation Center is located at 820 Cottage St NE, Salem, OR, 97301.

    About Windsor Health and Rehabilitation Center

    Windsor Health and Rehabilitation Center sits at 820 Cottage St NE in Salem, Oregon, right in the Willamette River Valley, and has 100 beds offering both short-term rehabilitation and long-term skilled nursing care in a calm and scenic setting, where folks find semi-private rooms between $8,000 and $12,000 a month and private rooms from $9,000 to $13,000. The nurses and staff keep watch 24 hours a day to help residents with dressing, grooming, bathing, and toileting, or lend a hand with walking and wheelchair use, while doctors and other providers are always close by for wound care, diabetes management, medication needs, and rehab therapy after a hospital stay. Windsor offers a mix of services for those coming straight from the hospital and those needing steady care, all while accepting Medicare, Medicaid, and long-term care insurance, plus there are bilingual interpreter services for people who need them. The center has programs for memory care, pain management, occupational therapy, podiatry, dental, optometry, and even respite stays, and really puts effort into easing the transition from hospital to home with a full set of medical and daily living supports. Meals are served daily with options for different diets-diabetic, heart-healthy, purรฉe, and cultural meals are all part of the routine-and residents enjoy a big dining room and fresh food every day. Windsor has a dedicated community life staff running arts, crafts, wellness programs, and lots of weekly activities, including outdoor barbecues, bingo, movie nights, holiday events, religious services, outings, educational talks, and special luncheons during holidays. The building itself includes safety features, cable TV, Wi-Fi, a game room, fitness center, salon/barbershop, washer and dryer access, and guest parking, and the rooms come with housekeeping, kitchenettes, and regular maintenance. Windsor Health and Rehabilitation Center, part of the EmpRes family, earns an overall above-average rating of 3.2 from 34 reviews-offering skilled nursing for the very frail, memory support for folks with Alzheimer's or dementia, and a team focused on comfort and understanding for everyone who lives there.

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