CCN 255309 · Lee County, Mississippi
Cedars Health Center
2800 West Main Street, Tupelo, MS 38801
Cedars Health Center is a 140-bed nonprofit nursing home in Tupelo, Mississippi, first certified for Medicare or Medicaid in 2004. CMS rates it 3 out of 5 stars overall in its September 2026 data, and it averaged 127.9 residents a day, about 91% of its certified beds. We found no FHA-insured Section 232 loan for it in HUD's healthcare endorsement database (fiscal 2001 onward).
Facility facts
- Certified beds
- 140
- Average residents per day
- 127.9 (91.4% of beds)
- Ownership type
- Non profit - Corporation
- Certification
- Medicare and Medicaid
- Legal business name
- United Methodist Senior Services Health Care, Inc
- Certified since
- Aug 1, 2004
- Chain or affiliated group
- None listed by CMS
- Location
- Rural, part of a continuing care retirement community
Ratings and staffing
Star ratings run from 1 to 5. Staffing is nurse hours per resident per day from CMS Payroll Based Journal data; turnover is the CMS annual nursing staff turnover rate. Occupancy is CMS's average daily census divided by certified beds.
| Measure | This facility | Mississippi median | US median |
|---|---|---|---|
| Overall rating | 3 of 5 | State spread: 51 at 1, 48 at 2, 37 at 3, 30 at 4, 33 at 5 | |
| Health inspections | 2 of 5 | ||
| Quality measures | 2 of 5 | ||
| Staffing | 5 of 5 | ||
| Total nurse hours per resident per day | 4.86 | 3.99 | 3.68 |
| RN hours per resident per day | 0.65 | 0.57 | 0.58 |
| Weekend nurse hours per resident per day | 4.36 | ||
| Nursing staff turnover | 48.8% | 44.4% | 44.9% |
| Occupancy (residents / beds) | 91.4% | 87.6% | 85.7% |
| Fines reported by CMS | 1 totaling $16,153 | ||
| Health deficiencies, latest standard survey | 5 (Nov 20, 2025) | ||
HUD 223(f) Express Lane: the CMS part
HUD gives 223(f) applications queue priority when the facility has CMS overall and health inspection ratings of at least 2 stars and no abuse icon, among other tests (ORCF criteria of March 31, 2026). Cedars Health Center does not meet it today: the abuse icon. The loan-to-value, coverage and operator tests depend on the deal. All the criteria.
Who owns and operates it
These are the owners and operators the facility reported to CMS: anyone with a 5% or greater direct or indirect stake, and any organization with operational or managerial control.
| Name | Role | Share | Since |
|---|---|---|---|
| United Methodist Senior Services Health Care, IncOrganization | Direct Ownership Interest | 100% | 05/01/1987 |
| United Methodist Senior Services Health Care, IncOrganization | Operational / Managerial Control | n/a | 05/01/1987 |
| Lacking, JeroneIndividual | Operational / Managerial Control | n/a | 04/03/2023 |
| Martin, TamalaIndividual | Operational / Managerial Control | n/a | 01/11/2021 |
| Stirewalt, JonathonIndividual | Operational / Managerial Control | n/a | 06/24/2014 |
| Vance, ChristieIndividual | Operational / Managerial Control | n/a | 03/23/2020 |
| Zuelzke, JamesIndividual | Operational / Managerial Control | n/a | 06/29/2020 |
Changes of ownership
No change of ownership for this facility appears in the CMS change-of-ownership file, which starts in January 2016.
HUD Section 232 loans
No FHA-insured loan matching this facility appears in HUD's database of healthcare endorsements, which covers fiscal 2001 onward (HUD data run of July 8, 2026). A loan could still exist under a different project name or from before 2001.
Sources and dates
Facility, rating, staffing and ownership data: CMS Provider Information and CMS Ownership, processing date September 2026. Private equity, REIT and mortgage-interest flags and changes of ownership: CMS Skilled Nursing Facility All Owners and Change of Ownership files (2026-10-01). FHA-insured loans: HUD Office of Healthcare Programs endorsement database, data run July 8, 2026. How we join them, and what the join can get wrong: methodology.
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