1,165 Nursing Homes in California

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Stonehaven runs on more nursing hours than the typical American nursing home, about 4.18 per resident day against a national average of 3.86, and that margin is the main thing working in its favor. The catch is timing: weekends drop roughly 13% below the home's own weekday staffing, so the coverage you'd see on a Tuesday isn't what a Saturday looks like. Its inspection record is current, with the most recent visit in June 2025, and five deficiencies on file, none of them serious enough to register as harm or jeopardy and none abuse-related. For-profit, limited-liability ownership is worth knowing going in. Overall, this is a home whose numbers suggest adequate care with a real weekend soft spot.

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Desert Ridge Transitional Care Center is a for-profit corporate home in Victorville with a remarkably thin inspection record, a single deficiency on the current books, none of it rising to harm or jeopardy, and nothing abuse-related. Its most recent survey came January 8, 2026, so the picture is fresh rather than dated. On paper, that's the profile of a home that hasn't given state inspectors much to write about. What the federal data can't tell you from here is how it feels on a Tuesday afternoon, staffing ratios, turnover, whether call lights get answered. Ask those questions directly when you visit. A clean record is a starting point, not the whole story.

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Emmanuel Care Center - Travis is a for-profit corporation home with 99 certified beds in Fairfield, and its 12 deficiencies on the current record are all below the harm or jeopardy level, no resident was seriously injured by the problems inspectors found, and none of them involved abuse. The last inspection was recent, December 4, 2025, so you're looking at current information rather than a stale snapshot. What the numbers can't tell you from here is staffing: how many nurses and aides are actually on the floor per resident, and how that compares to California and national averages. Ask for the last several months of payroll-based staffing reports and the administrator's turnover before you decide.

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Plumas District Hospital's skilled nursing unit is small, 36 certified beds, and it's run by the hospital district rather than a for-profit chain, which shapes how it operates. The current record shows four deficiencies, none of them at the harm or jeopardy level, though one is abuse-related, so it's worth asking staff directly what happened and what changed afterward. The most recent inspection came in February 2026, so the picture here is fairly current rather than stale. With a unit this size, staffing often tracks closely to hospital coverage, which can mean steadier nurse presence than a standalone nursing home of similar bed count. One thing to note: ElderGrade doesn't have a computed grade for this home yet, so there's no score to lean on. That means the federal inspection and staffing data are what you have to work with, ask about the abuse-related finding, and ask how many residents are typically on the unit at once.

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Grossmont Gardens is a for-profit corporate home in La Mesa with 16 deficiencies on its current record. None of those rose to the level of actual harm or jeopardy, which matters, that's the line between paperwork problems and a resident getting hurt. One is abuse-related, so ask about that specifically when you tour. The most recent inspection was February 12, 2026, so the record is current rather than stale. Sixteen citations is a lot to work through, though, and the count itself suggests the home struggles to stay ahead of federal requirements rather than catching problems before surveyors do. Worth asking staff how they've addressed the abuse citation and what changed since.