Assisted living in Imperial Beach, CA
3 licensed communities, listed alphabetically. California publishes an inspection and complaint record for each one — shown on every community’s page — but it publishes no rating, so we do not rank them and we do not invent a score.
Memory care isn’t marked here — because the state doesn’t publish it.
California’s licensing file carries no memory-care or dementia-unit designation, so we cannot tell you which of these communities has one. There certainly are memory-care communities in this state — we just have no authoritative list of them, and we won’t guess from a community’s name. Ask any community directly whether it runs a secured dementia unit, and ask your Long-Term Care Ombudsman ↗ which local communities take dementia residents.
What’s actually in Imperial Beach
All 3 hold the same licence: Assisted living.
They range from 6 to 32 licensed beds (median 32) — and 1 of them is licensed for 6 beds or fewer, meaning a private house with a handful of residents rather than an apartment-style community.
1 of the 3 has findings in the state’s inspection or complaint record. The remaining 2 are not in the state’s extract, which is not the same as a clean record.
What it costs around here
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 California, assisted living typically runs about $5,600–$8,400/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.
Paying with Medicaid
California Medicaid helps pay for assisted living only in limited circumstances — through a waiver, and not everywhere in the state or for everyone who qualifies.
The California waiver that can pay for it:
- Assisted Living Waiver (ALW) — covers assisted living / memory care
California runs a waiting list for this waiver. Qualifying does not mean a place is funded — apply as early as you can, before you need it.
In California: apply or check eligibility ↗ or call 1-800-300-1506.
A waiver pays for care, not for rent. Even where the state covers assisted-living services, room and board is still the resident’s to pay. Full eligibility limits — income, assets, the look-back — are on our California Medicaid page.
Nearby towns in this state
Assisted living is a local decision, but the right community is often one town over — and a 20-minute difference in drive time decides how often anyone actually visits, which is the single thing that most affects how a resident does.
- Chula Vista — 30 communities, about 6 mi away
- National City — 9 communities, about 7 mi away
- Bonita — 6 communities, about 8 mi away
- Coronado — 1 community, about 8 mi away
- Lemon Grove — 10 communities, about 12 mi away
- Spring Valley — 11 communities, about 12 mi away
- La Mesa — 23 communities, about 14 mi away
- San Diego — 192 communities, about 15 mi away