Best nursing homes in Long Beach, CA
These are the 25 CMS-certified nursing homes in Long Beach, California, ranked best-first by the home’s CMS overall star rating. When two homes tie, we break the tie by the health-inspection rating — the domain assigned by independent state surveyors rather than self-reported by the facility. Nothing on this page is sponsored: no home pays to appear or to rank higher.
Check the certification chip before anything else. Most homes here are certified for both Medicare and Medicaid, but CMS certifies some for only one — and a 5-star home that doesn’t take your programme is not an option, however it ranks. Certification is not a quality measure and we don’t rank on it; we label it, because it decides whether the rest of the row matters to you.
How to read this: a high overall star can be lifted by self-reported quality-measure and payroll-staffing scores, so we surface the inspection rating and any serious citations, fines, abuse flags or ownership changes right on the row. A lower-ranked home with a clean inspection record can be the better fit than a higher-ranked one carrying red flags — open each profile.
- 1Medicare & Medicaid certifiedNo major red flags on record2750 Atlantic Avenue, Long Beach, CA
- 2Medicare & Medicaid certifiedNo major red flags on record1201 Walnut Avenue, Long Beach, CA
- 3Medicare & Medicaid certified2 immediate-jeopardy citations$26,685 in federal fines723 E 9th Street, Long Beach, CA
- 4Medicare & Medicaid certifiedSelf-reported scores 2★ above inspection3294 Santa Fe Avenue, Long Beach, CA
- 5Medicare & Medicaid certified1 serious citation$29,543 in federal finesSelf-reported scores 2★ above inspection5001 East Anaheim Street, Long Beach, CA
- 6Medicare & Medicaid certified1 immediate-jeopardy citation$33,017 in federal finesSelf-reported scores 3★ above inspection3901 E Fourth Street, Long Beach, CA
- 7Medicare & Medicaid certified3 serious citations$77,823 in federal finesSelf-reported scores 3★ above inspection4010 N Virginia Rd., Long Beach, CA
- 8Medicare & Medicaid certified3 serious citations$41,629 in federal finesSelf-reported scores 3★ above inspection4029 East Anaheim Street, Long Beach, CA
- 9Medicare & Medicaid certified2 immediate-jeopardy citations$33,030 in federal fines5901 Downey Ave, Long Beach, CA
- 10Medicare & Medicaid certified1 immediate-jeopardy citation$60,763 in federal fines2625 East Fourth Street, Long Beach, CA
- 11Medicare & Medicaid certifiedAbuse icon2 serious citations$29,170 in federal finesSelf-reported scores 2★ above inspection3501 Cedar Avenue, Long Beach, CA
- 12Medicare & Medicaid certified2 serious citations$139,865 in federal finesSelf-reported scores 2★ above inspection2725 Pacific Avenue, Long Beach, CA
- 13Medicare & Medicaid certifiedSpecial Focus candidate (CMS is watching this home)4 immediate-jeopardy citations$132,727 in federal finesSelf-reported scores 4★ above inspection3747 Atlantic Avenue, Long Beach, CA
- 14Medicare & Medicaid certified1 immediate-jeopardy citation$58,032 in federal finesSelf-reported scores 4★ above inspection3850 E. Esther St., Long Beach, CA
- 15Medicare & Medicaid certified1 serious citation$19,475 in federal finesSelf-reported scores 4★ above inspection1020 Termino Avenue, Long Beach, CA
- 16Medicare & Medicaid certified2 immediate-jeopardy citations$232,696 in federal finesSelf-reported scores 4★ above inspection3232 E. Artesia Blvd., Long Beach, CA
- 17Medicare & Medicaid certified2 immediate-jeopardy citations$205,642 in federal finesSelf-reported scores 3★ above inspection2725 E. Broadway, Long Beach, CA
- 18Medicare & Medicaid certified2 immediate-jeopardy citations$140,904 in federal finesSelf-reported scores 2★ above inspection1913 E 5th Street, Long Beach, CA
- 19Medicare & Medicaid certified3 immediate-jeopardy citations$146,356 in federal finesSelf-reported scores 3★ above inspection1730 Grand Ave, Long Beach, CA
- 20Medicare & Medicaid certified3 immediate-jeopardy citations$156,035 in federal finesSelf-reported scores 3★ above inspection2626 Grand Avenue, Long Beach, CA
- 21Medicare & Medicaid certifiedAbuse icon1 immediate-jeopardy citation$54,834 in federal finesSelf-reported scores 3★ above inspection2615 Grand Avenue, Long Beach, CA
- 22Medicare & Medicaid certifiedAbuse icon5 serious citations$74,841 in federal finesSelf-reported scores 3★ above inspection3401 Cedar Avenue, Long Beach, CA
- 23Medicare & Medicaid certified2 immediate-jeopardy citations$53,643 in federal finesSelf-reported scores 3★ above inspection3801 E Anaheim St, Long Beach, CA
- 24Medicare & Medicaid certified4 serious citations$69,421 in federal finesSelf-reported scores 3★ above inspection260 E Market St, Long Beach, CA
- 25Medicare & Medicaid certified4 serious citations$114,393 in federal finesSelf-reported scores 3★ above inspection3355 Pacific Place, Long Beach, CA
Keep looking: read the California state guides — nursing homes and assisted living — for how the state’s system works, find the closest homes to your ZIP or location, filter every facility by rating, cost and inspection record, or compare any of these side by side. Or see assisted living in Long Beach, CA. Back to every California city.
How we rank
We order this list strictly by each home’s CMS overall star rating — the government’s own rating, not a score of our own. When two homes carry the same overall rating we break the tie by the health-inspection rating — the domain scored by independent state surveyors rather than self-reported — and then alphabetically. Homes with no rating on file sink to the bottom.
We should be straight with you about a tension here. The CMS overall star is a blend of three domains, and elsewhere on this site we argue that blend can be misleading: the staffing and quality-measure components lean on data facilities report about themselves, and they can lift a home’s overall star above what inspectors actually found. We still sort by it, for one reason — it is the only ranking of nursing homes the government publishes, and the alternative is us deciding which domain ought to count, which is our opinion dressed up as an official rating. We won’t do that. (It is the same reason we refuse to rank assisted living at all.) So instead of quietly re-sorting to our taste, we un-blend the star on every row: the inspection rating sits next to the overall one, and serious citations, fines and abuse flags are on the row too. Where the two disagree, trust the inspection record and the citations — and treat our sort order as the government’s claim, not ours. See our methodology.
No home pays to appear here or to rank higher. There is no sponsored placement, no paid listing, and no referral fee. The page carries ordinary Google display advertising, sold against the page by Google: it cannot move a home up or down this list, and no advertiser sees who you are. The ratings, citations and fines are assigned by government inspectors (CMS), not by Eldercare Lens.
Common questions
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Ratings and citations are assigned by government inspectors (CMS), not by Eldercare Lens. The absence of a citation does not guarantee the absence of problems. Always verify with the facility and your state Long-Term Care Ombudsman.