Valencia Gardens Health Care Center

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Nearest of each type, straight-line distance. Hospitals come from the CMS Hospital General Information registry; everything else from Overture Maps (public data). Hospital and park hours are typical — call ahead to confirm.

Quality measures — how residents actually fare

Quality-measure stars summarize outcomes CMS tracks from the assessments each home submits — avoidable hospitalizations and ER visits, falls with injury, pressure ulcers, unplanned weight loss, and long-term antipsychotic use. Because the underlying data is self-reported, weigh a high score against the independent inspection record. Long-stay = permanent residents; short-stay = rehab and post-hospital stays.

Short-stay rehab — if you are coming here from a hospital

Arriving from a hospital right now? Read the discharge guide → — your appeal rights, how to slow a rushed discharge, and what to ask about the numbers below.

63.3% of the Medicare patients who left this home got back to the community and stayed there for at least 31 days — CMS rates that better than the national rate. This is CMS’s risk-adjusted rate over 213 Medicare stays in Oct 2022–Sep 2024, and CMS’s own comparison — not ours.

Met the expected recovery: 42.6% of this home’s Medicare short-stay residents left it at or above the ability to care for themselves and move around that CMS predicted for them, across 122 stays in Oct 2024–Sep 2025. The median of the 11,061 homes CMS publishes this for is 56.6%. Read it beside the getting-home figure, not instead of it: unlike the two measures above, CMS makes no better-or-worse call on this one and publishes no confidence interval for it, so this is a comparison and not a verdict — but it is the short-stay measure that separates homes most, and the one to ask about.

Therapy staffing: this home’s payroll records show 0.49 therapist hours per resident per day in 2026Q1 — more than 79% of the 13,892 homes that report any therapy hours at all.

Weekend therapy: weekend therapy hours are 22% of this home’s weekday level — it runs some therapy at the weekend, at a lower level than on weekdays. The median home that reports therapy runs 13% — weekday-focused therapy is the industry norm, not a shortfall. But recovery does not pause on a Saturday: ask what the weekend actually looks like here.

This section is about rehab stays, not living here. Most of this page — the stars, the quality measures, the inspection record — describes the home the way a permanent resident experiences it. These figures describe the short Medicare stay after a hospital discharge: a hip, a stroke, a bad infection, six weeks and home. They are different residents, different staff, often a different wing. Therapy hours are per resident in the building, not per rehab patient — the count includes every long-stay resident, and they mostly get no therapy at all. So a home with a small rehab wing inside a large nursing population reads low here even if its rehab patients get plenty of therapy, and a mostly-rehab home reads high. Use it to compare homes doing similar work, ask what a rehab resident actually gets in a day, and remember that CMS does not publish therapy minutes per patient — nobody does.

Staffing

Against a benchmark — not a legal minimum. In May 2024 CMS finalized the first federal staffing floor for nursing homes: 3.48 total nurse hours per resident per day, including 0.55 RN hours and 2.45 nurse-aide hours. Its hour requirements never took effect and are no longer on the books. Homes had until 2026 (2027 if rural) to comply, and that deadline never arrived: a federal court vacated the hour requirements in April 2025 (CMS has appealed), Congress then barred enforcement until 2034, and CMS formally repealed them by rule effective February 2026. This home is not required to meet these numbers, and is not violating anything by missing them. We still show the comparison because the figures are CMS’s own published estimate of adequate staffing, which makes them a useful yardstick — but they are our benchmark, not federal law: this home’s total nurse staffing of 4.35 hrs/resident/day is at or above the 3.48-hour benchmark and RN staffing of 0.49 is below the 0.55-hour RN benchmark and nurse-aide staffing of 2.62 is at or above the 2.45-hour aide benchmark. What federal law does require today is unchanged: “sufficient” nursing staff for residents’ needs and an RN on duty at least 8 consecutive hours a day, 7 days a week (42 CFR 483.35). Those are judged by inspectors on site, not by these averages, so read this comparison alongside the inspection record rather than as a pass/fail.

Weekend coverage: total nurse staffing is 3.83 hrs/resident/day on weekends vs 4.57 on weekdays — 16% thinner on weekends. RN hours go from 0.57 to 0.30 per resident-day. (Payroll-based daily records; the national median home is 15% thinner on weekends.)

This home’s total nursing-staff turnover of 25% is below the national median of 45%.

Payroll-based (PBJ) staffing hours, as reported for Jan–Mar 2026 (CMS PBJ CY2026Q1) — the most recent quarter CMS has published, so they can lag a change of operator or staffing agency. Higher is generally better. Registered-nurse coverage and weekend staffing are the numbers families most often overlook — an RN on site matters most when something goes wrong, and coverage usually thins on weekends. High turnover means residents rarely see the same caregiver twice. One caveat: these are hours as reported, not adjusted for how sick or heavy-care this home’s residents are. CMS separately publishes a case-mix-adjusted view; we show the reported hours. A home caring for higher-acuity residents needs more hours to deliver the same care, so compare these figures against homes doing similar work, and read them next to the inspection record rather than alone.

Inspection trend

Deficiencies are fewer than at the previous inspection — improving. Fewer citations over time suggests a home is fixing problems; a rising count is a warning sign — though two surveys are a short record, and survey teams differ. These counts are from the standard annual health survey only; the full citation list below may also include findings from complaint investigations, so the two won’t always add up.

Inspection deficiencies

State health-inspection citations, most serious first. Each carries an F-code (the federal rule it cites, e.g. F-684 = quality of care) and a letter A–L marking how serious and how widespread the problem was — we translate that grid into the plain tiers shown here. Wording is the official federal description.

Each letter is a CMS scope-severity level; highlighted ones are where this home has citations. A–C = no harm found; D–F = potential for harm; G–I = actual harm; J–L = immediate jeopardy. Within each band the later letter is the more widespread finding (an isolated G is one resident; a widespread I is a pattern), so rightward and downward is worse.

26 citations, most serious first. The 10 most serious are shown; the remaining 16 are one tap away and print in full.

• Potential for harm · Dcited before2026-06-24 · tag F0684 — failed to provide proper treatment and quality of care — isolated
  Provide appropriate treatment and care according to orders, resident’s preferences and goals.
  What the surveyor found here — an excerpt from the official record, may be distressing

  NOTE- TERMS IN BRACKETS HAVE BEEN EDITED TO PROTECT CONFIDENTIALITY Based on interview and record review, the facility failed to ensure that medications were administered according to physician ordered parameters for two of three residents reviewed (Resident 2 and 8) when:1.For Resident 2, the licensed nurse administered the medication Losartan (high blood pressure medication) 25 mg (mg - unit of measurement) outside of the physician ordered parameters of hold for SBP (systolic [top number of blood pressure] blood pressure) less than 140 mmhg (mmhg - unit of measurement); and2.For Resident 8, the licensed nurse administered the medication Carvedilol (high blood pressure medication) 3.125 mg outside of the physician ordered parameters of hold for SBP less than 110 mmhg.This failure had the potential for Resident 2 and 8 to experience undesired hypotension.Findings:1.On June 24, 2026, Resident 2's medical record was reviewed.The admission record indicated Resident 2 was admitted to the facility on [DATE], with diagnoses which included dementia (loss of memory), and hypertension…

  This is the beginning of the surveyor’s statement, cut to keep the page readable — the full 2567 continues past this point and often ends with the findings that matter most, such as whether an immediate jeopardy was removed before the surveyors left. The complete statement of deficiencies is a public record: request it from your state survey agency, or ask the home for its 2567 and plan of correction — it must make them available to residents and families.

  Quality of Life and Care Deficiencies · Deficient, Provider has date of correction
• Potential for harm · Ecited before2025-07-07 · tag F0880 — failed to prevent and control infections — pattern
  Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program.
  What the surveyor found here — an excerpt from the official record, may be distressing

  NOTE- TERMS IN BRACKETS HAVE BEEN EDITED TO PROTECT CONFIDENTIALITY Based on observation, interview, and record review, the facility failed to ensure infection control practices were implemented when: 1. For Resident 7, Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) 2 failed to use the disposable gown provided for Enhanced Barrier Precautions (EBP - infection prevention practices using gowns and gloves during high-contact resident care activities to reduce the spread of multidrug resistant organisms [MDRO] - a germ that is resistant to many antibiotics) when providing direct care; and 2. For Residents 397, 9, 5, and 399, Licensed Vocational Nurse (LVN) 4 and LVN 1, failed to properly clean and disinfect shared medication tray, shared glucometer (blood glucose device that measures and displays the amount of sugar in the blood), the shared stethoscope (a device used to listen to sounds within the body, primarily the heart, lungs and bowels) and the blood pressure cuff (an inflatable cuff used to measure blood pressure) according to the disposable wipe manufacturer's specified contact time (the…

  This is the beginning of the surveyor’s statement, cut to keep the page readable — the full 2567 continues past this point and often ends with the findings that matter most, such as whether an immediate jeopardy was removed before the surveyors left. The complete statement of deficiencies is a public record: request it from your state survey agency, or ask the home for its 2567 and plan of correction — it must make them available to residents and families.

  Infection Control Deficiencies · Deficient, Provider has date of correction
• Potential for harm · Dcited before2025-07-07 · tag F0558 — failed to accommodate residents' needs and preferences — isolated
  Reasonably accommodate the needs and preferences of each resident.
  What the surveyor found here — an excerpt from the official record, may be distressing

  Based on observation, interview, and record review, the facility failed to ensure one of two residents reviewed for accommodation of needs (Resident 11) was offerred access to his wheelchair for daily activities and a shower chair on shower days. This failure had the potential to result in Resident 11 feeling a loss of independence, dignity, and continued well-being. Findings: On June 30, 2025, at 2:38 p.m., a concurrent observation and interview was conducted with Resident 11. Resident 11 was observed lying in bed alert, oriented and well groomed. Resident 11 stated he has not been offered to get out of bed and into his wheelchair in a month. Resident 11 further stated he would like to take a shower but the facility Hoyer lift (a medical device used transfer individuals) shower net irritates his skin. Resident 11 stated he was recieving bed baths. A review of Resident 11's admission record indicated the resident was admitted into the facility on October 1, 2024, with diagnoses which included absence of right foot, absence of left leg below the knee, cellulitis (bacterial infection…

  This is the beginning of the surveyor’s statement, cut to keep the page readable — the full 2567 continues past this point and often ends with the findings that matter most, such as whether an immediate jeopardy was removed before the surveyors left. The complete statement of deficiencies is a public record: request it from your state survey agency, or ask the home for its 2567 and plan of correction — it must make them available to residents and families.

  Resident Rights Deficiencies · Deficient, Provider has date of correction
• Potential for harm · D2025-07-07 · tag F0658 — failed to meet professional standards of care — isolated
  Ensure services provided by the nursing facility meet professional standards of quality.
  What the surveyor found here — an excerpt from the official record, may be distressing

  NOTE- TERMS IN BRACKETS HAVE BEEN EDITED TO PROTECT CONFIDENTIALITY Based on observation, interview, and record review, the facility failed to ensure an assessment and evaluation for self-administration of medication for Orajel (a topical treatment for the mouth and gums to relieve pain) was completed, and had a physician order, for one of 55 residents reviewed (Resident 7). In addition, the facility failed to ensure the medication was stored properly and securely. This failed practice increased the potential for unsafe self-administration of medication for Resident 7, and the potential for visitors, and other residents to have access to the medication, which was stored at the bedside of Resident 7. Findings: During a concurrent observation and interview on July 1, 2025, at 12:40 p.m., with Resident 7 in her room, Resident 7 was awake, alert, and able to verbalize her needs. Resident 7 was observed sitting in bed eating her lunch. Her meal ticket indicated Fortified Diet (food with added vitamins, minerals, or other nutrients) mechanical soft texture, thin liquid consistency.…

  This is the beginning of the surveyor’s statement, cut to keep the page readable — the full 2567 continues past this point and often ends with the findings that matter most, such as whether an immediate jeopardy was removed before the surveyors left. The complete statement of deficiencies is a public record: request it from your state survey agency, or ask the home for its 2567 and plan of correction — it must make them available to residents and families.

  Resident Assessment and Care Planning Deficiencies · Deficient, Provider has date of correction
• Potential for harm · Dcited before2025-07-07 · tag F0684 — failed to provide proper treatment and quality of care — isolated
  Provide appropriate treatment and care according to orders, resident’s preferences and goals.
  What the surveyor found here — an excerpt from the official record, may be distressing

  Based on observation, interview, and record review, the facility failed to provide treatment and care in accordance with professional standards of practice for one resident of two residents (Resident 6) when:1.The physician was not contacted when Resident 6 blood sugar was below ordered parameters.2. Resident 6 received hypertension (high blood pressure) medication when blood pressure was below physician ordered parameters. This failure had the potential for Resident 6 to have adverse effects of hypoglycemic (low blood sugar) and hypotension (low blood pressure). Findings:1. On July 1, 2025, at 1:13 p.m., a review of Resident 6's admission record indicated the resident was admitted into the facility on April 29, 2025, with the diagnoses which included osteomyelitis (bone infection), diabetes mellitus (high blood sugar), hypertension (high blood pressures).A review of Resident 6's medication administration record (MAR) for the month of June 2025, indicated the following:June 22, 2025, the 9 am dose of Losartan was administered with BP (blood pressure) indicating 108/54.June 22, 2025,…

  This is the beginning of the surveyor’s statement, cut to keep the page readable — the full 2567 continues past this point and often ends with the findings that matter most, such as whether an immediate jeopardy was removed before the surveyors left. The complete statement of deficiencies is a public record: request it from your state survey agency, or ask the home for its 2567 and plan of correction — it must make them available to residents and families.

  Quality of Life and Care Deficiencies · Deficient, Provider has date of correction
• Potential for harm · D2025-05-28 · tag F0628 — isolated
  Provide the required documentation or notification related to the resident's needs, appeal rights, or bed-hold policies.
  What the surveyor found here — an excerpt from the official record, may be distressing

  NOTE- TERMS IN BRACKETS HAVE BEEN EDITED TO PROTECT CONFIDENTIALITY Based on interview and record review, the facility failed to provide a copy of the discharge notice to the Office of the State Long-Term Care (LTC) Ombudsman (an advocate for residents of nursing homes) the same time the notice of the discharge was provided to the resident or resident ' s representative for two of six sampled residents (Residents 1 and 3). This failure has the potential for the Ombudsman not be able to advocate for the residents in protecting their rights from inappropriate transfer and discharge. Findings: A review of Resident 1 ' s admission record indicated the resident was admitted to the facility on [DATE], with diagnoses which included cognitive communication deficit and muscle weakness. Further review of the record indicated the resident was discharged to home on May 15, 2025. A review of Resident 1 ' s discharge notice indicated the resident was provided the discharge notice on May 7, 2025, with the discharge effective date of May 15, 2025. A review of the fax (facsimile) transmission…

  This is the beginning of the surveyor’s statement, cut to keep the page readable — the full 2567 continues past this point and often ends with the findings that matter most, such as whether an immediate jeopardy was removed before the surveyors left. The complete statement of deficiencies is a public record: request it from your state survey agency, or ask the home for its 2567 and plan of correction — it must make them available to residents and families.

  Resident Rights Deficiencies · Deficient, Provider has date of correction
• Potential for harm · D2025-04-09 · tag F0842 — failed to keep accurate, complete medical records — isolated
  Safeguard resident-identifiable information and/or maintain medical records on each resident that are in accordance with accepted professional standards.
  What the surveyor found here — an excerpt from the official record, may be distressing

  NOTE- TERMS IN BRACKETS HAVE BEEN EDITED TO PROTECT CONFIDENTIALITY Based on interview and record review, the facility failed to ensure the interventions provided to Resident 1 when she had a low blood sugar level of 37 (hypoglycemia), was documented in the medical record. This failure had the potential to affect Resident' 1's health and make it harder for nursing staff to communicate effectively and provide proper care. Findings: A review of Resident 1's admission record indicated she was admitted to the facility on [DATE], with diagnoses which included diabetes mellitus (high blood sugar level). A review of Resident 1's History and Physical dated December 19, 2024, indicated she had the capacity to understand and make decisions. A review of Resident 1's Medication Administration Record (MAR) for the month of January 2025 indicated she had a blood sugar level of 37 at 6:30 a.m. on January 1, 2025. A review of Resident 1's SBAR (Situation Background Assessment Recommendation- a standardized communication tool) Communication Form and progress note . written by Licensed Vocationa…

  This is the beginning of the surveyor’s statement, cut to keep the page readable — the full 2567 continues past this point and often ends with the findings that matter most, such as whether an immediate jeopardy was removed before the surveyors left. The complete statement of deficiencies is a public record: request it from your state survey agency, or ask the home for its 2567 and plan of correction — it must make them available to residents and families.

  Resident Assessment and Care Planning Deficiencies · Deficient, Provider has date of correction
• Potential for harm · E2024-06-06 · tag F0755 — failed to provide safe pharmacy services — pattern
  Provide pharmaceutical services to meet the needs of each resident and employ or obtain the services of a licensed pharmacist.
  What the surveyor found here — an excerpt from the official record, may be distressing

  Based on interview and record review, the facility failed to ensure accurate accountability of controlled medications (those with high potential for abuse and addiction) for three of four random sampled residents (Residents 1, 18, and 247) when a random controlled medication audit did not reconcile. The controlled medications were signed out of the Medication Count Sheet (a controlled drug record, an inventory sheet that keeps record of the usage of controlled medications) but not documented on the Medication Administration Records (MAR) to indicate they were administered to the residents. The failure resulted in inaccurate accountability of controlled medications, which had the potential for misuse or diversion. Findings: The Medication Count Sheets for controlled medications for four random residents receiving PRN (as-needed) controlled medications were requested for review during the survey and indicated the following: 1. Resident 247 had a physician's order, dated March 24, 2024, for Norco (hydrocodone-acetaminophen, a potent controlled medication for pain) 5/325 milligram (mg,…

  This is the beginning of the surveyor’s statement, cut to keep the page readable — the full 2567 continues past this point and often ends with the findings that matter most, such as whether an immediate jeopardy was removed before the surveyors left. The complete statement of deficiencies is a public record: request it from your state survey agency, or ask the home for its 2567 and plan of correction — it must make them available to residents and families.

  Pharmacy Service Deficiencies · Deficient, Provider has date of correction
• Potential for harm · E2024-06-06 · tag F0760 — failed to prevent significant medication errors — pattern
  Ensure that residents are free from significant medication errors.
  What the surveyor found here — an excerpt from the official record, may be distressing

  NOTE- TERMS IN BRACKETS HAVE BEEN EDITED TO PROTECT CONFIDENTIALITY Based on observation, interview, and record review, the facility failed to follow the physician's order to hold the administration of the the medication Hydralazine Hydrochloride (medication used to control high blood pressure) for the systolic blood pressure (top number) less than 130 for one resident reviewed (Resident 35). This failure resulted in Resident 35 receiving the medication multiple times below the prescribed parameter as ordered by the physician from May 11, 2024 through June 3, 2024. Findings: On April 3, 2024, at 7:10 a.m., Resident 35 was observed awake, alert and able to verbalize her needs. Resident 35 was observed with oxygen on at two liters (a unit of measurement) of oxygen per minute through nasal cannula (a tube used to deliver oxygen through the nostrils). On April 3, 2024, a review of Resident 35's record indicated, Resident 35 was admitted to the facility on [DATE], with diagnoses which included hypertension (high blood pressure) and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD- lung…

  This is the beginning of the surveyor’s statement, cut to keep the page readable — the full 2567 continues past this point and often ends with the findings that matter most, such as whether an immediate jeopardy was removed before the surveyors left. The complete statement of deficiencies is a public record: request it from your state survey agency, or ask the home for its 2567 and plan of correction — it must make them available to residents and families.

  Pharmacy Service Deficiencies · Deficient, Provider has date of correction
• Potential for harm · E2024-06-06 · tag F0802 — failed to prepare enough nourishing food — pattern
  Provide sufficient support personnel to safely and effectively carry out the functions of the food and nutrition service.
  What the surveyor found here — an excerpt from the official record, may be distressing

  Based on observation, interview, and record review, the facility failed to ensure dietary staff were able to carry out the functions of food and nutrition services safely and effectively when: 1. Dietary Aide (DA) 3 did not follow the facility cleaning procedure to clean food preparation surface and stationary equipment (Cross referred F 812); 2. Two kitchen staff did not document the cooling process on June 2, 2024 for making boiled eggs (Cook 2) and on June 2, 2024, for making tuna salad (Dietary Aide 1); 3. [NAME] 3 did not know how to calibrate a thermometer; 4. [NAME] 1 did not follow the time length according to manufacturer's guidelines for dipping the test strip in the sanitizer (sanitizing solution used for sanitizing food contact surfaces); and 5. DA 2 did not follow the time length according to manufacturer's guidelines for immersing kitchenware in sanitizer solution in the sanitize sink. These failures had the potential for unsafe food practices which may lead to foodborne illness (stomach illness acquired from ingesting contaminated food), and the potential to not meet…

  This is the beginning of the surveyor’s statement, cut to keep the page readable — the full 2567 continues past this point and often ends with the findings that matter most, such as whether an immediate jeopardy was removed before the surveyors left. The complete statement of deficiencies is a public record: request it from your state survey agency, or ask the home for its 2567 and plan of correction — it must make them available to residents and families.

  Nutrition and Dietary Deficiencies · Deficient, Provider has date of correction

“Cited before” means this same F-tag appears on at least one other survey date in the record we hold — counting complaint investigations as well as standard surveys, with no time limit. It is our own read of the data, not CMS’s: CMS uses repeat deficiency as a formal term tied to consecutive standard surveys, and that is a narrower test than this one. A tag marked here may or may not meet it.

Fines & penalties

No federal fines in the current CMS record.

Part of a chain

This home belongs to NAHS — 12 facilities. Here is how its ratings compare with the chain’s average across all its homes: See the whole chain — ratings, flags, fines and finances →

A home rated well below its chain’s average can signal local problems; a chain with a low average across the board is a bigger pattern worth researching. CMS chain data under-reports private-equity and REIT ownership, so treat this as a floor, not the full picture.

Who owns this facility

CMS files one row per role, so the 9 rows in the source record cover these 6 parties — each is shown once here with every role it holds. Nothing is omitted.

1 organizational owner listed — a facility can be part of a larger chain. CMS ownership data is known to under-report private-equity and REIT ties; treat as a starting point.

Follow the money — this home’s finances

Where a nursing home’s revenue comes from and where it goes — including money paid to companies under the same ownership. Most consumer sites never show this; we reproduce it straight from the Medicare cost report.

This home reported $501K paid to related parties (affiliated landlords or management companies) in its most recent cost report.

Source: CMS Healthcare Provider Cost Reporting Information System (HCRIS), Medicare cost report Form CMS-2540 · fiscal year 2023. Facilities self-file these reports; figures are unaudited and a year or two behind. A home with no Medicare cost report on file shows no figures here.

Cost & finances

Straight from this home’s Medicare cost report (CMS, FY2023). These are its operating economics — what it costs to run per resident-day and what it collects on average across Medicare, Medicaid, and private pay — not a private-pay quote. Your out-of-pocket cost depends on payer and room type, so ask the facility directly; a higher operating cost can reflect richer staffing or a sicker population. The cost-of-care planner shows regional benchmarks by care type.

What families pay in CA