Central Gardens Post Acute

Location & what’s nearby

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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.

59.7% 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 285 Medicare stays in Oct 2022–Sep 2024, and CMS’s own comparison — not ours.

Met the expected recovery: 81.1% 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 164 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 0.52 therapist hours per resident per day in 2026Q1 — more than 83% of the 13,892 homes that report any therapy hours at all.

Weekend therapy: weekend therapy hours are 14% 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

How full it usually is: this home is certified for 92 beds and averages 87.8 residents a day — about 95% occupied, or roughly 4 beds typically open. It runs essentially full — expect a waiting list. This is a CMS average, not live availability — no public source publishes real-time vacancies, and a home can be full the day you call. Confirm with the home, and if you need a Medicaid bed specifically, ask about that separately: a home with open beds may still not have an open Medicaid bed.

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 3.80 hrs/resident/day is at or above the 3.48-hour benchmark and RN staffing of 0.87 is at or above the 0.55-hour RN benchmark and nurse-aide staffing of 2.38 is below 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 3.44 hrs/resident/day on weekends vs 3.94 on weekdays — 13% thinner on weekends. RN hours go from 0.95 to 0.67 per resident-day. (Payroll-based daily records; the national median home is 15% thinner on weekends.)

This home’s total nursing-staff turnover of 32% 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 · D2025-02-20 · tag F0645 — isolated
  PASARR screening for Mental disorders or Intellectual Disabilities
  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, record review, and facility policy review, the facility failed to ensure a Level I Pre-admission Screening and Resident Review (PASARR) accurately reflected the presence of diagnosed mental illnesses for 1 (Resident #7) of 3 residents reviewed for PASARR requirements. Specifically, Resident #7 had a Level I PASARR completed upon readmission to the facility that did not reflect all their mental health diagnoses. Findings included: An undated facility policy titled, admission Criteria, indicated, 9. All new admissions and readmissions are screened for mental disorders (MD), intellectual disabilities (ID) or related disorders (RD) per the Medicaid Pre-admission Screening and Resident Review (PASARR) process. Resident #7's admission Record indicated the facility originally admitted the resident on 10/03/2020 and most recently admitted the resident on 05/04/2024. According to the admission Record, the resident had a medical history that included diagnoses of delusional disorders and schizophrenia.…

  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 before2025-02-20 · tag F0759 — failed to keep medication error rate low — isolated
  Ensure medication error rates are not 5 percent or greater.
  What the surveyor found here — an excerpt from the official record, may be distressing

  Based on observation, interview, record review, and facility policy review, the facility failed to maintain a medication error rate of less than 5 percent (%). Specifically, the facility had 2 errors out of 30 opportunities, resulting in a medication error rate of 6.67 %, affecting 1 (Resident #39) of 6 residents observed during medication administration. Findings included: A facility policy titled Medication Administration, revised 04/2019, indicated, 10. The individual administering the medication verifies the right resident, right medication, right dosage, right time and right method (route) of administration before giving the medication. An admission Record revealed the facility admitted Resident #39 on 07/19/2024. According to the admission Record, Resident #39 had a medical history that included a diagnosis of unspecified bipolar disorder. A quarterly Minimum Data Set (MDS), with an Assessment Reference Date (ARD) of 01/22/2025, revealed Resident #39 had a Brief Interview for Mental Status (BIMS) score of 13, which indicated the resident had intact cognition. Resident #39's…

  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 · Dcited before2025-02-20 · tag F0880 — failed to prevent and control infections — isolated
  Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program.
  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 staff implemented enhanced barrier precautions (EBP) when providing care to 1 (Resident #155) of 1 resident requiring EBP observed during the provision of care. Specifically, staff failed to wear a gown during resident care that consisted of touching the resident and their feeding tube. Findings included: An admission Record revealed the facility admitted Resident #155 on 02/08/2025. According to the admission Record, Resident #155 had a medical history that included a diagnosis of gastrostomy (surgical procedure to create an opening in the abdominal wall into the stomach) status. Resident #155's Care Plan Report included a focus area, initiated on 02/08/2025, that indicated the resident required tube feeding related to dysphagia (difficulty swallowing). The Care Plan Report also included a focus area, initiated on 02/17/2025, that indicated the resident required EBP during high-contact resident-care activities due to the presence of an indwelling medical device (feeding tube). During a concurrent…

  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 · E2024-04-25 · tag F0609 — failed to report abuse allegations — pattern
  Timely report suspected abuse, neglect, or theft and report the results of the investigation to proper authorities.
  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 Interviews and record reviews, the facility failed to ensure the allegation of resident-to-resident abuse was promptly reported to the State Agency (SA, which is the California Department of Public Health, CDPH) in accordance with the facility ' s policy and procedure for four of 4 sampled residents (Resident 1, Resident 2 Resident 3, and Resident 4). Failure to promptly report allegation of abuse had the potential for further abuse to happen and thereby increasing the chances of harm to the residents. Findings: During a review of admission Record, dated [DATE], indicated, Resident 1, admitted to facility on [DATE], with diagnoses including: Seizures (involuntary body jerking), Adult failure to thrive, Dementia (loss of memory). Resident discharged on [DATE]. Review of admission record, dated, [DATE], indicated, Resident 2, admitted to facility on [DATE] with diagnoses including: Compression Fracture Lumbar, Cirrhosis of Liver ( damaged liver from various causes) , Malignant Neoplasm of Larynx (Cancer…

  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.

  Freedom from Abuse, Neglect, and Exploitation Deficiencies · Deficient, Provider has date of correction
• Potential for harm · Ecited before2024-04-25 · tag F0655 — pattern
  Create and put into place a plan for meeting the resident's most immediate needs within 48 hours of being admitted
  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 baseline care plan was developed within 48 hours of admission for Resident 6 and a copy of the baseline care plan summary was provided to the resident and/or representative for three of 3 sampled residents (Resident 5, 6, and 7). A Baseline Care Plan (BCP) includes minimum healthcare information necessary to properly care for each resident immediately upon their admission, which would address resident-specific health and safety concerns to prevent decline, injury, such as elopement or fall risk, and would identify needs for supervision, behavioral interventions, and assistance with activities of daily living, as necessary. The deficient practice resulted in Resident 5, 6, and 7, and/or RP not receiving information of the initial plan of care; and had the potential to result in inadequate care and services rendered to the residents. Findings: Review of Resident 5 ' s admission record indicated, admitted to facility on 4/11/24 with diagnoses…

  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 · D2024-01-27 · 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, record review, and observation, the facility failed to provide needed care and assistance in accordance with professional standards of practice when Resident 1, one of one sampled residents, did not receive pain medication or bathroom assistance, throughout the entire night. This failure caused undue suffering and neglect to the resident. Findings: Resident 1 was admitted to the facility on [DATE], at 3:30 PM, for Physical Therapy and Occupational Therapy services after transfer from hospital. Resident 1's diagnoses included, lumbar fracture from fall, back surgery from fall fracture, back pain, high blood pressure, gout (inflammatory joint pain and swelling), urinary tract infection, and liver disease. Required assistance with toileting, transferring, bathing and dressing. Resident is not incontinent of urine (has control of her urine). Alert and oriented, denied pain upon admittance. Resident was medicated prior to transfer from hospital. Resident is [AGE] years old and does not speak…

  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 before2023-05-26 · tag F0759 — failed to keep medication error rate low — pattern
  Ensure medication error rates are not 5 percent or greater.
  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 maintain a medication error rate less than five percent for two out of seven Residents observed (Residents 53 and Resident 8). This created an error rate of 9.68 percent (3 errors out of thirty-one opportunities). This failure had the potential to cause worsening medical conditions for each resident. Findings. 1. Symbicort was not administered during the appropriate time frame for Resident 53 (omission of medication). 2. Depakote delayed release tablets was crushed and administered for Resident 8. 3. Lidocaine patch was not applied to Resident 8 and documented as administered (omission of medication). 1. During an observation on 5/23/23 at 9:49 AM in Resident 53's room, it was observed that licensed vocational nurse (LVN) 1 administered tablet medications only to Resident 53. It was observed that Resident 53 was offered stool softeners, and that Resident 53 refused the stool softener. Review of Resident 53's Medication orders and…

  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 · Ecited before2023-05-26 · 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 provide a safe and sanitary environment when: 1. The Red Zone (isolation room) door, with Resident 434 inside, was fully open while staff was cleaning the room. 2a. A dirty urinal was hung on the side rail of Resident 44's bed on 5/23/23. 2b. Resident 44's urinal jug containing urine was placed on the overbed table. 3. Staff did not perform hand hygiene after glove removal. 4. Staff did not perform hand hygiene when she entered between two residents' rooms. 5. Staff did not clean and disinfect medical equipment (blood pressure cuff) in between multiple residents (Resident 39, Resident 53, and Resident 44). These failures had the potential for cross contamination of infection that can compromise the health and safety of the residents and the potential to spread infectious disease from one resident to another. Findings: 1. Resident 434 was admitted on [DATE] with diagnoses including septicemia (an infection that occurs when germs get into…

  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 before2023-05-26 · tag F0655 — isolated
  Create and put into place a plan for meeting the resident's most immediate needs within 48 hours of being admitted
  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 create a baseline care plan based on physician admitting order of one of three residents (Resident 78) reviewed when Resident 78 admitted [DATE] with enteral feeding order, care plan was only initiated on 5/24/23. This failure can result in Resident 1 not getting tube feeding as ordered. Findings: Review of Resident 78's admission Record indicated, admitted to facility on 5/15/23 with diagnosis including Dysphagia (difficulty in swallowing), Esophageal Cancer (cancer of the tube that runs from the throat to the stomach). Review of Physician Order dated 5/17/23, indicated, Enteral Feed (form of nutrition delivered into the digestive system as liquid) Order, Jevity 1.5 at 100 ml/hr x 8 hours (9:00 PM-5:00 AM), one time in the evening. Review of Care Plan, indicated, resident requires tube feeding r/t (related to) esophageal cancer s/p (status post, after) esophagectomy (removal of esophagus), esophageal stricture initiated 5/24/23. Interview on 5/25/23…

  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 · D2023-05-26 · tag F0656 — failed to write and follow a full care plan — isolated
  Develop and implement a complete care plan that meets all the resident's needs, with timetables and actions that can be measured.
  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 implement fall care plan for one of three sampled residents (Resident 6) when there was no landing pad (known as fall mat) in place after his fall incident on 2/20/23. This failure placed Resident 6 at risk for injury from another fall. Findings: Review of Resident 6's clinical record indicated, Resident 6 was admitted to the facility on [DATE] with diagnoses including mild cognitive impairment (a condition where people experience memory and thinking problems), hypertension (high blood pressure), and history of falling. Review of Resident 6's MDS (Minimum Data Set, an assessment tool), dated 12/3/22 and 5/7/23, indicated, Resident 6 was severely cognitively impaired. During a concurrent observation and interview on 5/25/23, at 9:21 AM, with Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) 2, in Resident 6's room, there was no landing pad in place. There was no sign in Resident 6's room and at the door indicating that he was at high risk of falling. CNA…

  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

“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 PACS GROUP — 274 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

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 $1.1M 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