Fonteum Care Compare · California · El Cajon
Nursing homes in El Cajon, California: 12 Medicare-certified facilities.
CMS overall star rating, staffing rating, health inspection rating, and ownership type for every Medicare-certified nursing home in El Cajon — every column traced to the CMS Care Compare NH Provider Information dataset (4pq5-n9py).
Average CMS overall rating in El Cajon: 2.7 / 5
How El Cajon compares
El Cajon vs the California state average
Overall ★ — this city
2.7
State avg 3.2 / 5
-0.5 vs state
Staffing ★ — this city
2.8
State avg 3.1 / 5
-0.3 vs state
Facilities — this city
12
1,162 statewide
State averages are CMS-published per-state means from the same snapshot; the city figure is the mean across the 12 rated facilities above.
Where El Cajon sits
All 12 Medicare-certified nursing homes in El Cajon sit in San Diego County, California. County is the geographic unit CMS uses for staffing-desert and access analysis.
All Medicare-certified nursing homes in El Cajon, California
Bradley Court
675 E Bradley · CCN 555140 · For profit - Limited Liability company
56 certified beds · 55.3 avg daily residents · 3.18 total nurse hrs/resident-day · QM 5 / 5 · Last standard survey March 13, 2025
5
Overall
5
Staffing
5 / 5
Health Insp.
Parkside Health And Wellness Center
444 W Lexington · CCN 555596 · For profit - Corporation
52 certified beds · 50.7 avg daily residents · 4.04 total nurse hrs/resident-day · QM 5 / 5 · Last standard survey May 30, 2025
5
Overall
5
Staffing
5 / 5
Health Insp.
Victoria Post Acute Care
654 S. Anza · CCN 555804 · For profit - Corporation
120 certified beds · 110.3 avg daily residents · 4.13 total nurse hrs/resident-day · QM 5 / 5 · Last standard survey September 13, 2024
4
Overall
4
Staffing
3 / 5
Health Insp.
Cottonwood Canyon Healthcare Center
1391 Madison Avenue · CCN 055064 · For profit - Corporation
96 certified beds · 88 avg daily residents · 4.16 total nurse hrs/resident-day · QM 5 / 5 · Last standard survey December 12, 2024
3
Overall
2
Staffing
2 / 5
Health Insp.
Magnolia Post Acute Care
635 S Magnolia Ave · CCN 055890 · For profit - Corporation
99 certified beds · 94.2 avg daily residents · 4.07 total nurse hrs/resident-day · QM 5 / 5 · Last standard survey August 29, 2025
3
Overall
3
Staffing
2 / 5
Health Insp.
The Royal Home
12436 Royal Road · CCN 05A192 · For profit - Individual
19 certified beds · 19.5 avg daily residents · 2.83 total nurse hrs/resident-day · QM 5 / 5 · Last standard survey December 3, 2025
3
Overall
1
Staffing
3 / 5
Health Insp.
Somerset Subacute And Care
151 Claydelle Ave · CCN 555871 · For profit - Corporation
65 certified beds · 43.4 avg daily residents · 4.79 total nurse hrs/resident-day · QM 4 / 5 · Last standard survey March 13, 2025
3
Overall
3
Staffing
3 / 5
Health Insp.
Villa Las Palmas Healthcare Center
622 South Anza Street · CCN 055806 · For profit - Corporation
151 certified beds · 142.4 avg daily residents · 3.77 total nurse hrs/resident-day · QM 4 / 5 · Last standard survey May 8, 2025
2
Overall
2
Staffing
2 / 5
Health Insp.
Stillwater Post-Acute
510 E. Washington Avenue · CCN 555076 · For profit - Limited Liability company
256 certified beds · 249.4 avg daily residents · 3.91 total nurse hrs/resident-day · QM 1 / 5 · Last standard survey April 18, 2025
1
Overall
3
Staffing
2 / 5
Health Insp.
Country Hills Post Acute
1580 Broadway · CCN 555431 · For profit - Limited Liability company
305 certified beds · 294.1 avg daily residents · 3.80 total nurse hrs/resident-day · QM 4 / 5 · Last standard survey March 14, 2025
1
Overall
2
Staffing
1 / 5
Health Insp.
San Diego Post-Acute Center
1201 South Orange Ave. · CCN 555659 · For profit - Limited Liability company
240 certified beds · 233.4 avg daily residents · 4.18 total nurse hrs/resident-day · QM 1 / 5 · Last standard survey February 27, 2025
1
Overall
3
Staffing
1 / 5
Health Insp.
Granite Hills Healthcare & Wellness Centre, Llc
1340 E Madison Ave · CCN 555878 · For profit - Limited Liability company
99 certified beds · 93.3 avg daily residents · QM 4 / 5 · Last standard survey January 30, 2025
1
Overall
1
Staffing
2 / 5
Health Insp.
Reading the data
What these CMS ratings mean
Every star column on this page comes straight from CMS’s Five-Star Quality Rating System. Fonteum re-publishes the federal numbers without re-scoring them — the definitions below are CMS’s, not ours.
- Overall star rating
- A 1-to-5 summary CMS derives from the health-inspection, staffing, and quality-measure ratings. It is a relative ranking, not an absolute score — roughly the top fifth of facilities earn 5 stars and the bottom fifth earn 1.
- Health inspection rating
- Based on the three most recent state standard surveys plus any complaint investigations, weighted toward recency. More and more severe deficiencies lower the rating.
- Staffing rating
- Built from payroll-based (PBJ) nurse staffing hours per resident day, case-mix adjusted, including registered-nurse hours and weekend coverage.
- Quality-measure (QM) rating
- Drawn from a set of MDS- and claims-based clinical measures (e.g. pressure ulcers, falls, hospitalisation, antipsychotic use) across short- and long-stay residents.
- Special Focus Facility (SFF)
- A separate CMS program flagging facilities with a persistent pattern of serious health-inspection problems. “SFF” marks an active designation; “SFF Candidate” marks a facility on the candidate list.
Full methodology: how Fonteum sources and signs CMS nursing-home data.
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Star ratings vs actual resident harm
Where CMS overall stars diverge from documented harm-level deficiencies.
Nursing-home staffing deserts by county
Counties where reported nurse hours per resident day fall furthest behind.
Nursing-home ownership networks
How chain ownership concentrates across Medicare-certified facilities.
Facilities banned from new Medicare admissions
Payment-denial enforcement actions and the facilities they hit.