The Ellison John Transitional Care Center — Lancaster, CA

This page sets out what the federal inspection record says about The Ellison John Transitional Care Center, a 170-bed nursing home at 43830 10th Street West, Lancaster, California. Every figure below is copied from data the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) publishes about nursing homes that take Medicare or Medicaid. We have not added our own judgment to it.

The record at a glance

Federal ID (CCN)	555904
Legal business name	Premiere Rehabilitation & Wellness Center of Lancaster LP
Listed chain or group	Pursue Health
Address	43830 10th Street West, Lancaster, CA 93534
Phone listed with CMS	(661) 494-8600
Ownership type	For profit – Individual
Certified beds	170
Average residents per day	152.2
Certified since	September 19, 2017
Overall CMS rating	1 out of 5
Health inspection rating	1 out of 5
Staffing rating	3 out of 5
Quality measures rating	4 out of 5
Total nursing staff turnover	38.1%
Most recent standard inspection	June 18, 2026

CMS scores nursing homes from one to five stars. The health inspection rating is set relative to other nursing homes in the same state, so a one-star home is in the bottom fifth in California, not the bottom fifth nationally. Staffing and quality measure ratings are scored against national thresholds.

Federal penalties

CMS’s penalty file lists 5 federal penalties against this facility: 3 fines totalling $199,594, and 2 denials of payment for new admissions. A denial of payment means CMS stopped paying the home for residents admitted after a set date until the problem was fixed.

Inspectors have cited this home 101 times since January 2024

2 of those were at severity level G or above — what CMS calls actual harm. 1 reached immediate jeopardy, CMS’s most serious category. 47 came from complaints rather than routine inspections. Every one of them is listed below, with its date and what the rule required.

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Inspection citations since January 2024

CMS records 101 health citations at this facility from inspections between January 21, 2024 and June 18, 2026.

Inspected	Tag	What the rule requires	Scope and severity	Status
Jun 18, 2026	F0580	Immediately tell the resident, the resident’s doctor, and a family member of situations (injury/decline/room, etc.) that affect the resident.	D — Isolated, Potential for more than minimal harm	Correction date Jul 15, 2026
Jun 18, 2026	F0605	Prevent the use of unnecessary psychotropic medications or use medications that may restrain a resident’s ability to function.	E — Pattern, Potential for more than minimal harm	Correction date Jul 15, 2026
Jun 18, 2026	F0690	Provide appropriate care for residents who are continent or incontinent of bowel/bladder, appropriate catheter care, and appropriate care to prevent urinary tract infections.	E — Pattern, Potential for more than minimal harm	Correction date Jul 15, 2026
Jun 18, 2026	F0755	Provide pharmaceutical services to meet the needs of each resident and employ or obtain the services of a licensed pharmacist.	E — Pattern, Potential for more than minimal harm	Correction date Jul 15, 2026
Jun 18, 2026	F0760	Ensure that residents are free from significant medication errors.	E — Pattern, Potential for more than minimal harm	Correction date Jul 15, 2026
Jun 18, 2026	F0761	Ensure drugs and biologicals used in the facility are labeled in accordance with currently accepted professional principles; and all drugs and biologicals must be stored in locked compartments, separately locked, compartments for controlled drugs.	E — Pattern, Potential for more than minimal harm	Correction date Jul 15, 2026
Nov 12, 2025	F0689	Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to prevent accidents. (complaint)	G — Isolated, Actual harm	Correction date Dec 4, 2025
Nov 22, 2024	F0580	Immediately tell the resident, the resident’s doctor, and a family member of situations (injury/decline/room, etc.) that affect the resident. (complaint)	J — Isolated, Immediate jeopardy	Correction date Nov 25, 2024

The wording in the third column is CMS’s own plain-language summary of the federal rule that was cited, not a description of what happened. This table shows every one of the 2 citations at actual-harm level or above, plus the 6 most recent of the rest. The other 93 are in the CMS file linked below.

How to read scope and severity

Every citation gets a letter from A to L. The letter carries two things at once: how serious the problem was, and how many residents it reached.

Severity	Isolated	Pattern	Widespread
Immediate jeopardy to resident health or safety	J	K	L
Actual harm	G	H	I
No actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm	D	E	F
No actual harm, potential for minimal harm	A	B	C

“Immediate jeopardy” is CMS’s term for a situation that has caused, or is likely to cause, serious injury, harm, impairment or death. It requires the home to act at once.

What this page does not tell you

• A citation is an inspector’s finding against a federal rule. It is not a court judgment, and the facility may be disputing it. Citations marked “under dispute” above are in CMS’s formal review process.
• Citation counts partly reflect how often a home was inspected and how many complaints were filed about it. A home with more citations has not automatically given worse care than one with fewer.
• Bigger homes have more residents, more staff and more inspections, so they tend to accumulate more citations.
• None of this says anything about the care any one resident received. A home with a clean record can still fail somebody, and a home with a bad record can be caring for your mother well.
• This is a snapshot. CMS updates these files monthly, and the figures here are from the file dated August 1, 2026.

Where this comes from

• Ratings, ownership, beds and penalties: CMS Provider Information dataset (4pq5-n9py), file dated August 1, 2026.
• Citations: CMS Health Deficiencies dataset (r5ix-sfxw), file dated August 1, 2026, filtered to inspections on or after January 1, 2024.
• This facility on the government’s own site: Medicare Care Compare.
• Retrieved August 29, 2026. Our method is set out in Editorial policy and How we count.

For the facility

If anything on this page is wrong, out of date or missing context, we will correct it. The Ellison John Transitional Care Center and anyone acting for it can reach the watchdog team through our corrections and right of reply page. We publish the response alongside the record.