Red Bluff Health Care Center — Red Bluff, CA

This page sets out what the federal inspection record says about Red Bluff Health Care Center, a 58-bed nursing home at 555 Luther Road, Red Bluff, 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)	056274
Legal business name	Red Bluff Health Care, Inc.
Listed chain or group	Pratap Poddatoori
Address	555 Luther Road, Red Bluff, CA 96080
Phone listed with CMS	(530) 527-6232
Ownership type	For profit – Corporation
Certified beds	58
Average residents per day	54.3
Certified since	May 10, 1971
Overall CMS rating	4 out of 5
Health inspection rating	3 out of 5
Staffing rating	4 out of 5
Quality measures rating	5 out of 5
Total nursing staff turnover	32.1%
Most recent standard inspection	January 23, 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 7 federal penalties against this facility: 7 fines totalling $31,757. 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 19 times since January 2024

None reached severity level G, the level CMS calls actual harm. 4 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 19 health citations at this facility from inspections between January 10, 2025 and June 9, 2026.

Inspected	Tag	What the rule requires	Scope and severity	Status
Jun 9, 2026	F0740	Ensure each resident must receive and the facility must provide necessary behavioral health care and services. (complaint)	D — Isolated, Potential for more than minimal harm	Correction date Jul 11, 2026
Jun 9, 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. (complaint)	D — Isolated, Potential for more than minimal harm	Correction date Jul 11, 2026
Apr 21, 2026	F0550	Honor the resident’s right to a dignified existence, self-determination, communication, and to exercise his or her rights. (complaint)	E — Pattern, Potential for more than minimal harm	Correction date May 18, 2026
Apr 21, 2026	F0835	Administer the facility in a manner that enables it to use its resources effectively and efficiently. (complaint)	F — Widespread, Potential for more than minimal harm	Correction date May 18, 2026
Jan 23, 2026	F0658	Ensure services provided by the nursing facility meet professional standards of quality.	D — Isolated, Potential for more than minimal harm	Correction date Feb 19, 2026
Jan 23, 2026	F0697	Provide safe, appropriate pain management for a resident who requires such services.	D — Isolated, Potential for more than minimal harm	Correction date Feb 19, 2026

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 the 6 most recent citations. The other 13 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. Red Bluff Health 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.