Berkeley Pines Skilled Nursing Center — Berkeley, CA

This page sets out what the federal inspection record says about Berkeley Pines Skilled Nursing Center, a 36-bed nursing home at 2223 Ashby Avenue, Berkeley, 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)	055892
Legal business name	Berkeley Pines Skilled Nursing Group Inc.
Address	2223 Ashby Avenue, Berkeley, CA 94705
Phone listed with CMS	(510) 649-6670
Ownership type	For profit – Corporation
Certified beds	36
Average residents per day	35.2
Certified since	February 14, 1968
Overall CMS rating	2 out of 5
Health inspection rating	2 out of 5
Staffing rating	4 out of 5
Quality measures rating	4 out of 5
Total nursing staff turnover	43.6%
Most recent standard inspection	March 14, 2024

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.

Flags CMS has placed on this facility

• No recent standard inspection. CMS records that this home’s most recent standard health inspection was more than two years ago. Where that is the case, ratings rest on older findings.

Inspectors have cited this home 14 times since January 2024

None reached severity level G, the level CMS calls actual harm. 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 14 health citations at this facility from inspections between March 14, 2024 and March 14, 2024.

Inspected	Tag	What the rule requires	Scope and severity	Status
Mar 14, 2024	F0727	Have a registered nurse on duty 8 hours a day; and select a registered nurse to be the director of nurses on a full time basis.	F — Widespread, Potential for more than minimal harm	Correction date Apr 9, 2024
Mar 14, 2024	F0801	Employ sufficient staff with the appropriate competencies and skills sets to carry out the functions of the food and nutrition service, including a qualified dietician.	F — Widespread, Potential for more than minimal harm	Correction date Apr 9, 2024
Mar 14, 2024	F0802	Provide sufficient support personnel to safely and effectively carry out the functions of the food and nutrition service.	F — Widespread, Potential for more than minimal harm	Correction date Apr 9, 2024
Mar 14, 2024	F0803	Ensure menus must meet the nutritional needs of residents, be prepared in advance, be followed, be updated, be reviewed by dietician, and meet the needs of the resident.	F — Widespread, Potential for more than minimal harm	Correction date Apr 9, 2024
Mar 14, 2024	F0804	Ensure food and drink is palatable, attractive, and at a safe and appetizing temperature.	F — Widespread, Potential for more than minimal harm	Correction date Apr 9, 2024
Mar 14, 2024	F0812	Procure food from sources approved or considered satisfactory and store, prepare, distribute and serve food in accordance with professional standards.	F — Widespread, Potential for more than minimal harm	Correction date Apr 9, 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 the 6 most recent citations. The other 8 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 September 1, 2026.

Where this comes from

• Ratings, ownership, beds and penalties: CMS Provider Information dataset (4pq5-n9py), file dated September 1, 2026.
• Citations: CMS Health Deficiencies dataset (r5ix-sfxw), file dated September 1, 2026, filtered to inspections on or after January 1, 2024.
• This facility on the government’s own site: Medicare Care Compare.
• Retrieved October 19, 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. Berkeley Pines Skilled Nursing 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.