Northstar Post Acute — Carson City, NV

This page sets out what the federal inspection record says about Northstar Post Acute, a 73-bed nursing home at 2898 Highway 50 East, Carson City, Nevada. 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)	295023
Legal business name	Carson City Community Healthcare, LLC
Listed chain or group	Pacs Group
Address	2898 Highway 50 East, Carson City, NV 89701
Phone listed with CMS	(775) 882-3301
Ownership type	For profit – Corporation
Certified beds	73
Average residents per day	59.5
Certified since	January 1, 1973
Overall CMS rating	1 out of 5
Health inspection rating	1 out of 5
Staffing rating	1 out of 5
Quality measures rating	3 out of 5
Total nursing staff turnover	62.5%
Most recent standard inspection	February 2, 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 Nevada, not the bottom fifth nationally. Staffing and quality measure ratings are scored against national thresholds.

Federal penalties

CMS’s penalty file lists 1 federal penalty against this facility: 1 fine totalling $70,296. 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 76 times since January 2024

1 of those was at severity level G or above — what CMS calls actual harm. 6 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 76 health citations at this facility from inspections between February 20, 2024 and February 2, 2026.

Inspected	Tag	What the rule requires	Scope and severity	Status
Feb 2, 2026	F0835	Administer the facility in a manner that enables it to use its resources effectively and efficiently.	F — Widespread, Potential for more than minimal harm	Correction date Mar 17, 2026
Feb 2, 2026	F0883	Develop and implement policies and procedures for flu and pneumonia vaccinations.	F — Widespread, Potential for more than minimal harm	Correction date Mar 17, 2026
Feb 2, 2026	F0712	Ensure that the resident and his/her doctor meet face-to-face at all required visits.	E — Pattern, Potential for more than minimal harm	Correction date Mar 17, 2026
Feb 2, 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 Mar 17, 2026
Feb 2, 2026	F0759	Ensure medication error rates are not 5 percent or greater.	E — Pattern, Potential for more than minimal harm	Correction date Mar 17, 2026
Feb 2, 2026	F0868	Have the Quality Assessment and Assurance group have the required members and meet at least quarterly	E — Pattern, Potential for more than minimal harm	Correction date Mar 17, 2026
Feb 20, 2024	F0697	Provide safe, appropriate pain management for a resident who requires such services.	G — Isolated, Actual harm	Correction date Apr 7, 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 1 citation at actual-harm level or above, plus the 6 most recent of the rest. The other 69 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. Northstar Post Acute 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.