Nursing homes in Los Angeles County, California

There are 369 Medicare- or Medicaid-certified nursing homes in Los Angeles County, California, across 78 cities and towns. The federal record holds 20566 inspection citations against them since January 2024 — 572 at actual-harm level or above, and 207 at immediate jeopardy.

48 of these homes carry the CMS abuse icon. 30 are in or a candidate for the Special Focus Facility program. Both terms are explained on each facility page.

City or town	Homes	Citations	Actual harm
Los Angeles	78	4214	132
Long Beach	25	1463	67
Glendale	13	598	24
Pasadena	13	777	13
Santa Monica	12	630	20
Torrance	12	644	31
El Monte	11	490	8
Pomona	9	523	13
Gardena	8	311	10
North Hollywood	7	563	10
Norwalk	7	426	21
San Gabriel	7	362	4
Whittier	7	285	6
Van Nuys	6	306	3
Alhambra	5	183	2
Covina	5	167	3
Glendora	5	398	13
Inglewood	5	213	4
Reseda	5	311	2
Rosemead	5	218	2
West Covina	5	174	2
Baldwin Park	4	149	0
Bellflower	4	231	0
Canoga Park	4	246	4
Downey	4	214	5
Duarte	4	170	4
Granada Hills	4	229	2
Lancaster	4	576	14
Pico Rivera	4	224	3
Sylmar	4	380	9
Bell Gardens	3	178	7
Claremont	3	148	2
Culver City	3	106	3
Hawthorne	3	133	1
Lynwood	3	264	3
Paramount	3	183	5
San Pedro	3	148	5
Sun Valley	3	111	1
Sunland	3	146	3
Temple City	3	242	6
Arcadia	2	125	1
Artesia	2	95	11
Burbank	2	198	4
Chatsworth	2	99	2
La Mirada	2	100	1
Lomita	2	90	3
Mission Hills	2	178	16
Montebello	2	237	14
Monterey Park	2	105	2
Montrose	2	102	3
Panorama City	2	75	5
San Dimas	2	75	3
Sherman Oaks	2	101	0
Studio City	2	164	8
Tujunga	2	91	2
Avalon	1	18	0
Bell	1	54	2
City of Industry	1	24	0
Compton	1	112	4
Encino	1	23	0
Huntington Park	1	39	0
La Crescenta	1	49	2
La Verne	1	61	2
Lake View Terrace	1	43	0
Lawndale	1	64	2
Maywood	1	33	1
Monrovia	1	82	1
N Hollywood	1	106	2
Newhall	1	85	3
North Hills	1	85	1
Northridge	1	51	1
Playa Del Rey	1	77	1
Signal Hill	1	42	0
South Gate	1	74	2
South Pasadena	1	54	0
Tarzana	1	117	3
West Hills	1	65	3
Woodland Hills	1	39	0

Counted from CMS inspection records dated on or after January 1, 2024, in the file dated August 1, 2026. Citation counts also track how often a home was inspected and how many complaints were filed, so a higher count is not by itself proof of worse care.

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Worried about somebody in a home in Los Angeles County?

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The Los Angeles County homes with the most actual-harm findings

Every citation an inspector writes gets a letter from A to L. G and above means the inspector recorded that a resident was actually harmed; J, K and L mean immediate jeopardy. These are the fifteen homes in Los Angeles County with the most findings at G or above since January 2024. Each name links to the full record for that home — every citation, its date, and what the rule required.

Facility	City	CMS rating	Citations	Actual harm	CMS flags
Rio Hondo Subacute & Nursing Center	Montebello	not rated (SFF)	175	14	Special Focus Facility
Ararat Nursing Facility	Mission Hills	1 of 5	131	13	abuse icon, SFF candidate
University Park Healthcare Center	Los Angeles	1 of 5	74	8	abuse icon
Santa Monica Rehabilitation Center	Santa Monica	1 of 5	152	7	abuse icon, SFF candidate
Skyline Healthcare Center – LA	Los Angeles	1 of 5	106	7	SFF candidate
Vermont Healthcare Center	Torrance	1 of 5	92	7	—
California Post Acute	Los Angeles	1 of 5	88	7	SFF candidate
Sunnyside Nursing Center	Torrance	1 of 5	83	7	SFF candidate
Glendora Grand, Inc.	Glendora	1 of 5	65	7	—
Mirage Post Acute	Lancaster	1 of 5	255	6	SFF candidate
Santa Anita Convalescent Hospital	Temple City	1 of 5	164	6	SFF candidate
Maclay Healthcare Center	Sylmar	2 of 5	131	6	abuse icon, SFF candidate
Sunset Villa Post Acute	Long Beach	2 of 5	87	6	—
Intercommunity Care Center	Long Beach	1 of 5	82	6	—
Maple Healthcare Center	Los Angeles	1 of 5	67	6	abuse icon

Ordered by findings at severity G or above, then by total citations. “Not rated” means CMS suspends the star rating while a home is in the Special Focus Facility program. Source: CMS Health Deficiencies (r5ix-sfxw) and Provider Information (4pq5-n9py), files dated August 1, 2026. Our counting rules are on How we count.

What this list does not tell you

• A citation is an inspector’s finding against a federal rule. It is not a court judgment, and a home may be disputing it.
• Bigger homes, and homes that get more complaints, get inspected more often and accumulate more citations. Rio Hondo has 175 citations partly because it has been under the extra inspections the Special Focus program requires.
• 146 of the county’s 369 homes have no actual-harm finding at all since January 2024. A clean record does not mean nothing has happened, and a bad record does not mean the home is failing your mother today.
• None of this describes any one resident’s care. It describes what inspectors found and wrote down.

48 homes in Los Angeles County carry the abuse icon

Since 2019, Medicare’s Care Compare site marks a nursing home with a red hand icon when inspectors cited it for abuse that led to a resident being harmed in the past year, or for abuse that could have led to harm in each of the past two years. Forty-eight of Los Angeles County’s homes carry it — about one in eight. Thirty are in, or have been named a candidate for, the Special Focus Facility program, which is the federal government’s list of homes with a persistent pattern of serious problems. Both flags are shown on each home’s page in the table above and on every city page in this county.

Eleven of the fifteen homes in the table above carry at least one of the two flags. Every city page in this county shows the flag next to each home, so a family can check a whole town at a glance.

If somebody was hurt in a Los Angeles County home: what happens next

You do not need proof, and you do not need to be the one who decides whether it was abuse. Here is the order we would do things in, and where we come in.

1. Get your person safe today. If they are in danger right now, call 911. If it can wait until morning, it can still not wait until next week.
2. Write down what you saw, with dates. Photograph anything visible — a bruise, a sore, the room — because your phone stamps the date. Write down who you spoke to and what they said, in their words.
3. Report it to the people who can put it on the record. For a nursing home in Los Angeles County that is the California Department of Public Health, which runs several district offices covering the county — a complaint to the wrong one gets forwarded, slowly. The Long-Term Care Ombudsman for Los Angeles County can walk into the building the same week, which the licensing agency usually cannot. We will tell you which office covers the home, what to say when they answer, and we will sit with you on the call if you want.
4. Ask for the records before they change. The care plan, the chart and the staffing sheets have to be requested in writing. Since January 2026, a California home that alters or destroys records after a family asks for them faces a lower standard of proof against it in court. We send that written request the same day you talk to us.
5. Find out what your family is owed. California’s Elder Abuse Act treats a home that was reckless about a problem it knew about differently from a home that made one mistake: the home can be ordered to pay your legal fees, what your person went through counts even after they have died, and a judge can add damages meant to punish. A case against a Los Angeles County home is normally filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court. For most neglect claims the clock is two years, but if a court treats what happened as a medical mistake it can be one year from the day you found out — and if the home is run by the county or the state, a government claim has to be filed within six months. The full plain-English version, with the code sections, is on our California page.

The team that reads these records is Justice 4 Elders, a law practice in Los Angeles that handles nothing but elder abuse and neglect. Asking costs nothing, and if a case is taken on the fee comes out of what is recovered, set out in writing before anyone signs anything. The form at the bottom of this page reaches a person, not a call centre.

Questions Los Angeles County families ask us

How do I find out if a Los Angeles nursing home has been cited for abuse or neglect?

Every home in the county has a page on this site with its full federal inspection record since January 2024 — the date of each citation, the rule it broke, how serious inspectors judged it, and whether the home carries the abuse icon or is on the Special Focus list. Start from the city table above, or send us the home’s name and we will pull the record for you, including the parts that do not fit on the page.

Do I need a lawyer to report a nursing home in Los Angeles County?

No. Anyone can report, anonymously, with nothing more than a concern and a date. A lawyer becomes useful when you want the records the home holds — the chart, the staffing sheets, the care plan — because those come faster and are preserved when the request arrives on a firm’s letterhead. That request is something we do the same day, at no charge.

How long do I have to bring a nursing home abuse or neglect case in Los Angeles County?

Usually two years. The dangerous exception: if what happened is treated as medical negligence rather than neglect, it can be one year from the day you found out, and never more than three years from the injury. A home run by the county, a city or the state requires a government claim within six months. Because the same facts can fall on either side of that line, the safe assumption is the shortest one.

What does a nursing home abuse lawyer in Los Angeles cost?

Nothing to have someone look at it. If a case is taken, the fee is a share of what is recovered, agreed in writing before you sign; if nothing is recovered there is no fee. Court costs are separate, and that is spelled out in the same document. California’s elder abuse law also lets a court order the home to pay a family’s legal fees where the home’s conduct was reckless.

Which Los Angeles County nursing homes are Special Focus Facilities?

As of the August 2026 federal file, two homes in the county are in the program itself — Rio Hondo Subacute & Nursing Center in Montebello and Sunray Healthcare Center in Los Angeles — and 28 more are named as candidates. The list changes every month; each home’s page shows its current status and the date of the file it came from.

Will the home take it out on my mother if I report them?

Retaliating against a resident because a family complained is illegal in California and is itself something inspectors cite a home for. As of this year, discharging a resident to an unsafe place is treated by federal inspectors as one of the most serious findings there is. What protects you best is a written record with dates, so that any change after your complaint is obvious for what it is.

Where this comes from

Facility counts, ratings, flags and citations: CMS Provider Information (4pq5-n9py) and Health Deficiencies (r5ix-sfxw), files dated August 1, 2026, retrieved August 29, 2026, filtered to inspections on or after January 1, 2024. Which office handles a complaint: California Department of Public Health, Licensing and Certification; the Long-Term Care Ombudsman program. Legal points: California Welfare & Institutions Code § 15657 and following; Code of Civil Procedure §§ 335.1, 340.5 and 377.34; Government Code § 911.2; AB 251 (2025), in force January 1, 2026. This page is general information about public records and California law, not legal advice about your situation. Reviewed by Defend Our Elders · Last checked September 2026. Corrections: how to reach us.