Citrus Nursing Center — Fontana, CA

This page sets out what the federal inspection record says about Citrus Nursing Center, a 99-bed nursing home at 9440 Citrus Ave, Fontana, 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)	055872
Listed chain or group	David Johnson
Address	9440 Citrus Ave, Fontana, CA 92335
Phone listed with CMS	(909) 823-3481
Ownership type	For profit – Corporation
Certified beds	99
Average residents per day	90.5
Certified since	January 29, 1968
Overall CMS rating	5 out of 5
Health inspection rating	4 out of 5
Staffing rating	2 out of 5
Quality measures rating	5 out of 5
Total nursing staff turnover	32.2%
Most recent standard inspection	July 31, 2025

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 1 federal penalty against this facility: 1 fine totalling $7,446. 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 8 times since January 2024

None reached severity level G, the level CMS calls actual harm. 1 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 8 health citations at this facility from inspections between December 5, 2024 and July 31, 2025.

Inspected	Tag	What the rule requires	Scope and severity	Status
Jul 31, 2025	F0842	Safeguard resident-identifiable information and/or maintain medical records on each resident that are in accordance with accepted professional standards.	D — Isolated, Potential for more than minimal harm	Correction date Aug 22, 2025
Jul 31, 2025	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.	D — Isolated, Potential for more than minimal harm	Correction date Aug 22, 2025
Jul 31, 2025	F0755	Provide pharmaceutical services to meet the needs of each resident and employ or obtain the services of a licensed pharmacist.	D — Isolated, Potential for more than minimal harm	Correction date Aug 22, 2025
Jul 31, 2025	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.	D — Isolated, Potential for more than minimal harm	Correction date Aug 22, 2025
Jul 31, 2025	F0921	Make sure that the nursing home area is safe, easy to use, clean and comfortable for residents, staff and the public.	E — Pattern, Potential for more than minimal harm	Correction date Aug 22, 2025
Jul 31, 2025	F0880	Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program.	F — Widespread, Potential for more than minimal harm	Correction date Aug 22, 2025

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 2 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. Citrus 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.