Lakeside Special Care Center — Lakeside, CA

This page sets out what the federal inspection record says about Lakeside Special Care Center, a 94-bed nursing home at 11962 Woodside Avenue, Lakeside, 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)	555887
Legal business name	Ghc of Lakeside LLC
Listed chain or group	Generations Healthcare
Address	11962 Woodside Avenue, Lakeside, CA 92040
Phone listed with CMS	(619) 561-1222
Ownership type	For profit – Limited Liability company
Certified beds	94
Average residents per day	137.8
Certified since	June 2, 2014
Overall CMS rating	5 out of 5
Health inspection rating	5 out of 5
Staffing rating	5 out of 5
Quality measures rating	5 out of 5
Total nursing staff turnover	31.7%
Most recent standard inspection	February 13, 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.

Inspectors have cited this home 9 times since January 2024

None reached severity level G, the level CMS calls actual harm. 3 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 9 health citations at this facility from inspections between March 1, 2024 and February 13, 2025.

Inspected	Tag	What the rule requires	Scope and severity	Status
Feb 13, 2025	F0912	Provide rooms that are at least 80 square feet per resident in multiple rooms and 100 square feet for single resident rooms.	B — Pattern, Potential for minimal harm	Correction date Mar 12, 2025
Feb 13, 2025	F0758	Implement gradual dose reductions(GDR) and non-pharmacological interventions, unless contraindicated, prior to initiating or instead of continuing psychotropic medication; and PRN orders for psychotropic medications are only used when the medication is necessary and PRN use is limited.	D — Isolated, Potential for more than minimal harm	Correction date Mar 12, 2025
Feb 13, 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 Mar 12, 2025
Feb 13, 2025	F0812	Procure food from sources approved or considered satisfactory and store, prepare, distribute and serve food in accordance with professional standards.	E — Pattern, Potential for more than minimal harm	Correction date Mar 12, 2025
Feb 13, 2025	F0689	Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to prevent accidents.	E — Pattern, Potential for more than minimal harm	Correction date Mar 12, 2025
Feb 7, 2025	F0600	Protect each resident from all types of abuse such as physical, mental, sexual abuse, physical punishment, and neglect by anybody. (complaint)	D — Isolated, Potential for more than minimal harm	Correction date Feb 28, 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 3 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. Lakeside Special 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.