Vernon Healthcare Center — Los Angeles, CA

This page sets out what the federal inspection record says about Vernon Healthcare Center, a 99-bed nursing home at 1037 W. Vernon Avenue, Los Angeles, 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)	055167
Legal business name	Vernon Healthcare Center, LLC
Listed chain or group	Pacific Healthcare Holdings
Address	1037 W. Vernon Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90037
Phone listed with CMS	(323) 232-4895
Ownership type	For profit – Limited Liability company
Certified beds	99
Average residents per day	96.1
Certified since	January 1, 1967
Overall CMS rating	1 out of 5
Health inspection rating	1 out of 5
Staffing rating	2 out of 5
Quality measures rating	3 out of 5
Most recent standard inspection	January 9, 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 California, not the bottom fifth nationally. Staffing and quality measure ratings are scored against national thresholds.

Federal penalties

CMS’s penalty file lists 5 federal penalties against this facility: 3 fines totalling $178,438, and 2 denials of payment for new admissions. 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 99 times since January 2024

3 of those were at severity level G or above — what CMS calls actual harm. 1 reached immediate jeopardy, CMS’s most serious category. 68 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 99 health citations at this facility from inspections between January 4, 2024 and June 30, 2026.

Inspected	Tag	What the rule requires	Scope and severity	Status
Jun 30, 2026	F0656	Develop and implement a complete care plan that meets all the resident’s needs, with timetables and actions that can be measured. (complaint)	D — Isolated, Potential for more than minimal harm	Plan of correction on file
Jun 30, 2026	F0610	Respond appropriately to all alleged violations. (complaint)	D — Isolated, Potential for more than minimal harm	Plan of correction on file
Jun 30, 2026	F0609	Timely report suspected abuse, neglect, or theft and report the results of the investigation to proper authorities. (complaint)	D — Isolated, Potential for more than minimal harm	Plan of correction on file
Jun 10, 2026	F0757	Ensure each resident’s drug regimen must be free from unnecessary drugs. (complaint)	D — Isolated, Potential for more than minimal harm	Plan of correction on file
Jun 10, 2026	F0656	Develop and implement a complete care plan that meets all the resident’s needs, with timetables and actions that can be measured. (complaint)	D — Isolated, Potential for more than minimal harm	Plan of correction on file
Jun 10, 2026	F0580	Immediately tell the resident, the resident’s doctor, and a family member of situations (injury/decline/room, etc.) that affect the resident. (complaint)	D — Isolated, Potential for more than minimal harm	Plan of correction on file
May 5, 2025	F0627	Ensure the transfer/discharge meets the resident’s needs/preferences and that the resident is prepared for a safe transfer/discharge. (complaint)	J — Isolated, Immediate jeopardy	Correction date May 6, 2025
Aug 12, 2024	F0697	Provide safe, appropriate pain management for a resident who requires such services. (complaint)	G — Isolated, Actual harm	Correction date Aug 27, 2024
May 24, 2024	F0600	Protect each resident from all types of abuse such as physical, mental, sexual abuse, physical punishment, and neglect by anybody. (complaint)	G — Isolated, Actual harm	Correction date Jun 14, 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 3 citations at actual-harm level or above, plus the 6 most recent of the rest. The other 90 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. Vernon Healthcare 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.