Channel Islands Post Acute — Santa Barbara, CA

This page sets out what the federal inspection record says about Channel Islands Post Acute, a 156-bed nursing home at 3880 Via Lucero, Santa Barbara, 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)	555875
Legal business name	Powers Park Healthcare Inc.
Listed chain or group	The Ensign Group
Address	3880 Via Lucero, Santa Barbara, CA 93110
Phone listed with CMS	(805) 687-6651
Ownership type	For profit – Corporation
Certified beds	156
Average residents per day	144.2
Certified since	May 25, 2012
Overall CMS rating	3 out of 5
Health inspection rating	4 out of 5
Staffing rating	4 out of 5
Quality measures rating	1 out of 5
Most recent standard inspection	May 9, 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 17 times since January 2024

None reached severity level G, the level CMS calls actual harm. 8 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 17 health citations at this facility from inspections between May 2, 2024 and April 13, 2026.

Inspected	Tag	What the rule requires	Scope and severity	Status
Apr 13, 2026	F0657	Develop the complete care plan within 7 days of the comprehensive assessment; and prepared, reviewed, and revised by a team of health professionals. (complaint)	D — Isolated, Potential for more than minimal harm	Correction date May 1, 2026
Aug 22, 2025	F0725	Provide enough nursing staff every day to meet the needs of every resident; and have a licensed nurse in charge on each shift. (complaint)	D — Isolated, Potential for more than minimal harm	Correction date Sep 9, 2025
Aug 12, 2025	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	Correction date Aug 26, 2025
Jun 20, 2025	F0557	Honor the resident’s right to be treated with respect and dignity and to retain and use personal possessions. (complaint)	D — Isolated, Potential for more than minimal harm	Correction date Jul 4, 2025
May 9, 2025	F0645	PASARR screening for Mental disorders or Intellectual Disabilities	D — Isolated, Potential for more than minimal harm	Correction date Jun 5, 2025
May 9, 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 Jun 5, 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 11 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. Channel Islands 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.