Santa Anita Convalescent Hospital — Temple City, CA
This page sets out what the federal inspection record says about Santa Anita Convalescent Hospital, a 391-bed nursing home at 5522 Gracewood Ave., Temple City, 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) | 055293 |
| Legal business name | Santa Anita Convalescent Hospital & Retirement Center Inc. |
| Address | 5522 Gracewood Ave., Temple City, CA 91780 |
| Phone listed with CMS | (626) 579-0310 |
| Ownership type | For profit – Corporation |
| Certified beds | 391 |
| Average residents per day | 358.3 |
| Certified since | April 1, 1974 |
| Overall CMS rating | 1 out of 5 |
| Health inspection rating | 1 out of 5 |
| Staffing rating | 2 out of 5 |
| Quality measures rating | 2 out of 5 |
| Total nursing staff turnover | 41.1% |
| Most recent standard inspection | May 29, 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: 4 fines totalling $234,187, and 1 denial 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.
Flags CMS has placed on this facility
- Special Focus Facility candidate. CMS lists this home as a candidate for the Special Focus Facility program. Candidates are drawn from the homes with the worst inspection records in the state; CMS selects a limited number of them into the program itself.
Inspectors have cited this home 164 times since January 2024
6 of those were at severity level G or above — what CMS calls actual harm. 2 reached immediate jeopardy, CMS’s most serious category. 97 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 164 health citations at this facility from inspections between January 8, 2024 and June 15, 2026.
| Inspected | Tag | What the rule requires | Scope and severity | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 15, 2026 | F0842 | Safeguard resident-identifiable information and/or maintain medical records on each resident that are in accordance with accepted professional standards. (complaint) | D — Isolated, Potential for more than minimal harm | Correction date Jul 6, 2026 |
| Jun 12, 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 | Correction date Jul 1, 2026 |
| Jun 12, 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 | Correction date Jul 1, 2026 |
| Jun 5, 2026 | F0842 | Safeguard resident-identifiable information and/or maintain medical records on each resident that are in accordance with accepted professional standards. (complaint) | D — Isolated, Potential for more than minimal harm | Correction date Jul 1, 2026 |
| May 29, 2026 | F0636 | Assess the resident completely in a timely manner when first admitted, and then periodically, at least every 12 months. | D — Isolated, Potential for more than minimal harm | Correction date Jun 22, 2026 |
| May 29, 2026 | F0552 | Ensure that residents are fully informed and understand their health status, care and treatments. | E — Pattern, Potential for more than minimal harm | Correction date Jun 22, 2026 |
| Jun 26, 2025 | F0689 | Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to prevent accidents. (complaint) | G — Isolated, Actual harm | Correction date Jul 15, 2025 |
| Jun 26, 2025 | F0600 | Protect each resident from all types of abuse such as physical, mental, sexual abuse, physical punishment, and neglect by anybody. (complaint) | J — Isolated, Immediate jeopardy | Correction date Jun 25, 2025 |
| Jan 8, 2025 | F0689 | Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to prevent accidents. (complaint) | G — Isolated, Actual harm | Correction date Jan 22, 2025 |
| May 25, 2024 | F0697 | Provide safe, appropriate pain management for a resident who requires such services. | G — Isolated, Actual harm | Correction date Jun 23, 2024 |
| May 25, 2024 | F0689 | Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to prevent accidents. (complaint) | G — Isolated, Actual harm | Correction date Jun 23, 2024 |
| Apr 14, 2024 | F0742 | Provide the appropriate treatment and services to a resident who displays or is diagnosed with mental disorder or psychosocial adjustment difficulty, or who has a history of trauma and/or post-traumatic stress disorder. (complaint) | K — Pattern, Immediate jeopardy | Correction date May 9, 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 6 citations at actual-harm level or above, plus the 6 most recent of the rest. The other 152 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.
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