Kaweah Health Skilled Nursing Center — Visalia, CA

This page sets out what the federal inspection record says about Kaweah Health Skilled Nursing Center, a 70-bed nursing home at 1633 South Court Street, Visalia, 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)	555396
Legal business name	Kaweah Delta Health Care District
Address	1633 South Court Street, Visalia, CA 93277
Phone listed with CMS	(559) 624-6037
Ownership type	Government – Hospital district
Certified beds	70
Average residents per day	44.3
Certified since	October 24, 1989
Overall CMS rating	5 out of 5
Health inspection rating	4 out of 5
Staffing rating	3 out of 5
Quality measures rating	5 out of 5
Total nursing staff turnover	23.6%
Most recent standard inspection	January 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.

Inspectors have cited this home 24 times since January 2024

None reached severity level G, the level CMS calls actual harm. 2 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 24 health citations at this facility from inspections between March 21, 2024 and January 29, 2026.

Inspected	Tag	What the rule requires	Scope and severity	Status
Jan 29, 2026	F0880	Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program.	D — Isolated, Potential for more than minimal harm	Correction date Mar 27, 2026
Jan 29, 2026	F0841	Designate a physician to serve as medical director responsible for implementation of resident care policies and coordination of medical care in the facility.	D — Isolated, Potential for more than minimal harm	Correction date Mar 27, 2026
Jan 29, 2026	F0813	Have a policy regarding use and storage of foods brought to residents by family and other visitors.	D — Isolated, Potential for more than minimal harm	Correction date Mar 27, 2026
Jan 29, 2026	F0684	Provide appropriate treatment and care according to orders, resident’s preferences and goals.	D — Isolated, Potential for more than minimal harm	Correction date Mar 27, 2026
Jan 29, 2026	F0677	Provide care and assistance to perform activities of daily living for any resident who is unable.	D — Isolated, Potential for more than minimal harm	Correction date Mar 27, 2026
Jan 29, 2026	F0578	Honor the resident’s right to request, refuse, and/or discontinue treatment, to participate in or refuse to participate in experimental research, and to formulate an advance directive.	D — Isolated, Potential for more than minimal harm	Correction date Mar 27, 2026

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 18 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. Kaweah Health Skilled 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.