Nursing homes in Sacramento County, California
There are 37 Medicare- or Medicaid-certified nursing homes in Sacramento County, California, across 8 cities and towns. The federal record holds 1378 inspection citations against them since January 2024 — 23 at actual-harm level or above, and 4 at immediate jeopardy.
13 of these homes carry the CMS abuse icon. 1 is in or a candidate for the Special Focus Facility program. Both terms are explained on each facility page.
| City or town | Homes | Citations | Actual harm |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sacramento | 23 | 742 | 13 |
| Carmichael | 8 | 346 | 4 |
| Citrus Heights | 1 | 30 | 0 |
| Elk Grove | 1 | 71 | 1 |
| Fair Oaks | 1 | 42 | 2 |
| Folsom | 1 | 34 | 0 |
| Galt | 1 | 70 | 3 |
| Rancho Cordova | 1 | 43 | 0 |
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Counted from CMS inspection records dated on or after January 1, 2024, in the file dated August 1, 2026. Citation counts also track how often a home was inspected and how many complaints were filed, so a higher count is not by itself proof of worse care.
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More than one in three Sacramento County nursing homes carries the abuse icon
Sacramento County is small on this map — 37 certified nursing homes in eight cities and towns, against 369 in Los Angeles County. What stands out is not the size of the record but one flag on it. Thirteen of the county’s 37 homes carry the abuse icon Medicare puts on a home that inspectors cited for abuse that harmed a resident in the past year, or that could have harmed one in each of the past two years. That is 35 percent of the county’s homes. Across California the same flag sits on 113 of 1,165 homes, just under 10 percent. That comparison is our arithmetic on the federal file, not a figure CMS publishes, and it says nothing about why — a district office that cites abuse more readily will produce it as surely as a cluster of bad homes will. It is still the thing a family reading about a Sacramento home should know first.
These are the thirteen. Each name links to the home’s full record — every citation since January 2024, its date, and what the rule required.
| Facility | City | CMS rating | Citations | Actual harm |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rancho Seco Care Center — also a Special Focus Facility | Galt | not rated (SFF) | 70 | 3 |
| Arden Park Post Acute | Sacramento | 3 of 5 | 60 | 3 |
| North Pointe Care Center | Sacramento | 2 of 5 | 57 | 3 |
| River Pointe Post-Acute | Carmichael | 1 of 5 | 46 | 2 |
| Elk Grove Post Acute | Elk Grove | 3 of 5 | 71 | 1 |
| Greenhaven Healthcare Center | Sacramento | 3 of 5 | 54 | 1 |
| Bridgewood Post Acute | Sacramento | 3 of 5 | 34 | 1 |
| Pioneer House | Sacramento | 3 of 5 | 29 | 1 |
| Double Tree Post Acute Care Center | Sacramento | 2 of 5 | 24 | 1 |
| River City Post Acute | Carmichael | 1 of 5 | 80 | 0 |
| Capital Post Acute | Sacramento | 2 of 5 | 54 | 0 |
| Gramercy Court | Sacramento | 4 of 5 | 47 | 0 |
| Bruceville Terrace – D/P SNF of Methodist Hospital | Sacramento | 3 of 5 | 33 | 0 |
Ordered by actual-harm findings (severity G or above), then by total citations since January 2024. Four of these homes have no actual-harm finding at all in that window — the abuse icon can rest on a citation from before 2024, or on potential-harm findings in each of two years. “Not rated” means CMS suspends the star rating while a home is in the Special Focus Facility program. Source: CMS Provider Information (4pq5-n9py) and Health Deficiencies (r5ix-sfxw), files dated August 1, 2026. Counting rules: How we count.
What this list does not tell you
- A citation is an inspector’s finding against a federal rule. It is not a court judgment, and a home may be disputing it.
- Gramercy Court has four stars and the abuse icon at the same time. The star rating is graded on a curve against other California homes and partly built from what the home reports about itself; the icon is a specific inspector finding. Both are true at once.
- 23 of the county’s 37 homes have no actual-harm finding since January 2024. A clean record does not mean nothing has happened, and a flagged home is not necessarily failing your father today.
- None of this describes any one resident’s care. It describes what inspectors found and wrote down.
Where the harm findings are
The county’s 37 homes carry 1,378 citations since January 2024 — 23 at actual-harm level, 4 at immediate jeopardy. The city of Sacramento holds 23 of the homes and 13 of the actual-harm findings; Carmichael, with eight homes, holds four. The only home currently in the federal Special Focus program is Rancho Seco Care Center in Galt, which is also the home with the most actual-harm findings in the county alongside Arden Park and North Pointe, at three each. Fair Oaks Healthcare Center and College Oak Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Sacramento each have two, with no flag on either.
If somebody was hurt in a Sacramento County home: what happens next
You do not need proof, and you do not need to be the one who decides whether it was abuse. Here is the order we would do things in, and where we come in.
- Get your person safe today. If they are in danger right now, call 911.
- Write down what you saw, with dates. Photograph anything visible — a bruise, a sore, the room — because your phone stamps the date. Write down who you spoke to and what they said, in their words.
- Report it to the people who can put it on the record. For a nursing home here that is the California Department of Public Health’s district office covering Sacramento County — the office that can cite the home and put the finding on the public record you are reading. The Long-Term Care Ombudsman program for the Sacramento area can walk into the building the same week. We will tell you which office covers the home, what to say when they answer, and we will sit with you on the call if you want.
- Ask for the records before they change. The care plan, the chart and the staffing sheets have to be requested in writing. Since January 2026, a California home that alters or destroys records after a family asks for them faces a lower standard of proof against it in court. We send that written request the same day you talk to us.
- Find out what your family is owed. California’s Elder Abuse Act treats a home that was reckless about a problem it knew about differently from a home that made one mistake: the home can be ordered to pay your legal fees, what your person went through counts even after they have died, and a judge can add damages meant to punish. A case against a Sacramento County home is normally filed in Sacramento County Superior Court. For most neglect claims the clock is two years, but if a court treats what happened as a medical mistake it can be one year from the day you found out, and a home run by the county, a city or the state requires a government claim within six months. The full plain-English version, with the code sections, is on our California page.
The team that reads these records is Justice 4 Elders, a California law practice that handles nothing but elder abuse and neglect. Asking costs nothing, and if a case is taken on the fee comes out of what is recovered, set out in writing before anyone signs anything. The form at the bottom of this page reaches a person, not a call centre.
Questions Sacramento families ask us
How do I check a Sacramento nursing home’s inspection record?
Every home in the county has a page on this site with its full federal record since January 2024 — each citation’s date, the rule it broke, how serious inspectors judged it, and whether the home carries the abuse icon or is on the Special Focus list. Start from the city table above, or send us the home’s name and we will pull the record for you, including the parts that do not fit on the page.
Why do so many Sacramento County homes have the abuse icon?
We do not know, and we will not guess on a page that names real businesses. The icon is applied by CMS from inspector findings; a district office that cites abuse more consistently produces more icons, and so does a genuine cluster of problems. What we can say is that the proportion here — 13 of 37 — is far above the state’s, and that each of the thirteen records is a few clicks away for anyone who wants to read it.
Do I need a lawyer to report a nursing home in Sacramento County?
No. Anyone can report, anonymously, with nothing more than a concern and a date. A lawyer becomes useful when you want the records the home holds — the chart, the staffing sheets, the care plan — because those come faster and are preserved when the request arrives on a firm’s letterhead. That request is something we do the same day, at no charge.
How long do I have to bring a nursing home neglect case in Sacramento County?
Usually two years. The dangerous exception: if what happened is treated as medical negligence rather than neglect, it can be one year from the day you found out, and never more than three years from the injury. A home run by the county, a city or the state requires a government claim within six months. Because the same facts can fall on either side of that line, the safe assumption is the shortest one.
What does a nursing home abuse attorney in Sacramento cost?
Nothing to have someone look at it. If a case is taken, the fee is a share of what is recovered, agreed in writing before you sign; if nothing is recovered there is no fee. Court costs are separate, and that is spelled out in the same document. California’s elder abuse law also lets a court order the home to pay a family’s legal fees where the home’s conduct was reckless.
Where this comes from
Facility counts, ratings, flags and citations: CMS Provider Information (4pq5-n9py) and Health Deficiencies (r5ix-sfxw), files dated August 1, 2026, retrieved August 29, 2026, filtered to inspections on or after January 1, 2024. The statewide abuse-icon proportion (113 of 1,165) is our calculation from the same file. Which office handles a complaint: California Department of Public Health, Licensing and Certification; the Long-Term Care Ombudsman program. Legal points: California Welfare & Institutions Code § 15657 and following; Code of Civil Procedure §§ 335.1, 340.5 and 377.34; Government Code § 911.2; AB 251 (2025), in force January 1, 2026. This page is general information about public records and California law, not legal advice about your situation. Reviewed by Defend Our Elders · Last checked September 2026. Corrections: how to reach us.
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