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Centro de Cuidado Prolongado San Lucas provides skilled nursing and rehabilitation services to Rio Piedras residents recovering from surgery, illness, or injury. Our team focuses on helping patients regain independence through personalized care plans and evidence-based therapies in a compassionate setting.
Capacity
25 residents
Location
Rio Piedras, PR
Status
Listed in a public registry
CARR 844 KM 0 5 CUPEY, Rio Piedras, PR 00928
From CMS Care Compare, the federal record every Medicare-certified nursing home is held to. Data as of September 1, 2026. Check it on Medicare.gov
At its most recent standard inspection, on March 27, 2026, state inspectors cited 13 health deficiencies (the PR average is 7.3).
Medicare has not fined Centro de Cuidado Prolongado San Lucas in the last three years.
86 health citations in the last three years. Each one is a federal standard inspectors found the home was not meeting.
March 27, 2026 · Standard inspection · 13 citations
Keep all essential equipment working safely.
Electronically submit to CMS complete and accurate direct care staffing information, based on payroll and other verifiable and auditable data.
Provide sufficient support personnel to safely and effectively carry out the functions of the food and nutrition service.
Create and put into place a plan for meeting the resident's most immediate needs within 48 hours of being admitted
Develop and implement a complete care plan that meets all the resident's needs, with timetables and actions that can be measured.
Honor the resident's right to a safe, clean, comfortable and homelike environment, including but not limited to receiving treatment and supports for daily living safely.
Develop the complete care plan within 7 days of the comprehensive assessment; and prepared, reviewed, and revised by a team of health professionals.
Ensure a licensed pharmacist perform a monthly drug regimen review, including the medical chart, following irregularity reporting guidelines in developed policies and procedures.
Ensure menus must meet the nutritional needs of residents, be prepared in advance, be followed, be updated, be reviewed by dietician, and meet the needs of the resident.
Ensure the resident's doctor reviews the resident's care, writes, signs and dates progress notes and orders, at each required visit.
Give residents notice of Medicaid/Medicare coverage and potential liability for services not covered.
Provide enough nursing staff every day to meet the needs of every resident; and have a licensed nurse in charge on each shift.
Have the Quality Assessment and Assurance group have the required members and meet at least quarterly
October 2, 2024 · Standard inspection · 47 citations
Honor the resident's right to a dignified existence, self-determination, communication, and to exercise his or her rights.
Administer the facility in a manner that enables it to use its resources effectively and efficiently.
Establish a governing body that is legally responsible for establishing and implementing policies for managing and operating the facility and appoints a properly licensed administrator responsible for managing the facility.
Have a registered nurse on duty 8 hours a day; and select a registered nurse to be the director of nurses on a full time basis.
Provide immediate access to any resident.
Have a policy regarding use and storage of foods brought to residents by family and other visitors.
Immediately tell the resident, the resident's doctor, and a family member of situations (injury/decline/room, etc.) that affect the resident.
Provide training in compliance and ethics.
Allow residents to self-administer drugs if determined clinically appropriate.
Post a list of names, addresses, and telephone numbers of all pertinent State agencies and advocacy groups and a statement that the resident may file a complaint with the State Survey Agency.
Ensure residents have reasonable access to and privacy in their use of communication methods.
Provide care or services that was trauma informed and/or culturally competent.
Notify each resident of certain balances and convey resident funds upon discharge, eviction, or death.
Procure food from sources approved or considered satisfactory and store, prepare, distribute and serve food in accordance with professional standards.
Protect each resident from the wrongful use of the resident's belongings or money.
Develop and implement policies and procedures to prevent abuse, neglect, and theft.
Honor the resident's right to receive visitors of his or her choosing, at the time of his or her choosing.
Provide routine and 24-hour emergency dental care for each resident.
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.
Electronically submit to CMS complete and accurate direct care staffing information, based on payroll and other verifiable and auditable data.
Honor the resident's right to share a room with spouse or roommate of choice and receive written notice before a change is made.
Keep residents' personal and medical records private and confidential.
Provide appropriate care/assistance for a resident with a prosthesis.
Ensure that the facility has sufficient staff members who possess the competencies and skills to meet the behavioral health needs of residents.
Timely report suspected abuse, neglect, or theft and report the results of the investigation to proper authorities.
Provide timely, quality laboratory services/tests to meet the needs of residents.
Protect each resident from all types of abuse such as physical, mental, sexual abuse, physical punishment, and neglect by anybody.
Have a Compliance and Ethics Program.
Honor the resident's right to and the facility must promote and facilitate resident self-determination through support of resident choice.
Not hire anyone with a finding of abuse, neglect, exploitation, or theft.
Encode each resident’s assessment data and transmit these data to the State within 7 days of assessment.
Honor the resident's right to organize and participate in resident/family groups in the facility.
Let each resident or the resident's legal representative access or purchase copies of all the resident's records.
Give residents a notice of rights, rules, services and charges.
Honor the resident's right to be treated with respect and dignity and to retain and use personal possessions.
Provide appropriate colostomy, urostomy, or ileostomy care/services for a resident who requires such services.
Educate residents and staff on COVID-19 vaccination, offer the COVID-19 vaccine to eligible residents and staff after education, and properly document each resident and staff member's vaccination status.
Not prohibit or in any way discourage a resident from communicating with federal, state, or local officials.
Reasonably accommodate the needs and preferences of each resident.
Provide or get specialized rehabilitative services as required for a resident.
Protect a residents' right to refuse some types of non-requested transfers within the nursing home.
Provide information about how to apply for and use Medicare and Medicaid benefits.
Allow residents to easily view the nursing home's survey results and communicate with advocate agencies.
Give residents notice of Medicaid/Medicare coverage and potential liability for services not covered.
Ensure each resident must receive and the facility must provide necessary behavioral health care and services.
Ensure that residents are fully informed and understand their health status, care and treatments.
Respond appropriately to all alleged violations.
Showing the 60 most recent. The full list is on Medicare.gov.
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State inspectors visited on March 27, 2026 and cited 13 health deficiencies. The PR average is 7.3.
Medicare's records show no fines against Centro de Cuidado Prolongado San Lucas in the last three years.
Medicare covers up to 100 days of skilled nursing per benefit period after a qualifying 3-day hospital stay — fully for the first 20 days, then with a daily copay. Long-term custodial stays are generally not covered.
A semi-private room averages about $7,900 per month nationally; private rooms cost more. Medicaid is the largest payer for long-term nursing home care.
Medicare rates nursing homes 1 to 5 stars on its Care Compare site. We don't repeat those stars here. Each nursing home page shows Medicare's underlying record instead: inspections, staffing and fines, with a link to check it on Medicare.gov.