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Santa Monica Health Care Center provides skilled nursing and rehabilitation services designed to help California residents regain independence and recover with dignity. Our experienced team focuses on personalized care plans that support each patient's unique healing goals and medical needs.
Capacity
59 residents
Location
Santa Monica, CA
Status
Listed in a public registry
1320 20TH STREET, Santa Monica, California 90404
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 April 13, 2025, state inspectors cited 12 health deficiencies (the California average is 15.5).
Nurses and nurse aides spend 4 hours 38 minutes with each resident a day, about the same as the California average.
Medicare has not fined Santa Monica Health Care Center in the last three years.
| Measure | This home |
|---|---|
| Nurse and aide time per resident, per day | 4 hours 38 minutes |
| Registered nurse time per resident, per day | 35 minutesBelow the California average |
| Nursing staff who left in the past year | 37% |
27 health citations in the last three years. Each one is a federal standard inspectors found the home was not meeting.
May 7, 2026 · Complaint investigation · 1 citation
Provide appropriate treatment and care according to orders, resident’s preferences and goals.
January 23, 2026 · Complaint investigation · 1 citation
Allow resident to participate in the development and implementation of his or her person-centered plan of care.
Ensure each resident must receive and the facility must provide necessary behavioral health care and services.
Procure food from sources approved or considered satisfactory and store, prepare, distribute and serve food in accordance with professional standards.
Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program.
Provide appropriate treatment and care according to orders, resident’s preferences and goals.
Provide appropriate treatment and care according to orders, resident’s preferences and goals.
Provide basic life support, including CPR, prior to the arrival of emergency medical personnel , subject to physician orders and the resident’s advance directives.
Immediately tell the resident, the resident's doctor, and a family member of situations (injury/decline/room, etc.) that affect the resident.
Implement gradual dose reductions(GDR) and non-pharmacological interventions, unless contraindicated, prior to initiating or instead of continuing psychotropic medication; and PRN orders for psychotropic medications are only used when the medication is necessary and PRN use is limited.
Procure food from sources approved or considered satisfactory and store, prepare, distribute and serve food in accordance with professional standards.
Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program.
Encode each resident’s assessment data and transmit these data to the State within 7 days of assessment.
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.
The resident has the right to receive notices in a format and a language he or she understands.
Procure food from sources approved or considered satisfactory and store, prepare, distribute and serve food in accordance with professional standards.
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.
Provide appropriate treatment and care according to orders, resident’s preferences and goals.
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.
Provide safe, appropriate pain management for a resident who requires such services.
Honor the resident's right to a dignified existence, self-determination, communication, and to exercise his or her rights.
Honor the resident's right to be treated with respect and dignity and to retain and use personal possessions.
Develop the complete care plan within 7 days of the comprehensive assessment; and prepared, reviewed, and revised by a team of health professionals.
Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to prevent accidents.
Provide appropriate treatment and care according to orders, resident’s preferences and goals.
Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to prevent accidents.
1 Medicare payment denial in the last three years.
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State inspectors visited on April 13, 2025 and cited 12 health deficiencies, 6 of them from complaint investigations. The California average is 15.5.
Nurses and aides spend 4 hours 38 minutes with each resident per day, including 35 minutes from registered nurses. 37% of nursing staff left over the past year.
Medicare's records show no fines against Santa Monica Health Care Center 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.