🛡️ Free for Families · No Spam Calls · No Referral Fees · Built on Official Records
🏠 Is this your community?
Families are searching for a community like yours right now. Make sure they find you.
The Orchards Post-Acute brings together skilled nursing and rehabilitation expertise right here in Bakersfield, California. Our team focuses on helping patients regain strength and independence through personalized care plans, medical oversight, and therapeutic services designed for meaningful recovery.
Capacity
150 residents
Location
Bakersfield, CA
Status
Listed in a public registry
730 34 STREET, Bakersfield, California 93301
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 June 18, 2026, state inspectors cited 18 health deficiencies (the California average is 15.5).
Nurses and nurse aides spend 3 hours 55 minutes with each resident a day, below the California average of 4 hours 31 minutes.
Medicare fined The Orchards Post-Acute 2 times in the last three years, $18,570 in total.
| Measure | This home |
|---|---|
| Nurse and aide time per resident, per day | 3 hours 55 minutesBelow the California average |
| Registered nurse time per resident, per day | 29 minutesBelow the California average |
| Nursing staff who left in the past year | 34%Below the California average |
77 health citations in the last three years. Each one is a federal standard inspectors found the home was not meeting.
June 18, 2026 · Standard inspection · 13 citations
Provide sufficient support personnel to safely and effectively carry out the functions of the food and nutrition service.
Ensure services provided by the nursing facility meet professional standards of quality.
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 and implement an infection prevention and control program.
Develop and implement a complete care plan that meets all the resident's needs, with timetables and actions that can be measured.
Provide or obtain dental services for each resident.
Honor the resident's right to a dignified existence, self-determination, communication, and to exercise his or her rights.
Employ sufficient staff with the appropriate competencies and skills sets to carry out the functions of the food and nutrition service, including a qualified dietician.
Ensure drugs and biologicals used in the facility are labeled in accordance with currently accepted professional principles; and all drugs and biologicals must be stored in locked compartments, separately locked, compartments for controlled drugs.
Provide safe and appropriate respiratory care for a resident when needed.
Ensure each resident receives and the facility provides food that accommodates resident allergies, intolerances, and preferences, as well as appealing options.
Provide the required documentation or notification related to the resident's needs, appeal rights, or bed-hold policies.
June 18, 2026 · Complaint investigation · 3 citations
Provide care and assistance to perform activities of daily living for any resident who is unable.
Ensure that feeding tubes are not used unless there is a medical reason and the resident agrees; and provide appropriate care for a resident with a feeding tube.
Make sure that a working call system is available in each resident's bathroom and bathing area.
Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to prevent accidents.
Ensure services provided by the nursing facility meet professional standards of quality.
Make sure that the nursing home area is safe, easy to use, clean and comfortable for residents, staff and the public.
Develop and implement policies and procedures to prevent abuse, neglect, and theft.
Implement a program that monitors antibiotic use.
Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program.
Observe each nurse aide's job performance and give regular training.
Ensure a licensed pharmacist perform a monthly drug regimen review, including the medical chart, following irregularity reporting guidelines in developed policies and procedures.
Provide enough nursing staff every day to meet the needs of every resident; and have a licensed nurse in charge on each shift.
Provide timely notification to the resident, and if applicable to the resident representative and ombudsman, before transfer or discharge, including appeal rights.
Honor the resident's right to a dignified existence, self-determination, communication, and to exercise his or her rights.
Ensure drugs and biologicals used in the facility are labeled in accordance with currently accepted professional principles; and all drugs and biologicals must be stored in locked compartments, separately locked, compartments for controlled drugs.
Ensure that residents are fully informed and understand their health status, care and treatments.
Develop and implement a complete care plan that meets all the resident's needs, with timetables and actions that can be measured.
Provide medically-related social services to help each resident achieve the highest possible quality of life.
Assess the resident completely in a timely manner when first admitted, and then periodically, at least every 12 months.
Provide safe and appropriate respiratory care for a resident when needed.
Make sure that a working call system is available in each resident's bathroom and bathing area.
Provide appropriate care for residents who are continent or incontinent of bowel/bladder, appropriate catheter care, and appropriate care to prevent urinary tract infections.
Ensure services provided by the nursing facility meet professional standards of quality.
Provide pharmaceutical services to meet the needs of each resident and employ or obtain the services of a licensed pharmacist.
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.
Make sure that the nursing home area is safe, easy to use, clean and comfortable for residents, staff and the public.
Permit a resident to return to the nursing home after hospitalization or therapeutic leave that exceeds bed-hold policy.
Ensure that feeding tubes are not used unless there is a medical reason and the resident agrees; and provide appropriate care for a resident with a feeding tube.
Ensure services provided by the nursing facility meet professional standards of quality.
Ensure that nurses and nurse aides have the appropriate competencies to care for every resident in a way that maximizes each resident's well being.
Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to prevent accidents.
Provide appropriate pressure ulcer care and prevent new ulcers from developing.
Provide appropriate care for residents who are continent or incontinent of bowel/bladder, appropriate catheter care, and appropriate care to prevent urinary tract infections.
Timely report suspected abuse, neglect, or theft and report the results of the investigation to proper authorities.
Procure food from sources approved or considered satisfactory and store, prepare, distribute and serve food in accordance with professional standards.
Make sure there is a pest control program to prevent/deal with mice, insects, or other pests.
Provide care and assistance to perform activities of daily living for any resident who is unable.
Provide pharmaceutical services to meet the needs of each resident and employ or obtain the services of a licensed pharmacist.
Immediately tell the resident, the resident's doctor, and a family member of situations (injury/decline/room, etc.) that affect the resident.
Ensure residents do not lose the ability to perform activities of daily living unless there is a medical reason.
Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program.
Provide safe, appropriate dialysis care/services for a resident who requires such services.
Develop and implement a complete care plan that meets all the resident's needs, with timetables and actions that can be measured.
Assess the resident completely in a timely manner when first admitted, and then periodically, at least every 12 months.
Set up an ongoing quality assessment and assurance group to review quality deficiencies and develop corrective plans of action.
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.
Reasonably accommodate the needs and preferences of each resident.
Showing the 60 most recent. The full list is on Medicare.gov.
2 fines totaling $18,570 in the last three years.
730 34 STREETBakersfield, CA 93301
12 other communities within 10 miles
3601 SAN DIMAS, Bakersfield, CA 93301
Call for pricing
Prices not published
2105 24TH ST STE 100, Bakersfield, CA 93301
Call for pricing
Prices not published
1011 17TH ST, Bakersfield, CA 93301
Call for pricing
Prices not published
State inspectors visited on June 18, 2026 and cited 18 health deficiencies, 5 of them from complaint investigations. The California average is 15.5.
Nurses and aides spend 3 hours 55 minutes with each resident per day, including 29 minutes from registered nurses. 34% of nursing staff left over the past year.
Yes. Medicare fined The Orchards Post-Acute 2 times in the last three years, totaling $18,570.
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.