Fonteum Care Compare · California · Santa Monica
Nursing homes in Santa Monica, California: 12 Medicare-certified facilities.
CMS overall star rating, staffing rating, health inspection rating, and ownership type for every Medicare-certified nursing home in Santa Monica — every column traced to the CMS Care Compare NH Provider Information dataset (4pq5-n9py).
Average CMS overall rating in Santa Monica: 2.6 / 5
How Santa Monica compares
Santa Monica vs the California state average
Overall ★ — this city
2.6
State avg 3.2 / 5
-0.6 vs state
Staffing ★ — this city
3.0
State avg 3.1 / 5
-0.1 vs state
Facilities — this city
12
1,162 statewide
State averages are CMS-published per-state means from the same snapshot; the city figure is the mean across the 12 rated facilities above.
Where Santa Monica sits
All 12 Medicare-certified nursing homes in Santa Monica sit in Los Angeles County, California. County is the geographic unit CMS uses for staffing-desert and access analysis.
All Medicare-certified nursing homes in Santa Monica, California
Pacific Post Acute
1323 17th Street · CCN 555054 · For profit - Limited Liability company
49 certified beds · 42.3 avg daily residents · 4.30 total nurse hrs/resident-day · QM 5 / 5 · Last standard survey January 23, 2025
5
Overall
2
Staffing
4 / 5
Health Insp.
Fireside Health Care Center
947 3rd Street · CCN 555039 · For profit - Corporation
66 certified beds · 60.2 avg daily residents · 4.30 total nurse hrs/resident-day · QM 5 / 5 · Last standard survey January 23, 2026
4
Overall
3
Staffing
3 / 5
Health Insp.
Berkley West Healthcare Center
1623 Arizona Avenue · CCN 055136 · For profit - Corporation
54 certified beds · 39 avg daily residents · 5.07 total nurse hrs/resident-day · QM 5 / 5 · Last standard survey January 8, 2026
3
Overall
4
Staffing
2 / 5
Health Insp.
Santa Monica Health Care Center
1320 20th Street · CCN 055540 · For profit - Partnership
59 certified beds · 52.8 avg daily residents · 4.61 total nurse hrs/resident-day · QM 3 / 5 · Last standard survey April 13, 2025
3
Overall
4
Staffing
3 / 5
Health Insp.
Brentwood Health Care Center
1321 Franklin Street · CCN 055711 · For profit - Limited Liability company
59 certified beds · 57.5 avg daily residents · 5.38 total nurse hrs/resident-day · QM 4 / 5 · Last standard survey December 4, 2025
3
Overall
3
Staffing
3 / 5
Health Insp.
Good Shepherd Health Care Center Of Santa Monica
1131 Arizona Ave. · CCN 555061 · For profit - Individual
48 certified beds · 44.4 avg daily residents · QM 5 / 5 · Last standard survey December 29, 2024
3
Overall
—
Staffing
2 / 5
Health Insp.
Ocean Pointe Healthcare Center
1330 17th Street · CCN 055155 · For profit - Individual
72 certified beds · 62 avg daily residents · 4.37 total nurse hrs/resident-day · QM 4 / 5 · Last standard survey March 20, 2025
2
Overall
3
Staffing
2 / 5
Health Insp.
Sunset Park Healthcare
2250 29th Street · CCN 055748 · For profit - Limited Liability company
44 certified beds · 42.3 avg daily residents · 4.44 total nurse hrs/resident-day · QM 3 / 5 · Last standard survey May 25, 2025
2
Overall
3
Staffing
2 / 5
Health Insp.
Berkley East Healthcare Center
2021 Arizona Ave · CCN 555748 · For profit - Limited Liability company
207 certified beds · 120.7 avg daily residents · 4.92 total nurse hrs/resident-day · QM 5 / 5 · Last standard survey December 19, 2024
2
Overall
3
Staffing
1 / 5
Health Insp.
Ocean Park Healthcare
2828 Pico Boulevard · CCN 555786 · For profit - Limited Liability company
41 certified beds · 40.6 avg daily residents · 4.18 total nurse hrs/resident-day · QM 2 / 5 · Last standard survey May 4, 2025
2
Overall
3
Staffing
2 / 5
Health Insp.
Beachwood Post-Acute & Rehab
1340 15th Street · CCN 056334 · For profit - Limited Liability company
227 certified beds · 208.3 avg daily residents · 4.76 total nurse hrs/resident-day · QM 4 / 5 · Last standard survey June 27, 2025
1
Overall
3
Staffing
1 / 5
Health Insp.
Santa Monica Rehabilitation Center
1338 20th Street · CCN 555808 · For profit - Limited Liability company · SFF Candidate
144 certified beds · 136.1 avg daily residents · 3.92 total nurse hrs/resident-day · QM 4 / 5 · Last standard survey February 6, 2025
1
Overall
2
Staffing
1 / 5
Health Insp.
Reading the data
What these CMS ratings mean
Every star column on this page comes straight from CMS’s Five-Star Quality Rating System. Fonteum re-publishes the federal numbers without re-scoring them — the definitions below are CMS’s, not ours.
- Overall star rating
- A 1-to-5 summary CMS derives from the health-inspection, staffing, and quality-measure ratings. It is a relative ranking, not an absolute score — roughly the top fifth of facilities earn 5 stars and the bottom fifth earn 1.
- Health inspection rating
- Based on the three most recent state standard surveys plus any complaint investigations, weighted toward recency. More and more severe deficiencies lower the rating.
- Staffing rating
- Built from payroll-based (PBJ) nurse staffing hours per resident day, case-mix adjusted, including registered-nurse hours and weekend coverage.
- Quality-measure (QM) rating
- Drawn from a set of MDS- and claims-based clinical measures (e.g. pressure ulcers, falls, hospitalisation, antipsychotic use) across short- and long-stay residents.
- Special Focus Facility (SFF)
- A separate CMS program flagging facilities with a persistent pattern of serious health-inspection problems. “SFF” marks an active designation; “SFF Candidate” marks a facility on the candidate list.
Full methodology: how Fonteum sources and signs CMS nursing-home data.
Other California cities with nursing homes
Compare Santa Monica with nearby markets — facility counts from the same CMS snapshot.
Fonteum research on nursing-home quality
Star ratings vs actual resident harm
Where CMS overall stars diverge from documented harm-level deficiencies.
Nursing-home staffing deserts by county
Counties where reported nurse hours per resident day fall furthest behind.
Nursing-home ownership networks
How chain ownership concentrates across Medicare-certified facilities.
Facilities banned from new Medicare admissions
Payment-denial enforcement actions and the facilities they hit.