KERN RIVER TRANSITIONAL CARE
KERN RIVER TRANSITIONAL CARE is a 140-bed nursing home in BAKERSFIELD, California. CMS has certified it for Medicare and Medicaid since 2019-04-16. It averages 136.0 residents a day.
What harm was found in the violations cited at KERN RIVER TRANSITIONAL CARE?
CMS lists 91 health-inspection deficiencies for KERN RIVER TRANSITIONAL CARE since 2021-05-13, 80 of them in the three years to 2026-08-01: the highest scope-and-severity letter on record is G; the most recent health inspection was 2026-04-29.
| Survey date | Tag | Deficiency | Severity |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-29 | F0580, F0656 | Immediately tell the resident, the resident's doctor, and a family member of situations (injury/decline/room, etc.) that affect the resident. / Develop and implement a complete care plan that meets all the resident's needs, with timetables and actions that can be measured. | D |
| 2025-07-28 | F0552, F0658, F0690, F0726 | Ensure that residents are fully informed and understand their health status, care and treatments. / Ensure services provided by the nursing facility meet professional standards of quality. / 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 that nurses and nurse aides have the appropriate competencies to care for every resident in a way that maximizes each resident's well being. | D |
| 2025-05-16 | F0684 | Provide appropriate treatment and care according to orders, resident’s preferences and goals. | D |
| 2025-05-15 | F0552, F0849 | Ensure that residents are fully informed and understand their health status, care and treatments. / Arrange for the provision of hospice services or assist the resident in transferring to a facility that will arrange for the provision of hospice services. | D |
| 2025-04-24 | F0552, F0726, F0880, F0947 | Ensure that residents are fully informed and understand their health status, care and treatments. / 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. / Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program. / Ensure nurse aides have the skills they need to care for residents, and give nurse aides education in dementia care and abuse prevention. | F |
| 2025-04-24 | F0655, F0761, F0850, F0867, F0868 | Create and put into place a plan for meeting the resident's most immediate needs within 48 hours of being admitted / 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. / Hire a qualified full-time social worker in a facility with more than 120 beds. / Set up an ongoing quality assessment and assurance group to review quality deficiencies and develop corrective plans of action. / Have the Quality Assessment and Assurance group have the required members and meet at least quarterly | E |
| 2025-04-24 | F0584, F0623, F0644, F0656, F0658, F0677, F0679, F0687, F0690, F0698, F0790, F0842, F0847 | 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. / Provide timely notification to the resident, and if applicable to the resident representative and ombudsman, before transfer or discharge, including appeal rights. / Coordinate assessments with the pre-admission screening and resident review program; and referring for services as needed. / Develop and implement a complete care plan that meets all the resident's needs, with timetables and actions that can be measured. / Ensure services provided by the nursing facility meet professional standards of quality. / Provide care and assistance to perform activities of daily living for any resident who is unable. / Provide activities to meet all resident's needs. / Provide appropriate foot care. / Provide appropriate care for residents who are continent or incontinent of bowel/bladder, appropriate catheter care, and appropriate care to prevent urinary tract infections. / Provide safe, appropriate dialysis care/services for a resident who requires such services. / Provide routine and 24-hour emergency dental care for each resident. / Safeguard resident-identifiable information and/or maintain medical records on each resident that are in accordance with accepted professional standards. / Inform resident or representatives choice to enter into binding arbitration agreement and right to refuse. | D |
| 2025-02-25 | F0656, F0658 | Develop and implement a complete care plan that meets all the resident's needs, with timetables and actions that can be measured. / Ensure services provided by the nursing facility meet professional standards of quality. | D |
| 2024-12-31 | F0656 | Develop and implement a complete care plan that meets all the resident's needs, with timetables and actions that can be measured. | D |
| 2024-12-09 | F0689 | Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to prevent accidents. | D |
| 2024-12-05 | F0609 | Timely report suspected abuse, neglect, or theft and report the results of the investigation to proper authorities. | D |
| 2024-09-05 | F0609 | Timely report suspected abuse, neglect, or theft and report the results of the investigation to proper authorities. | D |
| 2024-08-22 | F0580, F0657, F0658, F0837 | Immediately tell the resident, the resident's doctor, and a family member of situations (injury/decline/room, etc.) that affect the resident. / Develop the complete care plan within 7 days of the comprehensive assessment; and prepared, reviewed, and revised by a team of health professionals. / Ensure services provided by the nursing facility meet professional standards of quality. / 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. | D |
| 2024-08-02 | F0585 | Honor the resident's right to voice grievances without discrimination or reprisal and the facility must establish a grievance policy and make prompt efforts to resolve grievances. | D |
| 2024-07-31 | F0658 | Ensure services provided by the nursing facility meet professional standards of quality. | D |
| 2024-07-23 | F0580, F0684, F0698 | Immediately tell the resident, the resident's doctor, and a family member of situations (injury/decline/room, etc.) that affect the resident. / Provide appropriate treatment and care according to orders, resident’s preferences and goals. / Provide safe, appropriate dialysis care/services for a resident who requires such services. | D |
| 2024-07-16 | F0656 | Develop and implement a complete care plan that meets all the resident's needs, with timetables and actions that can be measured. | D |
| 2024-07-09 | F0558 | Reasonably accommodate the needs and preferences of each resident. | D |
| 2024-06-28 | F0742 | Provide the appropriate treatment and services to a resident who displays or is diagnosed with mental disorder or psychosocial adjustment difficulty, or who has a history of trauma and/or post-traumatic stress disorder. | D |
| 2024-06-25 | F0842 | Safeguard resident-identifiable information and/or maintain medical records on each resident that are in accordance with accepted professional standards. | D |
| 2024-05-16 | F0761 | 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. | E |
| 2024-05-16 | F0550, F0554, F0580, F0584, F0636, F0644, F0645, F0656, F0658, F0689, F0690, F0812, F0842, F0880 | Honor the resident's right to a dignified existence, self-determination, communication, and to exercise his or her rights. / Allow residents to self-administer drugs if determined clinically appropriate. / Immediately tell the resident, the resident's doctor, and a family member of situations (injury/decline/room, etc.) that affect the resident. / 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. / Assess the resident completely in a timely manner when first admitted, and then periodically, at least every 12 months. / Coordinate assessments with the pre-admission screening and resident review program; and referring for services as needed. / PASARR screening for Mental disorders or Intellectual Disabilities / Develop and implement a complete care plan that meets all the resident's needs, with timetables and actions that can be measured. / Ensure services provided by the nursing facility meet professional standards of quality. / Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to prevent accidents. / Provide appropriate care for residents who are continent or incontinent of bowel/bladder, appropriate catheter care, and appropriate care to prevent urinary tract infections. / Procure food from sources approved or considered satisfactory and store, prepare, distribute and serve food in accordance with professional standards. / Safeguard resident-identifiable information and/or maintain medical records on each resident that are in accordance with accepted professional standards. / Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program. | D |
| 2024-04-16 | F0658 | Ensure services provided by the nursing facility meet professional standards of quality. | D |
| 2024-04-09 | F0625 | Notify the resident or the resident’s representative in writing how long the nursing home will hold the resident’s bed in cases of transfer to a hospital or therapeutic leave. | D |
| 2024-03-17 | F0686 | Provide appropriate pressure ulcer care and prevent new ulcers from developing. | D |
| 2024-02-26 | F0580 | Immediately tell the resident, the resident's doctor, and a family member of situations (injury/decline/room, etc.) that affect the resident. | D |
| 2024-02-08 | F0558, F0658, F0725, F0842 | Reasonably accommodate the needs and preferences of each resident. / Ensure services provided by the nursing facility meet professional standards of quality. / Provide enough nursing staff every day to meet the needs of every resident; and have a licensed nurse in charge on each shift. / Safeguard resident-identifiable information and/or maintain medical records on each resident that are in accordance with accepted professional standards. | D |
| 2024-01-10 | F0684 | Provide appropriate treatment and care according to orders, resident’s preferences and goals. | D |
| 2024-01-05 | F0839 | Employ staff that are licensed, certified, or registered in accordance with state laws. | F |
| 2023-12-07 | F0600 | Protect each resident from all types of abuse such as physical, mental, sexual abuse, physical punishment, and neglect by anybody. | G |
| 2023-12-07 | F0607, F0609 | Develop and implement policies and procedures to prevent abuse, neglect, and theft. / Timely report suspected abuse, neglect, or theft and report the results of the investigation to proper authorities. | E |
| 2023-12-07 | F0610, F0656 | Respond appropriately to all alleged violations. / Develop and implement a complete care plan that meets all the resident's needs, with timetables and actions that can be measured. | D |
| 2021-05-13 | F0656, F0692, F0726, F0804, F0880 | Develop and implement a complete care plan that meets all the resident's needs, with timetables and actions that can be measured. / Provide enough food/fluids to maintain a resident's health. / 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 food and drink is palatable, attractive, and at a safe and appetizing temperature. / Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program. | E |
| 2021-05-13 | F0554, F0558, F0655, F0688, F0694, F0761 | Allow residents to self-administer drugs if determined clinically appropriate. / Reasonably accommodate the needs and preferences of each resident. / Create and put into place a plan for meeting the resident's most immediate needs within 48 hours of being admitted / Provide appropriate care for a resident to maintain and/or improve range of motion (ROM), limited ROM and/or mobility, unless a decline is for a medical reason. / Provide for the safe, appropriate administration of IV fluids for a resident when needed. / 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. | D |
Why was KERN RIVER TRANSITIONAL CARE fined?
| Date | Type | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| 2023-12-07 | Fine | $77,720 |
How is KERN RIVER TRANSITIONAL CARE staffed?
| Measure | This facility | CA average |
|---|---|---|
| Total nurse staffing hours per resident per day | 4.51611 | 4.51570 |
| Total nursing staff turnover (%) | 48.3 | 36.7 |
| Average number of residents per day | 136.0 | 87.9 |
Who owns KERN RIVER TRANSITIONAL CARE, and what chain is it in?
KERN RIVER TRANSITIONAL CARE is registered with CMS as For profit - Limited Liability company, operates under the legal business name BAKERSFIELDIDENCE OPCO LLC and belongs to the PACS GROUP chain.
| Role | Owner | Association date |
|---|---|---|
| 5% OR GREATER DIRECT OWNERSHIP INTEREST | PROVIDENCE GROUP NORTH LLC | since 05/01/2018 |
| CONTRACTED MANAGING EMPLOYEE | FARRER, TODD | since 11/01/2018 |
| W-2 MANAGING EMPLOYEE | BLOOD, BRYCE | since 03/01/2021 |
| CORPORATE OFFICER | APT, FREDERICK, HANCOCK, MARK, JERGENSEN, JOSHUA, MITCHELL, JOHN | since 01/01/2024 |
| OPERATIONAL/MANAGERIAL CONTROL | BLOOD, BRYCE | since 03/01/2021 |
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