Federal Nursing-Home Survey Record
SANTA FE HEIGHTS HEALTHCARE CENTER, LLC
Does SANTA FE HEIGHTS HEALTHCARE CENTER, LLC have a federal violation or abuse history?
According to the public federal record on file with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), SANTA FE HEIGHTS HEALTHCARE CENTER, LLC (CCN 555732), in COMPTON, CA, has federal inspection findings on its record. CMS currently displays its federal abuse icon for this facility — a flag CMS assigns under its own published methodology for abuse-related citations (deficiency tag F600 and related). In its current inspection cycle, CMS cited the facility for 36 deficiencies; the most serious carries scope/severity G on CMS's A–L scale, a level CMS classifies as actual harm. The most recent federal survey on file is dated 2026-02-09. Citations from earlier inspection cycles appear in the dated timeline below as historical findings, not current ones. CMS has $113,169 in civil money penalties on file against the facility. This page restates the federal record as published by CMS and draws no conclusion of its own. Strict time limits can apply to claims like these — consider consulting a qualified attorney promptly.
The Federal Record
CMS has flagged this facility with its federal abuse icon.
Below is this facility's federal survey record as on file with federal regulators (CMS). Strict time limits can apply to claims like these — consider consulting a qualified attorney promptly.
Federal abuse icon on file
CMS displays its abuse icon for facilities it has cited for resident abuse under its own published methodology (deficiency tag F600 and related). This is the government's own flag, restated here.
Scope & Severity — current cycle
Civil money penalties on file
$113,169
CMS has $113,169 in civil money penalties on file against this facility. CMS also records 19 day(s) of payment denial.
Overall CMS star rating: this facility vs the CMS-published state average
This facility: 1 · CMS state average: 3.2
Deficiency timeline — full federal history
Safeguard resident-identifiable information and/or maintain medical records on each resident that are in accordance with accepted professional standards.
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 appropriate care for residents who are continent or incontinent of bowel/bladder, appropriate catheter care, and appropriate care to prevent urinary tract infections.
Ensure each resident’s drug regimen must be free from unnecessary drugs.
Ensure that each resident is free from the use of physical restraints, unless needed for medical treatment.
Make sure that a working call system is available in each resident's bathroom and bathing area.
Try different approaches before using a bed rail. If a bed rail is needed, the facility must (1) assess a resident for safety risk; (2) review these risks and benefits with the resident/representative; (3) get informed consent; and (4) Correctly install and maintain the bed rail.
Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to prevent accidents.
Give the resident's representative the ability to exercise the resident's rights.
Provide safe and appropriate respiratory care for a resident when needed.
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 appropriate treatment and care according to orders, resident’s preferences and goals.
Ensure medication error rates are not 5 percent or greater.
Assist a resident in gaining access to vision and hearing services.
Inform resident or representatives choice to enter into binding arbitration agreement and right to refuse.
Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program.
Ensure residents do not lose the ability to perform activities of daily living unless there is a medical reason.
Develop and implement a complete care plan that meets all the resident's needs, with timetables and actions that can be measured.
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 pharmaceutical services to meet the needs of each resident and employ or obtain the services of a licensed pharmacist.
Reasonably accommodate the needs and preferences of each resident.
Ensure that residents are fully informed and understand their health status, care and treatments.
Provide rooms that are at least 80 square feet per resident in multiple rooms and 100 square feet for single resident rooms.
Provide medically-related social services to help each resident achieve the highest possible quality of life.
Ensure the transfer/discharge meets the resident's needs/preferences and that the resident is prepared for a safe transfer/discharge.
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.
Create and put into place a plan for meeting the resident's most immediate needs within 48 hours of being admitted
Ensure that residents are fully informed and understand their health status, care and treatments.
Provide appropriate treatment and care according to orders, resident’s preferences and goals.
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.
Ensure each resident receives an accurate assessment.
Honor the resident's right to a dignified existence, self-determination, communication, and to exercise his or her rights.
Protect each resident from all types of abuse such as physical, mental, sexual abuse, physical punishment, and neglect by anybody.
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.
Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program.
Have a policy regarding use and storage of foods brought to residents by family and other visitors.
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 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 food and drink is palatable, attractive, and at a safe and appetizing temperature.
Provide sufficient support personnel to safely and effectively carry out the functions of the food and nutrition service.
Procure food from sources approved or considered satisfactory and store, prepare, distribute and serve food in accordance with professional standards.
Ensure each resident receives and the facility provides food prepared in a form designed to meet individual needs.
Provide pharmaceutical services to meet the needs of each resident and employ or obtain the services of a licensed pharmacist.
Provide care and assistance to perform activities of daily living for any resident who is unable.
Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to prevent accidents.
Protect each resident from all types of abuse such as physical, mental, sexual abuse, physical punishment, and neglect by anybody.
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 dignified existence, self-determination, communication, and to exercise his or her rights.
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.
PASARR screening for Mental disorders or Intellectual Disabilities
Provide safe and appropriate respiratory care for a resident when needed.
Immediately tell the resident, the resident's doctor, and a family member of situations (injury/decline/room, etc.) that affect the resident.
Reasonably accommodate the needs and preferences of each resident.
Ensure each resident receives an accurate assessment.
Respond appropriately to all alleged violations.
Ensure medication error rates are not 5 percent or greater.
Ensure that residents are fully informed and understand their health status, care and treatments.
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