California Nursing Home Compliance Benchmark — 2026
This benchmark summarizes the loaded records for California. For the 1,162 facilities with linked history (1,162 of 1,162), there are 58,066 cited deficiencies, averaging 50.0 per covered facility; 0 have zero citations in the loaded history, including 437 coded at Immediate Jeopardy severity. Categories and F-Tags below are counts from official CMS Health Deficiencies data, not recommendations or predictions.
Most-Cited Deficiency Categories in California
- Quality of Life and Care Deficiencies — 13,332 citations
- Resident Assessment and Care Planning Deficiencies — 8,948 citations
- Resident Rights Deficiencies — 8,722 citations
- Pharmacy Service Deficiencies — 7,432 citations
- Nutrition and Dietary Deficiencies — 6,091 citations
- Infection Control Deficiencies — 4,330 citations
Most-Cited F-Tags in California
- F-Tag F0880: Infection Prevention & Control — 3,420 citations
- F-Tag F0689: Free of Accident Hazards/Supervision/Devices — 2,663 citations
- F-Tag F0812: Food Procurement Store/Prepare/Serve-Sanitary — 2,659 citations
- F-Tag F0656: Develop/Implement Comprehensive Care Plan — 2,658 citations
- F-Tag F0684: Quality of Care — 2,108 citations
- F-Tag F0755: Pharmacy Services/Procedures/Pharmacist/Records — 2,013 citations
- F-Tag F0761: Label/Store Drugs and Biologicals — 1,938 citations
- F-Tag F0550: Resident Rights/Exercise of Rights — 1,425 citations
- F-Tag F0842: Resident Records-Identifiable Information — 1,403 citations
- F-Tag F0658: Services Provided Meet Professional Standards — 1,360 citations
Sources and methodology
Source: CMS nursing-home Provider Data. POCDesk aggregates citations present in the loaded Health Deficiencies records; it does not create CMS ratings or recommendations. See the editorial standards and methodology and 42 CFR Part 483.
More California Compliance Data
- California Nursing Home Scorecard
- California State Compliance Guide
- California Survey Tracker
- Best Nursing Homes in California
Explore POCDesk — Free Nursing Home Compliance Tools
- SNF Scorecard — look up any facility's inspection record
- Nursing Home Compare Tool — side-by-side comparisons
- Skilled Nursing Near Me — find facilities by city & state
- Best Nursing Homes by State — ranked by inspection results
- Survey Tracker — recent CMS survey activity
- F-Tag Reference Guide — every CMS deficiency tag
- Plan of Correction (POC) Complete Guide
- Free AI POC Generator
- Plan of Correction Examples
- CMS Survey Preparation Guide
- Practical SNF Answers
- SNF Compliance Guides
- What Is Skilled Nursing Care?
Official Sources
POCDesk analyzes official government data. Verify any facility's record or read the underlying regulations at these primary sources:
- Medicare.gov Care Compare — CMS's official nursing home comparison tool
- CMS Provider Data Catalog — the raw nursing home inspection & deficiency datasets
- CMS Nursing Home Certification & Compliance — enforcement policy and the Special Focus Facility program
- 42 CFR Part 483 (eCFR) — the federal requirements of participation behind every F-Tag
- National Long-Term Care Ombudsman Resource Center — free advocacy help for residents and families