Santa Monica Rehabilitation Center
1338 20th Street, Santa Monica, CA, 90404 · CCN 555808
Santa Monica Rehabilitation Center is a CMS-certified skilled nursing facility located in Santa Monica, California. This facility-specific record brings together official CMS provider, inspection, rating, and enforcement data while identifying what is missing or uncertain.
What stands out in the available record
The available records contain 166 cited deficiencies across 52 surveys. 7 were coded at G or above; 3 were coded at immediate-jeopardy levels J through L.
5 of the most frequently cited tags appear more than once in the available history: F0689 (10), F0609 (8), F0726 (7), F0880 (7), F0558 (6). Repetition can indicate a recurring compliance area, but it is not proof that the same underlying problem remained uncorrected.
Survey history
- December 2025 — Health: 2 cited deficiencies
- December 2025 — Health: 1 cited deficiency
- September 2025 — Health: 1 cited deficiency
- September 2025 — Health: 1 cited deficiency
- September 2025 — Health: 1 cited deficiency
- August 2025 — Health: 2 cited deficiencies
- August 2025 — Health: 1 cited deficiency
- July 2025 — Health: 1 cited deficiency
Scope and severity distribution
- Scope/severity D: 108 citations
- Scope/severity E: 46 citations
- Scope/severity F: 5 citations
- Scope/severity G: 4 citations
- Scope/severity J: 2 citations
- Scope/severity K: 1 citation
7 available citations were coded at G or above, indicating actual harm or immediate jeopardy; 3 were coded J or above.
Top Deficiency Citations
- F0689 — Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to prevent accidents. (10 citations)
- F0609 — Timely report suspected abuse, neglect, or theft and report the results of the investigation to proper authorities. (8 citations)
- F0726 — 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. (7 citations)
- F0880 — Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program. (7 citations)
- F0558 — Reasonably accommodate the needs and preferences of each resident. (6 citations)
Deficiency categories
- Quality of Life and Care Deficiencies: 39 citations
- Resident Rights Deficiencies: 31 citations
- Resident Assessment and Care Planning Deficiencies: 25 citations
- Freedom from Abuse, Neglect, and Exploitation Deficiencies: 19 citations
- Nursing and Physician Services Deficiencies: 13 citations
- Pharmacy Service Deficiencies: 11 citations
Official CMS Five-Star context
- Overall: 1 of 5 stars
- Health inspection: 1 of 5 stars
- Staffing: 2 of 5 stars
- Quality measure: 4 of 5 stars
CMS reports 4.02 total nurse staffing hours per resident day.
Five-Star values above are official CMS fields. POCDesk does not calculate or predict the official CMS rating.
Enforcement and penalties
The available CMS enforcement dataset contains 5 penalty actions, most recently dated August 2025. Monetary fines in these records total $143,164.
Sources, freshness, and limitations
Source: official CMS datasets, including Provider Information, Health Deficiencies, and Penalties. View the CMS data source. Loaded survey records window — Earliest loaded survey: February 2023; Latest loaded survey: December 2025. These dates describe records loaded by POCDesk, not a CMS release or publication timestamp. Facility statistics refreshed: October 8, 2026 at 9:48 AM UTC. The available rating record has a CMS processing date of September 2026. POCDesk last refreshed that rating record on October 2026.
POCDesk groups citations by survey date, counts recurring F-Tags across the available history, and summarizes CMS scope/severity codes. Those summaries are POCDesk organization and interpretation of public records, not official ratings or survey findings of our own. Read the governing 42 CFR Part 483 and our editorial standards and methodology.
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