Ceres PostAcute Care

    1711 Richland Ave, Ceres, CA, 95307
    3.8 · 22 reviews
    • Assisted living
    • Memory care
    • Skilled nursing
    AnonymousLoved one of resident
    2.0

    Caring staff but safety concerns

    I had a mixed experience. Many nurses and caregivers were loving, attentive and skilled - the facility was very clean, therapy and admissions were smooth, and communication and billing were clear. However, I also saw troubling safety and management issues (dreary rooms, curtains/windows problems, delayed help after a fall, concerns about medication handling, high staff turnover, investigations and police involvement), so I would be very cautious about placing a loved one here.

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    Amenities

    Healthcare services

    • Activities of daily living assistance
    • Assistance with bathing
    • Assistance with dressing
    • Assistance with transfers
    • Medication management
    • Mental wellness program

    Healthcare staffing

    • 24-hour call system
    • 24-hour supervision

    Meals and dining

    • Diabetes diet
    • Meal preparation and service
    • Restaurant-style dining
    • Special dietary restrictions

    Room

    • Cable
    • Fully furnished
    • Housekeeping and linen services
    • Kitchenettes
    • Telephone
    • Wifi

    Common areas

    • Beauty salon
    • Dining room
    • Garden
    • Outdoor space
    • Small library

    Community services

    • Move-in coordination

    Activities

    • Community-sponsored activities
    • Resident-run activities
    • Scheduled daily activities

    3.77 · 22 reviews

    Overall rating

    1. 5
    2. 4
    3. 3
    4. 2
    5. 1
    • Care

      3.3
    • Staff

      3.3
    • Meals

      3.8
    • Amenities

      1.5
    • Value

      3.8

    Pros

    • Exceptional, compassionate nursing staff (reported in multiple reviews)
    • Attentive and caring caregivers
    • Personalized involvement from leadership and management
    • Proactive and clear family communication
    • Highly skilled and motivating therapy/rehab team
    • Seamless coordination for management and transitions
    • Welcoming and efficient admissions process
    • Transparent and efficient billing
    • Smooth rehabilitation transitions
    • Thorough, experienced medical staff
    • Clean facility reported by several reviewers
    • Good activities and resident engagement
    • Polite, respectful, and helpful staff

    Cons

    • High staff turnover / constant new staff
    • Inconsistent staff responsiveness and communication (family concerns not always heard)
    • Reports of neglect, maltreatment, and unsafe care
    • Serious safety incidents including falls and delayed assistance
    • Patient death and investigation reported
    • Medication handling concerns and alleged unsafe practices
    • Disciplinary incidents (nurse fired) and ongoing investigations
    • Depressing, dark, or dreary atmosphere and rooms
    • Curtains/windows that cannot be opened, rooms remaining dark
    • Security concerns including alleged theft/robbery and unsafe neighborhood
    • Patients screaming for help and delayed responses to calls
    • Police involvement cited in at least one report
    • Wide variability in overall care and management quality

    Summary review

    Overall sentiment in the review summaries is highly mixed and polarized. A substantial number of reviewers praise the facility for strong clinical care, particularly noting compassionate and skilled nursing staff, attentive caregivers, and an effective therapy team that supports rehabilitation. Several accounts highlight proactive communication with families, personalized attention from leadership, seamless coordination during transitions (including admissions and rehab), transparent billing, and a clean environment. Many reviewers explicitly recommend the facility and describe staff as polite, respectful, and helpful, with some saying care there was even better than other healthcare providers they have experienced.

    On the other hand, a notable set of reviews details serious safety and quality concerns. These complaints include alleged neglect, instances where patients fell and did not receive timely help, reports of maltreatment, and at least one review describing a patient death that prompted investigation and disciplinary action (including a nurse reportedly fired). Additional allegations concern unsafe medication handling and involvement of a head nurse in problematic incidents. Several reviews describe patients screaming for help, delays in response, and other symptomatic failures of timely care, which are among the most serious themes emerging from the negative feedback.

    Facility environment and security are also recurring issues. Multiple reviewers described rooms as dark, dreary, or depressing with curtains that cannot be opened; some noted heaters left running or unusual post-incident handling. Others raised safety concerns about the neighborhood exterior, reported possible theft or robbery, and even police involvement. These reports, combined with the claims of high staff turnover and 'constant new staff,' suggest operational instability that likely contributes to inconsistent experiences among residents and families.

    A clear pattern across the summaries is inconsistency: many families report excellent, attentive care and good communication, while others report serious lapses, safety incidents, and poor responsiveness. This variability appears to manifest both across different shifts or units and between individual staff members or leadership responsiveness. Positive reports frequently emphasize therapy quality, attentive nurses, and smooth administrative processes (admissions, billing, rehab transitions). Negative reports emphasize neglect, safety, security, and management failures or investigations.

    Taken together, the reviews paint a facility with notable strengths in clinical rehabilitation, therapy, and some compassionate caregiving, but also with serious and recurring concerns about safety, staffing stability, and environment for some residents. The contrast between strongly positive and strongly negative accounts suggests that experiences may depend heavily on timing, specific staff on duty, and possibly particular units or patient matchings. Prospective residents and families reviewing these summaries should be aware of both sides: many people report good outcomes and praise the staff, while a substantial minority describe incidents that raise red flags about patient safety and quality oversight.

    Location

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    About Ceres PostAcute Care

    Ceres PostAcute Care stands as a skilled nursing facility at 1711 Richland Ave., Ceres, CA 95307, offering 46 certified beds and focusing on round-the-clock nursing care, medical services under physician direction, and RN supervision, which means residents have people watching out for them all day and night, whether they need help with daily life or more advanced care like physical therapy, occupational therapy, wound care, or even IV treatments when needed, and even though the facility has had inspection reports with deficiencies-some related to infection control and quality of care-staff keep working to follow orders and meet resident preferences while handling things like meals planned by chefs, activities for social and emotional engagement, and amenities meant to support both comfort and recovery, and since Reliant Management Group, LLC has managed since July 2015, with ownership pieces held by Jagan Bansal, Maneesh Bansal, and Rmg Capital Partners, LLC, the place expects a nurse turnover rate of about 23.1%, while staffing lands around 4.21 nurse hours per resident each day, and residents here can count on nursing and rehab services for those needing either ongoing help with daily life or short-term recovery after a hospital stay, and they'll see options like restaurant-style meals, a beauty shop, religious services, onsite podiatry and dental care, along with daily activities to keep life feeling as normal as possible, so while the place does have both strengths and some spots where reports call out concerns, the staff keep trying to maintain a friendly and attentive environment, offer social support, and accept payment options like Medicare, Medi-Cal, private pay, and contracts, with admission possible any day of the week, and if someone wants advice about senior care, the advisory service will answer questions and help guide families for free, which folks appreciate when they're trying to make the right choice for someone who needs skilled nursing, rehab, or long-term care.

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