San Diego Post-Acute Center

    1201 S Orange Ave, El Cajon, CA 92020
    • Assisted Living
    • Memory Care
    • Skilled Nursing

    Attentive staff and clean facility

    I'm very pleased with the attentive, caring staff and the clean, well-maintained facility-nursing, rehab, activities and dietary teams worked together smoothly and admission was easy. I felt my mother was in good hands and my family had real peace of mind; I'd recommend it.

    Loved one of resident
    Jul 2026

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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

    • 12-16 hour nursing
    • 24-hour call system
    • 24-hour supervision

    Meals and dining

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

    Room

    • Air-conditioning
    • Cable
    • Fully furnished
    • Housekeeping and linen services
    • Kitchenettes
    • Private bathrooms
    • Telephone
    • Wifi

    Transportation

    • Community operated transportation
    • Transportation arrangement
    • Transportation arrangement (non-medical)

    Common areas

    • Beauty salon
    • Computer center
    • Dining room
    • Fitness room
    • Gaming room
    • Garden
    • Outdoor space
    • Small library
    • Wellness center

    Community services

    • Concierge services
    • Fitness programs
    • Move-in coordination

    Activities

    • Community-sponsored activities
    • Planned day trips
    • Resident-run activities
    • Scheduled daily activities

    Reviews

    3.93·(143)

    Overall rating

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

      3.5
    • Staff

      3.7
    • Meals

      3.0
    • Amenities

      3.5
    • Value

      1.0

    Pros

    • Compassionate and attentive nursing staff
    • Skilled physical, occupational, and speech therapy program
    • Engaged activities and social programming
    • Nutritious and well-prepared meals
    • Clean, recently renovated common areas and interiors
    • Spacious rooms with private bathrooms in many units
    • Accessible administrators and clinical leadership
    • Robust admissions and discharge coordination (when supported)
    • Dedicated dietary and housekeeping teams
    • Multiple levels of care on a single campus
    • Safe, pragmatic campus layout with unit-based nurse stations
    • Supportive social services and case-management assistance
    • Friendly and responsive front-desk and business-office staff
    • Positive infection-control practices noted in parts of the facility

    Cons

    • Inconsistent staffing levels and shift-to-shift variability
    • Delays in responding to call lights and direct-care needs
    • Gaps in medication administration and clinical oversight
    • Inconsistent cleanliness and sanitation across units
    • Deficiencies in pressure-ulcer prevention and wound management
    • Poor family communication and limited resident phone access
    • Operational disorganization during admissions and discharge
    • Language and cultural-communication barriers
    • Security and property-control lapses, including allegations of theft
    • Inconsistent infection-control adherence across units
    • Weak documentation and care-coordination processes
    • Pest-control and environmental-maintenance concerns

    Summary of reviews

    The reviews portray a facility with significant strengths alongside important and recurring operational weaknesses. Positive commentary centers on patient-facing teams: many families describe compassionate, attentive nurses and CNAs, an effective rehabilitation program (PT/OT/ST), engaging activities, and a capable dietary staff providing nutritious meals. The physical campus and recent renovations are frequently praised—clean, well-maintained common areas, private rooms in parts of the campus, courtyard/patio spaces, and a design that supports multiple levels of care and unit-based nurse stations. Administrative accessibility and certain elements of admissions and discharge coordination receive favorable mention when those teams are engaged.

    At the same time, a pattern of inconsistent care emerges across units and shifts. Several reviews describe delays in attending to residents (long call-light response times, slow assistance with toileting and personal care) and variability in staff competence between day and night shifts. Medication-management concerns are prominent: delays, incorrect dosing or medication reconciliation problems, and questions about antipsychotic use and analgesic tapers. Relatedly, reviewers raise concerns about wound prevention and management, including gaps in repositioning and timely wound care, which have contributed to pressure-related skin injury in some cases.

    Sanitation and environment assessments are mixed. While parts of the facility are described as clean and well-run, other unit-level accounts cite sanitation issues, odor concerns, broken equipment, and pest-control problems. Infection-control practices are similarly variable—some reviewers praise housekeeping and infection-control measures, whereas others describe incomplete wound-care follow-through and an instance of transmissible infection without timely family notification. These inconsistencies suggest that environmental and infection-prevention performance may differ by unit, shift, or leadership oversight.

    Communication and administrative coordination are another clear theme. Positive experiences note accessible administrators, helpful social services, and smooth admissions; contrasting experiences describe unreturned calls, lost paperwork, billing confusion, difficulties obtaining post-discharge medication lists, limited resident phone access, and language barriers that impede family engagement. There are also serious procedural concerns raised around security and property control, including allegations of item loss and limited ability for families to locate or retrieve personal devices. Such claims elevate the need for clear property-security protocols and transparent incident response.

    Overall, the facility appears to deliver strong rehabilitative and resident-centered programming in many instances, supported by dedicated frontline staff. However, the variability by unit and shift—manifested as staffing shortages, responsiveness failures, medication and wound-care gaps, and inconsistent sanitation—creates a mixed quality profile. Prospective residents and families should assess the specific unit and shift patterns they will be in, ask for current staffing ratios, review medication reconciliation and wound-prevention protocols, confirm infection-control and pest-management practices, verify language-service options, and request documentation of discharge and property-handling procedures before admission.

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    Medicare Ratings

    1·/ 5
    Cited by CMS for abuse, or potential for abuse, on its most recent survey cycle.
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    • Staffing

    • Quality Measures

    Ratings from the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (Care Compare). View on Medicare.gov

    Location

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    San Diego Post-Acute Center is located at 1201 S Orange Ave, El Cajon, CA, 92020.

    About San Diego Post-Acute Center

    San Diego Post-Acute Center, also called SDPAC, sits in El Cajon, California, and serves both as a short-term rehab center and as a long-term care facility, which makes it helpful for people needing extra care after a hospital stay or for those needing more lasting support in daily life, and it's part of a family of local care centers, with other places like Stillwater Post Acute, BALBOA Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, and others nearby, plus some like Victoria Post Acute Care and Villa Las Palmas Healthcare in the region. There's a team of licensed staff, such as Kimberlee Fontanilla, LVN, who works as a Charge Nurse, and others like Cynthia Cerda, a respiratory therapist, and Mica Huynh, who helps with occupational therapy, and the team also includes a Lead Respiratory Therapist and other skilled staff to guide different services for each resident's needs every day and night. The center focuses on giving each resident care shaped to them by listening and spending time to know their routine and health needs, with many therapy services for different conditions, including physical, occupational, and speech therapy, as well as pain management, wound care, medication help, and help for those with memory loss through special memory care programs.

    The building has both private and semi-private rooms, with monthly pricing, and there's room to move around indoors and out, with spacious courtyards, a patio where they hold s'more cooks, and a large rehab gym full of equipment for therapy. Residents get access to round-the-clock licensed nursing, help with dressing, bathing, toileting, and mobility, along with regular housekeeping, cable TV, WiFi, a dining room, fitness center, kitchenettes, washers and dryers, and other comforts like a salon or barbershop and safe, handicap-accessible features throughout the property. People living here can take part in activities like social gatherings, arts and crafts, educational programs, and health and wellness events, with help to get around if needed and guest parking for family visits. Nurses and therapists take care of medical needs, with regular checks and post-surgical care, and there are also transportation services when needed for medical appointments or errands. The staff aims to respect residents' choices and support families, answering questions about insurance, Medicare, or Medicaid, and helping with planning for care or discharge. The whole place is kept clean and pleasant, with pretty surroundings and a homelike feel, and residents can count on safe, steady help to support health and healing in a friendly setting. The center keeps all its licenses and inspection records up to date for anyone who wants to check, offers tours or virtual visits, and provides assessments to make sure the right level of care is chosen.

    People often ask...

    San Diego Post-Acute Center offers assisted living, memory care, and skilled nursing.

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    The full address for this community is 1201 S Orange Ave, El Cajon, CA 92020.

    No, San Diego Post-Acute Center does not offer respite care. Respite care in assisted living communities provides temporary, short-term relief for primary caregivers by offering professional care for their loved ones. It allows individuals to stay in an assisted living community for a limited time, giving caregivers a break while ensuring residents receive necessary support and assistance with daily activities.

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