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    $5,822 – 6,986/month

    Heart & Hand

    499 Sunset Rd, El Centro, CA 92243
    • Assisted Living

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    Amenities

    Healthcare services

    • Activities of daily living assistance
    • Assistance with bathing
    • Assistance with dressing
    • Assistance with transfers
    • Coordination with health care providers
    • Medication management

    Healthcare staffing

    • 24-hour supervision

    Meals and dining

    • Diabetes diet
    • Meal preparation and service
    • Special dietary restrictions

    Room

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

    Transportation

    • Transportation arrangement (medical)
    • Transportation to doctors appointments

    Community services

    • Move-in coordination

    Activities

    • Community-sponsored activities
    • Scheduled daily activities

    Reviews

    4.11·(18)

    Overall rating

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

      5.0
    • Staff

      4.4
    • Meals

      4.5
    • Amenities

      4.1
    • Value

      5.0

    Pros

    • Hands-on local ownership
    • Home-like residential environment
    • Homemade, appealing meals
    • Clean, well-maintained facility
    • Compassionate, experienced caregiving staff
    • Family-like, supportive culture
    • Engaging recreational activities
    • Dignified end-of-life and bereavement support
    • Professional, well-organized operations
    • Good value that provides families peace of mind

    Cons

    • Heavy on-call scheduling expectations for staff
    • Limited formal human-resources processes and pay transparency
    • Management-style and staff-morale concerns

    Summary of reviews

    Overall impression: Reviews present a broadly positive view of the facility's resident-facing care and environment, alongside a narrower set of concerns related to personnel management. Strengths described consistently include a home-like atmosphere, attentive hands-on ownership, and staff who deliver compassionate, personalized support. At the same time, there are multiple comments indicating operational and HR areas that prospective families and staff should probe further.

    Care and staff: The facility is characterized by experienced caregivers who provide attentive, comforting support and a high level of individualized care. Reviewers highlight respectful, family-like interactions, dignity in end-of-life support, and staff who enable residents to remain at home when that is the expressed preference. These accounts suggest strong strengths in caregiving skill, emotional support, and continuity of relationship between staff and residents.

    Dining, activities, and facilities: Dining is repeatedly described as homemade and appealing, with owner-prepared recipes and positive sensory cues such as pleasant aromas. Activities are described as engaging, contributing to resident comfort and happiness. The physical environment is portrayed as clean, attractive, and well-maintained, reinforcing the home-like residential feel reviewers emphasize.

    Management and operational patterns: Several reviews raise concerns about internal personnel-management practices. These include allegations of abrupt termination without clear explanation, limited formal processes for raises or performance evaluations, and demanding on-call scheduling expectations for staff. Those issues suggest potential impacts on staff morale and retention; they may indirectly affect continuity of care if not addressed. Ownership is described as accessible and hands-on from a resident perspective, but families and prospective employees should seek clarity about staffing patterns, HR policies, and grievance or review procedures.

    What to ask and verify: Prospective residents and families may benefit from asking the facility about staff-to-resident ratios, typical on-call or after-hours expectations, turnover rates, staff training and supervision, formal performance-evaluation and compensation policies, and how bereavement or end-of-life needs are coordinated. Overall, the reviews point to strong resident-centered care and a comfortable environment, with management and personnel-practice questions that deserve direct clarification during tours and contract discussions.

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    Location

    Heart & Hand is located at 499 Sunset Rd, El Centro, CA, 92243.

    About Heart & Hand

    Heart & Hand sits on one acre at 499 S Sunset Dr in El Centro, California, and offers assisted living, memory care, hospice care, and respite care for up to six seniors in a cozy residential care home, and the place has rooms that are either private or for companions if you like to share, so you'll find furnished rooms with move-in help and gardens where folks can walk, relax, or enjoy a meal on the covered patios, and caregivers have all the needed background checks, drug tests, and training, with many being Certified Nursing Assistants or experienced home caregivers, plus they're bonded and insured. The community supports people who need help with bathing, dressing, bathroom use, grooming, getting up and about, and even for those who use wheelchairs or are non-ambulatory. There's an emergency alert system, and the facility stays staffed 24 hours a day with people to help with daily needs, medication, transfers, and incontinence care, and there are meal services with diet changes for conditions like high blood pressure and diabetes. Heart & Hand provides skilled nursing services, regular transportation for doctor's visits, religious services, and trips to shopping, while entertainment like movie nights, music therapy, pet therapy, gaming, and creative programs help keep everyone active, with a reading room, game rooms, a dining area, garden spaces, wellness space or hot tub, and spots for social events and community programs like walking paths or social nights. You'll see a barber or beauty shop within the building, mobile barber and hairdresser services, and weekly housekeeping, with every resident getting access to things like Facebook, Messenger, and Instagram features for communication and updates, with special names for some programs or spaces. Heart & Hand stands as a non-medical facility, but works closely with healthcare providers and families, and it focuses on comfort and care for those who need assisted living, memory care, hospice, respite, or just help with daily tasks, keeping a home-like feel and community connections strong, as shown by its consistent 4.2 score over a handful of reviews.

    People often ask...

    Heart & Hand offers competitive pricing, with rates starting at a cost of $5,822 per month.

    Heart & Hand offers assisted living and board and care.

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    The full address for this community is 499 Sunset Rd, El Centro, CA 92243.

    No, Heart & Hand 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.

    Safety & Compliance

    In California, the Department of Social Services' Community Care Licensing Division licenses residential care facilities for the elderly, conducting inspections and investigating complaints.

    License number134601388
    StatusLicensed
    Facility typeResidential Care Elderly
    Capacity14 residents
    LicenseeHEART & HAND, INC.
    EffectiveMarch 17th, 2006
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    Inspection Reports

    4

    Reports

    0

    Citations

    0

    Complaints

    6

    Years

    07 May 2026Inspection
    Observed a sanitary care environment with functioning safety features and secure medication storage. Documentation for residents and staff appeared complete and up to date.
    28 Feb 2024Inspection
    Observed residents treated with dignity by staff, sufficient staff on duty to meet residents' needs, and no significant licensing concerns were raised.
    21 Mar 2022Inspection
    Found no deficiencies during an unannounced required one-year visit.
    07 Jul 2020Inspection
    Discussed positive cases, COVID-19 procedures, and personal protective equipment during Tele-Conference. No deficiencies cited.

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