Community Care Center

    8665 La Mesa Blvd, La Mesa, CA 91942
    • Assisted Living
    • Memory Care
    • Skilled Nursing

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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

    3.85·(177)

    Overall rating

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

      3.8
    • Staff

      4.1
    • Meals

      3.1
    • Amenities

      2.7
    • Value

      1.0

    Pros

    • Compassionate, attentive nursing and CNA care
    • Skilled wound and respiratory care
    • Strong rehabilitative therapy (PT/OT/Speech)
    • Engaging and active activity program
    • Supportive social-services and admissions staff
    • Clean and sanitized common areas
    • Accessible therapy gym and outdoor patio
    • Varied dining options with specialty offerings
    • Personalized dietary accommodations
    • Family-friendly, welcoming atmosphere

    Cons

    • Inconsistent staffing levels causing delayed care
    • Variable staff conduct and training consistency
    • Gaps in family and external-provider communication
    • Inconsistent medication timing and appointment coordination
    • Inconsistent meal quality and menu execution
    • Intermittent sanitation and housekeeping concerns
    • Aging facility with maintenance and space constraints
    • Supply-chain and inventory shortfalls
    • Weak discharge-planning and care-transition processes
    • Gaps in transfer-safety and fall-prevention practices
    • Limited parking and constrained visitation access

    Summary of reviews

    Community Care Center elicits a mixed but distinct set of patterns. Many reviewers emphasize strong clinical capabilities in specific areas—particularly wound care and respiratory support—and consistent praise for the rehabilitative teams (physical, occupational and speech therapy). For families seeking active rehabilitative services, the facility's therapy staff and gym are frequently described as knowledgeable and effective, and several accounts cite successful recovery outcomes and meaningful improvement during stays.

    Staff culture is a prominent strength: a large proportion of feedback highlights compassionate, attentive CNAs, nurses and activity personnel who create a welcoming, family-like atmosphere. Admissions and social-services personnel are frequently named as supportive, and the activities program (including specialty events) is consistently noted as robust and engaging. These interpersonal strengths appear to be central to positive family experiences and to residents' sense of being cared for.

    At the same time, reviewers describe operational variability that affects day-to-day reliability. Understaffing and inconsistent shift coverage are linked to delayed responses to call lights, slower incontinence care, and occasional missed or late medications and appointments. There are repeated mentions of inconsistent staff conduct and variable training, which creates uneven experiences depending on assignment and shift. Communication gaps with families and external providers—and occasional difficulty reaching residents by phone—are recurring concerns that complicate care coordination and family reassurance.

    Dining and environmental impressions are mixed. Some reviewers praise meal variety and highlight positive offerings (for example, specialty bars and well-executed meals), while others describe inconsistent food quality and menu execution. Common areas and therapy spaces are often described as clean and well-maintained, but there are also notes of intermittent housekeeping and sanitation concerns as well as supply shortages (linens, wipes, pillows) that impact resident comfort. Multiple comments point to an older physical plant with maintenance needs, smaller shared rooms, and limited parking.

    Safety and care-transition practices merit attention. Several reviewers raised concerns about discharge-planning, premature or poorly coordinated transfers home, and instances that led to hospital readmission; a subset also described delayed emergency responses or outcomes that families found troubling. Abstracted across accounts, these indicate opportunities to strengthen transfer-safety protocols, medication-administration timeliness, and formal discharge coordination with families and external care teams.

    Overall, Community Care Center offers clear strengths in rehabilitative services, wound and respiratory care, and a compassionate frontline staff that many families find reassuring. Prospective residents and their families should weigh these strengths against operational variability: ask specific questions about current staffing levels and shift coverage, medication and discharge protocols, supply inventories, and recent corrective actions for maintenance and sanitation. An in-person tour that includes meeting therapy staff, inspecting room and common-area conditions, and clarifying communication channels will help determine whether the facility’s praised clinical and interpersonal strengths align with an individual resident's needs and safety expectations.

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    Medicare Ratings

    4·/ 5
    • Overall

    • Health Inspection

    • Staffing

    • Quality Measures

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

    Location

    Community Care Center is located at 8665 La Mesa Blvd, La Mesa, CA, 91942.

    About Community Care Center

    Community Care Center sits on La Mesa Blvd in La Mesa, California, runs every day from 9:00 in the morning until 9:00 at night, and has 115 beds for skilled nursing and sub-acute care, so there's room for a good number of residents who need various levels of help, and the facility's got a team of general physicians-Dr. Benjamin Goldenberg, Dr. Anmar Jalil, and Dr. Richard Tran-along with a Director of Nursing and a Medical Director who help oversee the care, and the staff includes registered nurses, CNAs, and LVNs who are available 24 hours a day, seven days a week, to provide both simple and complicated care. The center's privately held and employs between 51 and 200 people, blending clinical and holistic care while offering care for seniors through short-term post-acute stays, long-term care, and assistance with daily activities, all focusing on making it as comfortable as possible for every resident. Residents can expect management of constipation, dehydration, cachexia, asphyxia, hypoxemia, and even tricky issues like or rectal pain, headaches with migraine care, and adult failure to thrive, along with treatments for respiratory infections, abnormal thyroid, polyneuropathy from alcohol or drugs, fractures like clavicle and humerus, and chronic pulmonary heart diseases such as pulmonary hypertension.

    Community Care Center offers skilled nursing as a specialty, with programs for behavioral health care, Alzheimer's and dementia memory care, cardiac rehab, ventilator care, and also wound care, IV therapy, and enteral feeding, which means residents with memory loss, wounds, or feeding issues can get specialized help around the clock, and for those needing extra support, there's a subacute care station to help people coming out of the hospital or needing intensive care. Therapy teams help residents with speech, occupational, and physical needs, aiming to help people regain the best level of function they can. Residents with breathing or cardiopulmonary problems get respiratory therapy, while others get clinical lab and mental health services. The staff works on personalized care plans for each resident, inviting families to ask about both available rooms and possible waitlisting through a simple process that keeps things organized.

    Rooms come in 2-bed and 3-bed options, mainly designed to offer privacy while still keeping support close by, and while the building uses portable swamp coolers in the halls and doesn't have air conditioning in some areas, the facility makes up for it with outdoor common spaces for relaxing, strolling, or visiting with others in the sunlight. Housekeeping takes care of cleaning, and outpatient rehab helps folks get back on their feet if they've had hospital stays, plus there's structured activities, social events, and educational or recreational programs so people can make friends and keep up a good mood each day. Social services staff help with care planning and guidance during tricky transitions, and there's hospice services to focus on comfort and quality of life during serious or end-of-life moments.

    Community Care Center accepts tours for those who want to see it in person, and there's always someone available to talk about room options and how the care team can handle different needs. The center's well-known for its dedicated and professional staff and keeps its focus on treating residents as individuals, working to help each person live life with the right care, a bit of comfort, and a sense of community. The external website offers more information for those who want to do some reading beforehand.

    People often ask...

    Community Care Center offers assisted living, memory care, and skilled nursing.

    There are 11 photos of Community Care Center on Mirador.

    The full address for this community is 8665 La Mesa Blvd, La Mesa, CA 91942.

    No, Community Care 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.

    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 number374604326
    StatusLicensed
    Facility typeResidential Care Elderly
    Capacity6 residents
    LicenseeOASIS RESIDENTIAL CARE CORP
    EffectiveJuly 16th, 2020
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    Inspection Reports

    12

    Reports

    0

    Type A Citations

    2

    Type B Citations

    2

    Complaints

    6

    Years

    18 Jul 2026Inspection
    Found no deficiencies during the annual visit; compliance with licensing standards was observed.
    11 Dec 2025Inspection
    Identified an exclusion order affecting a licensee and noted discussions with licensing staff.
    14 Jul 2025Inspection
    Observed compliance with licensing regulations, with a clean, safe environment, adequate staffing, and up-to-date resident care.
    18 Jul 2024Inspection
    Observed the site was clean, safe, well-lit, and adequately staffed, with up-to-date resident care plans and proper medication administration. Nutritional needs were met, activities offered, and infection control and emergency procedures appeared in place, indicating overall compliance with licensing regulations.
    18 Jul 2024Complaint
    Investigated the allegation that staff did not provide adequate food service or properly administer medications; findings concluded the allegations were unsubstantiated.
    29 Nov 2022Complaint
    Determined that prepaid fees were not refunded after a resident's death, and that personal belongings remained at the site for about 15 days.
    • Type B1569.652(a)
    23 Oct 2022Inspection
    Conducted an unannounced case management follow-up after a resident death. No deficiencies were cited.
    08 Jul 2022Inspection
    Observed that infection-control measures were implemented and no deficiencies were found.
    14 Sept 2021Inspection
    Identified that a resident with dementia left the premises without permission around 10:00 AM and was located at about 10:45 AM. The absence of an auditory exit monitoring device or alert feature contributed to the incident.
    22 Jul 2021Inspection
    Found no deficiencies cited or observed during the visit. Staff had current clearances and infection control protocols were implemented.
    09 Jul 2020Inspection
    Conducted a visit to observe compliance with physical plant regulations, found that accommodations, safety measures, and record-keeping were in order.
    • Type B
    09 Jun 2020Inspection
    Confirmed successful completion of COMP II by the applicant, with understanding of key regulations and requirements for operating an assisted living facility.

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