Community Care Center

    8665 La Mesa Blvd, La Mesa, CA, 91942
    • Assisted living
    • Memory care
    • Skilled nursing
    AnonymousLoved one of resident
    4.0

    Mostly positive care, monitor issues

    I had a mostly positive stay: staff were professional, kind and attentive, nursing and rehab (PT/OT) were strong, activities plentiful, the place felt clean and homey, and the food and customer service were often excellent - it gave me real peace of mind. That said, I saw intermittent issues - slow or missed meds, spotty communication, occasional understaffing and hygiene/response concerns - so I'd recommend it but advise families to stay engaged and monitor care.

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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

    3.70 · 135 reviews

    Overall rating

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

      3.6
    • Staff

      4.0
    • Meals

      3.2
    • Amenities

      2.9
    • Value

      1.0

    Pros

    • Kind, compassionate CNAs and nurses
    • Patient and attentive bedside care
    • High-quality wound care specialists
    • Strong PT/OT/Speech therapy and rehab team
    • Engaged, proactive nursing staff and charge nurses
    • Caring, helpful social services and admissions staff
    • Dedicated activities program with varied events
    • Specific standout staff and leaders praised by name
    • Clean and well-maintained common areas
    • Comfortable outdoor patios and pleasant grounds
    • Family-like atmosphere and personalized attention
    • Frequent resident checks and compassionate handling of wandering residents
    • Positive clinical outcomes and successful rehabilitations
    • Many reviewers would highly recommend the facility
    • Professional, courteous front-desk and administrative staff
    • Accessible equipment and well-equipped gym
    • Good accommodations for allergies and dietary needs (in some cases)
    • Some consistently good daily meals and special dining events
    • Rapid responsiveness noted by many reviewers
    • Improvements reported after ownership/leadership changes
    • Peace of mind and trust reported by multiple families
    • Helpful one-on-one customer service and advocacy by staff
    • Cleanliness and sanitation often praised
    • Warm, welcoming admissions experience for many

    Cons

    • Chronic understaffing leading to delays in care
    • Slow or delayed response to call lights and toileting needs
    • Inconsistent staff performance and variable compassion
    • Medication delays, late or missed meds reported
    • Occasional neglect of personal hygiene and bathing
    • Out-of-stock essential supplies (wipes, linens, pillows)
    • Mixed and inconsistent food quality
    • Broken promises about appointments, items, or therapies
    • Poor communication with families and external care teams
    • Premature or unsafe discharges leading to readmission
    • Instances of safety issues: falls, bruises, and injuries
    • Reports of unsanitary conditions and odors in some cases
    • Aging facility: cramped rooms, shared rooms, cosmetic repairs needed
    • Maintenance issues such as loose fixtures and taped wires
    • Long hold times, dropped calls, and lost/absent resident phones
    • Negative staff work environment and unpaid overtime
    • Night staff performance concerns (sleeping on duty reported)
    • Restricted or problematic visiting policies reported by some
    • Phone and call-button malfunctions or poor access
    • Allegations of neglect, poor emergency response, and deaths in rare reports
    • Smoking patio scheduling and odor concerns
    • Parking and logistical constraints (small parking)

    Summary review

    Overall sentiment across reviews of Community Care Center is strongly mixed but leans positive when focused on direct caregiving, rehabilitation outcomes, activities, and certain leaders or teams. A large number of reviewers praise the compassion, attentiveness, and professionalism of CNAs, nurses, therapists, social services, and admissions staff. Multiple family members described feeling welcomed and reassured, mentioning specific employees (admissions staff, nurses, therapists, and activities directors) by name and crediting them with excellent customer service, clinical skill, and personalized attention. Rehabilitation and therapy services (PT/OT/Speech) and wound care are frequently singled out as strengths; many reviewers credited the rehab team with helping residents recover and regain independence. The facility's activities program also receives repeated positive mention — varied events, enthusiastic activities staff, and community features such as petting zoos and outdoor patios contribute to a strong social environment for residents.

    Care quality descriptions show a clear pattern of variability. Numerous reviews report high-quality, attentive care: prompt check-ins, compassionate handling of wandering residents, proactive nursing, and staff who go above and beyond. Conversely, a significant subset of reviews describes troubling lapses: delays responding to call lights, long waits for diaper changes, missed or late medications, and episodes where personal hygiene or wound care were neglected. There are several specific and serious allegations — unsafe premature discharges that resulted in hospital readmission, delayed emergency responses, bruises and skin issues, and in a few extreme accounts, claims of neglect or death. These serious incidents appear less common in the dataset but are significant and repeatedly raise concerns about consistency and oversight.

    Staffing and workforce issues are a dominant and recurring theme tied to many negative reports. Many reviewers explicitly attribute delayed or inconsistent care to chronic understaffing, overworked employees, unpaid overtime, and occasional poor morale. Reports include night staff sleeping on duty, inconsistent performance between shifts, and some staff described as uncaring or slack. Positive reviews acknowledge improvements in leadership and staffing changes in some cases, suggesting that management and ownership changes have had beneficial effects for some residents, but staffing remains a major driver of both positive and negative experiences.

    Facility and operational conditions are described with mixed impressions. Many reviewers compliment the facility's cleanliness and sanitation, comfortable patios, well-kept common areas, and an accessible, professionally managed environment. At the same time, several commenters noted an older building with cramped or shared rooms, cosmetic issues, taped wiring or loose fixtures, occasional odors, and limited parking. Supplies shortages (wipes, linens, pillows) and occasional malfunctions of call buttons or phones were cited repeatedly as practical pain points that affect day-to-day comfort and safety.

    Dining receives polarized feedback: some reviewers rave about excellent meals, a popular omelette bar, and outstanding dietary service, while others describe bland, over- or under-salted food, overcooked vegetables, carbohydrate-heavy menus, and reliance on outside food due to dissatisfaction. Activities and the social environment are much more consistently praised than dining; the activities staff and program receive repeated commendations for enriching resident life.

    Communication and administrative coordination are another area of mixed experience. Positive accounts emphasize compassionate, professional administrative staff and helpful social services that facilitate transitions and provide peace of mind. Negative accounts highlight poor communication with families and external care teams, long hold times or dropped calls, lost or unreplaced portable phones, and instances where discharge planning or coordination with outside case managers was insufficient or abrupt. These communication issues compound clinical concerns when families cannot verify care status or when discharges occur without satisfactory follow-up.

    Taken together, the reviews suggest that Community Care Center can provide excellent, even exceptional care, particularly when therapy teams, wound care specialists, and specific frontline staff are engaged and supported. However, experiences are inconsistent and appear highly dependent on staffing levels, specific shifts, and occasional operational shortcomings. For prospective residents and families this means: confirm current staffing ratios and recent leadership changes, ask for specifics about wound care and rehab teams, verify communication protocols for families (including phone and call-button reliability), inquire about supply availability and emergency response procedures, and visit to evaluate room conditions and dining options. Many reviewers recommend the facility strongly based on positive clinical outcomes and compassionate staff, but several serious negative reports mean due diligence and direct questions are warranted before placement.

    Location

    Map showing location of Community Care Center

    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.

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    State of California Inspection Reports

    15

    Inspections

    1

    Type A Citations

    2

    Type B Citations

    5

    Years of reports

    14 Jul 2025
    Found compliance with licensing regulations; safety, staffing, resident care, medication administration, nutrition, activities, health monitoring, infection control, and emergency procedures were in place, and an exit interview was conducted with the manager.
    18 Jul 2024
    Found compliance with licensing regulations; environment clean, safe, and well-maintained with functioning safety equipment and accessible exits. Found staff adequate and trained; care plans current; medications administered per policy; nutritious meals and regular activities available; infection control and emergency plans in place.
    18 Jul 2024
    Confirmed compliance with regulations; thorough care, safety, and services provided to residents.
    29 Nov 2022
    Determined that refunds for prepaid care after a resident’s death and for removal of personal belongings were not issued.
    29 Nov 2022
    Confirmed failure to issue a refund after a resident's death and removal of personal belongings. Refund was required by regulations.
    • § 9058
    23 Oct 2022
    Found that a resident death reported in October 2022 was followed up during this visit; obtained relevant records and requested a copy of the death certificate, with no deficiencies cited.
    23 Oct 2022
    Confirmed that a resident death was reported and a follow-up visit was conducted with no deficiencies cited.
    08 Jul 2022
    Identified compliant infection control practices at the site, including entry screening, visitor sign-in, PPE availability, and hand hygiene; no deficiencies observed.
    08 Jul 2022
    Confirmed compliance with COVID-19 infection control protocols at the facility.
    • § 1569.652(a)
    14 Sept 2021
    Identified that a resident with dementia left without authorization and returned later the same day, with no exit-alert or monitoring device in place while the only staff member attended to another resident, though an absentee notification plan was followed.
    14 Sept 2021
    Identified deficiency in monitoring system led to resident leaving the facility unattended.
    22 Jul 2021
    Found no deficiencies during an unannounced, required one-year visit, after reviewing staff clearances and observing infection-control measures, including disinfection, testing surveillance, screening protocols, and PPE use.
    22 Jul 2021
    Conducted an inspection of the facility, no deficiencies were observed.
    09 Jul 2020
    Conducted a visit to observe compliance with physical plant regulations, found that accommodations, safety measures, and record-keeping were in order.
    • §
    09 Jun 2020
    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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