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    $5,068 – 6,588/month

    The Chalet Montara

    1185 Acacia St, Montara, CA 94037
    • Assisted Living
    • Memory Care

    Attentive staff, beautiful rooms, peace

    I'm very grateful my loved one lives at Chalet Montara - the staff (especially Director Loi) are loving, attentive, and quick to communicate. Private, beautifully maintained rooms and baths, engaging activities and music, peaceful gardens, and genuine above-and-beyond care give me real peace of mind; I highly recommend them.

    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

    4.93·(14)

    Overall rating

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

      5.0
    • Staff

      5.0
    • Meals

      5.0
    • Amenities

      4.8
    • Value

      4.9

    Pros

    • Welcoming, friendly staff
    • Caring and compassionate caregivers
    • Professional and attentive service
    • Administrator/Director Loi is communicative and responsive
    • Staff goes above and beyond
    • Personalized and patient care
    • Strong family-like atmosphere
    • Good communication with families and updates
    • Helps coordinate with outside doctors
    • High-quality clinical care and medical responsiveness
    • Clean, meticulously maintained building
    • Spacious rooms
    • Private rooms with private bathrooms
    • Beautifully furnished and tasteful decor
    • Comfortable beds
    • Luxurious feel and attention to detail
    • Serene, nature-filled surroundings and gardens
    • Well-maintained pathways and stunning views
    • Accessible design and inviting communal areas
    • Engaging activities (games, arts & crafts, live music)
    • Regular music time with resident participation
    • Opportunities for socializing and recreation
    • Supportive and enriching environment
    • Good dining/food
    • Recommended by outside rehabilitation professionals
    • Long-term resident satisfaction and gratitude
    • Peace of mind for families

    Summary of reviews

    Overall sentiment: Reviews of The Chalet Montara are overwhelmingly positive, with repeated emphasis on compassionate staff, attentive management, well-maintained facilities, active programming, and strong family communication. Multiple reviewers explicitly recommend the community and describe both short-term and long-term resident satisfaction. There are no consistent negative themes or complaints present in the provided summaries.

    Care quality and staff: The dominant theme across reviews is the high quality of personal care. Staff are described as welcoming, caring, patient, kind, and cheerful; reviewers repeatedly note that caregivers provide genuine, above-and-beyond attention and create a family-like atmosphere. Several summaries highlight the facility’s ability to coordinate with outside doctors and to handle medical necessities promptly, which contributes to families’ peace of mind. Communication is called out as a particular strength — staff and director Loi are described as quick to respond, providing frequent updates (including unannounced visits from families being welcomed), and keeping families informed about residents’ status. The owner and management are also framed as engaged and caring, which supports the sense of safety and trust.

    Management and leadership: Administrator/Director Loi is named multiple times and portrayed positively — described as sweet, easy to communicate with, maintaining high standards, and responsive to family messages. Reviewers credit leadership with setting a high bar for cleanliness, staffing, and overall resident experience. This hands-on, communicative leadership style appears to reinforce the consistent praise for operations and the warm culture.

    Facilities and environment: The physical environment receives strong praise. Rooms are described as spacious, private (including private bathrooms in some cases), beautifully furnished, and meticulously maintained with tasteful decor and attention to detail. Comfort elements such as comfortable beds and a luxurious feel are mentioned. The property’s outdoor spaces — gardens, well-kept pathways, and scenic views — are highlighted as serene and restorative, supporting resident wellbeing and offering opportunities for safe outdoor enjoyment.

    Activities, social life, and enrichment: Reviewers emphasize an active, inviting communal life. The facility is said to offer a variety of entertainment and engagement options: games, arts and crafts, live music, and regular music time where residents participate (some play instruments). Communal areas are described as accessible and inviting, and staff are perceived as fostering social opportunities that contribute to resident thriving and gratitude. This programming, combined with the supportive environment, appears to contribute meaningfully to resident happiness and family confidence.

    Dining and cleanliness: Cleanliness and food quality are both specifically mentioned as positives. The building is described as clean and well-maintained, and reviewers report good food. These operational strengths are cited alongside clinical care as factors that lead rehabilitation centers and families to recommend Chalet Montara.

    Patterns and notable strengths: Recurrent patterns include praise for individualized, compassionate care; effective communication and coordination with outside providers; hands-on, responsive leadership; well-presented, comfortable private rooms; and a lively, engaging activity program. The cumulative effect conveyed by the reviews is that Chalet Montara provides a holistic environment — medical, social, and environmental — that supports resident wellbeing and reassures families.

    Gaps and concerns: The supplied review summaries contain no explicit or recurring criticisms, service shortfalls, safety concerns, or complaints. Because the summaries are uniformly positive, no negative themes are available to analyze. If a more balanced assessment is desired, additional sources or longer-form reviews would be needed to identify any infrequent or subtle issues that might not appear in these summaries.

    Conclusion: Based on the available review summaries, Chalet Montara is consistently praised for its caring, communicative staff and leadership, high-quality and personalized care, attractive and well-maintained facilities, strong activity programming, and effective family communication. Families and rehabilitation professionals recommend the community, and reviewers report peace of mind and gratitude for the care their loved ones receive.

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    Location

    Map showing location of The Chalet Montara

    The Chalet Montara is located at 1185 Acacia St, Montara, CA, 94037.

    About The Chalet Montara

    The Chalet Montara sits on the coast near the Pacific Ocean, so residents enjoy views and a calm, peaceful setting, and the place really feels more like a country home than anything big or fancy, with rooms that are spacious and sometimes furnished, and some of the rooms are painted and tastefully decorated to make them welcoming. The facility always keeps things safe, with high-tech wander guards and nurse call buttons in every room, and everything is made wheelchair accessible for the folks who need it. There's a family-owned feeling because the owner, Loi, and the staff work hard to treat everyone like part of a family, and staff speak several languages, like Dutch, Korean, Norwegian, Filipino, Japanese, and German, helping people from all backgrounds feel at home. Residents who need various kinds of care-assisted living, memory care, diabetes support, even incontinence or injectable medication help-receive personalized attention, and there's always someone there 24/7, every day, to assist with daily tasks like bathing, dressing, and checking blood sugar.

    Rooms come with private bathrooms, Wi-Fi, air conditioning, cable TV, and smart TVs where folks can enjoy Netflix, Tubi, or even traditional channels. There are quiet rooms for reflection, a library with plenty to read, a physical therapy room, and a movie room (it's actually the old chapel, now with a decorated white wall that acts as the screen), so there's space for almost anything a person might want to do. Meals are shared in a dining room next to a commercial kitchen, with healthy, vegetarian, no-sugar, or low-sodium options, and staff accommodate special diets or food restrictions every day. Besides regular meals, there are activity programs with games, BBQs, live music, birthday parties, picnics, crafts, and on-site yoga classes, and there's a full activity schedule that gives everyone something to do, whether it's light therapy or just a walk in the garden with a caregiver.

    There's a separate exercise room with light weights, plus a salon for haircuts and grooming, and additional services like laundry, housekeeping, and beautician appointments to keep life running smoothly. Folks use the computer, lounge outdoors on the sunny deck, enjoy the garden, or join in for movie nights. Respite care is available for short stays or after surgery. Those who have memory care or communication needs-like dementia or speech therapy needs-get patient, attentive help. The Chalet Montara's staff has experience and compassion, and there's close support for those with complex needs, like diabetes, medication management, or recovery from injury.

    Residents enjoy visiting hours every day and can get help arranging calls or meet-ups with family and friends, and there's parking on-site and help with transportation for appointments or outings nearby. Medical facilities, dialysis centers, and Mills-Peninsula Hospital are a short ride away, and the area's close to shops, cafes, restaurants, hiking trails above the shore, and the beaches. The Chalet Montara aims for a holistic approach, nurturing residents' bodies, minds, and spirits, with services offered by Cedar Lane Care Home, and it's a place where each person gets support tailored to their needs, whether for independent living, a more hands-on assisted approach, or short-term help as they recover or transition.

    People often ask...

    The Chalet Montara offers competitive pricing, with rates starting at a cost of $5,068 per month.

    The Chalet Montara offers assisted living and memory care.

    There are 18 photos of The Chalet Montara on Mirador.

    The full address for this community is 1185 Acacia St, Montara, CA 94037.

    No, The Chalet Montara 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 number415601129
    StatusLicensed
    Facility typeResidential Care Elderly
    Capacity24 residents
    LicenseeJLA HEALTHCARE SERVICES LLC
    EffectiveJune 17th, 2022
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    Inspection Reports

    19

    Reports

    15

    Type A Citations

    5

    Type B Citations

    4

    Complaints

    4

    Years

    16 Jun 2026Inspection
    Issued an exclusion letter for staff #1 and confirmed the staff member no longer works at the facility.
    11 Jun 2026Inspection
    Found no deficiencies during an unannounced annual visit. Observed clean, well-maintained spaces with secured medications and proper safety equipment.
    05 May 2026Inspection
    Identified several health and safety deficiencies during a case management visit... including unlocked chemical storage, repurposed staff rooms, missing no-smoking signs for oxygen use, and failure to notify the local fire authority about oxygen in use.
    • Type A87309(a)
    • Type A87209
    • Type A87616(a)
    • Type A87303(a)
    • Type A87618(b)(3)(B)
    • Type A87618(b)(3)(A)
    • Type B87307(a)
    05 May 2026Inspection
    Investigated an incident in which a resident reported pain after being showered by two male staff; reviewed staff interviews, reports to authorities, and medical assessment.
    19 Jun 2025Inspection
    Identified two regulatory deficiencies: fire clearance for bedridden resident in an unapproved room, and missing health screenings including TB testing for staff.
    • Type A87202(a)(2)
    • Type A87412(a)(11)
    09 Dec 2024Complaint
    Investigated the allegation that the operation is in financial distress; found the claim unfounded.
    06 Nov 2024Inspection
    Investigated an incident where resident #1 alleged that resident #2 hit him/her; no injuries were noted and both residents were adjusting well.
    17 Jun 2024Inspection
    Identified multiple regulatory deficiencies during an unannounced visit, including missing staff health screenings, missing TB records, and incomplete resident admission documents and medical assessments. Also found insufficient documentation for emergency drills, postural supports, and related resident care requirements.
    • Type AHSC1569.695(c)
    • Type ACCR87411(d)(f)
    • Type ACCR87608(a)(3)
    • Type ACCR87456(a)(3)
    • Type BHSC1569.625(b)(2)
    • Type BCCR87506(b)(15)
    • Type BHSC1569.69(b)
    • Type BCCR87456(a)(3)
    18 Jan 2024Complaint
    Investigated an allegation that staff neglected to supervise a resident who swallowed dentures and died. The allegation was found unfounded.
    27 Nov 2023Inspection
    Reviewed amendments to LIC9099 and LIC9099A after an unannounced case management visit. Discussed the amendments with the administrator and found that no new citations were issued.
    21 Nov 2023Complaint
    Identified that a staff member posted a video showing residents on their personal social media account without consent.
    • Type A87468.1(a)(1)
    02 Aug 2023Inspection
    Identified that staff not identified as appropriate skilled professionals administered daily glucose finger-stick tests to a resident, posing an immediate health risk.
    • Type A87628(a)
    02 Aug 2023Complaint
    Investigated two allegations: staff administering insulin injections and uncleared staff working; the insulin injections allegation was unsubstantiated and the uncleared staff allegation was unfounded.
    01 Nov 2022Inspection
    Identified that two staff members lacked transferred criminal record clearances and were providing care, posing health and safety risk. Immediate civil penalties were assessed for both individuals.
    • Type A87355(e)(2)
    01 Nov 2022Inspection
    Investigated a complaint related to a former licensee address and delivered findings to the administrator.
    07 Oct 2022Inspection
    Investigated a complaint about a previous location and delivered findings.
    15 Aug 2022Inspection
    Investigated a complaint about a dispute between landlord and licensee at a previous location, delivered findings, and noted no citations were issued.
    31 May 2022Inspection
    Observed the site to be clean, tidy, and equipped with functioning safety systems; immediate licensure was recommended pending final approval.
    19 May 2022Inspection
    Observed cleaning and maintenance concerns, including debris, rusty and stained shower tubs, and foggy windows, during a prelicensing evaluation. Also noted absence of laundry appliances and elevated water temperatures at bathroom fixtures.

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