Plaza Healthcare Center

    1209 W Hemlock Way, Santa Ana, CA 92707
    • 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

    2.68·(44)

    Overall rating

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

      2.3
    • Staff

      2.6
    • Meals

      1.5
    • Amenities

      1.3
    • Value

      2.3

    Pros

    • Compassionate and professional nursing staff
    • Dedicated certified nursing assistants (CNAs)
    • Effective rehabilitation and therapy services
    • Specialized wound-care expertise
    • Supportive and capable business-office staff
    • Available activities and social programming
    • Clean, comfortable rooms cited by families
    • Accessible and engaged individual caregivers

    Cons

    • Understaffing leading to delayed resident assistance
    • Sanitation and odor-control deficiencies in some areas
    • Inconsistent assistance with activities of daily living (ADLs)
    • Gaps in medication administration and clinical monitoring
    • Poor responsiveness to family calls and inquiries
    • Variable staff conduct and customer-service tone
    • Weak management oversight and complaint-resolution practices
    • Deferred facility maintenance and climate-control issues
    • Pest-control concerns in resident areas
    • Inconsistent meal quality and dining experience
    • Inadequate accessibility and language-assistance services
    • Gaps in patient-safety oversight and discharge coordination

    Summary of reviews

    Reviews for Plaza Healthcare Center are markedly mixed, with clear examples of both strong hands-on caregiving and recurring operational weaknesses. Positive comments emphasize direct-care strengths: multiple families singled out compassionate, professional nurses and attentive CNAs, as well as effective rehabilitation and wound-care services. Some reviewers described clean, comfortable rooms and a capable business-office staff. In several accounts therapy and post-acute rehabilitation were characterized as beneficial and well-managed.

    At the same time, a number of clinical and care-delivery concerns emerge as consistent themes. Reviewers described lapses in medication administration and clinical monitoring, including delayed pain management and missed vital-sign or treatment checks; these gaps have, in some accounts, coincided with emergency-room transfers and clinical deterioration. Incontinence-care delays and inconsistent bathing or toileting assistance were also cited, indicating variability in assistance with activities of daily living (ADLs).

    Communication and staff-conduct issues are another recurrent pattern. Families reported difficulty reaching staff by phone, long hold times, unanswered calls, and inconsistent follow-through from administration and social-work personnel. Tone and customer-service demeanor were described as variable: while some caregivers were praised for empathy and professionalism, others were characterized as brusque or unhelpful. Language-access and accessibility concerns (for example, lack of ASL interpretation) were noted as contributing to family frustration.

    Facility-level and environmental issues appeared across several reviews. Some families reported sanitation and odor-control deficiencies in resident rooms and common spaces, along with pest-control concerns and deferred maintenance (peeling paint, dated interiors, and uneven climate control). Dining and activities received mixed feedback: there are activity programs and social opportunities, but programming was described by some as limited or inconsistently delivered, and meal quality was described as uneven.

    Management and oversight emerged as a focal area for improvement. Reviewers described weak complaint-resolution processes, discouraged family involvement in some cases, and concerns about discharge coordination and decision-making transparency. Those considering Plaza Healthcare Center should weigh the facility’s demonstrated strengths in hands-on care and rehabilitation against the operational issues identified here. An on-site visit that observes cleanliness, staffing levels, call-response times, clinical-monitoring practices, and how the facility addresses accessibility and family communication is advisable to assess current conditions and fit for an individual resident.

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    Medicare Ratings

    1·/ 5
    • Overall

    • Health Inspection

    • Staffing

    • Quality Measures

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    Location

    Plaza Healthcare Center is located at 1209 W Hemlock Way, Santa Ana, CA, 92707.

    About Plaza Healthcare Center

    Plaza Healthcare Center in Santa Ana, CA, takes care of seniors with all sorts of needs, whether someone needs help with daily activities like bathing, dressing, and taking medicine, or if someone needs skilled nursing, memory care, or even rehabilitation after a hospital stay, and the staff there helps with personal care, medication management, and has nurses around for 12 to 16 hours each day, while supervision is available 24 hours, so someone's always keeping an eye out. Folks get meals in a dining room set up like a restaurant, and the kitchen staff makes sure to offer meals for people with diabetes or other dietary needs, so no one's left out, and for those who want to stay active, there are fitness rooms, a game room, computer center, planned day trips, and even a beauty salon for styling and grooming, plus they keep a small library and outdoor spaces where people can gather or just sit outside. Each room comes furnished, and there are kitchenettes in case someone wants a snack, and laundry, housekeeping, and linen services are all handled, so residents don't have to worry about chores; if someone needs help moving around, there's walking and wheelchair assistance, and personal care assistants can help with bathing and toileting too. There's a mental wellness program, resident-run activities, arts and crafts, education programs, a wellness center, and lots of daily activities to keep the mind and body engaged, plus the staff will arrange for rides to doctor appointments or outings, with both community-run transportation and help setting up rides for non-medical trips. Plaza Healthcare Center also offers specialized memory care for people with dementia or Alzheimer's, providing a safe space, round-the-clock support, and memory activities, and for those recovering from illness or surgery, there are on-site rehabilitation services, like physical, occupational, and speech therapy, with treatment plans made by therapists focused on getting folks back to moving, feeling stronger, and being more independent. The nursing team can handle things like wound care, diabetic care, orthopedic care, respiratory therapy, and subacute care, and there's a podiatrist and occupational therapists who visit, plus Plaza is a Medicare-certified facility, which means they follow certain standards, and they accept long term care insurance too. The center runs every day between 7 a.m. and 8 p.m., and the place has other practical things like Wifi, washers and dryers, safety features, guest parking, and a sprinkler system. Folks can get personal support at all levels, from independent seniors to those who need a lot of help, and Plaza also has respite care so caregivers can take a short break when needed. The team at Plaza Healthcare Center believes in delivering care that helps restore health, keeps people engaged, and supports each resident with respect, all through a team-based approach, and with their connection to Country Villa Health Services, which runs many facilities across California, residents can feel like they're in good hands for the next step in their care.

    People often ask...

    Plaza Healthcare Center offers assisted living, memory care, and skilled nursing.

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    The full address for this community is 1209 W Hemlock Way, Santa Ana, CA 92707.

    No, Plaza Healthcare 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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