Maclay Healthcare Center

    12831 Maclay St, Sylmar, CA 91342
    • 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

    3.78·(72)

    Overall rating

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

      3.3
    • Staff

      3.7
    • Meals

      3.0
    • Amenities

      3.8
    • Value

      1.0

    Pros

    • Attentive and compassionate nurses and CNAs
    • Effective short-term rehabilitation and therapy services
    • Clean, bright, and well-maintained common areas
    • Private, spacious rooms with pleasant views
    • Personalized intake and care planning
    • Dietary accommodations and accommodating kitchen staff
    • Engaging activities program and pleasant outdoor spaces
    • Supportive admission experience and welcoming environment
    • Service-animal accommodation
    • On-time medication administration in many cases

    Cons

    • Inconsistent staffing levels across shifts
    • Communication gaps with families and between departments
    • Medication-administration delays and medication-management errors
    • Delayed clinical response and emergency-response lapses
    • Incontinence-care delays and inconsistent hygiene routines
    • Wound-care and pressure-injury prevention gaps
    • Inconsistent meal quality and dietary oversight
    • Personal-possessions tracking weaknesses and allegations of missing items
    • Aging physical plant and maintenance shortfalls
    • Limited separation of resident populations (rehab, dementia, long-term)
    • Variable care quality depending on staff assignment
    • Administrative-process inefficiencies and long phone hold times

    Summary of reviews

    Overall impression: Reviews describe a facility with meaningful strengths in hands-on caregiving and rehabilitation services alongside clear operational variability. Many families praised individual nurses, licensed staff, and CNAs for compassionate, patient-centered interactions and for achieving positive rehabilitation outcomes. At the same time, a number of accounts indicate persistent system-level problems that affect safety, continuity of care, and family confidence.

    Care quality and clinical issues: Clinical performance appears inconsistent. Positive outcomes include successful, complex rehab episodes, timely medication administration, and attentive wound/medical oversight in many cases. Conversely, reviewers described delayed responses to call lights and clinical changes, extended waits for emergency evaluation, medication-administration lapses, and concerns about pressure-injury prevention. These patterns suggest gaps in regular monitoring, timely clinical escalation, and robust medication-safety processes.

    Staff and responsiveness: Staff behavior and competence are portrayed as highly variable. Numerous reviews single out nurses and aides as compassionate, diligent, and effective—particularly during specific shifts or with named staff members—while other accounts describe understaffed day shifts, slow call responses, inconsistent follow-through, and concerns about the tone of staff communication. This combination indicates that resident experience is often dependent on staffing levels and individual staff assignments, and that family presence or advocacy can materially influence care responsiveness.

    Dining and nutrition: The facility offers dietary accommodations and has staff who are praised for meal service and kitchen responsiveness. Several reviewers noted good meals and accommodating menu adjustments. However, there are also accounts of inconsistent food quality and dietary oversight (for example, carbohydrate management for residents with elevated blood sugar), suggesting the need for clearer nutritional-planning and monitoring protocols for medically complex residents.

    Activities and environment: Many families described the environment as clean, bright, and welcoming, with engaging activities, pleasant outdoor/lawn spaces, and options for private rooms with views. Activity staff and social services were frequently called out as compassionate and helpful, and the facility permits service animals. These elements support residents’ social and emotional needs when staffing and care routines are functioning well.

    Facilities and operations: The physical plant is generally described as clean and airy, though some reviewers noted aging infrastructure and maintenance shortfalls. Layout and unit organization were cited as a concern for some families because the facility does not strongly segregate short-term rehabilitation, dementia care, and long-term residents, which can affect roommate dynamics and care appropriateness. Parking and certain maintenance responsiveness were also mentioned as areas for improvement.

    Management and notable patterns: Administrative experiences are mixed. Several families praised administrative responsiveness and planning during admissions, while others described long phone hold times, difficulty with discharge or placement processes, and inconsistent follow-through from leadership. There are also serious allegations in some accounts about missing personal belongings and cash; these assertions indicate a need for stronger inventory controls and secure property-accountability procedures.

    What to watch for: Reviews point to clear variability by shift and staff assignment. Prospective families should confirm current staffing ratios, ask about medication-safety and wound-care protocols, review procedures for tracking personal possessions, and clarify emergency-response expectations. Regular family presence or an assigned advocate appears to improve oversight of day-to-day care. Overall, the facility demonstrates substantive strengths—particularly in rehabilitation and with many individual caregivers—alongside operational weaknesses that warrant careful review and ongoing monitoring by families and discharge planners.

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    Medicare Ratings

    2·/ 5
    • Overall

    • Health Inspection

    • Staffing

    • Quality Measures

    Cited by CMS for abuse, or potential for abuse, on its most recent survey cycle.

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

    Location

    Maclay Healthcare Center is located at 12831 Maclay St, Sylmar, CA, 91342.

    About Maclay Healthcare Center

    Maclay Healthcare Center offers a variety of services and amenities for residents, and you'll see that it has thoughtful features like a reading room, garden areas where folks can sit outside, and rooms set up for games or spending time together, which might be helpful for socializing or just having a change of scenery. The center also has a barber or salon on site, a hot tub, a sauna or wellness room, and holds regular community night events, movie entertainment, and planned activities like music and art projects, plus exercise programs that help people stay active in simple ways. There's transportation coordination for trips out to doctor visits, nearby shopping, or churches, so families don't have to worry about getting their loved one to important appointments. Wellness schedules include music therapy, pet therapy, tabletop games, and even outdoor trips, which give some variety in the week, and for those worried about meals, there are three home-cooked dishes each day with dietary needs managed for residents living with conditions like diabetes or high blood pressure. Residents receive help with daily living activities such as showering, dressing, grooming, and bathing, and trained caregivers are on duty at all times. The center has a security system and protected living areas to prevent wandering, which is important for those dealing with memory problems. There are both semi-private and private rooms, and the community has a licensed capacity of 141 beds, so it's a mid-sized place. Maclay Healthcare Center offers Alzheimer's and Memory Care programs with special activities just for those needs, and there's 24/7 RN coverage for medical support, with wound care, IV TPN and therapy services provided as needed. The staff work under a servant leadership approach, aiming to help people feel stable, fulfilled, and well cared for. Monthly outings and daily planned activities try to keep life interesting and engaging. Virtual tours are available for anyone wanting to see what the facility is like before visiting in person.

    People often ask...

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

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    The full address for this community is 12831 Maclay St, Sylmar, CA 91342.

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