Victoria Care Center

    5445 everglades St, Ventura, CA 93003
    • Skilled Nursing

    Very pleased with excellent care

    I'm very pleased with the care my mom received. Doctors communicated clearly and nurses, therapists and office staff were attentive, professional and patient-first. The facility is clean, well-lit and comfortable, with good food, bedding and responsive staff - overall we were very happy, with only minor room for improvement.

    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)
    • Transportation to doctors appointments

    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

    3.00·(9)

    Overall rating

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

      3.1
    • Staff

      3.0
    • Meals

      2.5
    • Amenities

      3.0
    • Value

      3.0

    Pros

    • Clean, well-lit interior
    • Freshly maintained rooms and paint
    • Attentive, friendly caregiving staff
    • Professional nursing and administrative personnel
    • Effective physical therapy services
    • Comfortable bedding with air-mattress availability
    • Pleasant dining area and dining-room environment
    • Responsive assistance for routine needs

    Cons

    • Inconsistent meal-service delivery
    • Variable food quality
    • Understaffing and staffing shortages
    • Delayed nursing responsiveness to call signals
    • Gaps in clinical oversight and physician availability
    • Inconsistent sanitation and infection-control practices
    • Inconsistent bathing and incontinence-care routines
    • Safety-practice gaps around transfers and fall prevention
    • Poor documentation and internal communication of clinical information
    • Limited activities and social programming
    • Small, crowded rooms with limited visitor seating
    • Room-readiness and linen-management deficiencies
    • Call-routing practices that impede clinical escalation

    Summary of reviews

    The reviews describe a facility with a mix of clear strengths and notable operational weaknesses. Strengths cited include a generally clean, well-lit physical environment with recent maintenance, supportive bedding accommodations, and a pleasant dining area. Several accounts praise caregivers, nursing staff, office personnel, and physical-therapy staff as professional, patient-focused and helpful during routine care interactions.

    Care-quality accounts are mixed. Positive experiences center on attentive staff and effective therapy services; however, negative comments point to inconsistent clinical coverage and limited physician presence, with much of direct clinical care provided by RNs and aides. Multiple comments reflect delayed response to call signals and call-routing that directs issues to aides rather than clinicians, which reviewers associate with slower escalation of medical needs. There are recurring concerns about bathing schedules, incontinence-care practices, and infection-control processes; these raise questions about consistency of basic care routines and clinical protocols.

    Staffing and management issues appear to be a central theme. While many families described compassionate and hardworking staff, there are repeated notes about understaffing, exhausted employees, and resulting lapses such as delayed assistance, residents left unattended for extended periods, and problems with room readiness and linens. Reviewers also reported lapses in documentation and communication—examples include clinical notes not being read, allergies not consistently followed, and families not being notified promptly during infection events or other clinical changes.

    Dining and programming show variability. Some reviewers offered positive feedback about food and mealtime atmosphere; others reported inconsistent meal service and poor food quality on occasion. Activity programming is described as limited by several reviewers, suggesting fewer engagement options for residents than some families expect.

    The physical environment is characterized by a contrast between well-maintained common areas and practical limitations in resident spaces. Rooms are described as small and, at times, crowded with limited visitor seating. Amenities such as televisions and fresh paint are appreciated, but limitations in space and occasional cleanliness or linen issues were noted.

    Taken together, the pattern is one of a facility that can provide attentive, compassionate care and maintain a pleasant environment under normal conditions, but that may struggle when staffing levels, clinical oversight, and operational controls are strained. Prospective residents and families should consider asking specific questions about current staffing ratios, physician coverage, call-response times and routing, infection-control protocols, bathing and incontinence-care routines, fall-prevention measures, documentation practices, and the daily activity schedule before making a placement decision.

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    Medicare Ratings

    5·/ 5
    • Overall

    • Health Inspection

    • Staffing

    • Quality Measures

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

    Location

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    Victoria Care Center is located at 5445 everglades St, Ventura, CA, 93003.

    About Victoria Care Center

    Victoria Care Center is a modern skilled nursing facility with 188 beds and a strong focus on both short-term rehabilitation and long-term care, and folks here have access to 24-hour care from trained nursing staff who follow detailed, personalized care plans made with help from families and healthcare providers, which is important because every resident comes with their own set of needs and goals, and the center supports them with a wide range of services like intravenous therapy, restorative nursing, dementia care, respite care, wound care, enteral feeding, and hospice. You'll see a lot happening here, and they've got three kinds of in-house therapy-physical, occupational, and speech-all provided by professionals right on site, and because recovering isn't just about medicine, there's a big activities calendar with music, fitness, field trips, family events, and religious gatherings to help folks stay active and connected, with spaces inside and out that are comfortable and well cared for, and beautifully landscaped grounds you can walk through or look at through the windows. Rooms come in both private and semi-private setups with housekeeping and laundry services to keep things tidy, and meals are planned with nutrition in mind by trained dieticians so everyone gets satisfying, healthy food, and regular check-ins keep nutrition on track. You'll find skilled nursing services supported by 2.41 hours of CNA care, 0.73 RN hours, and 0.75 LPN hours per resident, plus total staff hours per resident are 1.48, and the place keeps a good occupancy rate with 136 residents, which sits at about 72%. Victoria Care Center runs as a for-profit corporation, they participate in Medicare and Medicaid, and they're fully sprinklered for fire safety, and even though it's not inside a hospital, the facility keeps high care standards, backed up by regular environmental checks and a 5-star overall rating from Medicare.gov. Residents, with the help of family councils and staff, have a say in their care, and the ownership covers more than one facility. Vaccinations against things like influenza and pneumonia are available, and options for pain management and spa-like therapies are routine here so folks can focus on comfort, and if someone needs to regain strength or learn daily skills again, there's a stay active program and hands-on therapies that use modern equipment. Victoria Care Center isn't perfect, and it's listed as a special focus facility, but it does keep working on quality, aiming to help each resident find comfort and improvement with honest attention to individual needs, and things like social interactions and regular outings give people a chance to feel engaged with life beyond their health concerns, making it a reputable choice for geriatric and rehab care.

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    No, Victoria 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.

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