Watsonville Post Acute Center provides skilled nursing care and has several types of resident supervision, focusing mostly on post-acute and rehabilitation care, and here you'll find staff like a director of nursing, therapist teams, and personal care assistants who help with daily needs such as bathing, dressing, grooming, toileting, and medication support, so you've got people around to help with both medical and personal care, and the facility itself has 95 certified beds with an average daily occupancy of about 88 residents, which means rooms do fill up but there's often a few open beds. The center offers both assisted living and nursing home services, and offers programs like social activities, arts and crafts, health and wellness programs, and education sessions, with meal services, transportation, housekeeping, maintenance, and even amenities like a game room, guest parking, wifi, a dining room, a salon, and cable TV in rooms-so residents have some stuff to do and ways to stay comfortable, and you'll find safety features like handicap accessibility, wheelchair assistance, sprinkler systems, and other supports for people who need a safer living space, all in a place operated as a for-profit limited liability company with an affiliation to Cambridge Healthcare Services. Residents can take part in fitness center services and get access to podiatry, wound care, and occupational therapy, and the therapy staff work on developing custom rehabilitation programs designed to help each person return to their best possible function, with evaluations by rehab pros to see what'll help each individual.
Folks can visit residents between 10:00am and 8:00pm daily if they want to see their family, and a virtual tour is also available for those who want to see the facility remotely. Watsonville Post Acute Center has a nurse turnover rate of 41.0%, which is above the state average, and nursing staff provide about 3.92 hours of care per resident daily, which falls below the state average of 4.5 hours, so there may be less staff time per resident than at some other places. The facility has a history of 37 total deficiencies in inspection reports, with 8 deficiencies found on its recent standard inspection-including one related to infection and others for quality of life, care, and safety; for example, there were deficiencies for not giving the right treatment as ordered and for lacking accident prevention and supervision (F0684 and F0689), and the facility was fined $8,018 for an infection control issue noted in a March 8, 2024 report, and there have been four infection-related citations in total. There's an administrator on-site, and staff members say they try to design personalized programs and work towards a clean, comfortable, and safe environment, aiming to help residents achieve their highest level of independence and results. Some information, like specifics on certain services, unique features, or special names for programs or rooms, wasn't available due to a server error, but the center does handle both short-term rehabilitation and longer-term stays for seniors needing ongoing care.
