Inspection citations
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| Date | Severity | What inspectors found | Visit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 4, 2026 | D · potential | Honor the resident's right to share a room with spouse or roommate of choice and receive written notice before a change is made. | Complaint |
| Mar 12, 2026 | D · potential | Provide the required documentation or notification related to the resident's needs, appeal rights, or bed-hold policies. | Routine |
| Mar 12, 2026 | D · potential | Develop and implement a complete care plan that meets all the resident's needs, with timetables and actions that can be measured. | Routine |
| Mar 12, 2026 | D · potential | Develop the complete care plan within 7 days of the comprehensive assessment; and prepared, reviewed, and revised by a team of health professionals. | Routine |
| Mar 12, 2026 | E · potential | Ensure services provided by the nursing facility meet professional standards of quality. | Routine |
| Mar 12, 2026 | D · potential | Provide safe and appropriate respiratory care for a resident when needed. | Routine |
| Mar 12, 2026 | D · potential | Post nurse staffing information every day. | Routine |
| Mar 12, 2026 | D · potential | Ensure drugs and biologicals used in the facility are labeled in accordance with currently accepted professional principles; and all drugs and biologicals must be stored in locked compartments, separately locked, compartments for controlled drugs. | Routine |
| Mar 12, 2026 | F · potential | Procure food from sources approved or considered satisfactory and store, prepare, distribute and serve food in accordance with professional standards. | Routine |
| Mar 12, 2026 | D · potential | Safeguard resident-identifiable information and/or maintain medical records on each resident that are in accordance with accepted professional standards. | Routine |
| Mar 12, 2026 | E · potential | Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program. | Routine |
| Jan 15, 2026 | E · potential | Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to prevent accidents. | Complaint |
| Aug 27, 2025 | D · potential | Provide medically-related social services to help each resident achieve the highest possible quality of life. | Complaint |
| Aug 18, 2025 | D · potential | Ensure residents do not lose the ability to perform activities of daily living unless there is a medical reason. | Complaint |
| Jul 11, 2025 | D · potential | Provide appropriate care for residents who are continent or incontinent of bowel/bladder, appropriate catheter care, and appropriate care to prevent urinary tract infections. | Complaint |
| Jul 11, 2025 | D · potential | Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program. | Complaint |
| Jun 23, 2025 | D · potential | Provide appropriate treatment and care according to orders, resident’s preferences and goals. | Complaint |
| Jun 23, 2025 | G · harm | Provide appropriate pressure ulcer care and prevent new ulcers from developing. | Complaint |
| Jun 23, 2025 | D · potential | Make sure that the nursing home area is safe, easy to use, clean and comfortable for residents, staff and the public. | Complaint |
| Apr 1, 2025 | D · potential | Not hire anyone with a finding of abuse, neglect, exploitation, or theft. | Complaint |
| Apr 1, 2025 | E · potential | Provide appropriate pressure ulcer care and prevent new ulcers from developing. | Complaint |
| Feb 13, 2025 | D · potential | Allow residents to self-administer drugs if determined clinically appropriate. | Routine |
| Feb 13, 2025 | D · potential | Honor the resident's right to request, refuse, and/or discontinue treatment, to participate in or refuse to participate in experimental research, and to formulate an advance directive. | Routine |
| Feb 13, 2025 | D · potential | Provide timely notification to the resident, and if applicable to the resident representative and ombudsman, before transfer or discharge, including appeal rights. | Routine |
| Feb 13, 2025 | D · potential | Ensure each resident receives an accurate assessment. | Routine |
| Feb 13, 2025 | E · potential | Ensure services provided by the nursing facility meet professional standards of quality. | Routine |
| Feb 13, 2025 | D · potential | Ensure necessary information is communicated to the resident, and receiving health care provider at the time of a planned discharge. | Routine |
| Feb 13, 2025 | D · potential | Provide appropriate foot care. | Routine |
| Feb 13, 2025 | E · potential | Ensure that nurses and nurse aides have the appropriate competencies to care for every resident in a way that maximizes each resident's well being. | Routine |
| Feb 13, 2025 | D · potential | Observe each nurse aide's job performance and give regular training. | Routine |
| Feb 13, 2025 | D · potential | Ensure medication error rates are not 5 percent or greater. | Routine |
| Feb 13, 2025 | E · potential | Ensure drugs and biologicals used in the facility are labeled in accordance with currently accepted professional principles; and all drugs and biologicals must be stored in locked compartments, separately locked, compartments for controlled drugs. | Routine |
| Feb 13, 2025 | D · potential | Ensure each resident receives and the facility provides food that accommodates resident allergies, intolerances, and preferences, as well as appealing options. | Routine |
| Feb 13, 2025 | D · potential | Safeguard resident-identifiable information and/or maintain medical records on each resident that are in accordance with accepted professional standards. | Routine |
| Feb 13, 2025 | D · potential | Inform resident or representatives choice to enter into binding arbitration agreement and right to refuse. | Routine |
| Feb 13, 2025 | D · potential | Set up an ongoing quality assessment and assurance group to review quality deficiencies and develop corrective plans of action. | Routine |
| Feb 13, 2025 | F · potential | Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program. | Routine |
| Sep 24, 2024 | D · potential | Develop and implement a complete care plan that meets all the resident's needs, with timetables and actions that can be measured. | Complaint |
| Sep 19, 2024 | D · potential | Provide safe, appropriate pain management for a resident who requires such services. | Complaint |
| Aug 29, 2024 | E · potential | Create and put into place a plan for meeting the resident's most immediate needs within 48 hours of being admitted | Complaint |
| Aug 27, 2024 | D · potential | Ensure each resident must receive and the facility must provide necessary behavioral health care and services. | Complaint |
| Aug 21, 2024 | D · potential | Ensure residents have reasonable access to and privacy in their use of communication methods. | Complaint |
| Aug 1, 2024 | D · potential | Provide appropriate pressure ulcer care and prevent new ulcers from developing. | Complaint |
| Jul 16, 2024 | D · potential | Develop and implement a complete care plan that meets all the resident's needs, with timetables and actions that can be measured. | Complaint |
| Jul 3, 2024 | D · potential | Timely report suspected abuse, neglect, or theft and report the results of the investigation to proper authorities. | Complaint |
| Jul 3, 2024 | D · potential | Provide medically-related social services to help each resident achieve the highest possible quality of life. | Complaint |
| May 31, 2024 | D · potential | Notify the resident or the resident’s representative in writing how long the nursing home will hold the resident’s bed in cases of transfer to a hospital or therapeutic leave. | Complaint |
| May 1, 2024 | D · potential | Honor the resident's right to be treated with respect and dignity and to retain and use personal possessions. | Complaint |
| Feb 26, 2024 | D · potential | Ensure services provided by the nursing facility meet professional standards of quality. | Complaint |
| Feb 16, 2024 | D · potential | Provide safe and appropriate respiratory care for a resident when needed. | Complaint |
| Jan 25, 2024 | D · potential | Reasonably accommodate the needs and preferences of each resident. | Routine |
| Jan 25, 2024 | D · potential | Honor the resident's right to request, refuse, and/or discontinue treatment, to participate in or refuse to participate in experimental research, and to formulate an advance directive. | Routine |
| Jan 25, 2024 | D · potential | Provide timely notification to the resident, and if applicable to the resident representative and ombudsman, before transfer or discharge, including appeal rights. | Routine |
| Jan 25, 2024 | D · potential | Ensure each resident receives an accurate assessment. | Routine |
| Jan 25, 2024 | D · potential | Develop and implement a complete care plan that meets all the resident's needs, with timetables and actions that can be measured. | Routine |
| Jan 25, 2024 | D · potential | Provide pharmaceutical services to meet the needs of each resident and employ or obtain the services of a licensed pharmacist. | Routine |
| Jan 25, 2024 | D · potential | Ensure medication error rates are not 5 percent or greater. | Routine |
| Jan 25, 2024 | E · potential | Procure food from sources approved or considered satisfactory and store, prepare, distribute and serve food in accordance with professional standards. | Routine |
| Jan 25, 2024 | D · potential | Ensure the facility is licensed under applicable State and local law and operates and provides services in compliance with all applicable Federal, State, and local laws, regulations, and codes, and with accepted professional standards. | Routine |
| Jan 25, 2024 | D · potential | Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program. | Routine |
| Oct 2, 2023 | D · potential | Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to prevent accidents. | Complaint |
Medicare's severity letters: A–C minimal harm, D–F potential for more than minimal harm, G–L actual harm or immediate danger. Source: CMS health deficiencies file, processed October 1, 2026.
Questions to ask on a visit
San Joaquin Nursing Center and Rehabilitation Cent
3601 San Dimas, Bakersfield, CA 93301 · (661) 323-2894
Visit date: ____________ Spoke with: ______________________
Record on file
- Certification
- Medicare and Medi-Cal certified skilled nursing facility
- Medicare number (CCN)
- 056294
- Certified beds
- 99
- Legal owner
- Kern Valleyidence Opco LLC
- Part of
- Pacs Group
Full profile on Medicare's Care Compare. Source: CMS, processed October 1, 2026.
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