Independent research · Occupancy & availability
How full is this provider?
We separate historical occupancy, licensed or reported capacity, and openings that are confirmed today. These are different facts.
Historical census / certified bedsNot publicly reportedNo facility-level report confirmed yet
Medicare-certified beds160 medicare-certified bedsUnknown does not mean zero or vacant
Current openings / admissionsNot verifiedAsk about openings, appropriate level of care, fees and any waitlist.
Occupancy alone is not a quality rating. An empty bed may be unstaffed or unsuitable for a particular resident. For agencies that deliver care at home, conventional bed occupancy does not apply.
Inspection citations
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| Date | Severity | What inspectors found | Visit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 16, 2026 | D · potential | Honor the resident's right to a dignified existence, self-determination, communication, and to exercise his or her rights. | Routine |
| Jan 16, 2026 | D · potential | Honor the resident's right to a safe, clean, comfortable and homelike environment, including but not limited to receiving treatment and supports for daily living safely. | Routine |
| Jan 16, 2026 | D · potential | Provide the required documentation or notification related to the resident's needs, appeal rights, or bed-hold policies. | Routine |
| Jan 16, 2026 | D · potential | Ensure each resident receives an accurate assessment. | Routine |
| Jan 16, 2026 | D · potential | Create and put into place a plan for meeting the resident's most immediate needs within 48 hours of being admitted | Routine |
| Jan 16, 2026 | D · potential | Ensure residents do not lose the ability to perform activities of daily living unless there is a medical reason. | Routine |
| Jan 16, 2026 | D · potential | Ensure that feeding tubes are not used unless there is a medical reason and the resident agrees; and provide appropriate care for a resident with a feeding tube. | Routine |
| Jan 16, 2026 | D · potential | Provide safe and appropriate respiratory care for a resident when needed. | Routine |
| Jan 16, 2026 | D · potential | Ensure food and drink is palatable, attractive, and at a safe and appetizing temperature. | Routine |
| Jan 16, 2026 | F · potential | Procure food from sources approved or considered satisfactory and store, prepare, distribute and serve food in accordance with professional standards. | Routine |
| Jan 16, 2026 | D · potential | Dispose of garbage and refuse properly. | Routine |
| Jan 16, 2026 | E · potential | Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program. | Routine |
| Jan 16, 2026 | D · potential | Implement a program that monitors antibiotic use. | Routine |
| Jan 16, 2026 | D · potential | Develop and implement policies and procedures for flu and pneumonia vaccinations. | Routine |
| Jan 16, 2026 | D · potential | Educate residents and staff on COVID-19 vaccination, offer the COVID-19 vaccine to eligible residents and staff after education, and properly document each resident and staff member's vaccination status. | Routine |
| Aug 1, 2025 | D · potential | Ensure food and drink is palatable, attractive, and at a safe and appetizing temperature. | Complaint |
| Jun 16, 2025 | E · potential | Ensure food and drink is palatable, attractive, and at a safe and appetizing temperature. | Complaint |
| Feb 4, 2025 | D · potential | Ensure meals and snacks are served at times in accordance with resident’s needs, preferences, and requests. Suitable and nourishing alternative meals and snacks must be provided for residents who want to eat at non-traditional times or outside of scheduled meal times. | Complaint |
| Jan 9, 2025 | D · potential | Reasonably accommodate the needs and preferences of each resident. | Complaint |
| Jan 9, 2025 | D · potential | Honor the resident's right to a safe, clean, comfortable and homelike environment, including but not limited to receiving treatment and supports for daily living safely. | Routine |
| Jan 9, 2025 | D · potential | Honor the resident's right to voice grievances without discrimination or reprisal and the facility must establish a grievance policy and make prompt efforts to resolve grievances. | Complaint |
| Jan 9, 2025 | D · potential | Develop and implement policies and procedures to prevent abuse, neglect, and theft. | Complaint |
| Jan 9, 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 |
| Jan 9, 2025 | 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 |
| Jan 9, 2025 | D · potential | Ensure services provided by the nursing facility meet professional standards of quality. | Routine |
| Jan 9, 2025 | D · potential | Provide appropriate care for a resident to maintain and/or improve range of motion (ROM), limited ROM and/or mobility, unless a decline is for a medical reason. | Routine |
| Jan 9, 2025 | D · 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 |
| Jan 9, 2025 | E · potential | Ensure medication error rates are not 5 percent or greater. | Routine |
| Jan 9, 2025 | E · potential | Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program. | Routine |
| Dec 23, 2024 | D · potential | Ensure menus must meet the nutritional needs of residents, be prepared in advance, be followed, be updated, be reviewed by dietician, and meet the needs of the resident. | Complaint |
| Dec 4, 2024 | D · potential | Honor the resident's right to be treated with respect and dignity and to retain and use personal possessions. | Complaint |
| Dec 4, 2024 | D · potential | Protect each resident from the wrongful use of the resident's belongings or money. | Complaint |
| Dec 4, 2024 | E · potential | Procure food from sources approved or considered satisfactory and store, prepare, distribute and serve food in accordance with professional standards. | Complaint |
| Nov 19, 2024 | D · potential | Respond appropriately to all alleged violations. | Complaint |
| Nov 19, 2024 | D · potential | Provide appropriate treatment and care according to orders, resident’s preferences and goals. | Complaint |
| Nov 19, 2024 | G · harm | Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to prevent accidents. | Complaint |
| Nov 12, 2024 | E · potential | Provide appropriate treatment and care according to orders, resident’s preferences and goals. | Complaint |
| Nov 12, 2024 | E · potential | Safeguard resident-identifiable information and/or maintain medical records on each resident that are in accordance with accepted professional standards. | Complaint |
| Oct 21, 2024 | D · potential | Develop and implement policies and procedures to prevent abuse, neglect, and theft. | Complaint |
| Oct 21, 2024 | D · potential | Timely report suspected abuse, neglect, or theft and report the results of the investigation to proper authorities. | Complaint |
| Oct 10, 2024 | E · potential | Ensure that residents are fully informed and understand their health status, care and treatments. | Complaint |
| Oct 10, 2024 | E · potential | Ensure services provided by the nursing facility meet professional standards of quality. | Complaint |
| Oct 10, 2024 | 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 |
| Sep 19, 2024 | D · 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. | Complaint |
| Aug 30, 2024 | D · potential | Develop and implement policies and procedures to prevent abuse, neglect, and theft. | Complaint |
| Aug 30, 2024 | D · potential | Timely report suspected abuse, neglect, or theft and report the results of the investigation to proper authorities. | Complaint |
| Aug 30, 2024 | 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. | Complaint |
| Aug 30, 2024 | D · potential | Establish a governing body that is legally responsible for establishing and implementing policies for managing and operating the facility and appoints a properly licensed administrator responsible for managing the facility. | Complaint |
| Aug 6, 2024 | D · potential | Provide doctor's orders for the resident's immediate care at the time the resident was admitted. | Complaint |
| Aug 6, 2024 | E · potential | Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program. | Complaint |
| Jul 26, 2024 | D · potential | Keep residents' personal and medical records private and confidential. | Complaint |
| Jul 26, 2024 | D · potential | Ensure each resident receives and the facility provides drinks consistent with resident needs and preferences and sufficient to maintain resident hydration. | Complaint |
| Jul 26, 2024 | D · potential | Make sure that a working call system is available in each resident's bathroom and bathing area. | Complaint |
| Jul 25, 2024 | G · harm | Develop and implement a complete care plan that meets all the resident's needs, with timetables and actions that can be measured. | Complaint |
| Jul 25, 2024 | D · potential | Ensure services provided by the nursing facility meet professional standards of quality. | Complaint |
| Jul 25, 2024 | G · harm | Provide enough food/fluids to maintain a resident's health. | Complaint |
| Jul 9, 2024 | D · potential | Provide appropriate treatment and care according to orders, resident’s preferences and goals. | Complaint |
| Jul 9, 2024 | D · potential | Obtain a doctor's order to admit a resident and ensure the resident is under a doctor's care. | Complaint |
| Jul 1, 2024 | D · potential | Immediately tell the resident, the resident's doctor, and a family member of situations (injury/decline/room, etc.) that affect the resident. | Complaint |
| May 30, 2024 | G · harm | Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to prevent accidents. | Complaint |
| May 30, 2024 | E · potential | Have policies on smoking. | Complaint |
| Apr 26, 2024 | 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. | Complaint |
| Apr 23, 2024 | D · potential | Provide activities to meet all resident's needs. | Complaint |
| Apr 22, 2024 | G · harm | Provide safe, appropriate pain management for a resident who requires such services. | Complaint |
| Apr 19, 2024 | D · potential | Reasonably accommodate the needs and preferences of each resident. | Complaint |
| Apr 19, 2024 | 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. | Complaint |
| Apr 18, 2024 | D · potential | Protect each resident from all types of abuse such as physical, mental, sexual abuse, physical punishment, and neglect by anybody. | Complaint |
| Apr 18, 2024 | D · potential | Protect each resident from the wrongful use of the resident's belongings or money. | Complaint |
| Apr 18, 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 |
| Apr 8, 2024 | D · potential | Ensure residents do not lose the ability to perform activities of daily living unless there is a medical reason. | Complaint |
| Apr 8, 2024 | D · potential | Employ sufficient staff with the appropriate competencies and skills sets to carry out the functions of the food and nutrition service, including a qualified dietician. | Complaint |
| Apr 5, 2024 | 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. | Complaint |
| Apr 4, 2024 | D · potential | Assure that each resident’s assessment is updated at least once every 3 months. | Complaint |
| Apr 4, 2024 | D · potential | Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to prevent accidents. | Complaint |
| Mar 27, 2024 | D · potential | Develop and implement policies and procedures to prevent abuse, neglect, and theft. | Complaint |
| Mar 27, 2024 | D · potential | Ensure services provided by the nursing facility meet professional standards of quality. | Complaint |
| Mar 11, 2024 | D · potential | Timely report suspected abuse, neglect, or theft and report the results of the investigation to proper authorities. | Complaint |
| Feb 21, 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 |
| Jan 29, 2024 | D · potential | Provide appropriate treatment and care according to orders, resident’s preferences and goals. | Complaint |
| Jan 4, 2024 | D · potential | Protect each resident from all types of abuse such as physical, mental, sexual abuse, physical punishment, and neglect by anybody. | Complaint |
| Dec 20, 2023 | D · potential | Timely report suspected abuse, neglect, or theft and report the results of the investigation to proper authorities. | Complaint |
| Nov 16, 2023 | E · potential | Reasonably accommodate the needs and preferences of each resident. | Routine |
| Nov 16, 2023 | E · potential | Ensure residents have reasonable access to and privacy in their use of communication methods. | Routine |
| Nov 16, 2023 | E · potential | Develop and implement a complete care plan that meets all the resident's needs, with timetables and actions that can be measured. | Routine |
| Nov 16, 2023 | D · potential | Ensure services provided by the nursing facility meet professional standards of quality. | Routine |
| Nov 16, 2023 | D · potential | Provide care and assistance to perform activities of daily living for any resident who is unable. | Routine |
| Nov 16, 2023 | D · potential | Provide activities to meet all resident's needs. | Routine |
| Nov 16, 2023 | D · potential | Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to prevent accidents. | Routine |
| Nov 16, 2023 | D · potential | Ensure medication error rates are not 5 percent or greater. | Routine |
| Nov 16, 2023 | D · potential | Ensure each resident receives and the facility provides food that accommodates resident allergies, intolerances, and preferences, as well as appealing options. | Routine |
| Nov 16, 2023 | D · potential | Ensure therapeutic diets are prescribed by the attending physician and may be delegated to a registered or licensed dietitian, to the extent allowed by State law. | Routine |
| Nov 16, 2023 | E · potential | Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program. | Routine |
| Nov 6, 2023 | 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. | Complaint |
| Oct 20, 2023 | D · potential | Timely report suspected abuse, neglect, or theft and report the results of the investigation to proper authorities. | 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
The Rehabilitation Center of Bakersfield
2211 Mount Vernon Avenue, Bakersfield, CA 93306 · (661) 872-2121
Visit date: ____________ Spoke with: ______________________
Record on file
- Certification
- Medicare and Medi-Cal certified skilled nursing facility
- Medicare number (CCN)
- 555256
- Certified beds
- 160
- Legal owner
- Bakersfield Healthcare & Wellness Centre LLC
- Part of
- Citrus Wellness Centre
Full profile on Medicare's Care Compare. Source: CMS, processed October 1, 2026.
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