Medicare flags this nursing home for abuse. Medicare adds this flag when a home was cited for abuse that harmed a resident, or for potential abuse more than once. Ask the home what changed.
Inspection citations
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| Date | Severity | What inspectors found | Visit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 25, 2026 | D · potential | Protect each resident from all types of abuse such as physical, mental, sexual abuse, physical punishment, and neglect by anybody. | Complaint |
| Jul 24, 2026 | D · potential | Provide or obtain laboratory tests/services when ordered and promptly tell the ordering practitioner of the results. | Complaint |
| Jun 12, 2026 | D · potential | Protect each resident from all types of abuse such as physical, mental, sexual abuse, physical punishment, and neglect by anybody. | Complaint |
| Jun 12, 2026 | D · potential | Timely report suspected abuse, neglect, or theft and report the results of the investigation to proper authorities. | Complaint |
| May 22, 2026 | D · potential | Ensure that residents are fully informed and understand their health status, care and treatments. | Complaint |
| May 22, 2026 | D · potential | Provide pharmaceutical services to meet the needs of each resident and employ or obtain the services of a licensed pharmacist. | Complaint |
| Apr 28, 2026 | E · potential | Protect each resident from all types of abuse such as physical, mental, sexual abuse, physical punishment, and neglect by anybody. | Complaint |
| Feb 19, 2026 | E · potential | Develop and implement a complete care plan that meets all the resident's needs, with timetables and actions that can be measured. | Complaint |
| Feb 19, 2026 | E · potential | Safeguard resident-identifiable information and/or maintain medical records on each resident that are in accordance with accepted professional standards. | Complaint |
| Dec 31, 2025 | D · potential | Protect each resident from all types of abuse such as physical, mental, sexual abuse, physical punishment, and neglect by anybody. | Complaint |
| Oct 24, 2025 | E · potential | Honor the resident's right to a dignified existence, self-determination, communication, and to exercise his or her rights. | Routine |
| Oct 24, 2025 | E · potential | Ensure that residents are fully informed and understand their health status, care and treatments. | Routine |
| Oct 24, 2025 | D · potential | Immediately tell the resident, the resident's doctor, and a family member of situations (injury/decline/room, etc.) that affect the resident. | Routine |
| Oct 24, 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 |
| Oct 24, 2025 | D · potential | Protect each resident from all types of abuse such as physical, mental, sexual abuse, physical punishment, and neglect by anybody. | Complaint |
| Oct 24, 2025 | D · potential | Prevent the use of unnecessary psychotropic medications or use medications that may restrain a resident's ability to function. | Routine |
| Oct 24, 2025 | E · potential | Provide the required documentation or notification related to the resident's needs, appeal rights, or bed-hold policies. | Routine |
| Oct 24, 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. | Routine |
| Oct 24, 2025 | D · potential | Provide activities to meet all resident's needs. | Routine |
| Oct 24, 2025 | D · potential | Provide appropriate treatment and care according to orders, resident’s preferences and goals. | Routine |
| Oct 24, 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 |
| Oct 24, 2025 | D · potential | Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to prevent accidents. | Routine |
| Oct 24, 2025 | G · harm | Provide enough food/fluids to maintain a resident's health. | Routine |
| Oct 24, 2025 | D · potential | Provide safe, appropriate pain management for a resident who requires such services. | Routine |
| Oct 24, 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 |
| Oct 24, 2025 | D · potential | Post nurse staffing information every day. | Routine |
| Oct 24, 2025 | E · potential | Provide pharmaceutical services to meet the needs of each resident and employ or obtain the services of a licensed pharmacist. | Routine |
| Oct 24, 2025 | F · potential | Procure food from sources approved or considered satisfactory and store, prepare, distribute and serve food in accordance with professional standards. | Routine |
| Oct 24, 2025 | D · potential | Set up an ongoing quality assessment and assurance group to review quality deficiencies and develop corrective plans of action. | Routine |
| Oct 24, 2025 | E · potential | Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program. | Routine |
| Oct 24, 2025 | B · minimal | Ensure resident rooms hold no more than 4 residents; for new construction after November 28, 2016, rooms hold no more than 2 residents. | Routine |
| Oct 24, 2025 | D · potential | Give their staff education on dementia care, and what abuse, neglect, and exploitation are; and how to report abuse, neglect, and exploitation. | Complaint |
| May 2, 2025 | D · potential | Honor the resident's right to a dignified existence, self-determination, communication, and to exercise his or her rights. | Complaint |
| May 2, 2025 | D · potential | Protect each resident from all types of abuse such as physical, mental, sexual abuse, physical punishment, and neglect by anybody. | Complaint |
| May 2, 2025 | D · potential | Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to prevent accidents. | Complaint |
| Jan 8, 2025 | E · potential | Immediately tell the resident, the resident's doctor, and a family member of situations (injury/decline/room, etc.) that affect the resident. | Complaint |
| Jan 8, 2025 | E · 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 |
| Jan 8, 2025 | E · potential | Provide pharmaceutical services to meet the needs of each resident and employ or obtain the services of a licensed pharmacist. | Complaint |
| Jan 8, 2025 | E · potential | Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program. | Complaint |
| Oct 18, 2024 | E · potential | Reasonably accommodate the needs and preferences of each resident. | Routine |
| Oct 18, 2024 | F · potential | Honor the resident's right to and the facility must promote and facilitate resident self-determination through support of resident choice. | Routine |
| Oct 18, 2024 | E · potential | Immediately tell the resident, the resident's doctor, and a family member of situations (injury/decline/room, etc.) that affect the resident. | Routine |
| Oct 18, 2024 | E · potential | Protect each resident from all types of abuse such as physical, mental, sexual abuse, physical punishment, and neglect by anybody. | Complaint |
| Oct 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. | Routine |
| Oct 18, 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. | Routine |
| Oct 18, 2024 | E · potential | Provide activities to meet all resident's needs. | Routine |
| Oct 18, 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. | Routine |
| Oct 18, 2024 | F · potential | Procure food from sources approved or considered satisfactory and store, prepare, distribute and serve food in accordance with professional standards. | Routine |
| Oct 18, 2024 | F · potential | Set up an ongoing quality assessment and assurance group to review quality deficiencies and develop corrective plans of action. | Routine |
| Oct 18, 2024 | D · potential | Implement a program that monitors antibiotic use. | Routine |
| Oct 18, 2024 | B · minimal | Ensure resident rooms hold no more than 4 residents; for new construction after November 28, 2016, rooms hold no more than 2 residents. | Routine |
| Oct 18, 2024 | E · potential | Ensure nurse aides have the skills they need to care for residents, and give nurse aides education in dementia care and abuse prevention. | Routine |
| Aug 1, 2024 | D · potential | Protect each resident from all types of abuse such as physical, mental, sexual abuse, physical punishment, and neglect by anybody. | Complaint |
| Jul 8, 2024 | D · potential | Protect each resident from all types of abuse such as physical, mental, sexual abuse, physical punishment, and neglect by anybody. | Complaint |
| Mar 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 21, 2023 | D · potential | Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program. | Complaint |
| Dec 21, 2023 | D · potential | Develop and implement policies and procedures for flu and pneumonia vaccinations. | Complaint |
| Oct 20, 2023 | D · potential | Reasonably accommodate the needs and preferences of each resident. | Routine |
| Oct 20, 2023 | D · potential | Timely report suspected abuse, neglect, or theft and report the results of the investigation to proper authorities. | Routine |
| Oct 20, 2023 | 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 |
| Oct 20, 2023 | D · potential | Ensure residents do not lose the ability to perform activities of daily living unless there is a medical reason. | Routine |
| Oct 20, 2023 | D · potential | Assist a resident in gaining access to vision and hearing services. | Routine |
| Oct 20, 2023 | E · 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 |
| Oct 20, 2023 | E · potential | Provide enough food/fluids to maintain a resident's health. | Complaint |
| Oct 20, 2023 | D · potential | Provide safe, appropriate pain management for a resident who requires such services. | Routine |
| Oct 20, 2023 | D · potential | Provide pharmaceutical services to meet the needs of each resident and employ or obtain the services of a licensed pharmacist. | Routine |
| Oct 20, 2023 | D · potential | Ensure each resident’s drug regimen must be free from unnecessary drugs. | Routine |
| Oct 20, 2023 | D · potential | Provide or obtain laboratory tests/services when ordered and promptly tell the ordering practitioner of the results. | Routine |
| Oct 20, 2023 | D · potential | Provide or obtain dental services for each resident. | Routine |
| Oct 20, 2023 | F · potential | Procure food from sources approved or considered satisfactory and store, prepare, distribute and serve food in accordance with professional standards. | Routine |
| Oct 20, 2023 | F · potential | Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program. | Routine |
| Oct 20, 2023 | D · potential | Develop and implement policies and procedures for flu and pneumonia vaccinations. | Routine |
| Oct 20, 2023 | B · minimal | Ensure resident rooms hold no more than 4 residents; for new construction after November 28, 2016, rooms hold no more than 2 residents. | Routine |
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
LA Paz Geropsychiatric Center
8835 Vans Street, Paramount, CA 90723 · (562) 633-5111
Visit date: ____________ Spoke with: ______________________
Record on file
- Certification
- Medicare and Medi-Cal certified skilled nursing facility
- Medicare number (CCN)
- 05A355
- Certified beds
- 173
- Legal owner
- Legal Business Name Not Available
Full profile on Medicare's Care Compare. Source: CMS, processed October 1, 2026.
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