Inspection citations
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| Date | Severity | What inspectors found | Visit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 23, 2025 | D · potential | Ensure services provided by the nursing facility meet professional standards of quality. | Complaint |
| Feb 27, 2025 | D · potential | Ensure each resident receives an accurate assessment. | Routine |
| Feb 27, 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 |
| Feb 27, 2025 | D · potential | Ensure services provided by the nursing facility meet professional standards of quality. | Routine |
| Feb 27, 2025 | D · potential | Provide appropriate treatment and care according to orders, resident’s preferences and goals. | Routine |
| Feb 27, 2025 | D · potential | Assist a resident in gaining access to vision and hearing services. | Routine |
| Feb 27, 2025 | D · potential | Provide for the safe, appropriate administration of IV fluids for a resident when needed. | Routine |
| Feb 27, 2025 | D · potential | Observe each nurse aide's job performance and give regular training. | Routine |
| Feb 27, 2025 | 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. | Routine |
| Feb 27, 2025 | D · potential | Provide special eating equipment and utensils for residents who need them and appropriate assistance. | Routine |
| Feb 27, 2025 | E · potential | Inform resident or representatives choice to enter into binding arbitration agreement and right to refuse. | Routine |
| Feb 27, 2025 | E · potential | Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program. | Routine |
| Feb 27, 2025 | B · minimal | Provide rooms that are at least 80 square feet per resident in multiple rooms and 100 square feet for single resident rooms. | Routine |
| Feb 27, 2025 | E · potential | Provide at least one room set aside to use as a resident dining room and for activities, that is a good size, with good lighting, air flow and furniture. | Routine |
| Feb 27, 2025 | D · potential | Have policies on smoking. | Routine |
| Feb 3, 2025 | D · potential | Protect each resident from all types of abuse such as physical, mental, sexual abuse, physical punishment, and neglect by anybody. | Complaint |
| Feb 3, 2025 | D · potential | Develop and implement policies and procedures to prevent abuse, neglect, and theft. | Complaint |
| Dec 30, 2024 | D · potential | Develop and implement policies and procedures to prevent abuse, neglect, and theft. | Complaint |
| Dec 30, 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 |
| Dec 30, 2024 | D · potential | Ensure services provided by the nursing facility meet professional standards of quality. | Complaint |
| Dec 30, 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 |
| Dec 30, 2024 | D · potential | Provide pharmaceutical services to meet the needs of each resident and employ or obtain the services of a licensed pharmacist. | Complaint |
| Nov 4, 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 |
| Oct 25, 2024 | D · potential | Provide enough food/fluids to maintain a resident's health. | Complaint |
| Jul 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 |
| Jul 24, 2024 | D · potential | Make sure that a working call system is available in each resident's bathroom and bathing area. | Complaint |
| Feb 1, 2024 | D · potential | Allow residents to self-administer drugs if determined clinically appropriate. | Routine |
| Feb 1, 2024 | D · potential | Create and put into place a plan for meeting the resident's most immediate needs within 48 hours of being admitted | Routine |
| Feb 1, 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 |
| Feb 1, 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 |
| Feb 1, 2024 | D · potential | Provide care and assistance to perform activities of daily living for any resident who is unable. | Routine |
| Feb 1, 2024 | D · potential | Provide appropriate treatment and care according to orders, resident’s preferences and goals. | Routine |
| Feb 1, 2024 | D · potential | Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to prevent accidents. | Routine |
| Feb 1, 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. | Routine |
| Feb 1, 2024 | D · potential | Provide enough food/fluids to maintain a resident's health. | Routine |
| Feb 1, 2024 | E · potential | Provide safe, appropriate dialysis care/services for a resident who requires such services. | Routine |
| Feb 1, 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. | Routine |
| Feb 1, 2024 | D · potential | Provide pharmaceutical services to meet the needs of each resident and employ or obtain the services of a licensed pharmacist. | Routine |
| Feb 1, 2024 | D · potential | Ensure a licensed pharmacist perform a monthly drug regimen review, including the medical chart, following irregularity reporting guidelines in developed policies and procedures. | Routine |
| Feb 1, 2024 | D · potential | Ensure each resident’s drug regimen must be free from unnecessary drugs. | Routine |
| Feb 1, 2024 | E · potential | Implement gradual dose reductions(GDR) and non-pharmacological interventions, unless contraindicated, prior to initiating or instead of continuing psychotropic medication; and PRN orders for psychotropic medications are only used when the medication is necessary and PRN use is limited. | Routine |
| Feb 1, 2024 | E · 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. | Routine |
| Feb 1, 2024 | D · potential | Provide sufficient support personnel to safely and effectively carry out the functions of the food and nutrition service. | Routine |
| Feb 1, 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. | Routine |
| Feb 1, 2024 | D · potential | Procure food from sources approved or considered satisfactory and store, prepare, distribute and serve food in accordance with professional standards. | Routine |
| Feb 1, 2024 | E · potential | Employ or obtain outside professional resources to provide services in the nursing home when the facility does not employ a qualified professional to furnish a required service. | Routine |
| Feb 1, 2024 | D · potential | Safeguard resident-identifiable information and/or maintain medical records on each resident that are in accordance with accepted professional standards. | Routine |
| Feb 1, 2024 | D · potential | Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program. | Routine |
| Feb 1, 2024 | D · potential | Develop and implement policies and procedures for flu and pneumonia vaccinations. | Routine |
| Feb 1, 2024 | B · minimal | Provide rooms that are at least 80 square feet per resident in multiple rooms and 100 square feet for single resident rooms. | Routine |
| Mar 10, 2022 | D · potential | Honor the resident's right to a dignified existence, self-determination, communication, and to exercise his or her rights. | Routine |
| Mar 10, 2022 | 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 10, 2022 | D · potential | Ensure services provided by the nursing facility meet professional standards of quality. | Routine |
| Mar 10, 2022 | 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 |
| Mar 10, 2022 | 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 |
| Mar 10, 2022 | D · potential | Post nurse staffing information every day. | Routine |
| Mar 10, 2022 | D · potential | Implement gradual dose reductions(GDR) and non-pharmacological interventions, unless contraindicated, prior to initiating or instead of continuing psychotropic medication; and PRN orders for psychotropic medications are only used when the medication is necessary and PRN use is limited. | Routine |
| Mar 10, 2022 | F · potential | Procure food from sources approved or considered satisfactory and store, prepare, distribute and serve food in accordance with professional standards. | Routine |
| Mar 10, 2022 | D · potential | Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program. | Routine |
| Mar 10, 2022 | B · minimal | Provide rooms that are at least 80 square feet per resident in multiple rooms and 100 square feet for single resident rooms. | 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
Sierra Valley Rehab Center
301 West Putnam, Porterville, CA 93257 · (559) 784-7375
Visit date: ____________ Spoke with: ______________________
Record on file
- Certification
- Medicare and Medi-Cal certified skilled nursing facility
- Medicare number (CCN)
- 055568
- Certified beds
- 139
- Legal owner
- Sierra Nevada SNF LLC
- Part of
- Pacs Group
Full profile on Medicare's Care Compare. Source: CMS, processed October 1, 2026.
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