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| Date | Severity | What inspectors found | Visit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 4, 2025 | D · potential | Ensure services provided by the nursing facility meet professional standards of quality. | Complaint |
| May 7, 2025 | D · potential | Ensure services provided by the nursing facility meet professional standards of quality. | Routine |
| May 7, 2025 | D · potential | Provide appropriate pressure ulcer care and prevent new ulcers from developing. | Routine |
| May 7, 2025 | 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 |
| May 7, 2025 | E · potential | Procure food from sources approved or considered satisfactory and store, prepare, distribute and serve food in accordance with professional standards. | Routine |
| May 7, 2025 | E · potential | Safeguard resident-identifiable information and/or maintain medical records on each resident that are in accordance with accepted professional standards. | Routine |
| May 7, 2025 | E · potential | Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program. | Routine |
| May 7, 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 |
| Jan 28, 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 28, 2025 | D · potential | Provide pharmaceutical services to meet the needs of each resident and employ or obtain the services of a licensed pharmacist. | Complaint |
| Nov 13, 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 |
| Nov 13, 2024 | D · potential | Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program. | Complaint |
| Jul 1, 2024 | D · potential | Make sure that the nursing home area is safe, easy to use, clean and comfortable for residents, staff and the public. | Complaint |
| Jun 19, 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 |
| Mar 19, 2024 | D · potential | Honor the resident's right to a dignified existence, self-determination, communication, and to exercise his or her rights. | Complaint |
| Dec 4, 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. | Complaint |
| Dec 4, 2023 | D · potential | Provide safe, appropriate pain management for a resident who requires such services. | Complaint |
| Oct 25, 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. | Complaint |
| Oct 25, 2023 | D · potential | Provide safe and appropriate respiratory care for a resident when needed. | Complaint |
| Feb 17, 2023 | D · potential | Not transfer or discharge a resident without an adequate reason; and must provide documentation and convey specific information when a resident is transferred or discharged. | Routine |
| Feb 17, 2023 | 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 17, 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 |
| Feb 17, 2023 | 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 17, 2023 | D · potential | Ensure necessary information is communicated to the resident, and receiving health care provider at the time of a planned discharge. | Routine |
| Feb 17, 2023 | D · potential | Provide activities to meet all resident's needs. | Routine |
| Feb 17, 2023 | D · potential | Assist a resident in gaining access to vision and hearing services. | Routine |
| Feb 17, 2023 | D · potential | Provide safe and appropriate respiratory care for a resident when needed. | Routine |
| Feb 17, 2023 | E · potential | Provide pharmaceutical services to meet the needs of each resident and employ or obtain the services of a licensed pharmacist. | Routine |
| Feb 17, 2023 | D · potential | Ensure each resident’s drug regimen must be free from unnecessary drugs. | Routine |
| Feb 17, 2023 | 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 |
| Feb 17, 2023 | 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 |
| Feb 17, 2023 | E · potential | Procure food from sources approved or considered satisfactory and store, prepare, distribute and serve food in accordance with professional standards. | Routine |
| Feb 17, 2023 | D · potential | Designate a physician to serve as medical director responsible for implementation of resident care policies and coordination of medical care in the facility. | Routine |
| Feb 17, 2023 | D · potential | Safeguard resident-identifiable information and/or maintain medical records on each resident that are in accordance with accepted professional standards. | Routine |
| Feb 17, 2023 | E · potential | Set up an ongoing quality assessment and assurance group to review quality deficiencies and develop corrective plans of action. | Routine |
| Feb 17, 2023 | D · potential | Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program. | Routine |
| Feb 17, 2023 | 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 |
| Aug 23, 2019 | D · potential | Honor the resident's right to a dignified existence, self-determination, communication, and to exercise his or her rights. | Routine |
| Aug 23, 2019 | D · potential | Procure food from sources approved or considered satisfactory and store, prepare, distribute and serve food in accordance with professional standards. | Routine |
| Aug 23, 2019 | 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
University Care Center
5602 University Ave, San Diego, CA 92105 · (619) 583-1993
Visit date: ____________ Spoke with: ______________________
Record on file
- Certification
- Medicare and Medi-Cal certified skilled nursing facility
- Medicare number (CCN)
- 055328
- Certified beds
- 87
- Legal owner
- Birch Holdings LLC
- Part of
- Pacs Group
Full profile on Medicare's Care Compare. Source: CMS, processed October 1, 2026.
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