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Skilled nursing

All fourteen, and what happens when the cover ends

Most people reading this have a parent already in one of these, and have just been told roughly when Medicare stops paying. That is the part worth planning for, and there is more time in it than it feels like — if you start now rather than on the day.

First, the thing that confuses everybody

A nursing home and a care home are not the same thing

They are different licences, different regulators and completely different money. A skilled nursing facility is federally certified, has nurses on staff, and is rated by Medicare — it is for rehabilitation after a hospital stay, or for ongoing medical care. A residential care home is licensed by California, has no star rating, and helps with daily living rather than nursing.

Medicare pays for a limited stay in the first and nothing at all toward the second. Anaheim has 14 of the first and 121 of the second. For most families the second is where this ends up.

14

certified facilities

The whole list, from Medicare's own provider data.

1,459

certified beds

From 28 at the smallest to 250 at the largest.

3.4

mean overall rating

Across the 14 Medicare rates. California's average is 3.2.

27.4%

mean nurse turnover

Across the 12 that report it; 2 do not. California's average is 36.7%.

The list

All 14, in alphabetical order

Not ranked, not scored by us, and not ordered by anything we think. Medicare's own ratings, with the staffing figures underneath them.

Reading it properly

Two numbers almost nobody shows you

Staff turnover. The share of nursing staff who left over a year. It is the closest thing to a measure of whether the place is a decent employer, and it decides whether the person who knows your mother in October is still there in March. Anaheim's figures run from under 12% to nearly 48%, which is a very large gap between facilities in the same city.

Weekend staffing. Medicare reports weekend nurse hours separately from weekday hours, because they are frequently not the same. If you are going to visit once before deciding, visit on a Sunday.

And read the three component ratings rather than the headline star. A facility can hold a decent overall score with a weak inspection record if its staffing and quality measures carry it, and the inspection record is the one built on what surveyors actually found on site.

When they tell you the cover is ending

Medicare pays for up to 100 days of skilled nursing per benefit period, and almost nobody gets 100 days. Coverage continues only while she is improving, so most stays end when progress plateaus — and a daily coinsurance starts at day 21 regardless.

What usually comes next is not another nursing home. It is a residential care home, which costs a fraction as much and which Medicare does not pay for at all. What Medicare actually pays during a rehab stay has the figures, including what day 21 onwards costs.

The practical point: start looking the week you are told she is plateauing, not the day the discharge is set. Families who start on the day take whatever has a bed. Families who start a fortnight earlier choose.

Common questions

Nursing homes in Anaheim, answered

Is a nursing home the same as a care home?
No, and the difference decides who pays. A skilled nursing facility is federally certified, rated by Medicare, and staffed with nurses — it is where somebody goes after a hospital stay for rehabilitation, or for ongoing medical care. A residential care home is licensed by the state of California, has no star rating, and provides help with daily living rather than nursing. Medicare pays for a limited stay in the first and nothing at all toward the second. Anaheim has 14 of the first and 121 of the second.
How many nursing homes are there in Anaheim?
Fourteen are certified by Medicare and Medicaid, with 1,459 beds between them. That is the whole list — it comes from the federal government's own provider dataset, not from a directory that lists whoever pays to be on it.
What do the star ratings actually mean?
Medicare scores each facility one to five stars overall, built from three separate measures: health inspections, staffing, and quality measures taken from residents' own records. The overall star is a composite, so two facilities with the same overall score can be very different underneath — one strong on inspections and weak on staffing, the other the reverse. It is worth looking at the three separately rather than at the headline.
Which numbers matter most and nobody shows me?
Staff turnover and weekend staffing. Turnover is the share of nursing staff who left over a year, and it tells you whether the person helping your mother on Tuesday will still be there in March. Weekend staffing is reported separately from weekday, and the gap between them is where families are most often surprised. Both are published by Medicare and almost no directory displays them.
Medicare is ending her rehab stay. What now?
This is the most common reason anybody reads this page, and the honest answer is that you have less time than you think and more options than you have been told. Medicare covers up to 100 days per benefit period, with a daily coinsurance from day 21, and most stays end well before day 100 because coverage stops when she stops improving. What happens next is usually a residential care home rather than a continued nursing home stay, and that is the call to start before the discharge date is set, not after.

Ratings, staffing hours, turnover and enforcement figures from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Nursing Home Provider Information dataset, September 2026 release, read on 14 October 2026. Where Medicare publishes no value we say so rather than print a zero. A star rating is Medicare's assessment, not ours, and we have not ranked, scored or ordered these facilities by anything of our own. General information for families, not medical advice.

Last reviewed . Figures are re-checked against their sources whenever this page is revised.

If the discharge date is coming, call before it lands

We will tell you which Anaheim care homes can take her at her level of need, what they cost, and which have a bed this week. It costs you nothing, and starting a fortnight early is the whole difference between choosing and taking what is left.

Or just call us

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