Skilled nursing · Anaheim 92802
Buena Vista Care Center
99 certified beds, for profit, certified by Medicare since 1967. Below is what Medicare publishes about it, and what to do when the cover ends.
Overall
3 / 5
Health inspections
3 / 5
Staffing
3 / 5
Quality measures
4 / 5
The overall star is a composite of the other three. Two facilities with the same overall score can be very different underneath, and the inspection rating is the one built on what surveyors actually found on site.
Staffing
The figures families are not shown
Medicare publishes nursing hours per resident per day, and reports weekends separately because they are often not the same as weekdays.
3.88
total nurse hours
per resident per day, weekdays included
3.67
at the weekend
same measure, Saturdays and Sundays
0.45
registered nurse hours
the most skilled tier, per resident per day
0.46
RN hours at the weekend
where the gap usually shows
Staff turnover
32% of nursing staff left over the reporting year, and 0% of registered nurses. The mean across the 12 Anaheim facilities that report it is 27.4%; California's average is 36.7%.
The inspection record
What the surveyors found
Counts are not a verdict. A deficiency can be anything from paperwork to something that put a resident at risk, and the only way to know which is to read them.
18
health deficiencies
most recent survey cycle, 18 December 2025
0
federal fines
no amount recorded
0
payment denials
where Medicare stopped paying for new admissions
Medicare publishes the full inspection reports, including what each deficiency actually was. Read this facility's record on Medicare's own site rather than relying on a count, here or anywhere else.
What comes next
When they say the cover is ending
Medicare pays for up to 100 days of skilled nursing per benefit period and almost nobody gets 100 days — coverage runs only while she is improving, and a daily coinsurance starts at day 21 either way.
What usually comes next is not another nursing home. It is a residential care home: Anaheim has 121 of them, they cost a fraction as much, and Medicare pays nothing toward them.
Start the week somebody first says she is plateauing, not the day the discharge is set. That fortnight is the difference between choosing a home and taking the one with a bed.
Buena Vista Care Center
1440 S Euclid Avenue, Anaheim, CA 92802
(714) 535-7264
Medicare certification number 055459. Address and telephone as published by CMS.
Also in Anaheim
The other certified facilities
Not a ranking. The rest of the city's skilled nursing, so whatever you decide about this one you decide it against something.
- Coventry Court Health Center
97 beds · 4 of 5
- Anaheim Crest Nursing Center
83 beds · 3 of 5
- Anaheim Healthcare Center, LLC
250 beds · 2 of 5
- Anaheim Point
154 beds · 3 of 5
- Anaheim Terrace Care Center
99 beds · 3 of 5
- Beach Creek Post-Acute
138 beds · 3 of 5
Common questions
Buena Vista Care Center, answered
- How is Buena Vista Care Center rated by Medicare?
- Medicare gives Buena Vista Care Center 3 stars out of 5 overall, built from 3 stars on health inspections and 3 stars on staffing. The overall star is a composite, so it is worth reading the two underneath it separately. Ratings read from the federal provider dataset, September 2026 release.
- How many beds does Buena Vista Care Center have?
- 99 certified beds. Certified capacity is the maximum Medicare and Medicaid will pay for, not the number of residents at any moment and not the number of rooms free this week.
- What is staff turnover at Buena Vista Care Center?
- 32% of nursing staff left over the reporting year. For context, the mean across Anaheim's 12 facilities that report it is 27.4%, and California's average is 36.7%. Turnover matters more than most families expect: it decides whether the person who knows your mother now will still be there in three months.
- Will Medicare pay for my mother to stay at Buena Vista Care Center?
- For a limited period, if she qualifies. Medicare covers up to 100 days of skilled nursing per benefit period after a qualifying hospital stay, with a daily coinsurance from day 21, and coverage continues only while she is improving — so most stays end well short of 100 days. When it ends, what usually comes next is a residential care home, which Medicare does not pay for at all.
All figures from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Nursing Home Provider Information dataset, September 2026 release, read on 14 October 2026. Star ratings are Medicare's assessment, not ours. Where Medicare publishes no value we say so rather than print a zero. We are a placement service for residential care homes and have no relationship with this facility.
Last reviewed . Figures are re-checked against their sources whenever this page is revised.
If the discharge is coming, start now
We will tell you which Anaheim care homes can take her at her level of need, what they cost, and which have a bed. It costs you nothing and the fortnight before the discharge date is worth more than the week after it.
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