Mission Park Healthcare Center Complaints, Violations and Inspection Records
Data current as of the August 2026 CMS Care Compare release and the CDPH state enforcement dataset of August 27, 2024. State citation records cover July 1, 1997 through June 30, 2024.
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What the public record shows
If you are looking into Mission Park Healthcare Center in Santa Barbara, whether a loved one lives there now or you are considering it, the public record is worth reading before you decide. It includes 1 citation in the state's two most serious classes, class A and class AA.
Here is what the record shows for this facility, drawn from CMS Care Compare and the California Department of Public Health:
- CMS overall rating: 5 of 5 stars. The health inspection rating, the most independent of the three categories, is 5 of 5.
- California state citations: 1 on record, including 1 class A, with $6,000 in assessed penalties.
- Staffing: 4.77 nursing hours per resident per day; registered nurse turnover 60%.
- Most recent standard inspection: 2 deficiencies cited on December 11, 2024.
- Federal enforcement: no federal fines on record in the reported period.
- Ownership: Mission Park Health Center, LLC, for-profit.
Mission Park Healthcare Center ratings and staffing
Mission Park Healthcare Center is located at 623 West Junipero Street in Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara County. It is a for-profit facility operated by Mission Park Health Center, LLC, with 138 certified beds and an average of 127.1 residents a day. It accepts Medicare.
CMS rates every certified nursing home in three separate categories, and the overall star is a blend of them:
- Health inspections, based on what state surveyors observe in person during unannounced visits. Weight this one most heavily, because it does not rely on data the facility reports about itself.
- Staffing, drawn from payroll-based records of how much nursing time each resident actually receives.
- Quality measures, built largely from data the facility submits. Read a high score here with more caution than the other two.
For Mission Park Healthcare Center, those scores are: health inspections 5 of 5, staffing 3 of 5, quality measures 4 of 5.
Staffing. Mission Park Healthcare Center reports 4.77 total nursing hours per resident per day, of which 0.27 are registered nurse hours. Over the reporting year, 42.5% of the nursing staff left. Registered nurses supervise aides, catch medication errors before they reach a resident, and notice when a person's condition is changing. Staffing is the single number that most reliably predicts whether a facility catches a problem early or lets it become a crisis.
How this home compares in the public record
CMS publishes each home's star rating and its payroll-based staffing hours, and it publishes the federal fines it has imposed. The county and California figures beside each number are the averages across those same published records.
These figures are taken from public CMS Care Compare records as of August 2026 (the August 2026 release) and public CDPH records as of June 2024 (the state enforcement dataset of August 27, 2024). They are reported as published and are not a recommendation, endorsement or assessment of any facility by this firm. How these figures were assembled.
Federal inspection findings and penalties
Scope and severity A to C means no actual harm, with potential for minimal harm. Scope and severity D to F means no actual harm, with potential for more than minimal harm. Scope and severity G to I means actual harm that is not immediate jeopardy. Scope and severity J to L means immediate jeopardy to resident health or safety.
December 11, 2024, standard inspection
2 deficiencies cited. Surveyors cited the facility for ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to prevent accidents and provide pharmaceutical services to meet the needs of each resident and employ or obtain the services of a licensed pharmacist.
- F0689Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to prevent accidents. (scope and severity D)
- F0755Provide pharmaceutical services to meet the needs of each resident and employ or obtain the services of a licensed pharmacist. (scope and severity D)
September 25, 2024, complaint inspection
2 deficiencies cited. Surveyors cited the facility for allow resident to participate in the development and implementation of his or her person-centered plan of care and create and put into place a plan for meeting the resident's most immediate needs within 48 hours of being admitted.
- F0553Allow resident to participate in the development and implementation of his or her person-centered plan of care. (scope and severity D)
- F0655Create and put into place a plan for meeting the resident's most immediate needs within 48 hours of being admitted (scope and severity D)
May 14, 2024, complaint inspection
2 deficiencies cited. Surveyors cited the facility for protect each resident from all types of abuse such as physical, mental, sexual abuse, physical punishment, and neglect by anybody and timely report suspected abuse, neglect, or theft and report the results of the investigation to proper authorities.
- F0600Protect each resident from all types of abuse such as physical, mental, sexual abuse, physical punishment, and neglect by anybody. (scope and severity D)
- F0609Timely report suspected abuse, neglect, or theft and report the results of the investigation to proper authorities. (scope and severity D)
April 18, 2024, complaint inspection
1 deficiency cited. Surveyors cited the facility for provide appropriate treatment and care according to orders, resident’s preferences and goals.
- F0684Provide appropriate treatment and care according to orders, resident’s preferences and goals. (scope and severity D)
January 2, 2024, complaint inspection
1 deficiency cited. Surveyors cited the facility for ensure services provided by the nursing facility meet professional standards of quality.
- F0658Ensure services provided by the nursing facility meet professional standards of quality. (scope and severity D)
December 29, 2023, complaint inspection
1 deficiency cited. Surveyors cited the facility for create and put into place a plan for meeting the resident's most immediate needs within 48 hours of being admitted.
- F0655Create and put into place a plan for meeting the resident's most immediate needs within 48 hours of being admitted (scope and severity D)
September 18, 2023, complaint inspection
1 deficiency cited. Surveyors cited the facility for ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to prevent accidents.
- F0689Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to prevent accidents. (scope and severity D)
August 11, 2023, complaint inspection
2 deficiencies cited. Surveyors cited the facility for develop and implement a complete care plan that meets all the resident's needs, with timetables and actions that can be measured and ensure services provided by the nursing facility meet professional standards of quality.
- F0656Develop and implement a complete care plan that meets all the resident's needs, with timetables and actions that can be measured. (scope and severity D)
- F0658Ensure services provided by the nursing facility meet professional standards of quality. (scope and severity D)
January 21, 2022, standard inspection
1 deficiency cited. Surveyors cited the facility for provide enough food/fluids to maintain a resident's health.
- F0692Provide enough food/fluids to maintain a resident's health. (scope and severity D)
May 2, 2019, standard inspection
1 deficiency cited. Surveyors cited the facility for encode each resident’s assessment data and transmit these data to the state within 7 days of assessment.
- F0640Encode each resident’s assessment data and transmit these data to the State within 7 days of assessment. (scope and severity D)
Penalties. CMS records show no federal fines for Mission Park Healthcare Center in the reported period.
California state citations
California inspects and cites nursing homes separately from the federal government. The Department of Public Health issues three classes of citation. A class AA citation is a class A violation that the Department of Public Health determined was a direct proximate cause of a resident's death. A class A citation is a violation the Department determined presented an imminent danger of death or serious harm to residents, or a substantial probability that death or serious physical harm would result. A class B citation is a violation the Department determined had a direct or immediate relationship to residents' health, safety or security, other than a class AA or A violation.
State records show 1 citation against Mission Park Healthcare Center between April 16, 2008 and April 16, 2008: 1 class A, with $6,000 in assessed penalties.
- April 16, 2008, class A, Patient Care. $6,000 penalty.
Across Santa Barbara County's 14 certified facilities, the average is about 7.7 state citations per facility. Mission Park Healthcare Center's 1 is below that average.
A citation records a determination by state surveyors. A citation does not by itself establish that any particular resident was injured or that the facility is liable to anyone.
Other nursing homes in Santa Barbara
Families comparing options in Santa Barbara often look at these facilities as well. Each link opens that facility's full public record:
- Channel Islands Post Acute, 3 stars, 24 state citations
- Buena Vista Care Center, 2 stars, 9 state citations
- Valle Verde Health Facility, 5 stars, 5 state citations
- The Californian, 5 stars, 6 state citations
- Samarkand Skilled Nursing Facility, 5 stars, 7 state citations
See every facility in the Santa Barbara County nursing home directory.
Other nursing homes in Santa Barbara County
These are other nursing homes in Santa Barbara County, listed by how close each home's ZIP code is to the ZIP code for Mission Park Healthcare Center. The public record gives a street address but no coordinates, so distance is not measured; homes in the same ZIP code appear first. No rating or inspection figure is used to order this list.
- Samarkand Skilled Nursing Facility, Santa Barbara
- The Californian, Santa Barbara
- Valle Verde Health Facility, Santa Barbara
- Casa Dorinda, Santa Barbara
- Channel Islands Post Acute, Santa Barbara
This list is drawn from public CMS Care Compare records as of August 2026 (the August 2026 release) and public CDPH records as of June 2024 (the state enforcement dataset of August 27, 2024). It is ordered by location only and is not a recommendation, endorsement or assessment of any facility by this firm. How these figures were assembled.
What to do if you are worried about care at this facility
You will usually notice something is wrong before anyone official does, and you do not need proof before you act. If you are concerned about care at Mission Park Healthcare Center, you can take these steps:
Write down what you see. Note dates, times, and specific concerns, and photograph anything relevant. A clear, contemporaneous record matters if an investigation follows.
File a complaint with the California Department of Public Health. CDPH licenses and inspects skilled nursing facilities and investigates complaints, and a serious complaint can trigger an on-site inspection. You can file online through CDPH's Cal Health Find system, which routes your complaint to the Santa Barbara County licensing district office.
Contact the Long-Term Care Ombudsman. The ombudsman is a free advocate who will visit your loved one, look into your concerns, and press the facility on their behalf. Santa Barbara County's ombudsman program can be reached at (805) 922-1236. This is often the fastest first step when the issue is care quality rather than an emergency.
For the full walkthrough, see How to report nursing home abuse in California.
Injuries that most often signal neglect
The injuries below are the ones most often at issue in California nursing home cases. Any one of them at Mission Park Healthcare Center is a reason to ask what the facility's own records show:
- Bedsores and pressure ulcers, especially a wound that reached stage 3 or 4
- Falls and fractures in a resident who was supposed to be supervised
- Wandering and elopement from a building that was not secured
- Dehydration and malnutrition
- Sepsis and untreated infections
- Medication errors
- Wrongful death, when neglect contributed to a resident's passing
Nursing home abuse claims in Santa Barbara County
If a loved one was harmed at Mission Park Healthcare Center, these pages explain how Santa Barbara County families pursue the most common nursing home claims, each with local facility data and the county long-term care ombudsman:
- Santa Barbara County bedsore lawyer
- Santa Barbara County nursing home neglect lawyer
- Santa Barbara County nursing home fall lawyer
- Santa Barbara County nursing home wrongful death lawyer
You can also compare every home in the Santa Barbara County nursing home directory.
Are There Lawsuits Against Mission Park Healthcare Center?
This page reports federal and state inspection, complaint and enforcement records for Mission Park Healthcare Center. Those records are separate from civil lawsuits: a government citation is not a lawsuit, and a facility can be sued without ever being cited. This site does not track civil court filings. Civil cases against California skilled nursing facilities are usually filed in the Superior Court of the county where the facility is located; records for Santa Barbara County are searchable through the Santa Barbara County Superior Court's online case records. If your family member was injured at Mission Park Healthcare Center, the records that matter most are usually the resident's own: nursing notes, care plans, fall-risk assessments, wound records, medication administration records, physician orders and incident reports. Talk to us about what happened.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Mission Park Healthcare Center a good nursing home?
- CMS gives Mission Park Healthcare Center an overall rating of 5 of 5 stars, with a health inspection rating of 5 of 5 based on in-person state surveys. California has issued 1 state citation against the facility, including 1 in the state's two most serious classes, class A and class AA. A rating is a starting point, not a verdict. Read it alongside the inspection dates and what you see for yourself.
- What should I do if my loved one was injured at Mission Park Healthcare Center?
- Document the injury with dated photos, request the care plan and treatment records, and report your concern to the California Department of Public Health and the Santa Barbara County Long-Term Care Ombudsman. If the injury is serious, such as a bedsore, a fall, or an untreated infection, you can also speak with a nursing home attorney about whether you have a claim.
- Has Mission Park Healthcare Center been fined or cited for serious violations?
- Public records show 1 California state citation with $6,000 in state penalties, including 1 class A citation.
- How many state citations does Mission Park Healthcare Center have?
- The California Department of Public Health has issued 1 citation against Mission Park Healthcare Center in Santa Barbara between April 16, 2008 and April 16, 2008: 1 class A, with $6,000 in assessed penalties.
- How do I report a problem at Mission Park Healthcare Center?
- File a complaint with CDPH through its Cal Health Find system, or contact the Santa Barbara County Long-Term Care Ombudsman at (805) 922-1236. In an emergency, call Adult Protective Services or 911.
If your loved one was harmed
We came to this work from the other side. We spent years defending nursing homes, which means we know how a facility builds a file to protect itself and where the gaps in that file tend to be. Under California's Elder Abuse Act (Welfare and Institutions Code sections 15600 to 15675), a family that proves, by clear and convincing evidence, that neglect was committed with recklessness, oppression, fraud or malice can recover remedies beyond an ordinary injury claim, including attorney's fees (section 15657).
If your loved one was harmed at Mission Park Healthcare Center, talk to our Santa Barbara County nursing home abuse lawyers. We handle cases in Santa Barbara and across California. The consultation is free and confidential, we are available around the clock, and you owe nothing unless we recover for you.
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Sources
- Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Care Compare: Mission Park Healthcare Center provider record, CCN 055991. Ratings, staffing, and federal deficiency data processed August 1, 2026.
- CMS Provider Data Catalog: Provider Information, Penalties, and Health Deficiencies datasets.
- California Department of Public Health, Cal Health Find: Mission Park Healthcare Center state license record, FACID 050000004, license 50000044.
- California Department of Public Health, Health Facilities State Enforcement Actions dataset (CHHS Open Data), citations July 1, 1997 through June 30, 2024.
Disclaimer
The inspection data, ratings, citations, staffing figures, and ownership information on this page come from public sources, including the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (medicare.gov) and the California Department of Public Health. This information is reported as published by those sources and may not reflect the most current findings or conditions at the facility. Deficiencies and citations listed may have been corrected or appealed since the date shown. Inclusion of Mission Park Healthcare Center in this directory is not a statement, allegation, or suggestion that the facility has committed abuse, neglect, or any wrongdoing. This page is attorney advertising and an information resource. It is not legal advice, and using this site does not create an attorney-client relationship. Young & Wallin is not affiliated with Mission Park Healthcare Center, and neither the facility nor any government agency endorses this page.