Nursing homeFAID #1176
Vale Healthcare Center
★★★★★3/5CMS Five-Star overall2/5 health inspections4/5 staffing5/5 quality measuresSource: CMS Care Compare
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Public record summary
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Bed capacity
202
CMS facility ID
056389
Care type
Nursing home
County
Contra Costa
Facility name
Vale Healthcare Center
Street address
13484 SAN PABLO AVENUE
City / state / ZIP
San Pablo, CA 94806
Phone
(510) 232-5945
Website
About this facility — Vale Healthcare Center
Vale Healthcare Center is a Medicare/Medicaid-certified skilled nursing facility in San Pablo, California. It is licensed for 202 beds — well above the median for skilled nursing facilities in California (98 beds).
It is one of 8 senior care facilities in San Pablo and 1,165 skilled nursing facilities across California. Families comparing options should weigh inspection history, ownership record, and litigation — not just the tour — before deciding.
Federal inspectors have cited Vale Healthcare Center 88 times across 17 inspections in the last three years, including 3 food-safety citations; no federal fines are on record. Every citation is listed, dated, and graded in the inspection record below.
This listing draws on federal CMS Nursing Home Compare records, and was last updated on August 31, 2026. Background reports are compiled from primary sources — state inspection files, federal CMS data, corporate registrations, and court records — at the time of order.
Facility background
What the public record shows.
Ownership & operator
Parent company
Mariner Health Care
Ownership type
For profit - Corporation
Registered owners & officers
Gc Holding Company 2 Llc
Direct owner · Partner — 99% stake — since 2015
Carter, Brazell
Operational control · Additional disclosable party — since 2011
Chib, Prarthana
Governing body · Operational control · Additional disclosable party — since 2025
Grancare Llc
Indirect owner — since 2015
Grunstein, Emily
Indirect owner — since 2019
Mariner Health Care, Inc.
Indirect owner — since 2015
Mhc Holding Company
Indirect owner — since 2015
Mhc West Holding Company
Indirect owner — since 2015
National Senior Care, Inc.
Indirect owner — since 2015
Sarcauga, Dennis
Governing body · Operational control · Additional disclosable party — since 2025
Vale Holding Company Llc
Partner — since 2015
Regulatory standing
Federal court records
20 naming its parent company — view the cases (a listed case is not a finding of wrongdoing)
Licensed / certified since
1973-04-13
CMS overall rating
3 of 5 stars
Health deficiencies
19 at the last standard inspection
Federal fines
None on record
Last standard inspection
2025-07-25
Nurse staffing
4.0 hours per resident per day
Cost & payer profile (FY2023 cost report)
Average billed charges
$511 per day (≈ $15,530/month). Private-pay prices typically track billed charges; Medicare and Medicaid pay set rates.
Payer mix (resident days)
88% Medicaid · 6% Medicare · 6% private/other
Occupancy
80% (fiscal year 2023)
Vs. state median
1% below the CA median of $514/day — full state cost breakdown
Services & coverage
Licensed beds
202
Medicare
Accepted
Medicaid
Accepted
Wheelchair accessible
entrance and parking
Compiled from CMS Nursing Home Compare; owners/officers from the CMS Ownership dataset; cost & occupancy from the facility's own CMS cost report; hours/accessibility via Google · last verified 2026-08-31. Facilities can submit a correction.
Inspection record
Every citation, dated and graded.
Kitchen & food safety
Federal surveyors inspect the kitchen at every standard visit. This facility has 3 food-safety citations on its three-year record — flagged below among the inspections.
2026-04-09Health inspectionComplaint-triggered1 citation
F-0610
D · No harm foundFrom a complaint
Respond appropriately to all alleged violations.
Corrected 2026-04-23
2026-03-17Health inspectionComplaint-triggered1 citation
F-0600
D · No harm foundFrom a complaint
Protect each resident from all types of abuse such as physical, mental, sexual abuse, physical punishment, and neglect by anybody.
Corrected 2026-04-05
15 earlier / fire-safety inspections (86 citations)
2026-03-09Health inspectionComplaint-triggered1 citation
F-0689
D · No harm foundFrom a complaint
Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to prevent accidents.
2026-01-20Health inspectionComplaint-triggered1 citation
F-0609
D · No harm foundFrom a complaint
Timely report suspected abuse, neglect, or theft and report the results of the investigation to proper authorities.
Corrected 2026-02-05
2026-01-07Health inspectionComplaint-triggered1 citation
F-0627
D · No harm foundFrom a complaint
Ensure the transfer/discharge meets the resident's needs/preferences and that the resident is prepared for a safe transfer/discharge.
Corrected 2026-04-01
2025-07-25Health inspection14 citations
F-0552
D · No harm found
Ensure that residents are fully informed and understand their health status, care and treatments.
Corrected 2025-09-05
F-0584
E · No harm found
Honor the resident's right to a safe, clean, comfortable and homelike environment, including but not limited to receiving treatment and supports for daily living safely.
Corrected 2025-09-05
F-0585
D · No harm found
Honor the resident's right to voice grievances without discrimination or reprisal and the facility must establish a grievance policy and make prompt efforts to resolve grievances.
Corrected 2025-09-05
F-0655
D · No harm found
Create and put into place a plan for meeting the resident's most immediate needs within 48 hours of being admitted
Corrected 2025-09-05
F-0687
E · No harm found
Provide appropriate foot care.
Corrected 2025-09-05
F-0689
D · No harm found
Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to prevent accidents.
Corrected 2025-09-05
F-0740
D · No harm found
Ensure each resident must receive and the facility must provide necessary behavioral health care and services.
Corrected 2025-09-05
F-0745
D · No harm found
Provide medically-related social services to help each resident achieve the highest possible quality of life.
Corrected 2025-09-05
F-0761
E · No harm found
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.
Corrected 2025-09-05
F-0791
E · No harm found
Provide or obtain dental services for each resident.
Corrected 2025-09-05
F-0812
E · No harm foundFood safety
Procure food from sources approved or considered satisfactory and store, prepare, distribute and serve food in accordance with professional standards.
Corrected 2025-09-05
F-0880
E · No harm found
Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program.
Corrected 2025-09-05
F-0912
E · No harm found
Provide rooms that are at least 80 square feet per resident in multiple rooms and 100 square feet for single resident rooms.
Corrected 2025-09-05
F-0919
D · No harm found
Make sure that a working call system is available in each resident's bathroom and bathing area.
Corrected 2025-09-05
2025-04-09Health inspectionComplaint-triggered1 citation
F-0790
D · No harm foundFrom a complaint
Provide routine and 24-hour emergency dental care for each resident.
Corrected 2025-07-09
2024-11-15Health inspectionComplaint-triggered1 citation
F-0658
E · No harm foundFrom a complaint
Ensure services provided by the nursing facility meet professional standards of quality.
Corrected 2024-12-12
2024-06-27Health inspectionComplaint-triggered1 citation
F-0755
D · No harm foundFrom a complaint
Provide pharmaceutical services to meet the needs of each resident and employ or obtain the services of a licensed pharmacist.
Corrected 2024-07-22
2024-05-23Health inspection7 citations
F-0677
E · No harm found
Provide care and assistance to perform activities of daily living for any resident who is unable.
Corrected 2024-06-20
F-0697
D · No harm found
Provide safe, appropriate pain management for a resident who requires such services.
Corrected 2024-06-20
F-0755
F · No harm found
Provide pharmaceutical services to meet the needs of each resident and employ or obtain the services of a licensed pharmacist.
Corrected 2024-06-20
F-0756
E · No harm found
Ensure a licensed pharmacist perform a monthly drug regimen review, including the medical chart, following irregularity reporting guidelines in developed policies and procedures.
Corrected 2024-06-20
F-0759
E · No harm found
Ensure medication error rates are not 5 percent or greater.
Corrected 2024-06-20
F-0812
E · No harm foundFood safety
Procure food from sources approved or considered satisfactory and store, prepare, distribute and serve food in accordance with professional standards.
Corrected 2024-06-20
F-0912
B · No harm found
Provide rooms that are at least 80 square feet per resident in multiple rooms and 100 square feet for single resident rooms.
Corrected 2024-06-20
2023-12-20Health inspectionComplaint-triggered3 citations
F-0600
D · No harm foundFrom a complaint
Protect each resident from all types of abuse such as physical, mental, sexual abuse, physical punishment, and neglect by anybody.
Corrected 2024-01-19
F-0656
D · No harm foundFrom a complaint
Develop and implement a complete care plan that meets all the resident's needs, with timetables and actions that can be measured.
Corrected 2024-01-19
F-0687
D · No harm foundFrom a complaint
Provide appropriate foot care.
Corrected 2024-01-19
2023-08-30Health inspectionComplaint-triggered2 citations
F-0600
D · No harm foundFrom a complaint
Protect each resident from all types of abuse such as physical, mental, sexual abuse, physical punishment, and neglect by anybody.
Corrected 2023-09-15
F-0609
E · No harm foundFrom a complaint
Timely report suspected abuse, neglect, or theft and report the results of the investigation to proper authorities.
Corrected 2023-09-15
2022-08-02Health inspection16 citations
F-0561
D · No harm found
Honor the resident's right to and the facility must promote and facilitate resident self-determination through support of resident choice.
Corrected 2022-08-31
F-0580
D · No harm found
Immediately tell the resident, the resident's doctor, and a family member of situations (injury/decline/room, etc.) that affect the resident.
Corrected 2022-08-31
F-0582
B · No harm found
Give residents notice of Medicaid/Medicare coverage and potential liability for services not covered.
Corrected 2022-08-31
F-0656
D · No harm found
Develop and implement a complete care plan that meets all the resident's needs, with timetables and actions that can be measured.
Corrected 2022-08-31
F-0677
D · No harm found
Provide care and assistance to perform activities of daily living for any resident who is unable.
Corrected 2022-08-31
F-0687
D · No harm found
Provide appropriate foot care.
Corrected 2022-08-31
F-0692
E · No harm found
Provide enough food/fluids to maintain a resident's health.
Corrected 2022-08-31
F-0726
E · No harm found
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.
Corrected 2022-08-31
F-0755
E · No harm found
Provide pharmaceutical services to meet the needs of each resident and employ or obtain the services of a licensed pharmacist.
Corrected 2022-08-31
F-0756
D · No harm found
Ensure a licensed pharmacist perform a monthly drug regimen review, including the medical chart, following irregularity reporting guidelines in developed policies and procedures.
Corrected 2022-08-31
F-0759
E · No harm found
Ensure medication error rates are not 5 percent or greater.
Corrected 2022-08-31
F-0761
E · No harm found
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.
Corrected 2022-08-31
F-0812
E · No harm foundFood safety
Procure food from sources approved or considered satisfactory and store, prepare, distribute and serve food in accordance with professional standards.
Corrected 2022-08-31
F-0842
D · No harm found
Safeguard resident-identifiable information and/or maintain medical records on each resident that are in accordance with accepted professional standards.
Corrected 2022-08-31
F-0880
E · No harm found
Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program.
Corrected 2022-08-31
F-0912
B · No harm found
Provide rooms that are at least 80 square feet per resident in multiple rooms and 100 square feet for single resident rooms.
Corrected 2022-08-31
2025-07-25Fire-safety inspection8 citations
K-0293
D · No harm found
Have properly located and lighted "Exit" signs.
Corrected 2025-07-28
K-0353
C · No harm found
Inspect, test, and maintain automatic sprinkler systems.
Corrected 2025-07-28
K-0355
D · No harm found
Properly select, install, inspect, or maintain portable fire extinguishes.
Corrected 2025-07-28
K-0363
E · No harm found
Install corridor and hallway doors that block smoke.
Corrected 2025-07-28
K-0372
E · No harm found
Ensure smoke barriers are constructed to a 1 hour fire resistance rating.
Corrected 2025-07-28
K-0711
E · No harm found
Provide a written emergency evacuation plan.
Corrected 2025-07-28
K-0919
D · No harm found
Meet requirements for the use of electrical equipment.
Corrected 2025-07-28
K-0920
D · No harm found
Ensure proper usage of power strips and extension cords.
Corrected 2025-07-28
2024-05-23Fire-safety inspection17 citations
E-0039
D · No harm found
Conduct testing and exercise requirements.
Corrected 2024-06-17
E-0041
D · No harm found
Implement emergency and standby power systems.
Corrected 2024-06-17
K-0161
D · No harm found
Use approved construction type or materials.
Corrected 2024-06-17
K-0291
D · No harm found
Install emergency lighting that can last at least 1 1/2 hours.
Corrected 2024-06-17
K-0293
D · No harm found
Have properly located and lighted "Exit" signs.
Corrected 2024-06-17
K-0321
D · No harm found
Ensure that special areas are constructed so that walls can resist fire for one hour or have an approved fire extinguishing system.
Corrected 2024-06-17
K-0345
E · No harm found
Have approved installation, maintenance and testing program for fire alarm systems.
Corrected 2024-06-17
K-0347
F · No harm found
Properly provide smoke detection systems in areas open to corridors.
Corrected 2024-06-17
K-0353
F · No harm found
Inspect, test, and maintain automatic sprinkler systems.
Corrected 2024-06-17
K-0355
D · No harm found
Properly select, install, inspect, or maintain portable fire extinguishes.
Corrected 2024-06-17
K-0363
D · No harm found
Install corridor and hallway doors that block smoke.
Corrected 2024-06-17
K-0374
D · No harm found
Install smoke barrier doors that can resist smoke for at least 20 minutes.
Corrected 2024-06-17
K-0531
D · No harm found
Have elevators that firefighters can control in the event of a fire.
Corrected 2024-06-17
K-0712
D · No harm found
Have simulated fire drills held at unexpected times.
Corrected 2024-06-17
K-0918
F · No harm found
Have generator or other power source capable of supplying service within 10 seconds.
Corrected 2024-06-17
K-0919
D · No harm found
Meet requirements for the use of electrical equipment.
Corrected 2024-06-17
K-0920
D · No harm found
Ensure proper usage of power strips and extension cords.
Corrected 2024-06-17
2023-10-06Fire-safety inspectionComplaint-triggered2 citations
K-0711
F · No harm foundFrom a complaint
Provide a written emergency evacuation plan.
Corrected 2023-10-24
K-0741
F · No harm foundFrom a complaint
Have posted "No-smoking" signs in areas where smoking is not permitted or ashtrays provided where smoking was allowed.
Corrected 2023-10-24
2022-08-02Fire-safety inspection11 citations
E-0031
D · No harm found
Provide emergency officials' contact information.
Corrected 2022-08-17
K-0161
D · No harm found
Use approved construction type or materials.
Corrected 2022-08-17
K-0293
D · No harm found
Have properly located and lighted "Exit" signs.
Corrected 2022-08-17
K-0353
D · No harm found
Inspect, test, and maintain automatic sprinkler systems.
Corrected 2022-08-17
K-0355
D · No harm found
Properly select, install, inspect, or maintain portable fire extinguishes.
Corrected 2022-08-17
K-0363
F · No harm found
Install corridor and hallway doors that block smoke.
Corrected 2022-08-17
K-0521
F · No harm found
Ensure heating and ventilation systems that have been properly installed according to the manufacturer's instructions.
Corrected 2022-08-17
K-0712
D · No harm found
Have simulated fire drills held at unexpected times.
Corrected 2022-08-17
K-0741
D · No harm found
Have posted "No-smoking" signs in areas where smoking is not permitted or ashtrays provided where smoking was allowed.
Corrected 2022-08-17
K-0761
D · No harm found
To conduct inspection, testing and maintenance of fire doors by qualified individuals.
Corrected 2022-08-17
K-0918
D · No harm found
Have generator or other power source capable of supplying service within 10 seconds.
Corrected 2022-08-17
Citations and penalties from the CMS Provider Data Catalog (three-year survey window, refreshed monthly). Severity codes follow the federal scope/severity grid; “Immediate jeopardy” is the most serious grade CMS issues. CCN 056389.
Visitor reviews
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2.7★★★★★31 ratings on Google
★★★★★Melissa B. · 2026-05-20 · via Google“During a rough time for our family and a time that no one had planned or prepared for, the team at Vale Healthcare Center helped guide us when we needed it most. Maxine was exceptional from the very beginning being caring, attentive, and incredibly supportive when we needed guidance the most. She helped make a complicated process feel manageable and was always available to answer questions and kee…”
★★★★★Jeannica Holland · 2026-05-08 · via Google“From the moment we met Maxine in the hospital, she made an overwhelming situation feel so much easier and more comforting. She was compassionate, knowledgeable, patient, and truly took the time to answer all of our questions and guide us through the transition process. Her communication and support gave our family so much reassurance during a stressful time. Transitioning to Vale Healthcare Center…”
★Reina Sabie · 2026-05-12 · via Google“Their Director of Nursing, Miss Carter, is so incredibly rude to sick patients and their families. My mom was sent here to receive IV antibiotics for 3 weeks and had to be transferred out in less than 24 hours. The quality of care is terrible. The nurses couldn't tell me when the last time she received her antibiotics! The staff were speaking badly about my mom in Spanish not realizing she underst…”
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Last verified 2026-08-31
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