Operation Guardians Report
Operation Guardians, a project of the state Department of Justice, has been conducting surprise, on-site inspections of California nursing homes since 2000 to protect residents and improve care for elderly and dependent adult residents. Each inspection results in a report detailing the facility’s compliance with basic sanitation and quality of care standards. The reports are not made available to the public. CANHR made a Public Records Act request to obtain all reports issued from January 1, 2010 through March 7, 2012 and has subsequently posted the reports to its website. The reports reveal a shameful state of affairs in the reviewed nursing homes that is fostered, in part, by a lack of statewide enforcement from the Department of Public Health (DPH).
Attorney General’s description of Operation Guardians
Attorney General’s Bureau of Medi-Cal Fraud & Elder Abuse
Operation Guardian Reports
Each of the nursing homes listed below were investigated by Operation Guardians staff between January 1, 2010 and March 7, 2012. If you click on the facility’s name, you will see a summary of the findings as well as a link to the full report and, where available, a supplemental physician’s report.
- Bakersfield Healthcare Center – Bakersfield
- Braswell’s Hampton Manor – Yucaipa
- Desert Knolls Convalescent Hospital – Victorville
- Evergreen Healthcare Centers of Vallejo – Springs Road (aka. Springs Road Healthcare) – Vallejo
- Florin Health Care Center – Sacramento
- Golden Cross Health Care – Pasadena
- Motion Picture and Television Fund Skilled Nursing Units – Woodland Hills
- Plott Nursing Home – Ontario
- Roseville Point Health & Wellness Center – Roseville
- Sunrise Convalescent Hospital – Pasadena
- Tarzana Health and Rehabilitation Center – Tarzana
- Windsor Redding Care Center – Redding
- Winsor House Care Center (aka. Orchard Post Acute Care) – Vacaville
- Yuba Skilled Nursing Center – Yuba City