How Medicare rates them
- 5 stars 4
- 4 stars 1
- 3 stars 1
- 2 stars 1
- 1 star 0
7 Medicare-certified nursing homes in Santa Barbara
Mission Park Healthcare Center
5 of 5 stars623 West Junipero Street · (805) 682-7443
Ownership: For profit - Limited Liability company
- Health inspection rating
- 5 of 5
- Staffing rating
- 3 of 5
- Quality measure rating
- 4 of 5
- Certified beds
- 138
Samarkand Skilled Nursing Facility
5 of 5 stars2566 Treasure Drive · (805) 687-0701
Ownership: Non profit - Corporation · Covenant Living
- Health inspection rating
- 5 of 5
- Staffing rating
- 4 of 5
- Quality measure rating
- 4 of 5
- Certified beds
- 63
The Californian
5 of 5 stars2225 De La Vina Street · (805) 682-1355
Ownership: For profit - Corporation
- Health inspection rating
- 5 of 5
- Staffing rating
- 3 of 5
- Quality measure rating
- 3 of 5
- Certified beds
- 68
Valle Verde Health Facility
5 of 5 stars900 Calle De Los Amigos · (805) 883-4000
Ownership: Non profit - Corporation · Humangood
- Health inspection rating
- 4 of 5
- Staffing rating
- 5 of 5
- Quality measure rating
- 5 of 5
- Certified beds
- 80
Casa Dorinda
4 of 5 stars300 Hot Springs Road · (805) 969-8051
Ownership: Non profit - Corporation
- Health inspection rating
- 4 of 5
- Staffing rating
- 1 of 5
- Quality measure rating
- 5 of 5
- Certified beds
- 52
Channel Islands Post Acute
3 of 5 stars3880 Via Lucero · (805) 687-6651
Ownership: For profit - Corporation · The Ensign Group
- Health inspection rating
- 4 of 5
- Staffing rating
- 4 of 5
- Quality measure rating
- 1 of 5
- Certified beds
- 156
Buena Vista Care Center
2 of 5 stars160 South Patterson Avenue · (805) 964-4871
Ownership: For profit - Limited Liability company · Covenant Care
- Health inspection rating
- 2 of 5
- Staffing rating
- 3 of 5
- Quality measure rating
- 4 of 5
- Certified beds
- 150
Common questions
How many nursing homes are there in Santa Barbara?
Medicare lists 7 certified nursing homes in Santa Barbara. 7 carry a CMS star rating and 5 are rated 4 or 5 stars.
What does the CMS star rating actually measure?
Medicare combines three things into one overall rating: state health inspection results, staffing levels reported from payroll data, and clinical quality measures. It is a federal rating, not our assessment, and a facility can be rated well on one and poorly on another.
Does Medicare or Medicaid pay for this?
Every facility listed here is Medicare-certified. What Medicare pays for and for how long depends on the type of care and your situation, so confirm coverage with the facility and with your plan before you commit.
Where this data comes from
Ratings and quality measures on this page come from CMS Care Compare, Nursing Home Provider Information, published September 2026. They are Medicare's assessments, not ours. We report the federal figures as published, with the file's own date, and we do not compute a score of our own or rank one facility against another.
CMS suppresses some measures for small facilities, so a blank is missing data rather than a poor result. Ratings are refreshed each quarter from the source file. Confirm anything that matters directly with the facility before you act on it.
Compiled and maintained by the Black Health editorial team. Found something wrong? Tell us and we will check it against the source.