How Medicare rates them
- 5 stars 0
- 4 stars 1
- 3 stars 1
- 2 stars 1
- 1 star 0
3 Medicare-certified nursing homes in Santa Cruz
Driftwood Healthcare Center - Santa Cruz
4 of 5 stars675 24th Avenue · (831) 475-6323
Ownership: For profit - Limited Liability company · Mariner Health Care
- Certified beds
- 92
- Staffing rating
- 4
- Quality measure rating
- 5
- Flagged by CMS for abuse
- N
- Health inspection rating
- 3
- Average residents per day
- 84.6
Redwood Grove Post Acute
3 of 5 stars2990 Soquel Avenue · (831) 479-9000
Ownership: For profit - Limited Liability company
- Certified beds
- 144
- Staffing rating
- 4
- Quality measure rating
- 4
- Flagged by CMS for abuse
- N
- Health inspection rating
- 3
- Average residents per day
- 126.0
Santa Cruz Post Acute
2 of 5 stars1115 Capitola Road · (831) 475-4055
Ownership: For profit - Limited Liability company · Pacs Group
- Certified beds
- 149
- Staffing rating
- 3
- Quality measure rating
- 5
- Flagged by CMS for abuse
- N
- Health inspection rating
- 1
- Average residents per day
- 143.7
Common questions
How many nursing homes are there in Santa Cruz?
Medicare lists 3 certified nursing homes in Santa Cruz. 3 carry a CMS star rating and 1 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 August 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.