Ararat Nursing Facility inspection record, citations, and penalties

The most serious citations on this record

Every nursing-home citation carries a scope-and-severity grade from A (least serious) to L (most serious). The five highest-graded citations at Ararat Nursing Facility are:

What surveyors cited, theme by theme

Grouping the citations by subject shows whether a home's problems are isolated or concentrated in one part of care. At Ararat Nursing Facility, 13 subject areas appear across health and fire-safety inspections.

How to read the severity grades

CMS grades combine how many residents were affected with how much harm occurred. Grades J–L are immediate jeopardy: a situation that caused, or was likely to cause, serious injury or death. Grades G–I mean a resident was actually harmed. Grades D–F mean no harm was found but the failure could have caused more than minimal harm, and A–C carry only minimal-harm potential. The second dimension matters too: the grade also tells you whether surveyors saw an isolated case, a pattern, or a facility-wide problem.

Survey and penalty timeline

Ararat Nursing Facility appears in CMS data on 41 survey dates between October 22, 2021 and July 24, 2026. Complaint surveys happen because someone reported a problem; standard surveys are the routine inspections every home receives.

Penalties imposed

Payment denials are the stronger federal sanction: CMS stops paying for new admissions until the home corrects the problems. Ararat Nursing Facility has 4 denial periods on record totalling 66 days.

How Ararat Nursing Facility compares with peer homes

Raw citation counts mean more in context. The table below compares Ararat Nursing Facility with the median reviewed facility in Los Angeles County (181 homes in this research set) and across California (350 homes), using the same CMS data. On health citations alone, Ararat Nursing Facility sits above 94% of its reviewed county peers — near the top of the county for citation volume.

What families should ask Ararat Nursing Facility

• Ask why CMS flags Ararat Nursing Facility with its abuse icon, which citations produced the flag, and what staffing or supervision changes followed.
• Ask for the plan of correction and follow-up monitoring for the quality of life and daily care citations — most recently F-0684 on May 15, 2024 — and the records showing the fix held.
• Ask for the plan of correction and follow-up monitoring for the freedom from abuse, neglect, and exploitation citations — most recently F-0600 on June 14, 2024 — and the records showing the fix held.
• Ask for the plan of correction and follow-up monitoring for the medication and pharmacy services citations — most recently F-0760 on June 10, 2026 — and the records showing the fix held.
• Ask for the plan of correction and follow-up monitoring for the nursing and physician services citations — most recently F-0726 on August 9, 2024 — and the records showing the fix held.
• Ask what conduct led to the fines — CMS records 8 totalling $426,785, the most recent dated July 10, 2026 — and what changed afterward.
• What changed in the resident's condition, and when did staff at Ararat Nursing Facility first document the change?
• Were recent complaint-related citations at Ararat Nursing Facility connected to the same kind of issue your family noticed?

Records to preserve

Connect this record to what your family saw

A citation record is context. The warning sign your family noticed is the starting point for a resident-specific review — match the two, then preserve the records listed above. Start with how facility research works.

CMS facility facts

Public records are a starting point, not a conclusion

This profile of Ararat Nursing Facility uses official CMS provider data as a research starting point. It does not state that Ararat Nursing Facility abused or neglected any resident. A citation, fine, or rating becomes meaningful only when it is compared with the resident's own chart, the facility's explanation, and source documents with dates and outcome status.

Citation and penalty detail on this page comes from the CMS Provider Data health-deficiency, fire-safety, and penalties datasets, pulled October 12, 2026. Figures describe the facility's public inspection record; they do not by themselves prove what happened to any individual resident.

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