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Key information
Sonoma Post Acute is an 83-bed nursing home in Sonoma, part of Pacs Group. Medicare rates it 3 out of 5 stars overall, with 3 for health inspections, 3 for staffing and 4 for quality of care.
Care on offer includes a hospice program. It is certified by Medicare and Medi-Cal, and has been since 1967. The nearest hospital, Sonoma Valley Hospital, which has an emergency room, is 0.2 miles away.
Inspectors have visited 71 times since November 2023, most recently on October 21, 2026. Federal inspectors cited 40 deficiencies in that time (1 actual harm and 39 potential for harm). State health inspectors (CDPH) cited 1 citation in that time (1 administrative penalty). Regulators looked into 69 complaints in that time (7 substantiated, 9 partially substantiated, 23 unsubstantiated and 30 without a recorded outcome). Medicare imposed 1 penalty totalling $12,006 in that time (1 civil money penalty). The state health department (CDPH) imposed 1 penalty totalling $50,000 in that time (1 fine).
From April to June 2026, each resident received 3.59 hours of nursing care a day on average, 0.6 of them from registered nurses.
Rating and inspection report
Official rating
- Medicare health inspections3/5 · Average
- Medicare quality measures (long stay)5/5 · Much above average
- Medicare quality measures4/5 · Above average
- Medicare quality measures (short stay)4/5 · Above average
- Medicare staffing3/5 · Average
- State inspections4 serious citations in 3 years
Care & pricing
Care available
- Licensed capacity
- 83 beds
- State license
- CA 010000030 · Active
Pricing
- Average daily charge (Medicare cost report): $682 per dayNursing home
Payment types accepted
Room type
- Private room
- Semi-Private
Daily life
Details
Facilities
- Activity room
- Arts room
- Business room
- Cable TV
- Climate control
- Fitness room
- Furnished
- Game room
- Garden
- Indoor Common Areas
- Kitchenette
- Library
- Movie room
- Outdoor Common Areas
- Outdoor common space
- Private bathroom
- Respite or Short Term Stays Offered
- Spa /
sauna / wellness room - Telephone in room
- Walking paths
- Wheelchair Accessible Showers
- Wi-Fi and internet access
- For-profit ownership (limited liability company)
- State-licensed skilled nursing facility (California CDPH)
Activities
- Devotional Activities Offsite
- Devotional Activities On-Site
- Movie nights
- Music program
- Outdoor programs
- Resident run activities
- Scheduled daily activities
Services
- 12-16 hour nursing
- 24-hour call system
- 24-hour supervision
- Activities of daily living assistance
- Assistance with bathing
- Assistance with dressing
- Assistance with transfers
- Beautician
- Catheter care
- Colostomy /
ostomy care - Concierge
- Dementia /
memory care - Diabetes management (glucose checks)
- Dialysis support
- Family support services
- Feeding tube (G-tube)
- Hearing or vision impairment support
- High Acuity Care
- Hospice care on site
- Hospice program
- Housekeeping
- Incontinence care
- Insulin injections
- IV therapy
- Laundry
- Licensed nurse on site 24/
7 - Medication administration by staff
- Medication management and reminders
- Mental health conditions accepted
- Move in coordination
- Non-ambulatory care
- Palliative care
- Physical, occupational or speech therapy
- Resident council
- Respite (short) stays
- Special diets (diabetic, renal, pureed)
- Staffing & Ancillary Services
- Transport to medical appointments
- Visiting physician
- Walking assistance
- Wound care
Dining
- All day dining
- Allergy sensitive
- Diabetes diet
- Dining room
- Gluten free
- Guest Meals
- Meals Provided
- Professional chef
- Restaurant style dining
- Vegetarian
Safety and security
- Automatic sprinklers throughout the building
- Emergency alert system
Transportation
- Transportation and parking
Policies
- Accepts Medicaid (Medi-Cal)
- Accepts Medicare
- Cats Allowed
- Dogs Allowed
Languages spoken on site
- English
- English spoken
- Spanish Spoken
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Reviews and listings
What families and listing sites say.
Ratings on other sites
- 3.6/5
Reviews
- Caring.com3/5
The facility is older, but kept fairly clean. 99% of the CNAs, RNs, therapists, and helpers are nice and want to help the patient. Food was for calories, not necessarily nutrition, decent. The main issue we had is with the administration. The person we had to speak to about coordinating therapy and care, release dates etc., is not very good from the patient standpoint (this is based on our experience). At one point we literally had asked 4 to 6 different people over the course of 5 days to notify this person that we wanted to speak to them. They just never showed up. This continued throughout my husband's stay. My husband has been home for 3 months and we just got a call about the in-home equipment we were told was ordered when he was discharged. We also got a 10 day runaround from their business office where we had to constantly call them, again, they just wouldn't call us back. I would not recommend this place based on our experience. The stay was stressful enough without dealing with the added stress of upper management and admin.
Read full reviewLinda M. · Family member
Jun 25, 2025
- Caring.com1/5
I was at Sonoma Post Acute recuperating from a hip surgery. Nothing was really good. It was probably the poorest of any of the places I've stayed at. There was a lack of help. The toilet was always leaking and I never got it fixed. As far as coming to your attention or whatever, they mostly had young CNAs that didn't know that much. The staff was always short. They were shorthanded on therapy people. They kept losing them. I hardly ever got any therapy as far as my hip. They were doing things like sitting in the chair, lifting your hands up, etc. to keep the therapy going, but not concentrating on the things that need to be done. It was not a very good experience. I would never go back there again. The senior staff was very good, but the younger ones weren't good. It's not their fault, but just a lack of experience. The food was OK. You just didn't get it. They were always out of stuff.
Read full reviewResident
Feb 6, 2025
- Caring.com5/5
Sonoma Post-Acute was smaller, really bright and white, clean, and had high ceilings, so it felt good to me. The staff was very helpful, very kind, very caring, and very accommodating to my sister's needs. They had a lot of smaller rooms and a group room where there was someone playing the piano and people were listening and singing. They had a garden outside where they had grown some vegetables, and a nice patio that's secure. They had physical therapy and a physical therapy area to work on balance and coordination. They had beds that lower way, way down. My sister has fallen out of bed a couple of times, and it goes down to a foot off the floor and they can put pads beside so that there's minimal damage if somebody falls out of bed. If somebody leaves their bed, there's an alarm that goes off.
Read full reviewVisitor
Aug 22, 2017
- Caring.com5/5
Everything is wonderful at Golden Living Center. We love them because they are very good and return calls. The nurses seem to know what is going on with Shirley. They are very happy with them.
Read full reviewFamily member
May 11, 2016
- Caring.com4/5
The cleanliness of Golden Livingcenter is alright. There were a lot of people working there. The staffing is very good. If you can go to some nursing home, you could smell an aroma or something. That one too is not exempt from it. They were adequately staffed. When I went there, it took them a while to respond when my friend called on a nurse to get some assistance. They did go there eventually, and they were very nice. It is a shared room, and the space is alright.
Read full reviewVisitor
Feb 19, 2015
Location
678 2nd St W, Sonoma, CA 95476