Orchards Skilled Nursing: Staffing, Turnover, and Inspection Record
Orchards Skilled Nursing is a 49-bed for-profit nursing home in Rancho Mission Viejo, California, part of Continuing Life. In the CMS August 2026 release it reported 2.84 nurse aide hours per resident per day, 7% above the California average of 2.65, and 33.3% nursing staff turnover (California average 36.7%).
Orchards Skilled Nursing
1 Amistad DriveRancho Mission Viejo, CA 92694
Orange County
CMS Care Compare, August 2026 release
How many staff hours residents get
CMS reports staffing as hours per resident per day, from the payroll records each home submits. At Orchards Skilled Nursing, nurse aides logged 2.84 hours per resident per day, 7% above the California average. With about 45 residents a day, that works out to roughly 129 aide hours a day, or about 16 eight-hour aide shifts across day, evening, and night. On weekends, total nursing hours per resident ran 11% below the all-days figure.
| Hours per resident per day | This home | California avg | US avg |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nurse aides (CNAs) | 2.84 | 2.65 | 2.32 |
| Licensed practical nurses | 1.58 | 1.20 | 0.86 |
| Registered nurses | 0.93 | 0.67 | 0.69 |
| All nursing staff | 5.35 | 4.52 | 3.86 |
| All nursing staff, weekends | 4.75 | 4.09 | 3.42 |
CMS Care Compare, August 2026 release: reported staffing hours from Payroll-Based Journal data, and CMS state and US averages.
Staff turnover
33.3% of nursing staff at Orchards Skilled Nursing left over the year CMS measured, against a California average of 36.7% and a US average of 45.8%. Registered nurse turnover was 27.3%. No administrators left over the same period.
Inspections and penalties
State inspectors last completed a standard health inspection on Apr 17, 2025. The most recent inspection cycle, which also counts complaint and infection-control inspections from the past 12 months, found 10 health deficiencies (California average 15.7). CMS lists no fines or payment denials for this home in the last three years.
CMS star ratings
CMS rates every nursing home from one to five stars overall and on health inspections, staffing, and quality measures. Orchards Skilled Nursing holds 5 of 5 overall; the California average is 3.2.
About Orchards Skilled Nursing
- Ownership: For profit - Limited Liability company
- Chain: Continuing Life, 6 homes
- Legal name: The Orchards HC LLC
- Medicare and Medicaid certified since: Jun 13, 2021
- Part of a continuing care retirement community
- Councils: resident council
- Area: urban
Nursing homes near Orchards Skilled Nursing
The closest homes by distance, with the same CMS figures. Select a column to sort.
| San Juan Hills Healthcare Center San Juan Capistrano | 3.8 | 45 | 2.86 | 5.08 | 36.8% | 4 | None |
| Palm Terrace Healthcare & Rehabilitation Center Laguna Hills | 3.8 | 99 | 2.37 | 4.34 | 52.5% | 3 | $50,950 |
| Villa Valencia Healthcare Center Laguna Hills | 4.2 | 59 | 2.76 | 4.47 | 45.3% | 4 | None |
| Laguna Hills Health and Rehabilitation Center Laguna Hills | 4.3 | 208 | 2.42 | 3.91 | 39.7% | 1 | None |
| Freedom Village Healthcare Center Lake Forest | 5.0 | 52 | 2.86 | 5.03 | 35.8% | 5 | None |
| Trabuco Hills Post Acute Lake Forest | 6.2 | 175 | 2.54 | 4.17 | 30.4% | 2 | None |
| Capistrano Beach Care Center Dana Point | 7.4 | 93 | 2.48 | 4.10 | 45.4% | 1 | None |
| Regents Point - Windcrest Irvine | 11.4 | 59 | 2.85 | 4.99 | 30.8% | 4 | None |
Aide hrs and all nurse hrs are staff hours per resident per day. Fines are the CMS total for the last three years. Turnover is the share of nursing staff who left over a year. All figures from CMS Care Compare.
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Source: CMS Care Compare Provider Information, State and US Averages, and Penalties files, August 2026 release. Figures are as CMS publishes them; check Medicare Care Compare for the latest. Methodology.