Edgewater Skilled Nursing Center
Nursing Home Facility
2625 East Fourth Street, Long Beach, CA 90814
Edgewater Skilled Nursing Center is a senior care community located in Long Beach, CA. It provides nursing home care and senior living for older adults in the Long Beach area. To learn more or schedule a tour, call (562) 434-0974.
Operated by The Ensign Group, which runs 419 communities in our directory.
With 81 beds, Edgewater Skilled Nursing Center is one of the larger communities in the area, senior care communities in Long Beach average about 41 beds. Larger communities more often keep clinical staff on site around the clock and can offer a wider range of on-site therapy and activities, though some families prefer the quieter feel of a smaller setting.
Federal reporting puts occupancy at about 95% of its licensed beds, which is high; communities this full often maintain a waiting list, so it is worth calling well before you need a place.
Medicare rates this community 2 out of 5 stars overall, a score based on health inspections, staffing levels and quality measures. Its most recent standard health inspection was in March 2026 and recorded 16 deficiencies.
Residents receive about 4.4 hours of nursing care per day on average, including 0.5 hours from a registered nurse. Nursing staff turnover over the past year was about 39%.
The community is located in Los Angeles County, CA.
Inspection record
In its last three standard inspections and any complaint visits, federal inspectors cited 76 problems at Edgewater Skilled Nursing Center. 2 findings involved harm to a resident, including 1 that put residents in immediate danger. 47 came from investigating complaints by residents or families.
In the last three years Medicare fined this home once, a total of $8,990. Medicare also stopped paying for new admissions once in that period.
Findings from the most recent inspection cycle
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Could cause more than minimal harm, one or a few residents
Freedom from Abuse, Neglect, and Exploitation
Timely report suspected abuse, neglect, or theft and report the results of the investigation to proper authorities.
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Could cause more than minimal harm, one or a few residents
Resident Assessment and Care Planning
Develop and implement a complete care plan that meets all the resident's needs, with timetables and actions that can be measured.
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Could cause more than minimal harm, one or a few residents
Resident Rights
Honor the resident's right to a safe, clean, comfortable and homelike environment, including but not limited to receiving treatment and supports for daily living safely.
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Could cause more than minimal harm, one or a few residents
Resident Assessment and Care Planning
Develop the complete care plan within 7 days of the comprehensive assessment; and prepared, reviewed, and revised by a team of health professionals.
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Could cause more than minimal harm, one or a few residents
Resident Rights
Ensure that residents are fully informed and understand their health status, care and treatments.
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Could cause more than minimal harm, one or a few residents
Resident Rights
Honor the resident's right to request, refuse, and/or discontinue treatment, to participate in or refuse to participate in experimental research, and to formulate an advance directive.
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Could cause more than minimal harm, one or a few residents
Freedom from Abuse, Neglect, and Exploitation
Prevent the use of unnecessary psychotropic medications or use medications that may restrain a resident's ability to function.
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Could cause more than minimal harm, one or a few residents
Resident Assessment and Care Planning
Develop and implement a complete care plan that meets all the resident's needs, with timetables and actions that can be measured.
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Could cause more than minimal harm, one or a few residents
Quality of Life and Care
Provide safe, appropriate dialysis care/services for a resident who requires such services.
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Could cause more than minimal harm, one or a few residents
Nursing and Physician Services
Ensure that nurses and nurse aides have the appropriate competencies to care for every resident in a way that maximizes each resident's well being.
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Could cause more than minimal harm, one or a few residents
Pharmacy Service
Ensure drugs and biologicals used in the facility are labeled in accordance with currently accepted professional principles; and all drugs and biologicals must be stored in locked compartments, separately locked, compartments for controlled drugs.
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Could cause more than minimal harm, one or a few residents
Nutrition and Dietary
Ensure menus must meet the nutritional needs of residents, be prepared in advance, be followed, be updated, be reviewed by dietician, and meet the needs of the resident.
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Could cause more than minimal harm, one or a few residents
Infection Control
Educate residents and staff on COVID-19 vaccination, offer the COVID-19 vaccine to eligible residents and staff after education, and properly document each resident and staff member's vaccination status.
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Could cause more than minimal harm, one or a few residents
Quality of Life and Care
Provide appropriate care for residents who are continent or incontinent of bowel/bladder, appropriate catheter care, and appropriate care to prevent urinary tract infections.
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Minimal harm or the potential for it, widespread
Infection Control
Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program.
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Minimal harm or the potential for it, a pattern
Environmental
Provide rooms that are at least 80 square feet per resident in multiple rooms and 100 square feet for single resident rooms.
A citation on its own does not mean poor care, and most are corrected within weeks. What matters most is how serious the findings were and whether the same problems keep coming back. When you visit, it is fair to ask the administrator what inspectors found and what has changed since.
Edgewater Skilled Nursing Center offers nursing home care and senior living.
Facility details
- Organization type for-profit corporation
- Beds / units 81
- Occupancy 95%
- Nursing hours per resident/day 4.4
- Annual staff turnover 39%
- Last health inspection March 2026
Resident & family reviews
Given the growing critical mass of elderly care needed in our community, Edgewater Skilled Nursing Center (ESNC), Long Beach, CA, does a stellar job.
My 89 yr. old mother has become increasingly immobile. A recent bout of inability to swallow, and other issues, caused her a handful of trips to the hospital and other local rehabilitation centers. Because of mother?s unpredictable mental state, care for her became challenging. Newly implemented bolus feedings became tricky when bouts of agitation put the feeding tube and staff in jeopardy. Restlessness, made keeping mom from trying to walk away from bed, when she was really unable to walk unattended, difficult to monitor. Resulting falls led to additional hospital trips and setbacks in recovery. To say the least, the situation was very difficult and frustrating.
Where other facilities refused to take mom back after a fall, ESCN accepted her with a positive, cheerful, patient, persistent willingness to see mom back to health. Despite mom?s bouts of uncooperative behavior, the staff continued to be helpful and flexible, looking for means of success. At any hour of the day or night, staff was there when needed, carefully, and sensitively caring for mom. They went out of their way very often to help, even with small things like finding a vase for cut flowers, when the need was not even mentioned or requested, this included nurses, daily care assistants, physical & speech therapists, nutritionists, etc. Specialists, such as psychiatrists, were more infrequent to come by.
The attention of immediate family is invaluable in fine-tuning specific, individual care, but ESNC staff will listen and do their best to accommodate.
Admittedly, ESNC is very busy and seems near capacity. How ESNC continues to provide daily, consistent, positive care in such a potentially depressing environment, is beyond my comprehension. Regardless of how they do this, I am immensely grateful. Now mom is back in her home of nearly 60 years, under the care of her children, in a quiet, stable, familiar environment for the encore of her life. Thank you, Edgewater Skilled Nursing Center!
by Eric Rohlfing, Jun 2016