Nursing home · Top rated by CMS
Legacy Post Acute Care
1790 Muir Road, Martinez, CA 94553 · Map
For profit - Corporation · 96 certified beds
Legacy Post Acute Care is a Medicare-certified nursing home in Martinez, California. CMS rates it 5 out of 5 stars overall (4/5 for staffing, 5/5 for health inspections). Nurse staffing is 4.19 hours per resident per day, below the California average of 4.51. Its most recent inspection on Jan 9, 2025 cited 7 deficiencies.
CMS quality ratings
Ratings from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), updated monthly. 5 stars is the highest quality.
How Legacy Post Acute Care compares
This facility vs. the California and national averages, from CMS data. For staffing, higher is generally better; for turnover and deficiencies, lower is better.
| Metric | This facility | California avg | National avg | Compared with the state |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total nurse staffing (hrs/resident/day) | 4.19 | 4.51 | 3.89 | below avg |
| RN staffing (hrs/resident/day) | 0.53 | 0.65 | 0.68 | below avg |
| Aide staffing (hrs/resident/day) | 2.85 | 2.64 | 2.34 | above avg |
| Nursing staff turnover | 31.8% | 38.1% | 46.4% | below avg |
| Deficiencies cited, last inspection | 7.0 | 15.4 | 9.5 | below avg |
Staffing
Hours per resident per day as reported to CMS. Higher numbers indicate more direct care time.
Staff turnover
Lower turnover typically indicates better working conditions and continuity of care. National average for nursing staff is 46.4%.
Recent health inspection
CMS inspects nursing facilities regularly. Deficiencies are categorized by severity.
What inspectors found at Legacy Post Acute Care
Specific deficiencies cited in recent CMS health inspections, most recent first. Severity follows the CMS scope/severity scale. Source: CMS Care Compare.
- Potential for harm
Let each resident or the resident's legal representative access or purchase copies of all the resident's records.
Resident Rights Deficiencies · Dec 4, 2025 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program.
Infection Control Deficiencies · Jan 9, 2025 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
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.
Pharmacy Service Deficiencies · Jan 9, 2025 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Ensure medication error rates are not 5 percent or greater.
Pharmacy Service Deficiencies · Jan 9, 2025 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Create and put into place a plan for meeting the resident's most immediate needs within 48 hours of being admitted
Resident Assessment and Care Planning Deficiencies · Jan 9, 2025 · Full report (PDF)
Show all 12 deficiencies
- Potential for harm
Encode each resident’s assessment data and transmit these data to the State within 7 days of assessment.
Resident Assessment and Care Planning Deficiencies · Jan 9, 2025 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
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.
Resident Rights Deficiencies · Jan 9, 2025 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Procure food from sources approved or considered satisfactory and store, prepare, distribute and serve food in accordance with professional standards.
Nutrition and Dietary Deficiencies · Oct 14, 2022 - Potential for harm
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.
Nutrition and Dietary Deficiencies · Oct 14, 2022 - Potential for harm
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.
Pharmacy Service Deficiencies · Oct 14, 2022 - Potential for harm
Provide safe and appropriate respiratory care for a resident when needed.
Quality of Life and Care Deficiencies · Oct 14, 2022 - Potential for harm
Provide appropriate care for residents who are continent or incontinent of bowel/bladder, appropriate catheter care, and appropriate care to prevent urinary tract infections.
Quality of Life and Care Deficiencies · Oct 14, 2022
Read the full inspection reports on Medicare.gov Each inspection there has a “Read the full report” link with the inspectors’ written findings.
About this facility
- Address
- 1790 Muir Road
Martinez, CA 94553 - CMS certification #
- 555684
- Ownership
- For profit - Corporation
- Certified beds
- 96
- Avg residents/day
- 73.6
- Provider type
- Medicare and Medicaid
- First certified
- 1996-11-12
- Setting
- Urban
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Location and nearby
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Other public records
- Staff pay 1 federal wage case with violations found, since 2012
Full public records, with dates and sources
Staff pay and workplace safety
Federal records about how the employer here treats its staff.
Federal wage and hour cases
The Department of Labor checks that staff are paid minimum wage and overtime as the law requires.
- Findings for Jun 16, 2012 to Jun 15, 2014. Violations found: Overtime. Back wages: $4,886 owed to 2 employees. Employer as DOL recorded it: Legacy Nursing and Rehabilitation Center (Sycamore Heathcare Associates, Inc.). Case 1730232.
Source: U.S. Department of Labor, Wage and Hour Division enforcement data, loaded Oct 15, 2026. Concluded cases only. The dates are the period in which DOL found violations, not when the case opened or closed. Back wages are what the employer agreed to pay; penalties are what DOL assessed. DOL does not publish a page for each case, so search the dataset by case number.
Location and nearby care
- Nearest hospital with an emergency room
- Contra Costa Regional Medical Center, Martinez. 2.5 miles away, straight line. CMS overall hospital rating: 4 of 5 stars.
- Nearest Medicare nursing home
- Alhambra Post Acute, Martinez. 2.5 miles away, straight line.
- Nearest home health agency office
- Kaiser Foundation Hospital Home Health - Martinez, Martinez. 1.2 miles away, straight line. Agencies travel to clients, so ask which ones serve this address.
- Nearest pharmacy
- CVS Pharmacy. 1.5 miles away, straight line. From OpenStreetMap, which does not list every pharmacy, so one may be closer.
- Area
- USDA classes ZIP code 94553 as metropolitan (metropolitan core).
- Dialysis within 15 miles
- Kaiser Permanente Martinez, Martinez, 1.2 miles away, straight line (CMS rating 4 of 5 stars)
Fresenius Medical Care - Diablo Concord, Pleasant Hill, 1.4 miles away, straight line (has a shift starting after 5 pm; CMS rating 5 of 5 stars)
Davita Concord Dialysis Center, Concord, 2.5 miles away, straight line (has a shift starting after 5 pm; CMS rating 4 of 5 stars) - Hospice
- 41 Medicare hospices tell CMS they serve ZIP code 94553.
Kaiser Foundation Hospital Hospice - Martinez, office in Martinez, 1.2 miles away, straight line (CMS family survey rating 4 of 5 stars)
Continuum Care Hospice LLC, office in Concord, 2.0 miles away, straight line (CMS family survey rating 3 of 5 stars)
Solace Hospice, office in Concord, 2.3 miles away, straight line - Nearest geriatric medicine practice
- Suprabha Jain, MD, Pleasant Hill. 4.1 miles away, straight line. 1 geriatric medicine doctor listed there.
Distances are straight lines from the community, not driving distance. Hospitals, home health, dialysis, hospice and doctors come from CMS provider data (CMS, hospital list updated Jul 22, 2026). Star ratings are CMS’s own.
Emergency and natural hazard risk
Public hazard maps for this location. Ask the community about its emergency plan, its generator and where residents would go in an evacuation.
- Flood zone
- Outside the high and moderate risk flood areas on FEMA's flood map (Zone X, minimal flood hazard, or not studied). (FEMA flood map)
- Wildfire risk to homes
- In Martinez, CA, risk to homes is greater than 66% of communities in California and 92% of communities nationwide. USDA rates the whole town or city, not this address. (USDA Forest Service, Wildfire Risk to Communities, April 2026)
- FEMA National Risk Index
- Overall: relatively high. By hazard: inland flooding relatively high, wildfire relatively moderate, tornado very low, heat wave relatively moderate, earthquake very high. These are FEMA’s ratings for the census tract, compared with tracts nationwide. (FEMA, December 2025)
A flood zone describes the map at this point, not the building's elevation. In an emergency, follow the local emergency management agency.
What we checked
Every public source we searched for this community. “Nothing on record” means we found no record that matched it. A record can be missed when a name or address differs.
| Source | Data as of | What we found |
|---|---|---|
| U.S. Department of Labor wage and hour cases | Oct 15, 2026 | See above |
| OSHA workplace safety inspections since 2016 | Oct 15, 2026 | Nothing on record |
| FEMA flood map | See above | |
| USDA wildfire risk | Apr 15, 2026 | See above |
| FEMA National Risk Index | See above | |
| CMS hospitals, home health, dialysis, hospice and doctors; OpenStreetMap pharmacies | See above | |
| HUD Multifamily Properties - Assisted | Jul 6, 2026 | Nothing on record |
| State Veterans Homes (NASVH directory) | Sep 20, 2026 | Nothing on record |
| CMS Hospice - General Information | Aug 19, 2026 | Nothing on record |
| CMS Home Health Care Agencies | May 27, 2026 | Nothing on record |
| The community’s own website | No plain statements of services found |
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Frequently asked questions
Is Legacy Post Acute Care a good nursing home?
CMS gives Legacy Post Acute Care an overall rating of 5 out of 5 stars, including 4/5 for staffing and 5/5 for health inspections. These ratings come from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and are updated monthly.
How is Legacy Post Acute Care staffed?
Legacy Post Acute Care reports 4.19 total nurse hours per resident per day, compared with the California average of 4.51.
Has Legacy Post Acute Care had inspection problems?
Its most recent CMS inspection cited 7 deficiencies.
How many beds does Legacy Post Acute Care have?
Legacy Post Acute Care is certified for 96 beds.