Concord is a welcoming city in the Bay Area with over 125,000 residents, about 15% of whom are aged 65 and over. The city promotes access to health care for seniors with high-performing medical facilities such as Concord Medical Center and Contra Costa Regional Medical Center in nearby Martinez. There are about 219 doctors per capita, which is a little higher than the national median and may result in short wait times for primary and specialty care.
There are also several nursing homes in the Concord region that serve seniors who require intensive medical care. These facilities have licensed medical professionals on staff and provide housing, meals, personal care and skilled services including occupational and physical therapies and 24-hour medical monitoring. Concord is among the most expensive places in the nation to obtain this type of care, with the 2021 Genworth Cost of Care Survey reporting that residents pay $11,566 per month for services. Assisted living or home health care may be more suitable for those with more limited care needs.
This guide provides more information on nursing home care in Concord, including how care costs compare to other cities and where seniors can go for help.
My mother stayed in Bayberry Skilled Nursing and Healthcare for a couple of weeks. The physical therapist and the occupational therapist were really wonderful. They have activities although mom didn’t
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My mother stayed in Bayberry Skilled Nursing and Healthcare for a couple of weeks. The physical therapist and the occupational therapist were really wonderful. They have activities although mom didn’t take advantage of them. The place was kind of a veteran’s home, there were lots of them and a lot of residents hanging out on their wheelchairs. They had some games, bingo, and they had an ice cream social. The place itself was clean though not necessarily spacious. Mom didn’t like the food, but she didn’t like it at the hospital or at home either. I would rate the therapists a 5 out of 5, but the nursing and administration I would give a rating of 3. Mom had a terrible roommate, and after the 4th day I tried getting her moved to another room. The administrative staff weren’t really receptive and tried talking me out of that. So, the administrative people really had a hard time being able to connect with us.
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My mother stayed in Bayberry Skilled Nursing and Healthcare for a couple of weeks. The physical therapist and the occupational therapist were really wonderful. They have activities although mom didn’t
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My mother stayed in Bayberry Skilled Nursing and Healthcare for a couple of weeks. The physical therapist and the occupational therapist were really wonderful. They have activities although mom didn’t take advantage of them. The place was kind of a veteran’s home, there were lots of them and a lot of residents hanging out on their wheelchairs. They had some games, bingo, and they had an ice cream social. The place itself was clean though not necessarily spacious. Mom didn’t like the food, but she didn’t like it at the hospital or at home either. I would rate the therapists a 5 out of 5, but the nursing and administration I would give a rating of 3. Mom had a terrible roommate, and after the 4th day I tried getting her moved to another room. The administrative staff weren’t really receptive and tried talking me out of that. So, the administrative people really had a hard time being able to connect with us.
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My father was a tall man, he was admitting for rehabilitation.
My Dad had his leg amputated. His nurse came to about his armpit. She drop him, probably weight and height issue.
He past shortly.
I p
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My father was a tall man, he was admitting for rehabilitation.
My Dad had his leg amputated. His nurse came to about his armpit. She drop him, probably weight and height issue.
He past shortly.
I pray this problem does not happen to your love one.
Or that staff will speak up if unable for task and ask for HELP.
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My father was a tall man, he was admitting for rehabilitation.
My Dad had his leg amputated. His nurse came to about his armpit. She drop him, probably weight and height issue.
He past shortly.
I p
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My father was a tall man, he was admitting for rehabilitation.
My Dad had his leg amputated. His nurse came to about his armpit. She drop him, probably weight and height issue.
He past shortly.
I pray this problem does not happen to your love one.
Or that staff will speak up if unable for task and ask for HELP.
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Terrible food call for help it takes 1 hour or they do not come at all lousy beds everything is old and worn out terrible treatment to guests by old lady behind desk never go back there Stone brook su
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Terrible food call for help it takes 1 hour or they do not come at all lousy beds everything is old and worn out terrible treatment to guests by old lady behind desk never go back there Stone brook supposed to be a lot better2 physical therapist were good and 2 attendeants were nice
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Terrible food call for help it takes 1 hour or they do not come at all lousy beds everything is old and worn out terrible treatment to guests by old lady behind desk never go back there Stone brook su
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Terrible food call for help it takes 1 hour or they do not come at all lousy beds everything is old and worn out terrible treatment to guests by old lady behind desk never go back there Stone brook supposed to be a lot better2 physical therapist were good and 2 attendeants were nice
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I am the daughter of a patient in memory care. Because I live out of state, I am very grateful for the caring staff who has shown real concern for my mother. The facility is old, and not fancy, but my
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I am the daughter of a patient in memory care. Because I live out of state, I am very grateful for the caring staff who has shown real concern for my mother. The facility is old, and not fancy, but my mother’s happiness is of paramount importance, and she is happy and content there most of the time. The main challenge is that the phone system needs work, and it’s hard to get someone to answer the phone at times. Over the 5 years my mother has been there, I have learned to trust the level of her care. My mother often sings and dances in their musical evening events.
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I am the daughter of a patient in memory care. Because I live out of state, I am very grateful for the caring staff who has shown real concern for my mother. The facility is old, and not fancy, but my
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I am the daughter of a patient in memory care. Because I live out of state, I am very grateful for the caring staff who has shown real concern for my mother. The facility is old, and not fancy, but my mother’s happiness is of paramount importance, and she is happy and content there most of the time. The main challenge is that the phone system needs work, and it’s hard to get someone to answer the phone at times. Over the 5 years my mother has been there, I have learned to trust the level of her care. My mother often sings and dances in their musical evening events.
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My mother is now at ManorCare Health Services – Tice Valley. Kaiser was the one who pushed her here for physical therapy, and then she wasn’t able to go back to the home, so we decided to just keep he
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My mother is now at ManorCare Health Services – Tice Valley. Kaiser was the one who pushed her here for physical therapy, and then she wasn’t able to go back to the home, so we decided to just keep her there. The care is good. The staff is attentive. They listen to me because my mother can’t really speak for herself. They’re pretty good. They provide good meals, but she’s on hospice, so she’s not eating, but it looks nutritious for her. Her room is old, but it’s adequate. They have an outdoor patio area for families to visit. They have been responding to my questions.
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My mother is now at ManorCare Health Services – Tice Valley. Kaiser was the one who pushed her here for physical therapy, and then she wasn’t able to go back to the home, so we decided to just keep he
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My mother is now at ManorCare Health Services – Tice Valley. Kaiser was the one who pushed her here for physical therapy, and then she wasn’t able to go back to the home, so we decided to just keep her there. The care is good. The staff is attentive. They listen to me because my mother can’t really speak for herself. They’re pretty good. They provide good meals, but she’s on hospice, so she’s not eating, but it looks nutritious for her. Her room is old, but it’s adequate. They have an outdoor patio area for families to visit. They have been responding to my questions.
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Dangerous. Understaffed: management is to blame. My elderly parent stayed at Manor Care, at least 2 separate occasions between bouts of time at John Muir, during the Thanksgiving/ Christmas/ New Year
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Dangerous. Understaffed: management is to blame. My elderly parent stayed at Manor Care, at least 2 separate occasions between bouts of time at John Muir, during the Thanksgiving/ Christmas/ New Year season. MC was understaffed which was DANGEROUS b/c my elder was recovering from bypass surgery AND acquired a large bed sore @ JM. The bed sore would often come in contact with fecal matter if the bandages weren’t changed at least 3x/ day. MC failed to do this and my elder had to be transferred back to JM with complications from hygienic neglect. It’s maddening that JM allowed my elder to go back to MC to "recover." Had to be resourceful and moved my elder to a top notch facility in SJ through personal connections. MC lost my elder’s personal belongings between the confusion of moving between JM and MC. No one was held accountable. Also, they failed to rehabilitate my elder – take them out of bed to walk at least 2x a day, as my elder had to learn to walk again. JM did this, but MC let my elder lay in bed with no recovery exercises.
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Dangerous. Understaffed: management is to blame. My elderly parent stayed at Manor Care, at least 2 separate occasions between bouts of time at John Muir, during the Thanksgiving/ Christmas/ New Year
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Dangerous. Understaffed: management is to blame. My elderly parent stayed at Manor Care, at least 2 separate occasions between bouts of time at John Muir, during the Thanksgiving/ Christmas/ New Year season. MC was understaffed which was DANGEROUS b/c my elder was recovering from bypass surgery AND acquired a large bed sore @ JM. The bed sore would often come in contact with fecal matter if the bandages weren’t changed at least 3x/ day. MC failed to do this and my elder had to be transferred back to JM with complications from hygienic neglect. It’s maddening that JM allowed my elder to go back to MC to "recover." Had to be resourceful and moved my elder to a top notch facility in SJ through personal connections. MC lost my elder’s personal belongings between the confusion of moving between JM and MC. No one was held accountable. Also, they failed to rehabilitate my elder – take them out of bed to walk at least 2x a day, as my elder had to learn to walk again. JM did this, but MC let my elder lay in bed with no recovery exercises.
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My husband is still in rehab at Tampico Terrace Care Center. It’s connected to John Muir Hospital, and we’re members of John Muir Health plans. It’s very close to the hospital. It’s fine. Because of t
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My husband is still in rehab at Tampico Terrace Care Center. It’s connected to John Muir Hospital, and we’re members of John Muir Health plans. It’s very close to the hospital. It’s fine. Because of this darned virus, it just makes me so angry, because I can’t see him except through the window. I don’t like it. The biggest reason is because he was in isolation for two weeks in one room by himself. He is lonely. He doesn’t see many people except for two hours a day when the various rehab people come in and give him exercises. He has just recently moved into a room with a roommate.
He has been there twice. The first time was when he had a fall. He was in the hospital for three days and then they put him in there. He was only in there a little bit because they said he was fine to come home. From then on it was downhill.
My husband is in bed all day long. They just come in for two hours a day for rehab. The room he just got out of was horrible. It was a big room and he was all by himself. It wasn’t very lit up. It had a couple little lights, but he was in bed all the time. Now, I don’t know if he is in with someone else, maybe that’s going to be better because there will be company?
The employees are not very responsive. I called and I called and I tried to get someone to call me back, but they didn’t call back. I tried to get connected with the right person and I never got the right one. It’s not very good. They’re not very responsive. It’s a care facility with rehab, but rehab is only a couple of hours a day, and he is in bed all the time, so he is not rehabbing very well. It is not good. He is not having a very good prognosis. His improvement is not improving.
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My husband is still in rehab at Tampico Terrace Care Center. It’s connected to John Muir Hospital, and we’re members of John Muir Health plans. It’s very close to the hospital. It’s fine. Because of t
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My husband is still in rehab at Tampico Terrace Care Center. It’s connected to John Muir Hospital, and we’re members of John Muir Health plans. It’s very close to the hospital. It’s fine. Because of this darned virus, it just makes me so angry, because I can’t see him except through the window. I don’t like it. The biggest reason is because he was in isolation for two weeks in one room by himself. He is lonely. He doesn’t see many people except for two hours a day when the various rehab people come in and give him exercises. He has just recently moved into a room with a roommate.
He has been there twice. The first time was when he had a fall. He was in the hospital for three days and then they put him in there. He was only in there a little bit because they said he was fine to come home. From then on it was downhill.
My husband is in bed all day long. They just come in for two hours a day for rehab. The room he just got out of was horrible. It was a big room and he was all by himself. It wasn’t very lit up. It had a couple little lights, but he was in bed all the time. Now, I don’t know if he is in with someone else, maybe that’s going to be better because there will be company?
The employees are not very responsive. I called and I called and I tried to get someone to call me back, but they didn’t call back. I tried to get connected with the right person and I never got the right one. It’s not very good. They’re not very responsive. It’s a care facility with rehab, but rehab is only a couple of hours a day, and he is in bed all the time, so he is not rehabbing very well. It is not good. He is not having a very good prognosis. His improvement is not improving.
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My mother had a horrible stay at this facility. She was sent there after a bad fall and dislocated shoulder, which resulted in a hospital stay. She would go for 7+ hours without being changed, the e
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My mother had a horrible stay at this facility. She was sent there after a bad fall and dislocated shoulder, which resulted in a hospital stay. She would go for 7+ hours without being changed, the entire time she was there (10 days), she was never bathed, just given a wet washrag once. Because of COVID, they were piling 4 people into one room to isolate them. We couldn’t wait to be able to bring her home. Everyday she was there she would just cry and cry over the phone.
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My mother had a horrible stay at this facility. She was sent there after a bad fall and dislocated shoulder, which resulted in a hospital stay. She would go for 7+ hours without being changed, the e
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My mother had a horrible stay at this facility. She was sent there after a bad fall and dislocated shoulder, which resulted in a hospital stay. She would go for 7+ hours without being changed, the entire time she was there (10 days), she was never bathed, just given a wet washrag once. Because of COVID, they were piling 4 people into one room to isolate them. We couldn’t wait to be able to bring her home. Everyday she was there she would just cry and cry over the phone.
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Walnut Creek Skilled Nursing and Rehab wasn’t too bad. I understand that the rehab staff was really good; my dad talked to me about that. They would take him out to the gym. He was there for rehab. I
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Walnut Creek Skilled Nursing and Rehab wasn’t too bad. I understand that the rehab staff was really good; my dad talked to me about that. They would take him out to the gym. He was there for rehab. I never saw his room; they wouldn’t let us in because of COVID. It was a two-person room. The lobby looked nice. I could walk into the foyer and walk into the lobby. Their activities would depend on how much care you needed. There were a few times when the staff couldn’t answer the phone. My dad says the food was good there, and I’m relieved that they had no COVID cases. The cost was $500 a day and that was just for him to stay there (no therapy). For me, it was too expensive.
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Walnut Creek Skilled Nursing and Rehab wasn’t too bad. I understand that the rehab staff was really good; my dad talked to me about that. They would take him out to the gym. He was there for rehab. I
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Walnut Creek Skilled Nursing and Rehab wasn’t too bad. I understand that the rehab staff was really good; my dad talked to me about that. They would take him out to the gym. He was there for rehab. I never saw his room; they wouldn’t let us in because of COVID. It was a two-person room. The lobby looked nice. I could walk into the foyer and walk into the lobby. Their activities would depend on how much care you needed. There were a few times when the staff couldn’t answer the phone. My dad says the food was good there, and I’m relieved that they had no COVID cases. The cost was $500 a day and that was just for him to stay there (no therapy). For me, it was too expensive.
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The work attitude of the staff at Oak Park (Grace Healthcare) was really poor. The rooms were fine, but they were not clean. They had a TV, and I guess they also had a large room where they get togeth
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The work attitude of the staff at Oak Park (Grace Healthcare) was really poor. The rooms were fine, but they were not clean. They had a TV, and I guess they also had a large room where they get together once in a while and listen to somebody singing songs.
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The work attitude of the staff at Oak Park (Grace Healthcare) was really poor. The rooms were fine, but they were not clean. They had a TV, and I guess they also had a large room where they get togeth
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The work attitude of the staff at Oak Park (Grace Healthcare) was really poor. The rooms were fine, but they were not clean. They had a TV, and I guess they also had a large room where they get together once in a while and listen to somebody singing songs.
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Nursing Home Costs in Concord, CA
Seniors in Concord pay an estimated $11,566 per month for semiprivate accommodations in nursing homes. Facilities charge approximately $14,068 monthly for private rooms.
The Cost of Nursing Home Care in Nearby Cities
Seniors in Concord pay $11,566 per month for shared rooms in nursing homes, which is considerably higher than the state average of $9,794 and the national median of $7,908. Most California cities have cheaper nursing home rates than Concord, with rates in Santa Cruz coming in nearly $1,000 less at $10,646. In San Diego, nursing home residents pay $9,384 for care, and in Visalia, rates are closer to the national median at $8,517. Madera is one of the cheapest cities for nursing home care in California, with rates coming in below Concord’s average at $7,559.
$11566
Concord
$9794
California
$7908
The United States
$8517
Visalia
$9384
San Diego
$10646
Santa Cruz
$7559
Madera
The Cost of Other Types of Senior Care
Seniors who need basic skilled nursing services may be good candidates for home health care, which costs $7,150 per month. Older adults who only need personal care services may consider home care at $6,864 per month, and in assisted living, residents obtain personal care and short-term or intermittent skilled nursing services for $6,319. Adult day health care is the cheapest option at $1,950, and nursing home care is the costliest at $11,566 for shared rooms and $14,068 for private.
$6864
Home Care
$7150
Home Health Care
$1950
Adult Day Health Care
$6319
Assisted Living
$11566
Nursing Home (semiprivate room)
$14068
Nursing Home (private room)
Note:Data for Concord was unavailable, so data for the nearest city, San Francisco, was used instead.
Financial Assistance for Nursing Home Care in Concord, CA
Many seniors and their families use some form of financial assistance to help them pay for nursing care. The main options available are Medicare, Medicaid, and veterans benefits. These programs can be complicated, especially when it comes to benefit terms. Below, we give a brief overview of how these programs may be used towards paying for skilled nursing care.
Medicare: Medicare will typically cover all skilled nursing costs for the first 20 days of one’s stay in a nursing home and a portion of the costs until day 100. After 100 days in a skilled nursing facility, Medicare will not cover any part of the cost of the stay. While this is adequate when short-term care is needed, those in need of long-term care will need to either pay out-of-pocket or use another source of financial assistance.
Medicaid: Medicaid covers most of the costs of living in a skilled nursing facility for those who qualify. Care, room, and board are covered with no time limit, but residents may be charged for extras like specially prepared food or cosmetic services. Medicaid eligibility standards are strict and complex, so not all seniors are eligible for Medicaid benefits.
Veterans Benefits: Veterans receiving a VA pension may also be eligible for the Aid and Attendance benefit administered by the VA. Aid and Attendance is a monthly allowance that beneficiaries may use to pay for their long-term care, including skilled nursing care.
The Concord region has several agencies and programs to help older adults obtain the community-based resources they need to avoid nursing home placement and remain in their homes. It also has information specialists and options counselors who help seniors navigate the system when placement is necessary.
The Area Agency on Aging has information specialists who listen to seniors’ needs and refer them to community-based resources including home-delivered and congregate meals, friendly visitor programs and transportation. It also has an in-home services registry to help older adults find the care services they need at home.
Meals on Wheels is a nonprofit organization that provides home-delivered meals to older adults in the Concord region. The organization also has a fall prevention program, care management services, a friendly visitors program and health and wellness programs to support seniors’ independence at home.
Empowered Aging houses the long-term care ombudsman program for the Concord region. Seniors can contact the ombudsman for help with researching local nursing homes and finding ways to pay for services. The ombudsman can also mediate disagreements and help resolve issues such as insufficient or excessive care and unfair discharges.
HICAP is a free statewide program that provides free Medicare counseling and assistance to older adults. HICAP counselors can help older adults understand Medicare’s coverage for nursing home care and determine whether a Medigap plan is right for them. HICAP counselors can also help seniors determine eligibility for Medicaid.
Choice in Aging is the Multipurpose Senior Services Program for the Concord region. This program is jointly funded by the state and federal government to provide affordable services that may help older adults avoid nursing home care. Through MSSP, seniors can obtain durable medical equipment, non-emergency medical transportation.
Terrible food call for help it takes 1 hour or they do not come at all lousy beds everything is old and worn out terrible treatment to guests by old lady behind desk never go back there Stone brook...
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Review of San Miguel Villa
I am the daughter of a patient in memory care. Because I live out of state, I am very grateful for the caring staff who has shown real concern for my mother. The facility is old, and not fancy, but...
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Review of San Miguel Villa
Very difficult to call my brother.
Unit 1 phone rings incessantly but is seldom answered. On the rare ocasion it is answered, they only have one portable phone that is likely being used. It’s li...
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The first step to finding the best senior housing for your loved one is to understand what type of care facility is the best fit. There are six main types of residential elder care options:
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