CCN 555144 · San Diego County, California

St. Pauls Health Care Center

235 Nutmeg Street, San Diego, CA 92103

St. Pauls Health Care Center is a 59-bed nonprofit nursing home in San Diego, California, first certified for Medicare or Medicaid in 1991. CMS rates it 2 out of 5 stars overall in its September 2026 data, and it averaged 53.4 residents a day, about 91% of its certified beds. We found no FHA-insured Section 232 loan for it in HUD's healthcare endorsement database (fiscal 2001 onward).

Facility facts

Certified beds
59
Average residents per day
53.4 (90.5% of beds)
Ownership type
Non profit - Corporation
Certification
Medicare and Medicaid
Legal business name
St Paul's Episcopal Home Inc
Certified since
Sep 25, 1991
Chain or affiliated group
None listed by CMS
Location
Urban

Ratings and staffing

Star ratings run from 1 to 5. Staffing is nurse hours per resident per day from CMS Payroll Based Journal data; turnover is the CMS annual nursing staff turnover rate. Occupancy is CMS's average daily census divided by certified beds.

MeasureThis facilityCalifornia medianUS median
Overall rating2 of 5State spread: 186 at 1, 213 at 2, 244 at 3, 240 at 4, 270 at 5
Health inspections2 of 5
Quality measures3 of 5
Staffing4 of 5
Total nurse hours per resident per day4.784.243.68
RN hours per resident per day0.930.500.58
Weekend nurse hours per resident per day4.34
Nursing staff turnover62.5%36.4%44.9%
Occupancy (residents / beds)90.5%92.0%85.7%
Fines reported by CMS1 totaling $44,890
Health deficiencies, latest standard survey27 (Jun 26, 2025)

HUD 223(f) Express Lane: the CMS part

HUD gives 223(f) applications queue priority when the facility has CMS overall and health inspection ratings of at least 2 stars and no abuse icon, among other tests (ORCF criteria of March 31, 2026). St. Pauls Health Care Center does not meet it today: the abuse icon. The loan-to-value, coverage and operator tests depend on the deal. All the criteria.

Who owns and operates it

These are the owners and operators the facility reported to CMS: anyone with a 5% or greater direct or indirect stake, and any organization with operational or managerial control.

NameRoleShareSince
St Paul's Episcopal Home IncOrganizationDirect Ownership Interest100%01/01/1980
Ellenich, RonaldIndividualOperational / Managerial Controln/a10/20/2025
Lukas, SophiaIndividualOperational / Managerial Controln/a02/20/2023
McHale, MichaelIndividualOperational / Managerial Controln/a04/11/2022
Rajper, SaleemIndividualOperational / Managerial Controln/a01/26/2026
Vieu, GeorgeIndividualOperational / Managerial Controln/a04/17/2023

Changes of ownership

No change of ownership for this facility appears in the CMS change-of-ownership file, which starts in January 2016.

HUD Section 232 loans

No FHA-insured loan matching this facility appears in HUD's database of healthcare endorsements, which covers fiscal 2001 onward (HUD data run of July 8, 2026). A loan could still exist under a different project name or from before 2001.

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Sources and dates

Facility, rating, staffing and ownership data: CMS Provider Information and CMS Ownership, processing date September 2026. Private equity, REIT and mortgage-interest flags and changes of ownership: CMS Skilled Nursing Facility All Owners and Change of Ownership files (2026-10-01). FHA-insured loans: HUD Office of Healthcare Programs endorsement database, data run July 8, 2026. How we join them, and what the join can get wrong: methodology.

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