Is La Costa Residence licensed?

Yes. La Costa Residence holds California licence 306006445 for 6 residents, and is currently listed as Licensed by the Department of Social Services.

Does La Costa Residence accept Medi-Cal?

This home is not on the state's Assisted Living Waiver list. Call us and we will find you one that is.

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La Costa Residence

3016 Buchanan Way, Costa Mesa, CA 92626

Google Street View · imagery from 2017-12. This is the house, from the street.

Board & care home · 6 beds · Hospice waiver

La Costa Residence is a state-licensed board-and-care home in Costa Mesa, California, licensed for 6 residents and operating since 2024. The state has approved it to care for 6 residents who cannot walk unaided and 1 who may be bedridden. It is approved to care for residents with dementia. It holds a hospice waiver for 6, which means a resident who goes on hospice can stay here rather than being moved somewhere unfamiliar at the end of her life. Its record with the state shows no citations and no substantiated complaints in the last 24 months. It is a house, on an ordinary street, with six residents or fewer.

The facts, from the state

Type	Board & care home (licensed RCFE)
Licensed capacity	6 residents
State license number	306006445
License status	Licensed — verified 2026-07-13
Licensee	La Costa Residence
Talk to someone	(949) 440-1669 We know which homes have a room this week, what they really charge, and which ones take Medi‑Cal. Free — and we will call this home for you. We call you back the same day.
Open beds	We call these homes every week. Call us and we will tell you.
Monthly rate	We ask the home directly. We do not publish an estimate and call it a price.
State inspection record	Published in full below.

What the state says about this home

A clean record. No citations. No substantiated complaints. Ever.

The state has inspected this home 3 times, most recently on 1/28/2026.

Source: California Department of Social Services, Community Care Licensing Division — facility record 306006445 , licensed since 2024. Retrieved 2026-07-13. You can verify any home yourself at the state's Care Facility Search.
We report what the record says. We do not score it, rank it, or interpret it. If this home believes anything here is wrong or incomplete, tell us and we will publish your response on this page, free and unedited.

What this home is approved to do

Dementia care

Licensed by the state to care for residents with dementia or Alzheimer's.

Wheelchair — 6 approved

Approved for residents who cannot walk unaided. Many homes are not, and families only find out after the tour.

Bedridden — 1 approved

Rarer still, and what a family in late-stage care needs most.

Hospice waiver for 6

Your mother can stay here when she goes on hospice, instead of being moved somewhere unfamiliar at the very end. No other directory shows this.

This is a small residential board-and-care home — six residents or fewer, in a house, on an ordinary street. For many families it is calmer, cheaper, and far better staffed per resident than a large community.