Family Answers
Wrightwood Castle is a licensed six-bedroom senior care home (California RCFE #365530560) at 790 Highway 2, Wrightwood, CA 92397. Below are the questions families actually ask on the first phone call, answered without sales language.
Key facts
| Home name | Wrightwood Castle Senior Care |
|---|---|
| Type of care | Residential Care Facility for the Elderly (RCFE) — the license behind assisted living, board and care, and small senior care homes |
| License | California RCFE #365530560, issued by the California Department of Social Services |
| Licensed capacity | 6 residents |
| Address | 790 Highway 2, Wrightwood, CA 92397 |
| Phone | (909) 949-9700 |
| hello@366.care | |
| Size of house | Approximately 10,000 square feet on private grounds |
| Elevation | 5,935 feet, in the San Gabriel Mountains |
| Bedrooms | Six private bedrooms, each with a private bathroom and television |
| Accessibility | Elevator access to every floor; walker and wheelchair friendly |
| Staffing | Caregivers on site around the clock |
| Payment | Private pay, long-term care insurance, and VA Aid & Attendance benefits |
| Areas served | The High Desert and Victor Valley, the Antelope Valley, the mountain communities, and the Inland Empire foothills |
Common questions
RCFE stands for Residential Care Facility for the Elderly — the California license, issued by the Department of Social Services, behind assisted living communities, board and care homes and small senior care homes like this one. An RCFE provides housing, meals, personal care and supervision for adults 60 and older. It is non-medical care, which is what separates it from a skilled nursing facility.
Yes — California RCFE license #365530560, licensed for six residents at 790 Highway 2, Wrightwood, CA 92397. You can look the license up yourself on the California Department of Social Services Care Facility Search and read the inspection history. Licensed RCFEs are visited by Community Care Licensing and must follow Title 22 rules on staffing, medication assistance, food service, fire clearance and resident rights.
A small residential care home: six seniors living in one large private house at 790 Highway 2, Wrightwood, CA 92397, with caregivers on site around the clock. Californians call this model board and care, a senior care home, or assisted living — legally it is a Residential Care Facility for the Elderly (RCFE). What makes this one unusual is size: ten thousand square feet and a full set of common rooms for only six people.
Monthly rates depend on the level of care found in the assessment — a mostly independent resident and a resident who needs two-person transfers do not cost the same. We quote one all-in monthly figure in writing, with no separate charges for meals, laundry, housekeeping or local transportation. Call (909) 949-9700 and we will give you a real number the same day rather than a brochure range.
Medicare does not pay for room and board in any California assisted living or care home — it covers medical services, not housing. Most families here pay privately, and many use long-term care insurance or VA Aid & Attendance benefits, which we will help you document. We are not a Medi-Cal (ALW) contracted home.
Often yes for early and moderate memory loss, where consistent routines, familiar caregivers and a calm six-person household do more good than a locked wing. Advanced dementia with exit-seeking or behaviors that require a dementia plan of operation on file may be outside what our license permits. We answer that question honestly after the assessment instead of accepting someone we cannot serve well.
The license is identical — both are RCFEs. The difference is ratio and rhythm. A sixty-unit community runs on shifts, call lights, and a dining schedule; a six-person home runs on the same caregivers seeing the same six people daily. Large communities usually win on organized activity calendars; small homes win on attention, food, and how quickly someone notices a change.
A private bedroom and private bathroom; three cooked meals and snacks daily with diets accommodated; assistance with bathing, dressing, grooming, toileting and mobility; medication assistance; housekeeping and personal laundry; local transportation to appointments; and use of every common room in the house. The full list is on the care services page.
All six bedrooms are private, each with its own bathroom and television. Bring the bed, the recliner, the dresser, the photographs — most families move belongings in a day before the resident arrives so the first night already feels familiar.
Walkers and wheelchairs are no obstacle — the house has an elevator and wide rooms. Non-ambulatory and bedbound residency depends on the specific limits of our approved license and local fire clearance, so call (909) 949-9700 with the details and we will tell you plainly what we can accept.
Yes, within the hospice waiver rules that California applies to RCFEs. Working alongside a hospice team lets many residents stay in their own bedroom, with their own things and familiar caregivers, rather than moving again at the end of life.
Yes. Residents keep their physicians, specialists and pharmacy, and we schedule and drive them to appointments — Victorville, Apple Valley, Hesperia, Palmdale, San Bernardino and the foothills are all regular runs. Visiting nurses and therapists are welcome in the home.
Family is welcome any reasonable hour, and we would rather you came often than politely. There is a dining room for birthdays, a games room for grandchildren, porches for a quiet hour, and a parlor with a piano. Overnight guests can usually be arranged in the village.
Short respite stays are possible when a bedroom is open — after a hospital discharge, during a caregiver's surgery, or for a family vacation. Because there are only six bedrooms, availability moves quickly; call (909) 949-9700 to ask about the next open window. See the daily life page and the photos.
When a bedroom is open and paperwork moves, within a few days — including straight from a hospital or rehab discharge. The sequence is a phone call, a written pre-admission appraisal, a physician's report, a signed agreement and care plan, then move-in.
Wrightwood is a year-round village with plowed roads, a fire department, its own market and a ski economy that keeps Highway 2 and Highway 138 open. The house is stocked and staffed for storms, and appointments are scheduled around weather rather than cancelled by it.
Call (909) 949-9700, write hello@366.care, or use the booking page. Come on a weekday near lunch if you can — you will see how the house actually runs. We host one family at a time.
Licensed by the California Department of Social Services — RCFE #365530560. What we can provide for a specific resident is confirmed only after a written pre-admission appraisal.
Call (909) 949-9700 or write hello@366.care. Someone who works in the house answers, not a call center.
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