Medication handling and storage
Cited in 4 reports, with 5 deficiencies in total.
AUTUMN RIDGE ASSISTED LIVING
14280 W STANISLAUS AVE, Kerman CA 93630
54 bedsLatest official report Aug 12, 2026Licensed
Additional info
- Telephone
- (661) 972-4646
- Licensee
- PATHWAY ASSISTED LIVING AUTUMN RIDGE LLC
- Administrator
- DHALIWAL, KAREN
- Contact
- DHALIWAL, KAREN
- License first date
- Aug 15, 2024
- License effective date
- Aug 15, 2024
- District office
- FRESNO RO · (559) 243-8080
- Regional office
- 24
- Clients served
- 983 - RCFE / DEMENTIA
Summary
The available records show 8 Type A and 7 Type B deficiencies for this facility.
- Most recent inspection
- Aug 12, 2026
- Most recent deficiency
- Jul 14, 2026
1 later report, on Aug 12, 2026, recorded no deficiencies, though the records do not say whether they were follow-ups.
What Type A and Type B mean
- Type A
- Violations of licensing requirements that, if not corrected, have a direct and immediate risk to the health, safety, or personal rights of persons in care.
- Type B
- Violations of licensing requirements that, without correction, could become a risk to the health, safety, or personal rights of persons in care.
Both classifications are published by California CDSS and are shown as published. SeniorLivingFacts does not rename them or add a severity level of its own.
At a glance
Counts cover the five-year public record. Typical figures are the median for the 20 Fresno County facilities licensed for 50 or more beds, except where too few exist to state one — those come from facilities with 7 or more beds.
In the available public five-year record, CCLD published 20 reports for this facility: 9 inspections, 9 complaint investigations, and 2 licensing or administrative records.
Those records contain 8 Type A and 7 Type B deficiencies.
1 deficiencies have explicit official correction or clearance evidence in the loaded records.
- Official inspections
- 9
- Recorded deficiencies
- 15
- Type A deficiencies
- 8
- Type B deficiencies
- 7
- Substantiated complaints
- 4
- Repeated topics
- 3
More than the typical 8
3 in the last 12 months
More than the typical 8
5 in the last 12 months
More than the typical 4
3 in the last 12 months
More than the typical 5
2 in the last 12 months
More than the typical 1
1 in the last 12 months
Last 36 months
Repeated topics
Topics cited in more than one report during the last 36 months. A repeat may show a pattern worth asking about. Each date opens its report below.
Health conditions and treatments
Cited in 2 reports, with 2 deficiencies in total.
Staffing, personnel, and training
Cited in 2 reports, with 2 deficiencies in total.
Official report history
All preserved reports from the most recent to the oldest, sortable by report type.
Complaint
Allegations0 substantiated · 2 unsubstantiated · 0 unfounded
No deficiencies recorded in this reportComplaint
Allegations1 substantiated · 1 unsubstantiated · 0 unfounded · 1 cited
Staffing, personnel, and trainingType A
- Official classification
- Type A
- Official code
- 87413(a)(2)
- Regulation authority
- CCR
What the official deficiency says
87413(a)(2) Care and supervision of residents shall be provided without physical or verbal abuse, exploitation or prejudice. This requirement is not met as evidenced by: Based on interviews and records reviewed, R1's current physician report documents that the R1 cannot leave the facility unsupervised. Interviews confirmed R1 had left the facility premises with R2 without staff supervision on 01/06/26, poses an immediate health and safety risks to persons in care.
Official plan of correction
Facility shall submit a plan detailing steps the facility will take to ensure the requirements are met by 01/13/26.
Deadline recorded: Jan 13, 2026. A deadline is not proof that correction was completed.
Plan of correction recorded
Correction deadline recordedDeadline Jan 13, 2026
Correction not verified in available records
Complaint
Allegations0 substantiated · 4 unsubstantiated · 0 unfounded
No deficiencies recorded in this reportComplaint
Allegations0 substantiated · 1 unsubstantiated · 0 unfounded
No deficiencies recorded in this reportComplaint
Allegations1 substantiated · 5 unsubstantiated · 0 unfounded · 1 cited
Medical and dental careType B
- Official classification
- Type B
- Official code
- 87465(i)
- Regulation authority
- CCR
What the official deficiency says
87465 (i) Prescription medications which are not taken with the resident upon termination of services, not returned to the issuing pharmacy, nor retained in the facility as ordered by the resident’s physician and documented in the resident’s record nor disposed of according to the hospice’s established procedures or which are otherwise to be disposed of shall be destroyed in the facility by the facility administrator and one other adult who is not a resident. Both shall sign a record, to be retained for at least three years, (1) Name of the resident. (2) The prescription number and the name of the pharmacy. (3) The drug name, strength and quantity destroyed. (4) The date of destruction. This requirement is not met as evidenced by: Based on interview conducted and observations, medications for expired residents and discontinued medications were not record nor destructed backdating to March 2025, in which poses/posed a potential health and safety and personal rights risk to the resident in care.
Official plan of correction
All medications to be disposed shall be destroyed and recorded. Administrator will submit documentation of steps facility will take to ensure disposed medications are record and destroyed properly and timely to Fresno CCL by POC due date 06/18/25.
Deadline recorded: Jun 18, 2025. A deadline is not proof that correction was completed.
Plan of correction recorded
Correction deadline recordedDeadline Jun 18, 2025
Correction not verified in available records
Complaint
Allegations0 substantiated · 3 unsubstantiated · 0 unfounded
No deficiencies recorded in this reportComplaint
Allegations1 substantiated · 0 unsubstantiated · 0 unfounded · 1 cited
Staffing, personnel, and trainingType B
- Official classification
- Type B
- Official code
- 87411(d)(3)
- Regulation authority
- CCR
What the official deficiency says
87411(d)(3) Personnel Requirements – General All personnel shall be given on the job training…This training and/or related experience shall provide knowledge of and skill…by safe and effective job performance, Skill and knowledge required to provide necessary resident care and supervision, including the ability to communicate with residents. This requirement was not met: Based on observation and records reviewed, at approximately 01:37PM, LPA and Administrator observed resident call pendant not being responded by staff in a timely matter upon activation. Call log record total average staff responds to residents’ call in one day is above 49.78 minutes from 04/01/25 to 04/16/25, which poses a potential health and safety and personal rights risk to the person in care.
Official plan of correction
Administrator will have in-service training for all staff regarding answering residents pendant alert call in a timely matter. Documents of staff in-service training and rooster of attendance shall be submitted to Fresno CCL by due date 04/29/25.
Deadline recorded: Apr 29, 2025. A deadline is not proof that correction was completed.
Plan of correction recorded
Correction deadline recordedDeadline Apr 29, 2025
Correction not verified in available records
Complaint
Allegations0 substantiated · 3 unsubstantiated · 0 unfounded
No deficiencies recorded in this reportComplaint
Allegations1 substantiated · 1 unsubstantiated · 0 unfounded
Food serviceType B
- Official classification
- Type B
- Official code
- 87555(b)(21)
- Regulation authority
- CCR
What the official deficiency says
87555 (b)(21) Freezers of adequate size shall be maintained at a temperature of 0 degrees F (-17.7 degrees C), and refrigerators of adequate size shall maintain a maximum temperature of 40 degrees F (4 degrees C). They shall be kept clean and food stored to enable adequate air circulation to maintain the above temperatures. This requirement is not met as evidenced by: Based on interviews conducted, observation, and records reviewed, the facility did not have a working freezer for over two weeks to store frozen food, which poses/ posed a potential health and safety risks to persons in care.
Official plan of correction
Facility has a new freezer that arrived on 03/11/25 and not being put in use to store frozen food. New freezer will be plug in and utilized by POC due date.
Deadline recorded: Mar 13, 2025. A deadline is not proof that correction was completed.
Citation dismissed - not a correctionOn Mar 13, 2025
Deficiency Dismissed Type B 03/13/2025 Section Cited CCR 87555(b)(21)
Plan of correction recorded
Correction deadline recordedDeadline Mar 13, 2025
Correction not verified in available records
Source and limits
California Department of Social Services, Community Care Licensing Division. Public facility history is described by the source as a five-year window. Older records and previous-licensee history may require a regional-office request. Type 741 RCFE-CCRCs, nursing homes, and other care settings are excluded from this page.
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