Inspection
No deficiencies recorded in this report
FIRST CHOICE CARE HOME
456 10TH STREET, Fortuna CA 95540
14 bedsLatest official report Nov 21, 2025Licensed
Additional info
- Telephone
- (707) 725-7899
- Licensee
- LADIES CHOICE, INC.
- Administrator
- LINDA TAYLOR
- Contact
- LINDA TAYLOR
- License first date
- Dec 19, 1997
- License effective date
- Dec 19, 1997
- District office
- SANTA ROSA RO · (707) 588-5026
- Regional office
- 21
- Clients served
- 945 - ADULTS / ELDERLY
Summary
The available records show 2 Type B deficiencies for this facility.
- Most recent inspection
- Nov 21, 2025
- Most recent deficiency
- Dec 6, 2023
2 later reports, from Dec 9, 2024 through Nov 21, 2025, 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 5 Humboldt County facilities licensed for 7 to 15 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 5 reports for this facility: 5 inspections, 0 complaint investigations, and 0 licensing or administrative records.
Those records contain 0 Type A and 2 Type B deficiencies.
0 deficiencies have explicit official correction or clearance evidence in the loaded records.
- Official inspections
- 5
- Recorded deficiencies
- 2
- Type A deficiencies
- 0
- Type B deficiencies
- 2
- Substantiated complaints
- 0
- Repeated topics
- 0
About the same as most this size
1 in the last 12 months
Fewer than the typical 3
0 in the last 12 months
Fewer than the typical 1
0 in the last 12 months
About the same as most this size
0 in the last 12 months
Most this size also have none
0 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.
No topic repeats in the last 36 months
No deficiency topic appears in more than one report during that window. This does not establish that nothing repeated earlier in the five-year record, and it is not a statement about current conditions.
Official report history
All preserved reports from the most recent to the oldest, sortable by report type.
Inspection
No deficiencies recorded in this report
Inspection
Staffing, personnel, and trainingType B
- Official classification
- Type B
- Official code
- 1569.625(b)(2)
- Regulation authority
- HSC
What the official deficiency says
(2) In addition to paragraph (1), training requirements shall also include an additional 20 hours annually, eight hours of which shall be dementia care training, as required by subdivision (a) of Section 1569.626, and four hours of which shall be specific to postural supports, restricted health conditions, and hospice care, as required by subdivision (a) of Section 1569.696. This training shall be administered on the job, or in a classroom setting, or both, and may include online training. This requirement is not met as evidenced by: Deficient Practice Statement Based on records reviewed, the licensee did not comply with the section cited above in 5 of 5 staff records. Licensee does not have documentation of completed staff training, which poses/posed a potential health, safety or personal rights risk to persons in care.
Official plan of correction
POC Due Date: 12/22/2023 Plan of Correction Licensee to submit a written plan to address how staff will receive annual training and how facility will document the training. Written plan to be submitted to CCL by POC date of 12/22/2023.
Plan of correction recorded
Correction not verified in available records
Fire safety and emergency preparednessType B
- Official classification
- Type B
- Official code
- 1569.695(c)
- Regulation authority
- HSC
What the official deficiency says
(c) A facility shall conduct a drill at least quarterly for each shift. The type of emergency covered in a drill shall vary from quarter to quarter, taking into account different emergency scenarios. An actual evacuation of residents is not required during a drill. While a facility may provide an opportunity for residents to participate in a drill, it shall not require any resident participation. Documentation of the drills shall include the date, the type of emergency covered by the drill, and the names of staff participating in the drill. This requirement is not met as evidenced by: Deficient Practice Statement Based on records reviewed, the licensee did not comply with the section cited above. Licensee did not document quarterly drills. This poses/posed a potential health, safety or personal rights risk to persons in care.
Official plan of correction
POC Due Date: 12/22/2023 Plan of Correction Licensee to submit a written plan describing how facility will document completed quarterly drills. Licensee will also conduct an emergency drill and submit self certification of completion. Written plan and self certification to be submitted to CCL by POC date of 12/22/2023.
Plan of correction recorded
Correction not verified in available records
Inspection
No deficiencies recorded in this report
Inspection
No deficiencies recorded in this report
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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