WILLIAM J. "PETE" KNIGHT VETERANS HOME-LANCASTER

45221 30TH STREET WEST, Lancaster CA 93536

Facility 197607726 · RESIDENTIAL CARE ELDERLY (740)

60 bedsLatest official report Jan 28, 2026Licensed

Additional info

Telephone: (661) 974-7035
Licensee: CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS
Administrator: EDINA LEMUS
Contact: EDINA LEMUS
License first date: Jan 7, 2010
License effective date: Jan 7, 2010
District office: WOODLAND HILLS S.RO · (818) 596-4334
Regional office: 31
Clients served: 985 - RCFE / HOSPICE

Summary

The available records show 2 Type B deficiencies for this facility.

Most recent inspection: Jan 28, 2026
Most recent deficiency: Aug 13, 2025

2 later reports, from Dec 2, 2025 through Jan 28, 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 212 Los Angeles County facilities licensed for 50 or more beds.

In the available public five-year record, CCLD published 18 reports for this facility: 9 inspections, 9 complaint investigations, and 0 licensing or administrative records.

Those records contain 0 Type A and 2 Type B deficiencies.

1 deficiencies have explicit official correction or clearance evidence in the loaded records.

Official inspections: 9
Recorded deficiencies: 2
Type A deficiencies: 0
Type B deficiencies: 2
Substantiated complaints: 1
Repeated topics: 0

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.

Aug 13, 2025Complaint

Allegations1 substantiated · 7 unsubstantiated · 0 unfounded · 1 cited · investigated over 4 visits

Resident rightsType B

Official classification: Type B
Official code: 87468.1(a)(1)
Regulation authority: CCR

What the official deficiency says

(a) Residents in all residential care facilities for the elderly shall have all of the following personal rights: (1) To be accorded dignity in their personal relationships with staff, residents, and other persons. This requirement was not met as evidenced by: Based on LPA's observation and interviews, the licensee did not comply with the section cited above by not providing privacy and conducting VSO appointments in a cubicle by other staff, which posed a potential Health, Safety, or Personal Rights risk to persons in care.

Official plan of correction

The Administrator agreed to conduct an action plan that will be implemented to allow for private meetings in a closed conference room. Plan will be emailed to LPA by the POC due date.

Deadline recorded: Aug 29, 2025. A deadline is not proof that correction was completed.

Plan of correction recorded

Correction deadline recordedDeadline Aug 29, 2025

Correction not verified in available records

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Jul 9, 2025Complaint

Part of the complaint whose outcome is recorded on Aug 13, 2025 · Control 31-AS-20241211135010