Inspection
No deficiencies recorded in this report
BROOKDALE SANTA MONICA GARDENS
851 2ND ST, Santa Monica CA 90403
128 bedsLatest official report Jul 23, 2026Licensed
Additional info
- Telephone
- (310) 393-2260
- Licensee
- BLC GARDENS-SANTA MONICA LH LLC
- Administrator
- RALPH BALBIN
- Contact
- RALPH BALBIN
- License first date
- Jun 26, 2006
- License effective date
- Jun 26, 2006
- District office
- EL SEGUNDO ASC · (424) 544-1075
- Regional office
- 11
- Clients served
- 935 - ELDERLY
Summary
The available records show 7 Type B deficiencies for this facility.
- Most recent inspection
- Jul 23, 2026
- Most recent deficiency
- May 16, 2024
6 later reports, from Jun 6, 2024 through Jul 23, 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 17 reports for this facility: 5 inspections, 12 complaint investigations, and 0 licensing or administrative records.
Those records contain 0 Type A and 7 Type B deficiencies.
0 deficiencies have explicit official correction or clearance evidence in the loaded records.
- Official inspections
- 5
- Recorded deficiencies
- 7
- Type A deficiencies
- 0
- Type B deficiencies
- 7
- Substantiated complaints
- 3
- Repeated topics
- 0
Fewer than the typical 7
1 in the last 12 months
Fewer than the typical 8
0 in the last 12 months
Fewer than the typical 3
0 in the last 12 months
More than the typical 5
0 in the last 12 months
About the same as most this size
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
No deficiencies recorded in this report
Inspection
Staffing, personnel, and trainingType B
- Official classification
- Type B
- Official code
- 87412(d)
- Regulation authority
- CCR
What the official deficiency says
(d) The licensee shall maintain documentation that an administrator has met the certification requirements specified in Section 87406, Administrator Certification Requirements or the recertification requirements in Section 87407, Administrator Recertification Requirements. This requirement is not met as evidenced by: Deficient Practice Statement Based on [(observation) (interview) (record review)], the licensee did not comply with the section cited above which poses/posed a potential health, safety or personal rights risk to persons in care.
Official plan of correction
POC Due Date: 07/03/2023 Plan of Correction The licensee will submit a plan of correction and documentation that an administrator has met the certications specified in Section 87406 to LPA Antonine.Rchard@dss.ca.gov via email. (323) 516-4092
Plan of correction recorded
Correction not verified in available records
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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