GARDEN HOME

16 GARDEN AVE, San Rafael CA 94903

Facility 216803663 · RESIDENTIAL CARE ELDERLY (740)

4 bedsLatest official report Jul 10, 2026Licensed

Additional info
Licensee
BAYHOME LIVING LLC
Administrator
ZHU, XIAOTONG SHERRY""
Contact
ZHU, XIAOTONG "SHERRY"
License first date
Jul 24, 2017
License effective date
Jul 24, 2017
District office
SANTA ROSA RO · (707) 588-5026
Regional office
21
Clients served
910 - DEVELOPMENTALLY DISABLED (DD)

Summary

The available records show 1 Type A and 2 Type B deficiencies for this facility.

Most recent inspection
Jul 10, 2026
Most recent deficiency
Jul 10, 2026

No later report is available, so the records do not show what happened afterward.

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 26 Marin County facilities licensed for 6 or fewer 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 1 Type A and 2 Type B deficiencies.

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

Official inspections
5

Fewer than the typical 12

1 in the last 12 months

Recorded deficiencies
3

Fewer than the typical 10

2 in the last 12 months

Type A deficiencies
1

Fewer than the typical 6

0 in the last 12 months

Type B deficiencies
2

Fewer than the typical 7

2 in the last 12 months

Substantiated complaints
0

Fewer than the typical 1

0 in the last 12 months

Repeated topics
0

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
Food serviceType B
Official classification
Type B
Official code
87555(a)
Regulation authority
CCR

What the official deficiency says

(a) The total daily diet shall be of the quality and in the quantity necessary to meet the needs of the residents an shall meet the Recommended Dietary Allowances of the Food and Nutrition Board of the National Research Council. All food shall be selected, stored, prepared and served in a safe and healthful manner. This requirement is not met as evidenced by: Deficient Practice Statement Based on observations made, Licensee did not comply with the section cited above. Multiple instances of expired foods were observed in facility's refrigerator and freezer including expired tofu and Costco prepared meals. This poses/posed a potential health, safety or personal rights risk to persons in care.

Official plan of correction

POC Due Date: 07/20/2026 Plan of Correction Licensee to submit a written plan on how they will ensure that facility food's expiration date is checked periodically to ensure it is still safe to consume. Plan to be submitted to Community Care Licensing (CCL) by POC due date of 07/20/2026.

Plan of correction recorded
Correction not verified in available records
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Fire safety and emergency preparednessType B
Official classification
Type B
Official code
1569.695(a)(2)
Regulation authority
HSC

What the official deficiency says

(a)In addition to any other requirement of this chapter, a residential care facility for the elderly shall have an emergency and disaster plan that shall include, but not be limited to, all of the following: (2) Plans for the facility to be self-reliant for a period of not less than 72 hours immediately following any emergency or disaster, including, but not limited to, a short-term or long-term power failure. If the facility plans to shelter in place and one or more utilities, including water, sewer, gas, or electricity, is not available, the facility shall have a plan and supplies available to provide alternative resources during an outage. This requirement is not met as evidenced by: Deficient Practice Statement Based on observations made, Licensee did not comply with the section cited above and did not ensure that there was adequate emergency water supply in the event the facility had to shelter in place for at least 72 hours. This poses/posed a potential health, safety or personal rights risk to persons in care.

Official plan of correction

POC Due Date: 07/20/2026 Plan of Correction Licensee to obtain needed emergency supplies and submit proof in the form of photos and/or receipts by POC due date of 07/20/2026.

Plan of correction recorded
Correction not verified in available records
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Inspection
Facility condition and maintenanceType A
Official classification
Type A
Official code
87307(d)(3)(B)
Regulation authority
CCR

What the official deficiency says

On May 26, 2022, facility failed to protect the personal rights of clients in care to receive safe and healthful accommodations and engaged in conduct inimical to the health, welfare, and safety of clients in care, in that Care Giver #2 and 3 failed to wear face coverings while providing care and supervision to clients in care*, in violation of official government orders requiring the wearing of face coverings while working under specified conditions. This requirement is not met as evidenced by: Deficient Practice Statement Based on observation, the facility did not comply with the section cited above in 2 out of 3 Care Givers were not wearing masks which poses an immediate health, safety or personal rights risk to persons in care.

Official plan of correction

POC Due Date: 05/27/2022 Plan of Correction Facility shall train staff on the Infection Control Mitigation Plan that was submitted to CCL and provide a statement on how future compliance will be met along with a sign-in sheet.

Plan of correction recorded
Correction not verified in available records
View official 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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