EQUINOX CARE FACILITY LLC

38281 S HWY 1, Gualala CA 95445

Facility 236801775 · RESIDENTIAL CARE ELDERLY (740)

9 bedsLatest official report Oct 6, 2025Licensed

Additional info
Licensee
EQUINOX CARE FACILITY, LLC
Administrator
AJEL, AGNES
Contact
AJEL, AGNES
License first date
Oct 26, 2005
License effective date
Oct 26, 2005
District office
SANTA ROSA RO · (707) 588-5026
Regional office
21
Clients served
983 - RCFE / DEMENTIA

Summary

The available records show 3 Type B deficiencies for this facility.

Most recent inspection
Oct 6, 2025
Most recent deficiency
Oct 6, 2025

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 3 Mendocino 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 9 reports for this facility: 8 inspections, 1 complaint investigation, and 0 licensing or administrative records.

Those records contain 0 Type A and 3 Type B deficiencies.

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

Official inspections
8

More than the typical 3

1 in the last 12 months

Recorded deficiencies
3

About the same as most this size

2 in the last 12 months

Type A deficiencies
0

Most this size also have none

0 in the last 12 months

Type B deficiencies
3

More than the typical 2

2 in the last 12 months

Substantiated complaints
0

Most this size also have none

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
Licensing and administrationType B
Official classification
Type B
Official code
1569.618(c)(3)
Regulation authority
HSC

What the official deficiency says

(c)The facility shall employ, and the administrator shall schedule, a sufficient number of staff members to do all of the following: (3) Ensure that at least one staff member who has cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) training and first aid training is on duty and on the premises at all times. This paragraph shall not be construed to require staff to provide CPR. This requirement is not met as evidenced by: Deficient Practice Statement Based on record review, the licensee did not comply with the section cited above in 3 of 6 staff files reviewed. Licensee did not ensure there was at least one person on duty with current CPR certification, which poses/posed a potential health, safety or personal rights risk to persons in care.

Official plan of correction

POC Due Date: 11/05/2025 Plan of Correction Licensee agrees to submit self certification that there will be at least one staff person on duty at all times with current CPR certification. Self certification shall be submitted to CCL by 11/05/2025.

Plan of correction recorded
Correction not verified in available records
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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 record review, the licensee did not comply with the section cited above in 4 of 6 staff files reviewed. Licensee did 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: 11/05/2025 Plan of Correction Licensee agrees to send self certification that all staff will complete their required 20 hours of annual training. Self Certification shall be submitted to CCL by 11/05/2025.

Plan of correction recorded
Correction not verified in available records
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Inspection
Dementia careType B
Official classification
Type B
Official code
87705(k)(3)
Regulation authority
CCR

What the official deficiency says

87705 Care of Persons with Dementia: (k)(3)Fire and earthquake drills shall be conducted at least once every three months on each shift and shall include, at a minimum, all direct care staff. This requirement is not met as evidenced by: Based on interviews conducted, Licensee is not conducting drills as required. This poses a potential Safety risk to residents in care.

Official plan of correction

Licensee will draft an updated disaster plan, which shall provide detail for each item listed in Regulation 87212. In addition, Licensee will train all staff on updated plan and conduct as drill. Written plan and evidence of completed staff training and evidence of completed drill will be submitted to CCL by POC date of 01/31/2024.

Deadline recorded: Jan 31, 2024. A deadline is not proof that correction was completed.

Plan of correction recorded
Correction deadline recordedDeadline Jan 31, 2024
Correction not verified in available records
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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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