SONGBIRD IN THE COUNTRY

15961 TORO HILLS AVENUE, Salinas CA 93908

Facility 275202689 · RESIDENTIAL CARE ELDERLY (740)

12 bedsLatest official report Mar 25, 2026Licensed

Additional info
Licensee
SONGBIRD CARE HOMES SALINAS LLC
Administrator
MAZERIK, BETH
Contact
MAZERIK, BETH
License first date
Mar 20, 2017
License effective date
Mar 20, 2017
District office
FRESNO RO · (559) 243-8080
Regional office
24
Clients served
935 - ELDERLY

Summary

The available records show 4 Type B deficiencies for this facility.

Most recent inspection
Mar 25, 2026
Most recent deficiency
Mar 25, 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 3 Monterey 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 8 reports for this facility: 7 inspections, 1 complaint investigation, and 0 licensing or administrative records.

Those records contain 0 Type A and 4 Type B deficiencies.

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

Official inspections
7

About the same as most this size

2 in the last 12 months

Recorded deficiencies
4

About the same as most this size

1 in the last 12 months

Type A deficiencies
0

Fewer than the typical 2

0 in the last 12 months

Type B deficiencies
4

More than the typical 3

1 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
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 Staff 4 does not have required CPR'First aid training, which poses/posed a potential health, safety or personal rights risk to persons in care.

Official plan of correction

POC Due Date: 04/09/2026 Plan of Correction Administrator will submit Staff 1's CPR/First aid training for review by POC date of 04/09/2026.

Plan of correction recorded
Correction not verified in available records
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Inspection
Facility condition and maintenanceType B
Official classification
Type B
Official code
87303(e)(2)
Regulation authority
CCR

What the official deficiency says

(e) Water supplies and plumbing fixtures shall be maintained as follows: (2) Faucets used by residents for personal care such as shaving and grooming shall deliver hot water. Hot water temperature controls shall be maintained to automatically regulate the temperature of hot water used by residents to attain a temperature of not less than 105 degree F (41 degrees C) and not more than 120 degree F (49 degrees C). This requirement is not met as evidenced by: Deficient Practice Statement Based on observation, the licensee did not comply with the section cited above in which poses/posed a potential health, safety or personal right the facility water temperature in two resident bedroom sinks is measuring above 120 degrees, risk to persons in care.

Official plan of correction

POC Due Date: 04/04/2025 Plan of Correction Licensee will ensure the facility resident bathroom water temperatures measuring between 105 and 120 and send proof to LPA by POC date 04/04/2025.

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
87411(c)(1)
Regulation authority
CCR

What the official deficiency says

87411 Personnel Requirements - General (1) Staff providing care shall receive appropriate training in first aid from persons qualified by such agencies as the American Red Cross. 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 Staff 1, and staff 2 do not have required first aid/CPR training which poses/posed a potential health, safety or personal rights risk to persons in care.

Official plan of correction

POC Due Date: 04/04/2025 Plan of Correction Licensee will send proof of required First aid training to LPA by 04/04/2025 POC date.

Plan of correction recorded
Correction not verified in available records
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Inspection
Incident reportingType B
Official classification
Type B
Official code
87211(a)
Regulation authority
CCR

What the official deficiency says

87211 Reporting Requirements (a) Each licensee shall furnish to the licensing agency such reports as the Department may require, including, but not limited to, the following:(1) A written report shall be submitted to the licensing agency and to the person responsible for the resident within seven days of the occurrence of any of the events specified in (A) through (D) below. This report shall include the resident's name, age, sex and date of admission; date and nature of event; attending physician's name, findings, and treatment, if any; and disposition of the case. The following requirement has not been met as evidenced by: Licensee did not report Resident 1's fall to Licensing which poses a potential health, safety, or personal rights risk to residents in care.

Official plan of correction

Licensee will conduct staff training on reporting requirements and submit to LPA by 02/15/2023 POC date.

Deadline recorded: Feb 15, 2023. A deadline is not proof that correction was completed.

Plan of correction recorded
Correction deadline recordedDeadline Feb 15, 2023
Correction not verified in available records
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Complaint

Allegations0 substantiated · 2 unsubstantiated · 0 unfounded

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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