FAMILY CARE - BUCKBOARD HOME

25042 BUCKBOARD LANE, Laguna Hills CA 92653

Facility 306002430 · RESIDENTIAL CARE ELDERLY (740)

6 bedsLatest official report Sep 17, 2025Licensed

Additional info
Licensee
FAMILY CARE, INC.
Administrator
RUSSELL VENANZI
Contact
RUSSELL VENANZI
License first date
Sep 27, 2004
License effective date
Sep 27, 2004
District office
ORANGE COUNTY RO · (714) 703-2840
Regional office
22
Clients served
985 - RCFE / HOSPICE

Summary

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

Most recent inspection
Sep 17, 2025
Most recent deficiency
Sep 20, 2022

2 later reports, from Aug 26, 2024 through Sep 17, 2025, 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 984 Orange County facilities licensed for 6 or fewer beds.

In the available public five-year record, CCLD published 4 reports for this facility: 4 inspections, 0 complaint investigations, and 0 licensing or administrative records.

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

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

Official inspections
4

About the same as most this size

1 in the last 12 months

Recorded deficiencies
2

More than the typical 1

0 in the last 12 months

Type A deficiencies
2

Most this size have none

0 in the last 12 months

Type B deficiencies
0

Fewer than the typical 1

0 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
Dementia careType A
Official classification
Type A
Official code
87705(f)(2)
Regulation authority
CCR

What the official deficiency says

87705 Care of Persons with Dementia (f) The following shall be stored inaccessible to residents with dementia: (2) Over-the-counter medication, nutritional supplements or vitamins, alcohol, cigarettes, and toxic substances such as certain plants, gardening supplies, cleaning supplies and disinfectants. This requirement is not met as evidenced by: Deficient Practice Statement Based on observation and interview, 4 bottles of cleaning supplies were unsecured on the floor of the laundry room which poses an immediate Health, Safety, or Personal Rights risk to persons in care.

Official plan of correction

POC Due Date: 09/21/2022 Plan of Correction Licensee immediately removed and locked the cleaning solutions and agrees to submit a proof of training of staff to LPA via email by POC due date.

Plan of correction recorded
Correction not verified in available records
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Background checksType A
Official classification
Type A
Official code
87355(e)(1)
Regulation authority
CCR

What the official deficiency says

87355 Criminal Record Clearance (e) All individuals subject to a criminal record review pursuant to Health and Safety Code Section 1569.17(b) shall prior to working, residing or volunteering in a licensed facility: (1) Obtain a California clearance or a criminal record exemption as required by the Department This requirement is not met as evidenced by: Deficient Practice Statement Based on observation and interviews, one out of three individuals were not fingerprint cleared prior to volunteering which poses an immediate Health, Safety, or Personal Rights risk to persons in care. CIVIL PENALTY ASSESSED.

Official plan of correction

POC Due Date: 09/21/2022 Plan of Correction Licensee agrees to fingerprint clear all individuals prior to working, residing, or voluteering and submit a fingerprint clearance of S2 by POC due date to LPA via email.

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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