LUCY'S PLACE

4770 ELM TREE DRIVE, Oceanside CA 92056

Facility 374601035 · RESIDENTIAL CARE ELDERLY (740)

6 bedsLatest official report Mar 17, 2026Licensed

Additional info
Licensee
LUCIA B. TOTANES
Administrator
MELANIE DEL ROSARIO
Contact
MELANIE DEL ROSARIO
License first date
Nov 8, 2000
License effective date
Nov 8, 2000
District office
SAN DIEGO RO · (619) 767-2300
Regional office
08
Clients served
985 - RCFE / HOSPICE

Summary

The available records show 2 Type A and 9 Type B deficiencies for this facility.

Most recent inspection
Jan 12, 2026
Most recent deficiency
Feb 24, 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 444 San Diego County facilities licensed for 6 or fewer beds.

In the available public five-year record, CCLD published 12 reports for this facility: 10 inspections, 1 complaint investigation, and 1 licensing or administrative record.

Those records contain 2 Type A and 9 Type B deficiencies.

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

Official inspections
10

More than the typical 4

2 in the last 12 months

Recorded deficiencies
11

Well above the typical 1

4 in the last 12 months

Type A deficiencies
2

Most this size have none

2 in the last 12 months

Type B deficiencies
9

Well above the typical 1

2 in the last 12 months

Substantiated complaints
1

Most this size have none

1 in the last 12 months

Repeated topics
3

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.

Official report history

All preserved reports from the most recent to the oldest, sortable by report type.

Complaint

Allegations1 substantiated · 2 unsubstantiated · 0 unfounded · 1 cited

Medical and dental careType A
Official classification
Type A
Official code
87465(a)(1)
Regulation authority
CCR

What the official deficiency says

(a) A plan for incidental medical .... The plan shall encourage routine medical. care and provide for assistance in obtaining such care, by compliance with the following: (1) The licensee shall arrange, or assist in arranging.. care appropriate to the conditions and needs of residents. This was not met as evidenced by: Based on interviews and records review, Licensee failed to seek medical services for R1 when R1 had coffee spill causing burns in R1s leg which poses an immediate Health, Safety, or Personal Rights risk to persons in care.

Official plan of correction

The immediate threat was resolved: R1 was sent by emergency service to hospital. LIcensee will provide in-Service training and will be conducted with staff regarding appropriate conditions and needs in relatation to assiting or arranging medical services to residents.. Training will be completed and submitted to LPA Rodgers with sign-in sheet and training topic clearly noted via email by 3/25/2026.

Deadline recorded: Feb 24, 2026. A deadline is not proof that correction was completed.

Plan of correction recorded
Correction deadline recordedDeadline Feb 24, 2026
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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