SAPPHIRE LAKE SAN MARCOS

839 LA TIERRA DRIVE, San Marcos CA 92078

Facility 374603699 · RESIDENTIAL CARE ELDERLY (740)

6 bedsLatest official report May 11, 2026Licensed

Additional info
Licensee
SAPPHIRE LAKE SAN MARCOS
Administrator
MATIC, VICTORIA
Contact
MATIC, VICTORIA
License first date
Oct 9, 2015
License effective date
Oct 9, 2015
District office
RIVERSIDE ASC · (951) 248-2222
Regional office
18
Clients served
983 - RCFE / DEMENTIA

Summary

The available records show 1 Type A deficiency for this facility.

Most recent inspection
Oct 9, 2025
Most recent deficiency
Oct 24, 2022

6 later reports, from Mar 16, 2023 through May 11, 2026, 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 444 San Diego County facilities licensed for 6 or fewer beds.

In the available public five-year record, CCLD published 8 reports for this facility: 5 inspections, 3 complaint investigations, and 0 licensing or administrative records.

Those records contain 1 Type A and 0 Type B deficiencies.

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

Official inspections
5

More than the typical 4

1 in the last 12 months

Recorded deficiencies
1

About the same as most this size

0 in the last 12 months

Type A deficiencies
1

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)(1)
Regulation authority
CCR

What the official deficiency says

(f) The following shall be stored inaccessible to residents with dementia: (1) Knives, matches, firearms, tools and other items that could constitute a danger to the resident(s). This requirement is not met as evidenced by: Deficient Practice Statement Based on observation and interview the licensee did not comply with the section cited above by leaving a knife on the kitchen counter accessible to residents which poses an immediate health, safety or personal rights risk to persons in care.

Official plan of correction

POC Due Date: 10/25/2022 Plan of Correction Administrator, Victoria Matic immediately locked up the knife and made it inaccessible for resident in care. Licensee, Ali Naghibi stated a letter of understanding of nthe regulation cited above will be provided to LPA by the POC due date 10/25/2022.

Plan of correction recorded
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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