Medical and dental care
Cited in 2 reports, with 2 deficiencies in total.
SILVERGATE SAN MARCOS RETIREMENT RESIDENCE
1550/1560 SECURITY PLACE, San Marcos CA 92078
160 bedsLatest official report May 28, 2026Licensed
Additional info
- Telephone
- (760) 744-4484
- Licensee
- AMERICARE HEALTH & RETIREMENT, INC. A CALIF. CORP.
- Administrator
- JOAN RINK-CARROLL
- Contact
- JOAN RINK-CARROLL
- License first date
- May 26, 1994
- License effective date
- May 26, 1994
- District office
- RIVERSIDE ASC · (951) 248-2222
- Regional office
- 18
- Clients served
- 985 - RCFE / HOSPICE
Summary
The available records show 2 Type A and 2 Type B deficiencies for this facility.
- Most recent inspection
- May 28, 2026
- Most recent deficiency
- Mar 29, 2024
7 later reports, from May 8, 2024 through May 28, 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 91 San Diego County facilities licensed for 50 or more beds.
In the available public five-year record, CCLD published 14 reports for this facility: 8 inspections, 6 complaint investigations, and 0 licensing or administrative records.
Those records contain 2 Type A and 2 Type B deficiencies.
1 deficiencies have explicit official correction or clearance evidence in the loaded records.
- Official inspections
- 8
- Recorded deficiencies
- 4
- Type A deficiencies
- 2
- Type B deficiencies
- 2
- Substantiated complaints
- 0
- Repeated topics
- 1
Fewer than the typical 9
1 in the last 12 months
More than the typical 3
0 in the last 12 months
Most this size have none
0 in the last 12 months
Fewer than the typical 3
0 in the last 12 months
Fewer than the typical 1
0 in the last 12 months
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.
Inspection
No deficiencies recorded in this report
Complaint
Allegations0 substantiated · 1 unsubstantiated · 0 unfounded · investigated over 2 visits
No deficiencies recorded in this reportComplaint
Part of the complaint whose outcome is recorded on Apr 15, 2026 · Control 18-AS-20230413163957
No deficiencies recorded in this reportInspection
No deficiencies recorded in this report
Inspection
No deficiencies recorded in this report
Complaint
Allegations0 substantiated · 1 unsubstantiated · 0 unfounded
No deficiencies recorded in this reportInspection
No deficiencies recorded in this report
Inspection
Medical and dental careType A
- Official classification
- Type A
- Official code
- 87465(g)
- Regulation authority
- CCR
What the official deficiency says
INCIDENTAL MEDICAL & DENTAL CARE - “The licensee shall immediately telephone 9-1-1 if an injury or other circumstance has resulted in an imminent threat to a resident’s health…” This requirement is not met as evidenced by: Based on outside source records and interviews, on 04/20/20, the licensee, did not call 911 for 1:79 residents in care until two (2) hours after R1 sustained an unwitnessed fall. R1, who has a history of traumatic injury to the head, sustained an acute subdural hematoma caused by blunt head trauma from a fall which later resulted in death. This poses an immediate health and safety risk to persons in care.
Official plan of correction
The Facility will corrdinate a date of training with their local Fire Department within the next 24 hours and submit a letter to LPA with the date of all staff training to be conducted by 3/26/2024. Facility will submit all staff training documents regarding emergency assessments by 4/16/2024. This is an amended version of the original report created on 03/26/2022. This POC was cleared while at the facility.
Deadline recorded: Mar 26, 2024. A deadline is not proof that correction was completed.
Official record says corrected or clearedOn or before Mar 29, 2024
Plan of correction recorded
Correction deadline recordedDeadline Mar 26, 2024
Inspection
Medical and dental careType A
- Official classification
- Type A
- Official code
- 87465(g)
- Regulation authority
- CCR
What the official deficiency says
INCIDENTAL MEDICAL & DENTAL CARE - “The licensee shall immediately telephone 9-1-1 if an injury or other circumstance has resulted in an imminent threat to a resident’s health…” This requirement is not met as evidenced by: Based on outside source records and interviews, on 04/20/20, the licensee, did not call 911 for 1:79 residents in care until two (2) hours after R1 sustained an unwitnessed fall. R1, who has a history of traumatic injury to the head, sustained an acute subdural hematoma caused by blunt head trauma from a fall which later resulted in death. This poses an immediate health and safety risk to persons in care.
Official plan of correction
The Facility will corrdinate a date of training with their local Fire Department within the next 24 hours and submit a letter to LPA with the date of all staff training to be conducted by 3/26/2024. Facility will submit all staff training documents regarding emergency assessments by 4/16/2024. This is an amended version of the original report created on 03/26/2022.
Deadline recorded: Mar 26, 2024. A deadline is not proof that correction was completed.
Plan of correction recorded
Correction deadline recordedDeadline Mar 26, 2024
Correction not verified in available records
Admission, assessment, and evictionType B
- Official classification
- Type B
- Official code
- 87463(a)
- Regulation authority
- CCR
What the official deficiency says
REAPPRAISALS – “…The pre-admission appraisal shall be updated, in writing as frequently as necessary to note significant changes and to keep the appraisal accurate. The reappraisals shall document changes in the resident’s physical, medical, mental and social condition…”. This requirement is not met as evidenced by: Based on facility records and interviews, the licensee did not reappraise 1:79 residents in care when a change in condition occurred. This poses a possible health and safety risk to persons in care.
Official plan of correction
The facility will conduct in-service training with the LVNs and Assistant's Director of Resident Care regarding updates to the residents reappraisal on a yearly or on an as needed basis by POC due date, 04/09/2024.
Deadline recorded: Apr 9, 2024. A deadline is not proof that correction was completed.
Plan of correction recorded
Correction deadline recordedDeadline Apr 9, 2024
Correction not verified in available records
Resident rightsType B
- Official classification
- Type B
- Official code
- 87468.1(a)(6)
- Regulation authority
- CCR
What the official deficiency says
PERSONAL RIGHTS – “…to not be locked into any room, building or on facility premises day or night…” This requirement is not met as evidenced by: Based on interviews, facility records and outside source records, 1:79 (R1) residents were placed into the locked dementia unit with out a physician’s diagnosis of dementia or cognitive impairment. This poses a possible health & safety risk to persons in care.
Official plan of correction
The facility will be submitting the Physician's Report (LIC602) for their Memory Care Unit residents along with a Roster of Residents to review the assessments of resident's diagnosis to LPA by POC due date, 04/09/2024.
Deadline recorded: Apr 9, 2024. A deadline is not proof that correction was completed.
Plan of correction recorded
Correction deadline recordedDeadline Apr 9, 2024
Correction not verified in available records
Complaint
Allegations0 substantiated · 1 unsubstantiated · 0 unfounded
No deficiencies recorded in this reportComplaint
Allegations0 substantiated · 3 unsubstantiated · 0 unfounded
No deficiencies recorded in this reportComplaint
Allegations0 substantiated · 2 unsubstantiated · 0 unfounded
No deficiencies recorded in this reportInspection
No deficiencies recorded in this report
Inspection
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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