LANTERN CREST
800 LANTERN CREST WAY, Santee CA 92071
180 bedsLatest official report Apr 13, 2026Licensed
Additional info
- Telephone
- (619) 258-8886
- Licensee
- SANTEE SNR RET I LLC(OWNER)/LCM, LLC (MNGT)
- Administrator
- LIZ NAJERA
- Contact
- LIZ NAJERA
- License first date
- May 30, 2012
- License effective date
- May 30, 2012
- District office
- SAN DIEGO RO · (619) 767-2300
- Regional office
- 08
- Clients served
- 983 - RCFE / DEMENTIA
Summary
The available records show 1 Type B deficiency for this facility.
- Most recent inspection
- Apr 13, 2026
- Most recent deficiency
- Feb 24, 2026
1 later report, on Apr 13, 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 13 reports for this facility: 8 inspections, 5 complaint investigations, and 0 licensing or administrative records.
Those records contain 0 Type A and 1 Type B deficiencies.
0 deficiencies have explicit official correction or clearance evidence in the loaded records.
- Official inspections
- 8
- Recorded deficiencies
- 1
- Type A deficiencies
- 0
- Type B deficiencies
- 1
- Substantiated complaints
- 0
- Repeated topics
- 0
Fewer than the typical 9
2 in the last 12 months
Fewer than the typical 3
1 in the last 12 months
Most this size also have none
0 in the last 12 months
Fewer than the typical 3
1 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.
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.
Medical and dental careType B
- Official classification
- Type B
- Official code
- 87465(i)(4)
- Regulation authority
- CCR
What the official deficiency says
Incidental Medical and Dental Care (i)Prescription medications which...are otherwise to be disposed of shall be destroyed...a record [is] to be retained...which lists the following: (4)The date of destruction. This requirement was not met as evidenced by: Based on records reviewed and staff interviews, the medication destruction record was not complete.This posed a potential health and safty risk to residents in care.
Official plan of correction
Administrator reported that staff will be retrained on medication destruction and will submit proof of training to LPA by POC due date.
Deadline recorded: Mar 17, 2026. A deadline is not proof that correction was completed.
3 complaints have no published investigation report
The official record holds these complaints, but no investigation report was published for them. Their outcome is shown as the source recorded it.
- Aug 24, 2026 · Control 08-AS-20220722111442
Allegations0 substantiated · 4 unsubstantiated · 0 unfounded
- Feb 23, 2023 · Control 08-AS-20230216162308
Allegations0 substantiated · 0 unsubstantiated · 1 unfounded
- Jul 30, 2022 · Control 08-AS-20210113080441
Allegations0 substantiated · 2 unsubstantiated · 0 unfounded
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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