Inspection
No deficiencies recorded in this report
ALDER HOUSE
295 ALDER STREET, Arroyo Grande CA 93420
32 bedsLatest official report May 7, 2026Licensed
Additional info
- Telephone
- (805) 489-1266
- Licensee
- ALDER HOUSE INC.
- Administrator
- TODD TOSE
- Contact
- TODD TOSE
- License first date
- Jul 7, 2005
- License effective date
- Jul 7, 2005
- District office
- WOODLAND HILLS N.ASC · (818) 596-4334
- Regional office
- 29
- Clients served
- 985 - RCFE / HOSPICE
Summary
The available records show 1 Type A and 1 Type B deficiencies for this facility.
- Most recent inspection
- May 7, 2026
- Most recent deficiency
- Sep 9, 2022
5 later reports, from Jun 14, 2023 through May 7, 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 7 San Luis Obispo County facilities licensed for 16 to 49 beds, except where too few exist to state one — those come from facilities with 7 or more 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 1 Type B deficiencies.
0 deficiencies have explicit official correction or clearance evidence in the loaded records.
- Official inspections
- 5
- Recorded deficiencies
- 2
- Type A deficiencies
- 1
- Type B deficiencies
- 1
- Substantiated complaints
- 1
- Repeated topics
- 0
About the same as most this size
1 in the last 12 months
About the same as most this size
0 in the last 12 months
About the same as most this size
0 in the last 12 months
Most this size have none
0 in the last 12 months
Most this size have none
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.
Inspection
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
Complaint
Allegations2 substantiated · 0 unsubstantiated · 0 unfounded · 2 cited
Medical and dental careType A
- Official classification
- Type A
- Official code
- 87465(a)(5)(D)
- Regulation authority
- CCR
What the official deficiency says
(a)...(5)...(D)Assistance with self-administration does not include ...camouflaging...resident's right to refuse to take a medication. This requirement was not met as evidenced by: Based on interviews and records the Licensee did not comply with the regulation above R8 camouflaged R1’s medication in water without a doctors order and did not record it on the MAR which poses a potential health, safety and personal rights risk to residents in care.
Official plan of correction
Administrator agreed to re-train all staff in regulation 87465 and all medication staff be re-trained in Medication procedures and provide proof of training with all staff signatures and an up to date LIC 500.
Deadline recorded: Sep 12, 2022. A deadline is not proof that correction was completed.
Plan of correction recorded
Correction deadline recordedDeadline Sep 12, 2022
Correction not verified in available records
Resident rightsType B
- Official classification
- Type B
- Official code
- 87468.1(a)(1)
- Regulation authority
- CCR
What the official deficiency says
(a)...the following personal rights(1)To be accorded dignity in their personal relationships with staff, residents, and other persons. This requirement was not met as evidenced by: Based on interview the Licensee did not comply with the regulation above, S8 did not respect R1’s medication refusal, R1 wiped medication out of R1’s mouth after being forced to take it which poses an immediate Personal Rights risk to residents in care.
Official plan of correction
Administrator agreed to re-train all staff in regulation 87468, 87468.1 and 87468.2 and provide proof of training with staff signatures and an up to date LIC 500.
Deadline recorded: Sep 16, 2022. A deadline is not proof that correction was completed.
Plan of correction recorded
Correction deadline recordedDeadline Sep 16, 2022
Correction not verified in available records
Inspection
No deficiencies recorded in this report
Complaint
Allegations0 substantiated · 5 unsubstantiated · 0 unfounded
No deficiencies recorded in this reportSource 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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