Inspection
No deficiencies recorded in this report
MERRILL GARDENS AT SANTA MARIA
1220 SUEY ROAD, Santa Maria CA 93454
330 bedsLatest official report Sep 17, 2025Licensed
Additional info
- Telephone
- (805) 928-2662
- Licensee
- MG AT SANTA MARIA, LP ; SHI-IV MERRILL GP, LLC ; M
- Administrator
- MICHAEL EASBEY
- Contact
- MICHAEL EASBEY
- License first date
- Sep 10, 2021
- License effective date
- Sep 10, 2021
- District office
- WOODLAND HILLS N.ASC · (818) 596-4334
- Regional office
- 29
- Clients served
- 935 - ELDERLY
Summary
The available records show 1 Type A and 1 Type B deficiencies for this facility.
- Most recent inspection
- Sep 17, 2025
- Most recent deficiency
- Nov 13, 2023
6 later reports, from Jan 25, 2024 through Sep 17, 2025, 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 11 Santa Barbara County facilities licensed for 50 or more 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 14 reports for this facility: 8 inspections, 5 complaint investigations, and 1 licensing or administrative record.
Those records contain 1 Type A and 1 Type B deficiencies.
1 deficiencies have explicit official correction or clearance evidence in the loaded records.
- Official inspections
- 8
- Recorded deficiencies
- 2
- Type A deficiencies
- 1
- Type B deficiencies
- 1
- Substantiated complaints
- 3
- Repeated topics
- 0
More than the typical 7
1 in the last 12 months
Fewer than the typical 3
0 in the last 12 months
Fewer than the typical 3
0 in the last 12 months
Fewer than the typical 2
0 in the last 12 months
About the same as most this size
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.
Complaint
Allegations0 substantiated · 1 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
Complaint
Allegations1 substantiated · 0 unsubstantiated · 0 unfounded
No deficiencies recorded in this reportInspection
Resident rightsType A
- Official classification
- Type A
- Official code
- 87468.2(a)(4)
- Regulation authority
- CCR
What the official deficiency says
87468.2 Additional Personal Rights of Residents in Privately Operated Facilities (a) ,,,(4) To care, supervision, and services that meet their individual needs and are delivered by staff that are sufficient in numbers, qualifications, and competency to meet their needs. This requirement was not met as evidenced by: Based on record review and interview, the licensee did not comply with the section cited above when staff did not ensure R1’s safety when they wandered away from the facility which resulted in a fall and brain bleed, which posed an immediate health and safety risk to
Official plan of correction
Garden House Director conducted training to all Garden House staff and provided documentation to LPA. POC was cleared durring the visit resident in care.
Deadline recorded: Nov 13, 2023. A deadline is not proof that correction was completed.
Official record says corrected or clearedOn or before Nov 13, 2023
Correction deadline recordedDeadline Nov 13, 2023
Inspection
No deficiencies recorded in this report
Inspection
No deficiencies recorded in this report
Inspection
No deficiencies recorded in this report
Complaint
Allegations1 substantiated · 2 unsubstantiated · 0 unfounded
No deficiencies recorded in this reportInspection
No deficiencies recorded in this report
Complaint
Allegations1 substantiated · 0 unsubstantiated · 0 unfounded · 1 cited
Resident rightsType B
- Official classification
- Type B
- Official code
- 87468.1
- Regulation authority
- CCR
What the official deficiency says
87468.1 Personal Rights of Residents in All Facilities ...To be accorded safe, healthful and comfortable accommodations, furnishings and equipment. This requirement was not met as evidenced by: Based on LPA observation and interviews, the licensee did not ensure a safe environment for residents while renovating, which poses a potential health, safety and personal rights risk to residents in care.
Official plan of correction
Administrator submitted a plan to CCL on 04/27/2022 stating how they will attempt to mitigate the paint fumes going forward with the renovations. The Plan of Correction was cleared during the visit.
Deadline recorded: May 12, 2022. A deadline is not proof that correction was completed.
Plan of correction recorded
Correction deadline recordedDeadline May 12, 2022
Correction not verified in available records
Licensing recordNot an inspection of the operating facility
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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