SARAH'S RETIREMENT HOME FOR DD SENIORS

791 MCCONNELL AVENUE, Santa Rosa CA 95404

Facility 496803001 · RESIDENTIAL CARE ELDERLY (740)

6 bedsLatest official report Jan 23, 2026Licensed

Additional info
Licensee
LAWRENCE, SARAH
Administrator
ARAYA, SARAH
Contact
ARAYA, SARAH
License first date
Jan 24, 2008
License effective date
Jan 24, 2008
District office
SANTA ROSA RO · (707) 588-5026
Regional office
21
Clients served
935 - ELDERLY

Summary

The available records show 3 Type B deficiencies for this facility.

Most recent inspection
Jan 23, 2026
Most recent deficiency
Jan 23, 2026

No later report is available, so the records do not show what happened afterward.

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 111 Sonoma County facilities licensed for 6 or fewer beds.

In the available public five-year record, CCLD published 6 reports for this facility: 5 inspections, 1 complaint investigation, and 0 licensing or administrative records.

Those records contain 0 Type A and 3 Type B deficiencies.

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

Official inspections
5

About the same as most this size

1 in the last 12 months

Recorded deficiencies
3

Fewer than the typical 4

2 in the last 12 months

Type A deficiencies
0

Fewer than the typical 1

0 in the last 12 months

Type B deficiencies
3

More than the typical 2

2 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
Staffing, personnel, and trainingType B
Official classification
Type B
Official code
87411(f)
Regulation authority
CCR

What the official deficiency says

(f) All personnel, including the licensee and administrator, shall be in good health, and physically and mentally capable of performing assigned tasks. Good physical health shall be verified by a health screening, including a chest x-ray or an intradermal test, performed by a physician not more than six (6) months prior to or seven (7) days after employment or licensure. A report shall be made of each screening, signed by the examining physician. The report shall indicate whether the person is physically qualified to perform the duties to be assigned, and whether he/she has any health condition that would create a hazard to him/herself, other staff members or residents. A signed statement shall be obtained from each volunteer affirming that he/she is in good health.Personnel with evidence of physical illness or emotional instability that poses a significant threat to the well-being of residents shall be relieved of their duties. This requirement is not met as evidenced by: Deficient Practice Statement Based on observation & record review, the licensee did not comply with the section cited above in that one (1) of four (4) staff files (for staff member S1) was observed not to have a required LIC 503 Health Screening and proof of a negative Tuberculosis test which poses a potential health, safety or personal rights risk to persons in care.

Official plan of correction

POC Due Date: 02/20/2026 Plan of Correction Licensee or Administrator to submit an LIC 503 Heath Screening and proof of a negative Tuberculosis test for staff member S1 to Community Care Licensing by POC due date of 2/20/2026.

Plan of correction recorded
Correction not verified in available records
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Staffing, personnel, and trainingType B
Official classification
Type B
Official code
1569.625(b)(2)
Regulation authority
HSC

What the official deficiency says

(2) In addition to paragraph (1), training requirements shall also include an additional 20 hours annually, eight hours of which shall be dementia care training, as required by subdivision (a) of Section 1569.626, and four hours of which shall be specific to postural supports, restricted health conditions, and hospice care, as required by subdivision (a) of Section 1569.696. This training shall be administered on the job, or in a classroom setting, or both, and may include online training. This requirement is not met as evidenced by: Deficient Practice Statement Based on observation & record review, the licensee did not comply with the section cited above in that one (1) of four (4) staff files (for staff member S2) was observed not to have proof of required annual training. which poses a potential health, safety or personal rights risk to persons in care.

Official plan of correction

POC Due Date: 02/13/2026 Plan of Correction Licensee or Administrator to submit proof that staff member S2 has begun their annual training to Community Care Licensing by POC due date of 2/13/2026.

Plan of correction recorded
Correction not verified in available records
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Inspection
Facility condition and maintenanceType B
Official classification
Type B
Official code
87303(a)
Regulation authority
CCR

What the official deficiency says

87307(a) Personal Accommodations and Services- Living accommodations and grounds shall be related to the facility's function. The facility shall be large enough to provide comfortable living accommodations and privacy for the residents, staff, and others who may reside in the facility. This requirement is not met as evidenced by: Deficient Practice Statement LPA observed a made-up rollaway bed stored in an open storage room in the facility’s common area. S1 told the LPA that the bed was staffs. The staff that come in and work nights use the bed, it is brought out into the common area. LPA discussed regulation regarding facility bedrooms, common areas, and awake night staff versus sleeping night staff, the licensee did not comply with the section cited above which poses/posed a personal rights risk to persons in care.

Official plan of correction

POC Due Date: 01/31/2025 Plan of Correction Licensee to ensure that no staff are sleeping in the common areas of the facility; Submit how the facility will ensure awake night staff are not sleeping in common areas and/or using rollaway beds and furnishings to sleep in common areas. Submit plan of awake night staff schedule, copy of schedule, and staff duties while on night/noc shift at the facility. POC due 1/31/25.

Plan of correction recorded
Correction not verified in available records
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Complaint

Allegations0 substantiated · 1 unsubstantiated · 1 unfounded

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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