Woodland Care Center: Missing Bracelet After Death - CA
That finding sits at the center of a federal inspection completed April 11, 2025, at Woodland Care Center, a nursing facility at 7120 Corbin Avenue in Reseda.
The violation involves a single resident. But what it describes is a failure that landed on a family at the worst possible moment, in the days or weeks after losing someone, when the last physical connection to that person, something worn on the wrist, was supposed to come back to them and didn't.
The facility's own Social Services Director, interviewed by inspectors during a concurrent record review, confirmed what the paperwork showed. The Inventory of Personal Effects, signed by a facility representative at the time of Resident 141's admission, listed the silver bracelet. The Social Services Director verified that there was no documentation showing the bracelet had ever been turned over to the facility for safekeeping after admission. No record of a handoff. No record of its location. The bracelet was simply gone, and the facility had no explanation for where it went.
"The facility has not been able to locate the bracelet," the Social Services Director told inspectors.
The Social Services Director did not deflect from what that means. Personal belongings of a deceased resident, the director said, may hold sentimental value for the resident's representative. Their loss can cause emotional distress. The director acknowledged it was the resident's right to have personal belongings safeguarded and protected from loss or misappropriation, and that it was important the bracelet be accounted for and returned to the resident's representative following the death.
That acknowledgment, offered plainly and without apparent dispute, makes the gap harder to explain. The facility knew what it was supposed to do. The Social Services Director described the standard process clearly: all personal belongings are inventoried and documented in the IPE form, and when a resident dies, those belongings are released to the family. The process existed. The documentation of the bracelet existed. The bracelet did not make it back.
Resident 141 was admitted for palliative care and end-stage renal disease, a condition in which the kidneys have lost the ability to remove waste and balance fluids in the body. The hospice certification, reviewed by inspectors, confirmed the primary diagnosis and the prognosis. The discharge summary confirmed the resident died in the facility.
What happened to the bracelet in the time between admission and death, and in the time between death and the inspection, the report does not say. The facility's policy on the release of personal belongings, last reviewed by the facility on a date redacted in the report, states that the facility protects the personal belongings of residents who have been transferred or discharged, and that those belongings will be released to the resident or authorized representative. The policy covered the situation. The policy did not prevent it.
Inspectors rated the deficiency at a level of minimal harm or potential for actual harm, a designation that reflects where this violation sits in the federal classification system. It is not an immediate jeopardy finding. It did not involve a medication error or a fall or a wound left untreated. The harm here is the kind that doesn't show up on a clinical chart, the kind that a family carries home after the funeral, when they realize the bracelet their person was wearing when they arrived at that building is not coming back to them and no one can say why.
The Social Services Director said it directly: the loss can cause emotional distress.
The facility's identification number is 056066. The inspection was conducted by the California Department of Public Health on behalf of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. The report was printed August 8, 2026.
Woodland Care Center's policy required that belongings be returned. The Social Services Director confirmed the obligation. The bracelet was on the list on the day Resident 141 arrived, and it was not on any list when Resident 141 left.
Nobody has it.
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WOODLAND CARE CENTER in RESEDA, CA was cited for violations during a health inspection on April 11, 2025.
That finding sits at the center of a federal inspection completed April 11, 2025, at Woodland Care Center, a nursing facility at 7120 Corbin Avenue in Reseda.
Health inspections identify deficiencies that facilities must correct. Violations range from minor documentation issues to serious safety concerns. Review the full report below for specific details and facility response.