Casa Coloma Health Care Center: Safety Hazards - CA
The violation was classified as causing minimal harm or potential for actual harm, and inspectors noted that some residents were affected.
Inspectors reviewed the facility's own maintenance policy, last updated in December 2009, which stated that maintenance services would be provided to all areas of the building, grounds, and equipment, and that the department was responsible for keeping everything in a safe and operable condition at all times. The facility's written commitments, inspectors found, were not being met in practice.
The inspection report described a system that was supposed to identify safety risks and environmental hazards through employee training, monitoring, and reporting, and then target interventions to reduce individual risks, including adequate supervision and appropriate safety devices. Whether any of those steps were actually happening as described was a different matter.
The inspection record does not detail the specific hazards inspectors observed, or which residents were exposed to them, or for how long. What it does say is that the gap between what the facility's own policy promised and what inspectors found was wide enough to warrant a federal citation.
Casa Coloma has not updated its maintenance policy since 2009. Seventeen years is a long time for a document governing the physical safety of a building full of elderly and disabled residents to sit unchanged, and it did not appear to reflect what was actually happening on the grounds when inspectors arrived.
For the residents living inside those walls, the question of whether the building around them is safe is not abstract.
Full Inspection Report
The details above represent a summary of key findings. View the complete inspection report for Casa Coloma Health Care Center from 2026-04-24 including all violations, facility responses, and corrective action plans.
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Data source: This article is based on inspection data downloaded directly from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) via Medicare.gov. CMS releases inspection reports in bulk; we publish the findings as documented by state surveyors in the official Form CMS-2567 Statement of Deficiencies.
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Casa Coloma Health Care Center in Rancho Cordova, CA was cited for violations during a health inspection on April 24, 2026.
The violation was classified as causing minimal harm or potential for actual harm, and inspectors noted that some residents were affected.
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.