Brighton Place San Diego: Maintenance Failures Found - CA
When an inspector observed the bathroom sink on May 27, 2026, standing water sat in the basin, no stopper in place. The Director of Maintenance, who inspectors interviewed that afternoon, said residents sometimes wash things in the sink they should not, and that causes the clogs. He also said, without apparent irony, that clogged sinks are a safety hazard and are not homelike.
The sink had not been fixed.
At 4 p.m. the same day, inspectors walked into another resident room and listened to the bathroom exhaust fan. The Director of Maintenance was with them. He said he had not been aware of the noise the fan was making. He agreed, when he heard it, that it was loud. No one had reported it to him, he said, so he did not know.
He also said he conducted monthly rounds on all the rooms. He had not found the fan.
When asked about his rounding process, the Director of Maintenance described what he checks each month: beds, water temperature, room temperature, wheelchairs, doors, call lights, resident lifts, exhaust fans, and the fire system. Exhaust fans were on the list. The loud, malfunctioning fan in that bathroom had not registered during any of those visits.
He said the noise was not homelike and that the fan needed to be repaired.
Five minutes later, inspectors moved through rooms 130, 131, and 132. The walls in each room were in disrepair, with holes visible throughout. The Director of Maintenance said the facility was in the middle of renovations and that the large holes were the priority. He said he rounded on the rooms monthly but had not been aware of the extent of the damage on each wall.
He explained that during his rounds, he focused on safety items and did not specifically round on wall conditions, only flagging large penetrations. He did not document rounding on walls at all.
He said the importance of fixing the holes was twofold: resident safety, and keeping pests out of the building.
The holes remained.
At 4:15 p.m., inspectors spoke with the administrator, identified in the report as the ADM. The administrator said the expectation was that all repairs should be completed in a timely manner, and that residents should have a homelike environment to support their psychosocial well-being.
The facility's own environment policy, dated January 1, 2012, states that staff will provide residents with a safe, clean, comfortable, and homelike atmosphere, with close attention to cleanliness and order.
What the inspection found was a sink that had been looked at and left clogged, a fan loud enough that a maintenance director standing next to it agreed immediately it was a problem, and walls across three rooms with holes that monthly rounds had not turned up in any documented way. The Director of Maintenance conducted those rounds. He built his own checklist. Walls were not on it.
The complaint inspection covered a small number of residents. The harm level was recorded as minimal, or potential for actual harm. No resident was documented as having been injured by the standing water, the fan noise, or the wall damage.
But the resident in the room with the clogged sink still had standing water in their bathroom. The resident in the room with the loud fan still had the loud fan. The residents in rooms 130, 131, and 132 still had the holes in their walls, in a building where the maintenance director had told inspectors himself that unpatched holes are how pests get in.
The administrator said repairs should happen in a timely manner. The inspection was conducted May 27, 2026. The report does not say when any of it was fixed.
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BRIGHTON PLACE SAN DIEGO in SAN DIEGO, CA was cited for violations during a health inspection on May 27, 2026.
When an inspector observed the bathroom sink on May 27, 2026, standing water sat in the basin, no stopper in place.
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.