Novato Healthcare Center: Food Safety Violations - CA
Inspectors found problems serious enough to flag as widespread, meaning the failures weren't isolated to one unit or one meal service....
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Inspectors found problems serious enough to flag as widespread, meaning the failures weren't isolated to one unit or one meal service....
Federal inspectors rated the violation as causing actual harm....
The resident had recently had surgery....
A written report is then required within five days....
Federal inspectors cited Clayton Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center, located at 204 Dairy Road, following a complaint inspection completed October 30, 2025....
The Infection Preventionist, the Director of Nursing, and the Medical Director were all absent....
The resident, identified in inspection records only as Resident 1, was admitted to the facility with a surgical wound to the abdomen....
And two entries were logged for dates after he had already been hospitalized and never came back....
It covers what abuse, neglect, and exploitation look like, and what a staff member is legally obligated to do when they see it....
The activity deficiency, documented on November 13, 2025, falls under what regulators classify as a quality of life violation....
What Resident 1 told her was this: a newly hired nursing assistant, identified in inspection records as CNA 2, had told her she had nice breasts....
Nobody flagged the weight loss at morning meetings....
The fall had happened nearly four months earlier, on July 28, 2025....
The fall happened on October 2, 2025....
The medication error citation, issued under a federal pharmacy services standard, was recorded on November 13, 2025....
That finding sits at the center of a federal complaint inspection completed October 30, 2025, at the Farmington Hills facility....
Inspectors found a few residents were affected....
The facility's own abuse prevention policy required both....
The November 6 complaint inspection produced a citation under federal care standards requiring nursing homes to provide basic personal hygiene....
Inspectors completed their investigation on November 18, 2025, and cited the facility under a deficiency category reserved for pharmacy service failures....