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One resident, identified in the report as R4, told inspectors the evening before the inspection closed: "They have used paper towels to clean me.

A nurse eased him toward the floor as he fell.

The woman, identified in inspection records only as R1, is dependent on supplemental oxygen, has a tracheostomy, and cannot speak.

Federal inspectors found the tracking failures created immediate jeopardy to resident safety, the most serious violation level possible.

The aide was eventually arrested.

The complaint inspection, triggered by the fall, found that staff did not follow through on the facility's own written procedures.

Inspectors from the California Department of Public Health arrived at the facility on January 30, 2026, following a complaint.

The immediate jeopardy designation, the most serious level of harm federal inspectors can assign, meant residents were at risk of serious injury or death.

Inspectors walked the facility's 100 Hall on the morning of January 31 and found the same problem in three separate rooms within twenty-five minutes.

That resident, identified in inspection records as R151, told inspectors on January 29 that they needed the catheter adjusted.

Hypothermia is not a minor discomfort.

She was not alone in what she was describing.