Facility Evaluation Report

An informal meeting was conducted today in the Santa Rosa Regional Office. Present at the meeting were Licensing Program Manager Victoria Bertozzi, Licensing Program Analyst Christi Coppo, and licensees of the facility, German Sinitsyn and Aida Reznik.

The purpose of the office meeting was to address the use of gait belts in the facility. On 10/15/25, LPA Coppo conducted the facility's annual inspection and observed three residents in wheelchairs with gait belts being used as a restraint. The belts were fastened and threaded such that the residents could not release themselves from the restraint.

Areas discussed and addressed with licensees during this office meeting were:

the proper use of gait belts: regulation 87608(a)(4)

personal rights of residents and staffing ratios: regulation 87468.2(a)(4)

the use of activities as redirection for residents' wandering or sundowning behavior

Exit interview conducted and a copy of this report was given.