Dauphin Way Assisted Living

License status

Regular

Last survey posted

March 13, 2025

Surveys posted

1

Deficiencies cited

21

Substantiated complaints

1

Surveys

• March 13, 2025 (Licensure/Complaint): 21 deficiencies cited, 1 complaint substantiated, 1 complaint unsubstantiated report plan of correction
  The deficiencies cited placed all 28 residents of the facility at significant risk of harm.
  • Administration: Policies. ADPH found: “The facility failed to follow its own policies and procedures for management and operation of the facility.” 420-5-4-.03(1)(e)
  • Administration: Responsibility. ADPH found: “Employee Identifier (EI)#1, the administrator, failed to adequately perform her (EI#1's) duties to ensure the proper and safe management of the day to day operations of the facility.” 420-5-4-.03(2)(a)
  • Personnel: Employee Screening. ADPH found: “The facility failed to screen potential employees prior to hire and resident contact.” 420-5-4-.04(3)
  • Personnel: Personnel Records. ADPH found: “The facility failed to maintain complete personnel records.” 420-5-4-.04(4)
  • Personnel: Training. ADPH found: “Facility staff did not complete required training.” 420-5-4-.04(6)
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  • Records and Reports: Residents' Rights. ADPH found: “The facility failed to provide a safe environment for residents at all times.” 420-5-4-.05(3)(d)
  • Records and Reports: Admission Record. ADPH found: “The facility failed to document a plan to transfer for each resident to an appropriate setting in case of emergency or if/when the facility became unable to meet the resident's needs.” 420-5-4-.05(3)(g)
  • Care of Residents: Initial Physical Examination. ADPH found: “The facility failed to obtain an annual physician's examination for a resident.” 420-5-4-.06(2)(a)(b)(c)
  • Care of Residents: Initial Assessment. ADPH found: “The facility failed to ensure all monthly assessments included assessment of a residents' ability to self-administer medications with assistance.” 420-5-4-.06(3)(a)(b)
  • Care of Residents: Services Beyond Capability of Assisted Living Facility. ADPH found: “The facility retained a resident who required care and safety needs which exceeded the license of the facility.” 420-5-4-.06(3)(d)
  • Care of Residents: Personal Care and Services. ADPH found: “The facility failed to develop a current care plan for a resident which should contain interventions to meet the care and safety needs of the residents.” 420-5-4-.06(4)(a)(b)
  • Care of Residents: Medications. ADPH found: “The facility failed to identify a resident who did not demonstrate understanding of the facility's unit dose medication system.” 420-5-4-.06(5)(a)(b)(c)(d)(e)
  • Care of Residents. ADPH found: “The facility failed to ensure medications maintained in the custody of two (2) residents were kept in a locked box or in a locked room.” 420-5-4-.06(7)(k)(l)(m)(n)(o)
  • Care of Residents: Admission. ADPH found: “The facility admitted a resident who did not meet admission criteria for an assisted living facility.” 420-5-4-.06(11)(a)
  • Care of Residents: Retention. ADPH found: “Access to and exit from the facility was prohibited without an access code, denying egress of residents.” 420-5-4-.06(11)(b)
  • Food Service: Dietary Service. ADPH found: “The facility failed to post meal times and the current weekly menu in the food service area.” 420-5-4-.07(3)
  • Physical Facilities: Physical Facilities (Drugs and Medicines). ADPH found: “The facility failed to ensure the medication room remained locked when not in use.” 420-5-4-.08(2)
  • Sanitation and Housekeeping: Sanitation. ADPH found: “The facility failed to ensure water temperatures did not exceed 110 degrees in resident rooms.” 420-5-4-.10(1)
  • Sanitation and Housekeeping: Housekeeping and Physical Plant Maintenance. ADPH found: “The facility failed to ensure that chemicals were secured or supervised at all times and that flammable chemicals were properly stored.” 420-5-4-.10(2)
  • Fire and Safety: General. ADPH found: “Fire drills were not conducted monthly and quarterly on each shift.” 420-5-4-.11(1)
  • Physical Environment: General Building Requirements - Family, Group, and Congregate. ADPH found: “The facility failed to ensure that EXIT lights functioned properly at all times.” 420-5-4-.12(5)

ADPH also lists 4 earlier surveys, back to 2015.

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ADPH posts each survey’s Statement of Deficiencies as a PDF (older ones are scans, which we read by OCR). From each report we show the deficiency tags, the rules they cite, ADPH’s own one-sentence finding and the complaint outcomes ADPH states; each cited rule is named in the rule’s own words (Alabama Administrative Code, chapter 420-5-4 for assisted living and 420-5-20 for specialty care assisted living). The report, and the facility’s plan of correction when ADPH posts it, are the official record. Some reports list a complaint as substantiated with no deficiency cited; we show both as ADPH wrote them. This community is licensed for 40 residents; larger communities are inspected and reported on more often, so read counts with size in mind. Source: Alabama Department of Public Health, Bureau of Health Provider Standards, data as of October 15, 2026, showing surveys from the last five years. Always visit in person and ask the community about anything listed here.