Kauhale Heritage Woods Specialty Care Assisted Living

License status

Regular

Last survey posted

October 23, 2025

Surveys posted

2

Deficiencies cited

8

Substantiated complaints

1

Surveys

• October 23, 2025: 3 deficiencies cited report plan of correction
  The deficient practices require a plan of correction.
  • Food Service: Food Handling Procedures. ADPH found: “The facility failed to ensure food items were stored in a manner to protect from potential contamination.” 420-5-20-.07(2)
  • Physical Facilities: Food Service Facilities. ADPH found: “The facility failed to ensure the ice machine was maintained to be free of a mold-like substance.” 420-5-20-.08(4)
  • Physical Environment: General Building Requirements - Group and Congregate. ADPH found: “The facility was not maintained in good repair, to provide a safe, functional, sanitary, decent and comfortable environment for residents, staff and visitors.” 420-5-20-.12(5)
• August 11, 2022 (Licensure/Complaint): 5 deficiencies cited, 1 complaint substantiated report plan of correction
  The deficient practices resulted in the potential for harm to all residents and require a plan of correction.
  • Administration. ADPH found: “The facility's policy and procedure for abuse was incomplete.” This deficient practice placed all 16 residents at risk for significant harm. 420-5-20-.03(e)
  • Personnel: Training. ADPH found: “The facility employees failed to demonstrate adequate training for abuse reporting and following the abuse policy and procedures.” 420-5-20-.04(9)
  • Records and Reports: Residents' Rights. ADPH found: “The facility failed to provide a safe environment from fire and disease for all 16 residents living in the facility.” This deficient practice placed all 16 residents at risk for significant harm. 420-5-20-.05(3)(d)
  • Care of Residents: Resident Abuse, Neglect, and Exploitation. ADPH found: “The facility failed to develop a thorough abuse policy, failed to implement the abuse policy, and facility employees failed to follow the abuse policy.” This deficient practice resulted in mental harm for at least one resident (RI#5) as evidenced by the resident isolating himself/herself in his/her room and placed the remaining 15 residents at risk for significant harm. 420-5-20-.06(3)(k)
  • Physical Environment: General Building Requirements - Group and Congregate. ADPH found: “The facility failed to ensure that a designated emergency EXIT was accessible from unhindered egress at all times.” This deficient practice placed all 16 residents at risk for significant harm. 420-5-20-.12(5)

ADPH also lists 5 earlier surveys, back to 2008.

Search ADPH’s deficiency reports for license P4911 →

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 23 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.