Riverchase Senior Living SCALF

License status

Regular

Last survey posted

October 28, 2025

Surveys posted

3

Deficiencies cited

20

Substantiated complaints

0

Surveys

• October 28, 2025 (Licensure/Complaint): 13 deficiencies cited, 1 complaint unsubstantiated report plan of correction
  The deficient practices resulted in the potential for harm to all residents and require a plan of correction.
  • Records and Reports: Resident Records. ADPH found: “The facility failed to maintain resident documentation of inventory of personal effects and acknowledgement of Resident's Rights.” 420-5-20-.05(3)(a)(b)(c)
  • Records and Reports: Admission Record. ADPH found: “The facility failed to have a written plan to transfer a resident to an appropriate setting in the event the facility became unable to meet the residents needs.” 420-5-20-.05(3)(g)
  • Care of Residents: Initial Physical Examination. ADPH found: “The facility failed to obtain baseline vital signs prior to admission.” 420-5-20-.06(2)(a)(b)(c)
  • Care of Residents: Initial Assessment. ADPH found: “The facility failed to perform assessments of residents as required.” 420-5-20-.06(3)(a)(b)(c)(d)(e)
  • Care of Residents: Personal Care and Services. ADPH found: “The facility Registered Nurse (RN) failed to maintain updated care plans for residents which addressed the residents' current care issues with appropriate interventions to meet the care needs of the residents.” 420-5-20-.06(4)(a)(b)
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  • Care of Residents: Medications. ADPH found: “The facility failed to maintain a proper system to account for all controlled substances in its possession.” 420-5-20-.06(5)(i)(j)(k)(l)(m)
  • Care of Residents: Disposal of Medications. ADPH found: “The facility failed to properly document disposition of a resident's medications upon discharge of the resident from the facility.” 420-5-20-.06(6)
  • Care of Residents: Storage of Medical Supplies. ADPH found: “The facility failed to annually inspect first aid supplies to ensure usability.” 420-5-20-.06(8)
  • Food Service: Dietary Service. ADPH found: “The facility meal time schedule did not meet the requirements for a SCALF.” 420-5-20-.07(3)
  • Fire and Safety: General. ADPH found: “The facility failed to document fire drills and have fire safety systems inspected as required.” 420-5-20-.11(1)
  • Physical Environment: General Building Requirements - Group and Congregate. ADPH found: “The facility failed to to keep walls clean and in good repair in the laundry room.” 420-5-20-.12(5)
  • Physical Environment. ADPH found: “The facility failed to have proper working smoke barrier doors.” 420-5-20-.12(7)
  • Physical Environment: Additional Requirements for Specialty Care Assisted Living Facilities. ADPH found: “An outside gate was not readily unlockable from either side by staff or by automatic means.” 420-5-20-.12(8)
• September 25, 2025 (Licensure): 1 deficiency cited report plan of correction
  The deficient practice resulted in the potential for harm to all residents and requires a plan of correction.
  • Records and Reports: Residents' Rights. ADPH found: “The facility failed to provide a safe and decent environment for residents at all times.” 420-5-20-.05(3)(d)
• June 2, 2022 (Licensure/Complaint): 6 deficiencies cited, 1 complaint unsubstantiated report plan of correction
  The deficient practices resulted in the potential for harm to all residents and requires a plan of correction.
  • Personnel: Personnel Records. ADPH found: “The facility failed to maintain complete personnel records.” 420-5-20-.04(4)
  • Personnel: Training. ADPH found: “The facility failed to ensure all employees had cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) training within 90 days of hire.” 420-5-20-.04(9)
  • Records and Reports: Incident Investigation. ADPH found: “The facility failed to report an outbreak of a contagious disease to the Department's Online Incident Reporting System (OIRS) within 24 hours of the diagnosis (Code 420-4-1-.04).” 420-5-20-.05(3)(h)
  • Care of Residents: Initial Physical Examination. ADPH found: “The facility failed to obtain a statement from the physician a resident was free of signs/symptoms of infectious skin lesions and diseases that are capable of transmission to other residents.” 420-5-20-.06(2)(a)(b)(c)
  • Care of Residents: Activity Program. ADPH found: “The facility failed to design an activity program to meet the individual needs of each resident.” 420-5-20-.06(4)(c)(d)(e)(f)
  • Care of Residents: Disposal of Medications. ADPH found: “The facility failed to obtain a witness signature when medications were destroyed on site by an employee.” 420-5-20-.06(6)

ADPH also lists 2 earlier surveys, back to 2017.

Search ADPH’s deficiency reports for license P3725 →

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 24 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.