Inspection Reports for The Cottages of Tucson
619 W Chula Vista Rd, Tucson, AZ 85704, AZ, 85704
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Inspection Report
Enforcement
Deficiencies: 0
Sep 25, 2025
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State-compiled enforcement action report for COTTAGES OF TUCSON detailing enforcement action #00135604 with payment and completion status.
Findings
The report documents an enforcement action completed with a penalty payment of $1,500.00 and no outstanding balance.
Report Facts
Total fines: 1500
Inspection Report
Complaint Investigation
Capacity: 80
Deficiencies: 11
May 22, 2025
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State-compiled facility profile showing 4 inspections from 2023-07 to 2025-05 with deficiency history including complaint and annual compliance inspections.
Findings
Across all inspections, multiple deficiencies were found including failures in personnel record documentation, quality management reporting, medication administration, emergency notification, and service plan completeness. One complaint investigation in 2025 identified seven deficiencies, while the 2024 annual compliance inspection found four deficiencies. Two inspections in 2023 found no deficiencies.
Complaint Details
Complaint investigation 00131293 conducted on May 22, 2025 found seven deficiencies related to administration, quality management, personnel verification, CPR documentation, exit alert system, medication administration, and emergency notification.
Deficiencies (11)
| Description |
|---|
| R9-10-803.A.9. Administration: Governing authority failed to ensure documented good faith efforts to contact previous employers relevant to fitness to work in a residential care institution. |
| R9-10-804.2.a-b. Quality Management: Manager failed to ensure a documented report identifying concerns about delivery of services and actions taken was submitted to the governing authority. |
| R9-10-806.A.4.a-b. Personnel: Manager failed to ensure caregiver skills and knowledge were verified and documented before providing physical or behavioral health services for two caregivers. |
| R9-10-806.C.1.a-c. Personnel: Manager failed to ensure personnel record included documentation of CPR training for one caregiver. |
| R9-10-815.F.2.a-c. Directed Care Services: Manager failed to ensure means of exiting facility controlled or alerted employees of resident egress; door was propped open disabling alert. |
| R9-10-816.B.3.a-c. Medication Services: Manager failed to ensure medication was administered in compliance with orders and documented; verbal hold order not documented. |
| R9-10-818.D.1. Emergency and Safety Standards: Manager failed to ensure immediate notification of resident's primary care provider after accidents or emergencies. |
| Personnel record requirements: Manager failed to ensure personnel record included all required documentation for one employee hired through staffing agency. |
| Service plan completion: Manager failed to ensure residents had written service plans completed within 14 calendar days of acceptance for three residents. |
| Service plan update: Manager failed to ensure written service plan was updated at least once every three months for one resident receiving directed care. |
| Service plan content: Manager failed to ensure service plans included required elements such as incontinence care, cognitive stimulation, and weight documentation for three directed care residents. |
Report Facts
Inspections on page: 4
Total deficiencies: 11
Complaint inspections: 1
Employees Mentioned
| Name | Title | Context |
|---|---|---|
| Angelica Mireya Montano | Executive Director | Named as person responsible for all deficiencies in complaint and annual inspections |
Inspection Report
Enforcement
Deficiencies: 3
May 22, 2025
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The inspection was conducted to address enforcement concerns related to violations of assisted living facility regulations as detailed in the Civil Fines Table.
Findings
The facility was found to have multiple violations including failure to verify caregiver skills, incomplete personnel records for CPR training, and inadequate means of exiting the facility for residents without keys, resulting in civil fines totaling $1500.
Deficiencies (3)
| Description |
|---|
| The manager failed to ensure a caregiver's skills and knowledge were verified and documented before providing physical or behavioral health services for two of five certified caregivers. |
| The manager failed to ensure a personnel record for each employee included documentation of cardiopulmonary resuscitation training (CPR) for one of nine caregivers and assistant caregivers sampled. |
| The manager failed to ensure the means of exiting the facility for a resident who does not have a key, special knowledge for egress, or the ability to expend increased physical effort, controlled or alert employees of the egress of a resident from the facility. |
Report Facts
Civil fines total: 1500
Certified caregivers sampled: 5
Caregivers and assistant caregivers sampled: 9
Employees Mentioned
| Name | Title | Context |
|---|---|---|
| Angelica Muniz | Licensee/Director/Provider | Signed enforcement agreement and acknowledged rights |
| Dawn Butler | Bureau Chief | Attended enforcement agreement meeting |
| Thomas Salow | Assistant Director | Attended enforcement agreement meeting |
| Aaron Telles | Deputy Bureau Chief | Attended enforcement agreement meeting |
| Kari Humphrey | Compliance Officer Supervisor | Attended enforcement agreement meeting |
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