Fairwinds Redmond

This residential care facility received three consecutive disapproved inspections (March, August, November 2025) citing 19+ life-safety violations including blocked egresses, non-functional fire doors, missing smoke detector testing, failed sprinkler system maintenance, improper fire-rated penetrations, covered smoke detectors, and unrestrained gas appliances. The facility demonstrated inadequate response with persistent violations across all three inspections, incomplete corrective actions, and systemic failures in maintenance documentation and fire safety compliance. Despite some vendor engagement and partial remediation attempts, critical deficiencies remained unresolved, indicating poor safety culture and insufficient management oversight in a vulnerable population setting.</budget:token_budget>

This facility had severe and recurring fire safety violations across multiple inspections, including blocked egress routes, non-functional fire doors, improperly maintained fire suppression systems, exposed electrical hazards, missing fire-rated penetration seals, covered smoke detectors, and systematic failure to maintain required safety system documentation and testing schedules. The facility demonstrated minimal response between the March and August 2025 inspections, with most critical violations remaining uncorrected, particularly life-safety systems like fire doors, emergency power testing, and fire alarm maintenance. The facility acknowledged violations but failed to implement adequate corrective actions, with inspection reports showing ongoing deficiencies and missing documentation for critical safety systems. Pattern of systemic non-compliance across fire protection, electrical safety, and emergency preparedness indicates inadequate safety management oversight at this residential care facility serving vulnerable seniors.

The facility's automatic fire alarm notification system failed to dial 911, creating a severe life-safety risk for 143 residents who depended on automatic emergency response. The facility responded appropriately by immediately implementing 24/7 fire watch protocols, notifying Redmond Fire Department within hours, and working urgently with vendors to install a cellular communicator replacement within approximately 17 days. While the response was timely and comprehensive, the duration of the system failure and number of impacted residents warrant the severe event classification despite no actual fire occurring during the outage.

The facility failed to administer a required one-step tuberculosis test to a newly hired maintenance staff member who had documented negative two-step testing from previous employment. The Health and Wellness Manager acknowledged unfamiliarity with the specific Washington Administrative Code requirement for the one-step follow-up test. The facility cooperated with the inspection, identified the gap in their TB screening protocol, and committed to implementing corrective monitoring systems, though the report does not detail specific corrective actions taken during the inspection period beyond acknowledgment of the deficiency.

A maintenance worker accidentally struck a sprinkler head while painting an empty apartment, activating the sprinkler system and fire alarm, causing water damage to the unit below. The facility responded promptly by immediately relocating the affected resident to a vacant apartment with no service interruptions, coordinating with the fire department who arrived within 15 minutes and established fire watch, and having the sprinkler system repaired and restored to normal operation within hours. The May 16, 2024 follow-up inspection found no International Fire Code violations, and no injuries or fire damage occurred during the incident. This was an accidental activation with appropriate emergency response and no lasting safety impact to residents or operations.