Dietary Manager Lacked Required Certification
Penalty
Summary
The facility failed to ensure that the Dietary Manager met the required qualifications for the position, specifically lacking the necessary dietary manager certification. The employee record indicated that the Dietary Manager had been employed since February 2025 without obtaining the required certification. Interviews with the Dietary Manager and the Nurse Consultant confirmed that the manager was not certified and was only in the process of preparing for the certification exam. The Dietary Manager reported having twenty years of food service experience but had not previously held the title of dietary manager before this employment. The job description for the position, signed by the Dietary Manager, explicitly required a Food Service Sanitation Manager Certification, which was not possessed at the time of the survey. This deficiency had the potential to impact all 58 residents receiving meals from the facility kitchen.