Unsanitary Food Storage and Kitchen Conditions Identified
Penalty
Summary
The facility failed to store food items in a safe and sanitary manner and did not maintain the kitchen environment in a clean condition. During an observation of the main kitchen with the dietary manager, surveyors found a black, greasy build-up on the splash guard and surrounding hoses near the dishwasher. Cooking pans identified as clean were stored on a rack with significant debris, crumbs, and dirt, and were not protected from the ambient environment. The walk-in cooler floor had food debris and dirt, especially under storage racks, and there were two red-colored puddles of fluid on the floor. A box of chicken breasts with rib meat was stored on a bottom shelf next to a puddle of unidentified fluid. In the walk-in freezer, a package of ravioli and waffles were found with use-by dates that had already passed. Additional unsanitary conditions included two black-colored, wheeled carts with extensive grease and dirt build-up, and a stainless-steel table with a coffee machine that had debris in the shelving area underneath and brown dried stains on the adjacent wall. In a storage area, a shelving rack holding cooking pans on the bottom shelf had an extensive build-up of cobwebs between the pans and the wall, and there was no splash guard to protect these items from mop splash. These findings were reviewed with the Nursing Home Administrator and Director of Nursing.