Failure to Maintain Safe Food Storage and Sanitation Practices
Penalty
Summary
Surveyors found that the facility failed to store, prepare, distribute, and serve food in accordance with professional standards for food service safety across all three floors reviewed. During an initial tour of the kitchen, the walk-in refrigerator contained diced chicken and pork pieces that were not properly labeled or marked. Facility policy requires all foods to be wrapped or in covered containers, labeled, dated, and arranged to prevent cross-contamination, but these procedures were not followed. Further observations in the first-floor resident pantry revealed numerous unlabeled, undated, and expired foods, as well as visible dirt on the hand sink, floors, and refrigerator. The refrigerator was dirty with spilled juice, and there were grocery bags of prepared food that were unlabeled. Additional findings included a piece of corn on the cob in a paper towel and a bottle of maple syrup with a watered-down liquid on top of the refrigerator. On the second floor, similar issues were observed, including numerous unlabeled, undated, and expired foods in the refrigerator, visibly soiled pantry floors and walls, and multiple used and soiled trays stacked on the counter next to the ice machine. These findings were confirmed by staff during interviews.