Failure to Consistently Follow Food Safety and Sanitation Practices
Penalty
Summary
Surveyors identified multiple failures in the facility's food safety and sanitation practices. Observations revealed that weekly kitchen cleaning tasks were not consistently documented as completed, with 13 out of 40 tasks unmarked for one week and 14 out of 40 for another. Additionally, temperature monitoring and documentation for the coffee machine were incomplete, with only 6 out of 33 required temperature checks recorded. Staff interviews indicated confusion regarding whether temperature checks were still required after the coffee machine was calibrated, despite the dietary manager and administrator expecting ongoing monitoring and documentation. Hand hygiene practices were also found to be deficient. A dietary aide was observed failing to perform hand hygiene before and after checking food temperatures, serving meals, and handling resident food items. The aide acknowledged that hand hygiene should have been performed at these times. The facility's policies required staff to maintain sanitation through a comprehensive cleaning schedule and to practice accepted hand hygiene to prevent infection, but these standards were not consistently followed as evidenced by the observations and staff interviews.