Deficient Food Storage, Labeling, and Sanitation Practices Identified
Penalty
Summary
The facility failed to store, prepare, and serve food and drink items in a safe and sanitary manner, as evidenced by multiple observations in the kitchen, refrigerators, freezers, and dining areas. Surveyors found expired nutritional shakes, cottage cheese, grits, yeast, malt vinegar, and yogurt, as well as unlabeled and undated bags of pierogies, ravioli, prepared fruit salad, sliced cucumbers, cheese slices, and a bag labeled beef with ice inside. Several food items, including mandarin oranges, feta cheese, chicken breasts, waffles, and sliced corn beef, were found uncovered or without preparation or expiration dates. The dietary manager confirmed the presence of these expired, unlabeled, undated, and improperly stored food and drink items at the time of discovery. Additionally, the drink station in the skilled nursing dining area had an ice machine with dark colored spots on the interior door and a brown grocery bag with a sandwich stored on the counter. Sanitizer buckets used for cleaning were found to have no detectable sanitizer levels when tested, with the dietary manager confirming that the sanitizer had been prepared hours earlier and that the test strips were new and not expired. Facility policies required all time and temperature control for safety (TCS) foods to be labeled, covered, and dated, and for food items to be used before their expiration dates or discarded, but these procedures were not followed.