Failure to Maintain Proper Food Storage and Temperature Monitoring
Penalty
Summary
Surveyors identified a failure to store and serve food in accordance with professional standards. During a tour of the short-term unit refrigerator on 12/15/25 at 8:39 AM, they observed an undated, unlabeled sandwich and a pudding cup that was past its expiration date of 12/10/25. In addition, review of the facility’s food temperature logs at 9:00 AM on the same day showed missing documentation that food temperatures were taken prior to serving multiple meals, specifically breakfast, lunch, and dinner on 11/13/25; lunch on 11/20/25; dinner on 11/26/25; dinner on 11/28/25; and lunch on 12/4/25. During an interview at 9:52 AM on 12/15/25, staff member E21 (DDS) confirmed the presence of the undated and expired food items and acknowledged the missing food temperature recordings. These findings were later reviewed at the exit conference on 12/16/25 at 3:45 PM with the NHA (E1), DON (E2), and ED (E3).
