Failure to Consistently Monitor and Document Food and Drink Temperatures
Penalty
Summary
The facility failed to consistently monitor and document food and drink serving temperatures for all residents receiving nutrition from the kitchen, affecting all but one resident who did not receive nutrition from that source. During a kitchen tour, review of food temperature logs showed multiple missing entries: no coffee temperatures recorded for one dinner meal; no food or drink temperatures recorded for another dinner; no food or drink temperatures documented for breakfast and lunch on a subsequent day; no food or drink temperatures documented for an entire day; and repeated missing food and drink temperature entries for several dinner meals on additional days. In interview, the Dietary Manager confirmed there were days when food and drink temperatures were not recorded and reported finding seven separate sheets of paper with temperatures written on them that had not been transferred to the official daily logs, five of which were dated and four of which lacked milk or coffee temperatures. The facility’s undated Food Temperature Logs Policy required that temperatures of hot and cold items be recorded for all menu items for meal service, which was not followed, leading to the cited deficiency under the referenced complaint number. No additional resident-specific medical history or clinical condition at the time of the deficiency was provided in the report.
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