Improper Food Storage and Unsanitary Nourishment Rooms
Penalty
Summary
Surveyors identified a failure to properly store food and maintain sanitary conditions in the kitchen dry storage area and in nourishment rooms and refrigerators on multiple units. In the kitchen food preparation area, a measuring cup was stored inside a bulk container of modified food starch that had an unsealed, loose-fitting lid on two consecutive days. In the dry storage closet, bulk containers of flour and sugar also had measuring cups stored inside them. Review of the facility policy on foods brought by family/visitors showed that items left for residents to consume later were to be clearly labeled with the resident's name, item, and use-by date, and discarded after five days. During observations of the LTC, Rehabilitation, and Memory Care unit nourishment rooms and refrigerators, surveyors found multiple instances of unlabeled, undated, and expired food, as well as unclean equipment. In the LTC nourishment room, the ice and water machine filter was coated with dust and debris, and the microwave contained debris and had a foul odor. Open, unlabeled, and undated food items were found in cabinets, freezers, and refrigerators, including peanut butter, bread, chocolate bars, ice cream, pickles, grape jelly, relish, whipped topping, chocolate milk, yogurt (including one with an expired date), canned drinks, a packaged salad, and prepared food containers missing either a name or date. Similar issues were observed in the Rehabilitation and Memory Care unit nourishment rooms, where open packages of various foods and beverages, including pancakes, toaster pastries, ice cream, cheese slices, coffee creamer, strawberries with visible black and white substance, sour cream, yogurt drinks, hoagies, and bottled beverages, were not labeled with resident names or dates. The Administrator confirmed that the facility failed to properly store food and follow the resident food storage policy.
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