Pennknoll Village: Food Service Violation Cited - PA]
What the report does contain is a citation under F804, a federal deficiency tag that covers the quality of food service in nursing homes — whether meals are palatable, whether they are served at proper temperatures, whether residents receive what they are supposed to receive. It is not a paperwork violation. It concerns what people eat, every day, three times a day, with no ability to go somewhere else.
The citation references two Pennsylvania state regulations alongside the federal tag. The first, 28 Pa. Code 201.14(a), governs the responsibilities of the licensee, meaning the entity that holds the legal authority to operate the facility. The second, 28 Pa. Code 201.18(e)(1), falls under the management section of the state code and concerns how a facility is run at the operational level. Together they indicate that whatever inspectors found in the kitchen or the dining room, they traced responsibility for it upward, past the dietary staff, to the people who run the building and the organization that owns it.
Pennknoll Village is a nursing facility in Everett, a small borough in Bedford County in south-central Pennsylvania. The inspection was conducted on January 15, 2025.
The inspection report, as provided, does not describe what inspectors observed. It does not name residents who received food that was cold, or undercooked, or missing, or wrong. It does not quote staff. It does not explain what the facility said in response. The narrative field for this citation contains 569 characters of regulatory citations and formatting text. The findings themselves, if they were recorded in detail, are not present in the version of the document available here.
That absence is its own kind of information.
F804 citations are not issued for minor paperwork gaps. They exist on the federal deficiency list because food quality in a nursing home is not a comfort issue — it is a clinical one. Residents in long-term care facilities often have swallowing disorders, diabetes, kidney disease, or pressure injuries that require specific nutritional support. A meal served at the wrong temperature can be a choking risk. A meal that does not meet a prescribed diet can destabilize a medical condition. For residents who cannot advocate for themselves, what arrives on the tray is what they have.
The decision by inspectors to cite both the licensee responsibility regulation and the management regulation alongside the federal food quality tag suggests this was not treated as an isolated incident attributable to one employee on one shift. Regulators who want to hold an organization accountable for a systemic problem reach for the management and licensee citations. They did here.
What Pennknoll Village's residents were served in the days before January 15, and what specifically failed to meet the standard that triggered a federal citation, is not answered by the document at hand. Whether the facility contested the finding, submitted a plan of correction, or acknowledged the deficiency without dispute is also not recorded in the material available.
What is recorded is that federal inspectors walked into this facility on a Wednesday in January, reviewed its food service operation, and left with a citation that named the organization's leadership as responsible for what they found.
For the people who live at Pennknoll Village, the ones who eat there because it is where they live now and leaving is not an option, the inspection report closes without telling them what the inspectors saw.
Full Inspection Report
The details above represent a summary of key findings. View the complete inspection report for Pennknoll Village from 2025-01-15 including all violations, facility responses, and corrective action plans.
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Data source: This article is based on inspection data downloaded directly from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) via Medicare.gov. CMS releases inspection reports in bulk; we publish the findings as documented by state surveyors in the official Form CMS-2567 Statement of Deficiencies.
Plan of correction: The CMS report we receive does not include the facility's plan of correction. Facilities submit plans of correction separately to state survey agencies and those responses may not be reflected in CMS data at the time of publication. The absence of a plan of correction in our data does not mean one was not filed. Readers who want information about corrective steps taken are encouraged to contact the facility directly or their state survey agency.
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PENNKNOLL VILLAGE in EVERETT, PA was cited for violations during a health inspection on January 15, 2025.
It is not a paperwork violation.
Health inspections identify deficiencies that facilities must correct. Violations range from minor documentation issues to serious safety concerns. Review the full report below for specific details and facility response.