Edgerton Care Center: Kitchen Sanitation Failures - WI
The ice machine sits near the clean dish area. When inspectors pointed out the buildup, the dietary manager, identified in records as DM E, said staff were responsible for cleaning it between scheduled maintenance visits. She also said there was no log tracking when the machine gets cleaned. She told inspectors the buildup needed to be addressed. What she didn't explain was how long it had been there, or why no one had caught it.
The cleaning schedule DM E provided showed which staff members were assigned to which tasks. The ovens weren't on it. Neither was the steam kettle. When inspectors asked for cleaning policies for both pieces of equipment on March 27, she produced the schedule. The gap was right there in the document she handed them.
The refrigerator situation on the second floor told a similar story, stretched across two months of paperwork. The unit sits in a kitchenette near the elevators and is designated for resident use. A sign on the door says as much. Inside, inspectors found a fast food bag and an unopened bottle of soda. A certified nursing assistant, identified as CNA N, confirmed both belonged to residents.
CNA N said she believed the refrigerator was used only for things residents bring in from outside, like soda. She said kitchen staff were responsible for monitoring and recording the temperature.
The logs showed something different from what anyone would call routine monitoring. The February 2025 log had entries for the 5th, 6th, and 10th. That was it for the entire month. The March 2025 log had the 1st and then a run of entries from the 18th through the 23rd. The days in between, and the days after, were blank.
Nursing Home Administrator NHA A reviewed the logs with inspectors on March 26. She said she would expect the temperature log to be filled out completely for all dates. DM E, interviewed the following afternoon, said the same thing: kitchen staff should have been monitoring and recording the temperatures.
Neither offered an explanation for why they hadn't been.
The dietary manager told inspectors she felt that if the ice machine were actually being cleaned at the frequency it was supposed to be, it wouldn't have accumulated that much buildup. That observation cut in one direction: someone had not been doing what the schedule said they should be doing, and no log existed to catch the gap.
Inspectors classified the violations under food sanitation, noting the level of harm as minimal but the number of residents affected as many. The ice machine serves the facility broadly. The refrigerator holds whatever residents bring from home and expect to be kept cold safely.
What the inspection record doesn't show is how long the buildup had been on the machine before anyone noticed, or how many times a resident's food sat in a refrigerator that nobody had checked in two weeks. The logs that were supposed to answer those questions were mostly empty.
DM E's cleaning schedule named the people responsible for each task. The ovens and steam kettle weren't listed. The temperature log named no one. The ice machine had no log at all.
The food kept moving. The records did not.
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Edgerton Care Center, Inc in Edgerton, WI was cited for violations during a health inspection on March 31, 2025.
The ice machine sits near the clean dish area.
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