Twin Oaks Nursing Home: Food Safety Violations - LA
The strips, used to verify that the facility's low-temperature dishwasher was actually sanitizing the dishes that residents eat off of every day, carried an expiration date of July 2025. Inspectors found them on August 13. The dietary manager, identified in the report as S12DM, confirmed on the spot that the strips were expired and should not have been used.
Nobody could say how long they had been sitting there.
That discovery capped two days of kitchen observations that began the morning of August 12, when an inspector opened the facility's three-door refrigerator at 8:20 in the morning and started counting. Three disposable bowls of round multicolored dry cereal. One disposable bowl of dry corn cereal. Three small cups of what the report describes as a pudding-like substance. None of them had a date on them. The pudding cups weren't covered either, sitting open in the refrigerator alongside the cereal bowls.
The dietary manager, interviewed ten minutes after the refrigerator was opened, confirmed all of it. The cereal should have been labeled with an opened date. The pudding cups should have been labeled and covered. The administrator, identified as S1Administrator, said the same thing when interviewed that afternoon.
The pattern continued in the freezer. A partially used container of frozen chicken liver sat inside with no date indicating when it had been opened or how long it had been there. The dietary manager confirmed it should have been labeled. The administrator confirmed it should have been labeled.
Two other items in the freezer raised a different problem entirely. A frozen bottle of hydrate alkaline water and a frozen bottle of an electrolyte drink were stored alongside the facility's food supply, with nothing on either one to indicate they had come from outside the building. The facility's own food safety policy, last revised in July 2014, states that the home only accepts prepared foods from suppliers subject to federal, state, or local food service inspections who remain in good standing with those agencies.
The dietary manager told inspectors the electrolyte drink belonged to a resident and had been brought in from an outside source. The alkaline water had also come from outside. The administrator said the items should not have been in the freezer at all.
What the inspection report describes is not a single lapse or an isolated oversight. Across two days, inspectors documented four separate categories of food safety failures: food stored without dates, food stored without covers, outside food stored without labels, and a testing tool that had been expired for at least a month. Each finding drew the same response from the dietary manager and the administrator, who confirmed, one by one, what should have happened and didn't.
CMS rated the violations at the lowest level of harm, noting minimal harm or potential for actual harm to a few residents. No resident illness was documented in the report.
But the expired test strips are the detail that lingers. A dishwasher sanitization check is not a paperwork exercise. It exists because dishes that look clean can carry pathogens that a functioning sanitization cycle would kill. The strips are how a kitchen verifies the cycle is working. When the strips expire, the kitchen is checking its dishwasher with a tool that may no longer give accurate results. For a month, at minimum, Twin Oaks had no reliable way to confirm its dishes were safe.
The dietary manager confirmed this at 12:06 in the afternoon on August 13, the last day of the inspection, standing next to the strips.
Full Inspection Report
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Twin Oaks Nursing Home in LAPLACE, LA was cited for violations during a health inspection on August 13, 2025.
Inspectors found them on August 13.
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.