Trinity Homes: Expired Food Found in Kitchen - ND
That was sixteen months old.
Inspectors also found 42 boxed containers of Ensure Clear, a nutritional supplement given to residents who need help maintaining weight and nutrition, stacked in the same kitchen. The expiration dates on those boxes ran from April 2025 through August 1, 2025. Some had been expired for months. Others had just crossed the line.
Down the hall, in the 4 North kitchenette, an opened container of Prosource, another dietary supplement, carried an expiration date of October 2024. It had been open and available for use for at least ten months past the date printed on the label.
The inspection was a complaint survey, conducted August 14, 2025. The violations were cited under the federal food safety standard requiring nursing homes to procure, store, prepare, and serve food according to professional standards.
Trinity Homes had a written policy on this. Inspectors reviewed it the same day. The policy, which carried no date indicating when it had last been updated or reviewed, stated its purpose plainly: "To assure that foods served are wholesome and not out dated. All foods rotated by date and stored properly."
The corned beef in the freezer was dated March 2024.
A dietary supervisor, identified in the inspection report as staff member number 16, confirmed what inspectors had found during an interview the morning of August 14. She verified that the facility lacked a consistent process to monitor for expired foods and supplements, and acknowledged that staff should have discarded the items.
The corned beef. The Prosource. All 42 boxes of Ensure Clear.
None of it had been caught.
The inspection covered six food storage areas in total. Violations were found in two of them: the main kitchen and the 4 North kitchenette. Inspectors noted the potential for harm related to both safety and nutrition, though the deficiency was rated at the level of minimal harm or potential for actual harm, with few residents affected.
For residents in a nursing home, nutritional supplements like Ensure Clear and Prosource are not optional extras. They are prescribed tools, used to address weight loss, swallowing difficulties, or inadequate caloric intake. When a resident receives a supplement, the assumption is that it is what the label says it is, in the condition the label assumes. An expired, opened container of a protein supplement does not carry the same guarantee.
The dietary supervisor's own words described the core failure: there was no consistent process. Not a broken process. Not a process that had slipped. No consistent process at all.
Trinity Homes is located at 305 8th Ave NE in Minot. The August 14 inspection was completed as a complaint survey, meaning someone had raised a concern before inspectors arrived.
The facility's written policy required foods to be rotated by date and stored properly. A pan of corned beef, partially uncovered, sat in the freezer for a year and a half. Forty-two boxes of a nutritional supplement expired and remained on the shelf. An opened container of another supplement sat in a kitchenette on the fourth floor, ten months past its date.
The policy said one thing. The freezer said another.
Full Inspection Report
The details above represent a summary of key findings. View the complete inspection report for Trinity Homes from 2025-08-14 including all violations, facility responses, and corrective action plans.
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TRINITY HOMES in MINOT, ND was cited for violations during a health inspection on August 14, 2025.
The expiration dates on those boxes ran from April 2025 through August 1, 2025.
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.