Aventura at Creekside: Cockroaches in Kitchen - PA
That was 8:20 in the morning on August 25, 2025.
Less than an hour later, inspectors found live cockroaches under the dishwasher.
The food service director, interviewed that same morning, confirmed that cockroaches had been seen in the kitchen and that the facility's administrator had been told about it approximately one month earlier. The administrator had responded in July by asking the pest control contractor to increase its visits from once a month to every two weeks. That request was made on July 21, 2025, following a "heavy treatment for roaches" documented in the pest control report from that date.
The next pest control visit didn't happen for 28 days.
The facility's own contract called for every-two-week service. The nursing home administrator confirmed to inspectors that the pest control company simply failed to show up the week of August 4. No one at the facility appears to have followed up.
When a licensed pest control inspector visited on August 26, the day after inspectors found the live cockroaches, the findings were extensive. Cockroach activity around walls, behind appliances, and under the dishwasher. The problem areas included the walls around the kitchen and the entire kitchen. Recommendations came back with specifics: fogging treatment, a four-foot door sweep on the kitchen exit door, and sealing around a pipe opening in the floor under the sink, the kind of dark, moist gap that cockroaches use to move through a building.
The maintenance director, interviewed on the morning of August 25, could not produce any documentation showing the facility had been monitoring for cockroaches on its own, recording what staff found, or identifying the places where cockroaches were likely entering and hiding. The facility's own pest control policy, last updated July 18, 2025, describes exactly that kind of ongoing internal monitoring as part of maintaining an effective program.
It had not been happening.
The administrator, in a follow-up interview on August 26, confirmed the facility had failed to demonstrate an effective pest control program and acknowledged it was the facility's responsibility to keep the building free of pests.
The inspection was filed as a complaint. Residents affected were listed as many.
What the record shows is a gap that opened in early August and stayed open. The facility knew it had cockroaches. It had escalated its pest control contract. Then the contractor missed a visit, nobody caught it, and by the time inspectors arrived, live cockroaches were sheltering under the dishwasher in the same kitchen where resident meals are prepared and plated every day.
The roach gel placed during the August 18 visit, a slow-acting bait designed to attract and kill cockroaches over time, was still working its way through the population when inspectors arrived a week later. Growth regulators placed at the same time work by preventing immature cockroaches from developing fully. Neither had resolved the infestation.
Inspectors rated the violation at minimal harm or potential for actual harm. The facility serves many residents.
Full Inspection Report
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AVENTURA AT CREEKSIDE in CARBONDALE, PA was cited for violations during a health inspection on August 28, 2025.
That was 8:20 in the morning on August 25, 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.