Kadima Rehabilitation New Castle: Food Safety Failures - PA
That finding was part of a complaint inspection completed August 29, 2025, in which federal inspectors reviewed every refrigerator and freezer in the facility's kitchen operation — three refrigerators and four freezers in total — and found that none of them were being monitored consistently.
The numbers from the main kitchen tell part of the story. Between August 1 and August 27, staff had 216 chances to record temperatures, checking twice daily across two refrigerators and two freezers. They recorded 104 of them. That left 112 monitoring opportunities simply skipped.
The basement numbers were worse. Two freezers and one refrigerator sat in that lower-level unit. For the first week of August, temperatures were recorded. Then they stopped. From August 8 onward, the log was blank.
The Dietary Manager, interviewed by inspectors on the morning of August 28, confirmed it. The temperatures were not being recorded as required for morning and evening monitoring. There was no dispute about what the logs showed, or didn't show.
The facility's own policy, titled "Equipment Temperature Logs" and dated June 18, 2025, spelled out the requirement plainly: the Dining Services Manager would use the refrigeration and freezer temperature log to record temperatures of all refrigerators and freezers on a daily basis. The policy was less than three months old when inspectors arrived and found it wasn't being followed.
Temperature monitoring in a kitchen that feeds a nursing home population isn't a bureaucratic formality. Residents in long-term care facilities are among the most vulnerable to foodborne illness. Bacterial growth in improperly stored food can be rapid and, in an elderly or medically compromised population, dangerous. A temperature log that isn't filled out isn't just a paperwork gap — it means nobody confirmed, on those days, that the food being served was safe.
Inspectors cited the deficiency at a level of minimal harm or potential for actual harm, with many residents affected. The violation was tagged under food procurement and safety standards.
What the logs cannot answer, because nobody was keeping them, is what the temperatures actually were during those 20 days in the basement or across the 112 missed checks upstairs. Whether the units stayed cold, whether they cycled out of safe range at some point during that stretch, whether any food was stored or served during a window when temperatures had drifted — none of that is knowable now. The record that would have captured it was never made.
The Dining Services Manager's name does not appear in the inspection report. The report does not indicate whether that person remained in the role, whether any food was discarded, or whether any residents became ill. What it records is that the manager confirmed the failure and that the facility's own recently written policy had not been carried out.
Kadima Rehabilitation & Nursing at New Castle is a licensed nursing facility operating under Pennsylvania state oversight. The inspection was a complaint survey. The deficiency was cited under Pennsylvania administrative code provisions governing licensee responsibility and management.
A plan of correction is required for the facility to remain in the Medicare and Medicaid programs. Under Pennsylvania rules for nursing homes, the findings become publicly available 14 days after the documents are made available to the facility.
For the residents who ate meals prepared in that kitchen between August 8 and August 27, there is no log that says the food was stored safely. There is only a blank page where that confirmation was supposed to be.
Full Inspection Report
The details above represent a summary of key findings. View the complete inspection report for Kadima Rehabilitation & Nursing At New Castle from 2025-08-29 including all violations, facility responses, and corrective action plans.
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KADIMA REHABILITATION & NURSING AT NEW CASTLE in NEW CASTLE, PA was cited for violations during a health inspection on August 29, 2025.
The numbers from the main kitchen tell part of the story.
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.