Greene Health & Rehab: Cold Food Violations - PA, Greensburg
Inspectors visiting Greene Health & Rehab Center that day documented the temperatures precisely. A test tray left the kitchen at 12:26 p.m. and arrived on the nursing unit one minute later. The last resident was served at 12:53 p.m. When inspectors tasted the tray at 12:54 p.m., the potato encrusted fish registered 121.1 degrees Fahrenheit. The sliced carrots came in at 120.4. The facility's own policy requires hot food to be plated at 135 degrees and remain palatable at the point of delivery. Neither item met that standard.
The cold side of the meal was no better. The creamy coleslaw measured 67.7 degrees. The citrus banana fruit cup was 62.0 degrees. The milk was 59.8 degrees. The facility's policy sets 41 degrees as the upper limit for cold foods. Every cold item on that tray was nearly 20 degrees above it.
The dietary technician on duty confirmed to inspectors, right then, that the food had not been served at proper temperatures.
The violation was cited under F0804, which covers the requirement that food and drink be palatable, attractive, and served at a safe and appetizing temperature. CMS rated the level of harm as minimal harm or potential for actual harm. The inspection was a complaint survey, not a routine visit.
What the tray documented was a 27-minute window between the cart leaving the kitchen and the last resident being served, long enough for hot food to drop 14 degrees and for cold food to climb more than 20. For residents in a nursing facility, many of whom depend entirely on staff to bring them their meals and have no ability to reheat or rechill what arrives, there is no fallback. The fish on that tray was what lunch was.
Greene Health & Rehab Center is located at 119 Industrial Park Road in Greensburg. The inspection was completed September 5, 2025, and the deficiency affected some residents.
The facility's dietary policy had been updated as recently as February 5, 2025, seven months before the inspection. The temperature thresholds it contained, 135 degrees for hot foods, 41 degrees for cold, are not aspirational targets. They are the line between food that is palatable and food that is not. On the afternoon inspectors visited, nothing on that test tray cleared the line in either direction.
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Greene Health & Rehab Center in GREENSBURG, PA was cited for violations during a health inspection on September 5, 2025.
Inspectors visiting Greene Health & Rehab Center that day documented the temperatures precisely.
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