Park Terrace Care Center: Filth, Grime Violations - NY
They hadn't.
During a complaint inspection completed September 9, 2025, inspectors documented a pattern of accumulated filth and deferred maintenance across resident rooms at the facility on Van Doren Street. The violations fell under the federal tag for resident environment — the requirement that nursing homes maintain a clean, safe, and homelike setting for the people who live there.
In the facility's training bathroom and shower room, inspectors found significant dirt built up between the floor tiles. A bathroom heater had turned a rusty brown color. These were not findings from a single bad day. The dirt between the tiles pointed to cleaning that had been inadequate over time.
In a resident room, the picture was worse. Brownish grime had collected on the floor in front of one of the wardrobe closets. Between two other closets, where the baseboard meets the floor, more dirt had settled in and gone unaddressed. And near the windows, a large brown, round stain marked the ceiling — left over, it turned out, from a leak the previous winter.
When inspectors interviewed Housekeeper No. 3 on September 5, she said she would ask someone to move the wardrobe closets so she could clean the grime from underneath. She could not explain why the buildup had not been cleaned before.
Four days later, the housekeeping director offered more detail. The closets, she explained, are bolted to the wall. Maintenance would have to unbolt them. Staff are instructed to pay attention to edges and corners when they mop. There is a foam spray specifically for cleaning baseboards. None of that had happened here. "There is no excuse," the director said, "why the floors near the wardrobe closets and baseboard areas were not cleaned properly."
The ceiling stain had its own story. The director of maintenance told inspectors on September 9 that a leak from the floor above had caused it last winter. The leak had been fixed. But the stained area still needed to be primed and painted, and that work hadn't been done. What made the finding harder to explain was what the maintenance director said next: he had been unaware of the stain until inspectors pointed it out.
The administrator told inspectors the facility conducts daily environmental rounds, with both the housekeeping director and the maintenance director walking areas to check for cleanliness and needed repairs. Other staff are expected to flag problems too. The rounds, as described, should have surfaced all of it — the grime at the baseboards, the dirty grout in the shower room, the water-stained ceiling. None of it had been flagged or addressed before inspectors arrived.
The housekeeping director's response to the findings carried a timeline that inspectors recorded without comment. She said the staff would receive in-service education on room cleaning. Baseboards need to be cleaned. Mop water needs to be changed more often. "Next year," she said, "the unit will be spotless."
The inspection covered observations made between September 2 and September 9. CMS rated the level of harm as minimal harm or potential for actual harm, with some residents affected. The facility's state provider ID is 335317.
For the residents living in those rooms, the ceiling above the windows still carried the brown outline of last winter's leak.
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PARK TERRACE CARE CENTER in CORONA, NY was cited for violations during a health inspection on September 9, 2025.
In the facility's training bathroom and shower room, inspectors found significant dirt built up between the floor tiles.
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