Glenwood Health and Rehabilitation: Food Safety Failures - GA
When inspectors opened the refrigerator door at Glenwood Health and Rehabilitation on September 9, they found two oranges blanketed in black and white hair-like growth. Twelve tomatoes sat in a cardboard box nearby, several showing dark discoloration, two of them also covered in mold. The dietary manager, standing with inspectors during the observation, identified the growth on both the oranges and the tomatoes as mold. Then she explained that she checked refrigerated storage areas every day for properly stored and expired items.
"I missed these items," she said.
The inspection was a complaint visit. What inspectors documented that morning covered two separate food safety problems in the same kitchen, on the same day.
The first involved hot food holding. Just before 11 a.m., inspectors found an uncovered 25-gallon stock pot of green beans sitting on the stove with the burner turned off. A cook said she had switched off the heat somewhere between 10:15 and 10:30 that morning, intending to let the beans cool before moving them to a service pan and then to the steam table for the meal.
The dietary manager, interviewed a minute later, said she hadn't noticed something else: creamed corn was already sitting on the steam table for hot holding. She said she expected cooks to use the oven for hot holding, set to 140 degrees, not the steam table. Cooks, she said, should follow the guidance written into the recipes.
The registered dietician, reached by phone that afternoon, was more direct. The steam table, she said, should not be used for hot temperature holding at all. Hot foods belong in the oven, monitored to stay at or above 140 degrees. An oven set to 100 degrees, she added, would not keep food at that threshold. She said she expected hot foods to reach the steam table about 30 minutes before meal service, not to sit there as the holding method itself. She also said staff should be checking cold storage daily and pulling anything past its use-by date.
That is what the dietary manager said she was doing. It was not what inspectors found.
By the following afternoon, the facility's Director of Nursing and Administrator sat down with inspectors together. The Director of Nursing said dietary staff needed education on kitchen sanitation and safe cooking practices. The Administrator said he expected the dietary manager to check kitchen sanitation every day and supervise cooks during meal preparation. He said he expected cooks to follow a food safety and certification program's recommendations.
The violation was cited at a level of minimal harm or potential for actual harm, with many residents affected.
What the inspection captured is a kitchen where the oversight system and the actual conditions in the refrigerator told two different stories on the same morning. The dietary manager was conducting daily checks. The moldy oranges were there anyway. The cook knew green beans needed to reach the steam table. She left them uncovered on a cold stove instead. The dietary manager knew the steam table wasn't the right place for hot holding. The creamed corn was already on it.
The Administrator's answer, when asked what he expected, was that he expected the dietary manager to handle it. The dietary manager's answer, when asked about the mold, was that she had checked and missed it.
Residents at Glenwood Health and Rehabilitation ate from that kitchen.
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Glenwood Health and Rehabilitation in GLENWOOD, GA was cited for violations during a health inspection on September 11, 2025.
Twelve tomatoes sat in a cardboard box nearby, several showing dark discoloration, two of them also covered in mold.
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