Lock Haven Rehab: Food Safety Failures Cited Again - PA
These were among the conditions inspectors documented at Lock Haven Rehabilitation and Senior Living during a September 2025 complaint inspection, findings that mirror nearly identical violations cited at the same facility less than a year earlier.
The large wheeled flour bin in the kitchen production area carried a label showing the product had been placed inside on December 5, 2024, with a use-by date of March 5, 2025. Inspectors arrived in September. The bin's sliding lid and top surface were covered in crumbs and debris. The exterior sides were soiled with dried spills.
Nobody had thrown it out. Nobody had cleaned it.
The walk-in cooler shelves, the kind with plastic slots designed to hold food products, had black buildup running down through the slots throughout the unit. Two sandwiches sat on a cooler shelf with no label and no date. In a separate two-door glass cooler, the interior base held dried spills and debris.
On the lower shelf of a food preparation table, where cooking pans were stored, inspectors found dried food, grease spots, and dust that had spread onto the sides of the pans themselves. A clear plastic container sat on the same shelf with a tan-colored substance inside and a plastic scoop submerged in it. The container had no label and no date. When inspectors asked, the food service director identified the substance as potato flakes.
The inspection was conducted with Employee 2, identified in the report as the food service director, who was present during the kitchen walkthrough on September 16.
Two days later, inspectors turned to the resident food pantry located between Unit 3 and Unit 4. What they found there was worse in different ways.
The interior of the pantry refrigerator and freezer held dried food, debris, and pieces of hair stuck to the surfaces. Beneath the lower drawer and rack of the refrigerator sat a large area of dried orange-brown substance. In the cabinet drawers where coffee filters and unwrapped plastic utensils were stored, inspectors found dust and debris.
Unwrapped. Meaning the utensils residents would use to eat had been sitting open in dirty drawers.
Under the sink, a large plastic tub had been placed beneath the drainpipes. It contained a dried yellowish substance. The cabinet floor itself held dirt and debris. A lower cabinet to the right of the sink, where two boxes of straws were stored, was dirty with dust and debris. In a lower cabinet to the left, a loose plastic cup and plastic lid sat on a shelf among dust, dirt, and a dead insect.
On the top shelf of another cabinet, two large spots of black substance sat beside a container of sanitizing wipes.
The findings were reviewed with the Nursing Home Administrator and Director of Nursing on September 18 at 2:20 PM.
This was not the first time. The inspection report notes the food storage violation had been previously cited on October 18, 2024. The facility had been through this before, had presumably submitted a plan of correction, and arrived at September 2025 with expired flour still in the bin and hair in the resident refrigerator.
The violation was tagged at a level of harm described as minimal harm or potential for actual harm, and was noted as affecting many residents.
The flour had been sitting there since winter.
Full Inspection Report
The details above represent a summary of key findings. View the complete inspection report for Lock Haven Rehabilitation and Senior Living from 2025-09-19 including all violations, facility responses, and corrective action plans.
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LOCK HAVEN REHABILITATION AND SENIOR LIVING in LOCK HAVEN, PA was cited for violations during a health inspection on September 19, 2025.
Inspectors arrived in September.
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.