St Mary Rehab: Sanitation Failures Found in Kitchen - PA
The inspection, triggered by a complaint, ran for one hour in the middle of the afternoon. In that hour, surveyors documented two sanitation failures, one in the kitchen and one on a nursing unit where residents live.
The kitchen finding was straightforward. Inside the janitor's closet off the main kitchen, the mop sink was not draining. Black sludge had accumulated around the base. A mop sink that cannot drain is not a minor inconvenience in a facility that prepares food for a population of nursing home residents. It is where staff clean the tools used to sanitize floors throughout the building. When it backs up, the contamination does not stay contained.
Down the hall, inside a resident's room, the front sink was also clogged. A brown residue had collected inside it.
The inspection report rated the harm level as minimal, and noted that few residents were affected. The violations were cited under Pennsylvania licensing codes governing the responsibility of the facility's licensee and its management obligations.
St. Mary Center for Rehabilitation & Healthcare is a nursing and rehabilitation facility in Montgomery County, one of the more densely populated suburban counties outside Philadelphia. Its residents, by definition, are people who depend on the facility for the basics of daily life, including the cleanliness of the spaces where they eat, sleep, and receive care.
The facility was given the opportunity to submit a plan of correction. Under Pennsylvania rules for nursing homes, the findings and any approved correction plan become public 14 days after the documents are made available to the facility.
What the inspection does not record is how long the sludge had been sitting there, or how long the resident's sink had been draining brown. Inspectors arrived on a single afternoon and documented what they saw. The accumulation of black sludge around a drain suggests the clog was not new.
The resident whose sink held brown residue is identified in the report only by a room number, redacted to protect confidentiality. Whether that resident had been washing their hands at that sink, or asking staff to fix it, or had simply stopped using it, the report does not say.
A clogged sink with residue in a room where a nursing home resident sleeps and receives daily care is the kind of finding that can seem minor on paper. The harm rating says minimal. But for a resident who cannot leave, who depends on staff to notice what is broken and report it and fix it, the line between a clogged sink and a neglected one is not always clear from the outside.
The inspection covered one of the facility's four nursing units and the main kitchen. The other three units were not cited.
Full Inspection Report
The details above represent a summary of key findings. View the complete inspection report for St Mary Center For Rehabilitation & Healthcare from 2026-01-29 including all violations, facility responses, and corrective action plans.
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Data source: This article is based on inspection data downloaded directly from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) via Medicare.gov. CMS releases inspection reports in bulk; we publish the findings as documented by state surveyors in the official Form CMS-2567 Statement of Deficiencies.
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ST MARY CENTER FOR REHABILITATION & HEALTHCARE in LANSDALE, PA was cited for violations during a health inspection on January 29, 2026.
The inspection, triggered by a complaint, ran for one hour in the middle of the afternoon.
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.