Stallings Court: Accident Hazard Violations - TX
The violation was narrow but basic: the facility's low-temperature dishwasher, an Auto-Chlor unit, was not being properly verified to meet the sanitization standards its own manufacturer requires. For a machine that cleans the plates, bowls, and utensils used by nursing home residents at every meal, that gap matters.
Low-temperature dishwashers don't sanitize with heat the way high-temperature machines do. They rely on chemistry instead, specifically a chlorine solution applied during the final rinse cycle. The concentration of that chemical on the dish surface has to reach 50 parts per million to be considered effective. The wash cycle itself has to hit 120 degrees Fahrenheit. The manufacturer's instructions for the Auto-Chlor unit at Stallings Court spelled this out directly. Inspectors reviewed those instructions and found the facility wasn't consistently verifying either threshold was being met.
The rules around this are not vague. The chemical concentration has to be tested at least once per shift. Not once a day. Once per shift, every shift, with enough contact time for the sanitizer to actually work.
Nobody was doing that.
Inspectors classified the violation as causing minimal harm or potential for actual harm, and noted that some residents were affected. That language, standard in federal inspection reports, reflects what was documented, not necessarily the outer boundary of what could have happened. A dishwasher cycling through improperly sanitized loads during every meal service, across every day the lapse went undetected, means every resident who ate from those dishes was eating from equipment that hadn't been confirmed safe.
The facility, in its response included in the inspection record, outlined a policy for dishwasher operation that covered wash temperature, chemical concentration, air drying, and storage. The policy cited the correct federal standards and the correct manufacturer benchmarks. It described a dish machine log as required documentation. The policy existed on paper. The inspection found the practice didn't match it.
That distance between written policy and daily reality is where most kitchen violations live. A log that isn't filled out. A test strip that isn't used. A shift that ends without anyone checking the chlorine levels because the machine looked like it was running fine, and it always had before, and there were other things to do.
Stallings Court is a nursing and rehabilitation facility, meaning its residents include people recovering from surgery, strokes, and other acute events, alongside long-term residents who may have compromised immune systems, chronic illness, or advanced age. Foodborne illness in that population is not the inconvenience it might be for a healthy adult. It can mean hospitalization. It can mean something worse.
The inspection was conducted on February 5, 2026. It covered four pages of findings, and the dishwasher violation appeared on the final page.
What the log was supposed to show, shift by shift, was simple: the water reached temperature, the chlorine reached concentration, the machine was working. What inspectors found was a facility that had written down exactly what that process should look like and then, somewhere between the policy binder and the dish room, stopped checking.
Full Inspection Report
The details above represent a summary of key findings. View the complete inspection report for Stallings Court Nursing and Rehabilitation from 2026-02-05 including all violations, facility responses, and corrective action plans.
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Last verified: August 5, 2026 · Our methodology
Stallings Court Nursing and Rehabilitation in Nacogdoches, TX was cited for violations during a health inspection on February 5, 2026.
For a machine that cleans the plates, bowls, and utensils used by nursing home residents at every meal, that gap matters.
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.