Federal inspectors documented widespread food safety violations during an April inspection, finding the facility failed to properly store, label and monitor food throughout its kitchen and storage areas.
The problems extended beyond forgotten cheese. Inspectors discovered eight 15.5-pound plastic jugs of used cooking grease covered with "numerous different sizes of grayish-black substances" sitting in the kitchen. A plastic cup rested on top of a drain underneath the ice machine, with a plastic lid and metal object scattered on the floor behind it.
Temperature monitoring collapsed across multiple units. The March 2026 logs showed missing readings for a chest freezer on 19 separate days, including the entire final week of the month. A white stand-up freezer lacked temperature checks on seven days. Two refrigerators went unmonitored for multiple days throughout the month.
The pattern continued into April, with a double-door freezer missing temperature documentation on the 4th and 5th of the month.
One freezer had accumulated approximately one-quarter inch of ice buildup along its inside walls and shelves, indicating prolonged temperature control problems that staff had documented nowhere in their logs.
The dry storage area revealed more unlabeled and undated food items. Inspectors found a quarter-full 5-pound package of pasta egg noodles with no date marking. Another 4.5-pound package of noodles sat unsealed, unlabeled and undated. A three-quarters full bag of buttermilk pancake mix remained unsealed, and strawberry gelatin packages lacked any date identification.
Dietary Staff CC acknowledged all the violations when confronted by inspectors on April 13. She told them she would ask the dietary manager what to do about the problems when that supervisor arrived for her shift.
The next day, Dietary Manager BB confirmed that staff should label and date all food when received and ensure opened items are properly sealed with open dates marked. Her statement revealed the facility knew its own policies but wasn't following them.
Park Villa's written policies painted a different picture than what inspectors observed. The facility's Dietary Purchases, Receipt and Storage Policy, revised just three months earlier in January, required all products to be labeled with receipt dates. It specified freezer temperatures between zero and negative 10 degrees Fahrenheit, refrigerator temperatures between 38 and 44 degrees for produce, and 35 to 40 degrees for dairy products.
The Monitoring of Refrigerators and Freezers Policy, also updated in January, required weekly cleaning and temperature logging. It designated the Certified Dietary Manager as responsible for monitoring temperatures and discarding spoiled items. All temperature logs were supposed to be maintained for two weeks in the environmental services office.
The policy also specified that refrigerators accessible to residents should contain only sealed, airtight containers with food that hadn't been inside resident rooms. All items required labels with contents and placement dates.
Yet inspectors found the opposite: unlabeled cheese, unsealed packages, undated items, and systematic failures to record the very temperatures the policies required staff to monitor twice daily.
The violations affected food safety protocols designed to protect nursing home residents, who face heightened risks from foodborne illness due to age-related immune system changes and underlying health conditions.
The ice buildup in freezers suggested temperature fluctuations that could compromise food quality and safety. Missing temperature logs meant staff couldn't identify when equipment malfunctioned or when food might have been exposed to unsafe storage conditions.
The facility received a minimal harm citation, indicating inspectors determined the violations had limited potential for resident injury. But the systematic nature of the problems - spanning multiple storage areas, various types of food, and weeks of missing documentation - revealed broader breakdowns in the facility's food safety oversight.
Full Inspection Report
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