Grace Home Inc: Kitchen Safety Violation Found - CA
On May 21, 2026, at 11:28 in the morning, inspectors walked through the kitchen at Grace Home Inc. with the facility's certified dietary manager. They found three cutting boards, two green and one brown, covered in deep cuts, scratches, and scoring. The dietary manager did not dispute what she was looking at. She told inspectors the green boards were "concerning to her." She said equipment in that condition created a risk of cross-contamination. She said it could lead to foodborne illness.
She also said none of that was acceptable.
The problem with a deeply scored cutting board is not cosmetic. Grooves and scratches in a cutting surface trap food particles, moisture, and bacteria in places that a standard wash cannot reach. The facility's own registered dietitian nutritionist consultant, reached separately that same afternoon, confirmed the conclusion: boards with that kind of damage needed to be replaced. The dietitian stated this plainly, without qualification.
Grace Home's written food preparation policy, dated 2023, was equally plain. Cutting boards must be in good condition without deep cuts. Any board with deep cuts should be discarded immediately. The policy did not describe a review process or a replacement schedule. It described an immediate action.
The boards had not been discarded.
That gap, between what the policy required and what inspectors found when they walked into the kitchen, was the entire violation. The facility's own staff described the risk accurately. The facility's own policy prescribed the remedy. The cutting boards were still there.
Inspectors rated the violation as representing minimal harm or potential for actual harm, meaning no resident was documented as having become ill from the condition at the time of the inspection. Some residents were identified as affected. The inspection was conducted as a health survey.
What the rating does not resolve is how long the boards had been in that condition before anyone flagged them. Deep cuts and scoring in a cutting surface do not appear overnight. They accumulate through repeated use. The dietary manager's description of the boards as "concerning" during the inspection did not include an account of when she first noticed the problem or whether she had previously raised it with anyone.
The registered dietitian nutritionist consultant's statement that afternoon added no timeline either. She said boards in that condition needed to be replaced. She did not say when the facility had last assessed its kitchen equipment or whether the boards had been evaluated before inspectors arrived.
Grace Home Inc. is a licensed care facility in Livingston, in California's San Joaquin Valley. The inspection was completed May 22, 2026.
The dietary manager who called the boards concerning is the person responsible for the kitchen where they were still in use.
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GRACE HOME INC. in LIVINGSTON, CA was cited for violations during a health inspection on May 22, 2026.
On May 21, 2026, at 11:28 in the morning, inspectors walked through the kitchen at Grace Home Inc.
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