Clearwater Nursing & Rehab: Food Safety Failures - KS
Clearwater Nursing & Rehabilitation Center was cited in June 2026 for failing to procure, store, prepare, distribute, and serve food in accordance with professional standards. The deficiency, tagged under the federal nutrition and dietary category, was classified as widespread with potential for more than minimal harm to residents. No actual harm was documented. But the potential was there, and inspectors found it significant enough to cite.
The facility has not filed a plan of correction.
That last fact is the one that lingers. A nursing home receives a federal citation. Inspectors document the problem, assign it a severity level, and expect the facility to respond with a written plan explaining what went wrong, what will change, and by when. Clearwater Nursing & Rehabilitation Center has not done that. The deficiency sits open.
Food safety in a nursing home is not a minor operational concern. The people living in these facilities are often elderly, immunocompromised, or managing chronic illness. A contaminated meal, improperly stored food, or a breakdown in how food is handled between the kitchen and the dining room can send a frail resident to the hospital. The federal standard inspectors cited covers the entire chain: where food comes from, how it's kept, how it's cooked, how it reaches residents. Inspectors found the facility falling short somewhere in that chain, broadly enough to call it widespread.
The June 2026 inspection turned up 16 deficiencies in total. The food safety citation was one piece of a larger picture. Sixteen deficiencies in a single standard health inspection is a significant number. It suggests that what inspectors found at Clearwater Nursing & Rehabilitation Center was not a facility with one problem to fix but a facility with problems layered across multiple areas of care and operations.
The food safety violation carried a scope and severity designation of F, meaning widespread, no actual harm, but with potential for more than minimal harm. On the federal scale, that places it in a category that demands attention without yet reaching the level of actual injury or immediate jeopardy. The distinction matters in regulatory terms. In practical terms, for a resident eating three meals a day inside that building, it means the risk was real even if no one had been hurt yet.
What the inspection report does not contain is detail about what specifically inspectors observed in the kitchen or the dining room, which food handling practices were deficient, or how long the problems had been present before the June visit. The citation describes a standard, and it describes a failure to meet it. The specifics of what inspectors saw remain in the full inspection record.
What the report does make clear is the facility's response since the citation: there isn't one. No plan of correction on file. No written acknowledgment of what went wrong. No timeline for fixing it.
Nursing homes operating under Medicare and Medicaid are required to submit correction plans when deficiencies are cited. The plan is the facility's formal commitment to address what inspectors found. Without one, there is no documented path from the problem to the fix. There is no date by which residents and their families can expect the violation to be resolved. There is only the citation, and the silence after it.
Clearwater Nursing & Rehabilitation Center is a small facility in a small city in south-central Kansas. The people eating meals there every day are someone's parents, someone's grandparents. They depend on the kitchen to get it right. Federal inspectors found, in June 2026, that it wasn't. Weeks later, the facility had not yet put anything in writing about what it planned to do about that.
Full Inspection Report
The details above represent a summary of key findings. View the complete inspection report for Clearwater Nursing & Rehabilitation Center from 2026-06-03 including all violations, facility responses, and corrective action plans.
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Last verified: August 5, 2026 · Our methodology
CLEARWATER NURSING & REHABILITATION CENTER in CLEARWATER, KS was cited for violations during a health inspection on June 3, 2026.
The deficiency, tagged under the federal nutrition and dietary category, was classified as widespread with potential for more than minimal harm to residents.
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.