Reserve at Appling: Ice Machine Mold Violation - GA
Inspectors visiting the facility on August 25, 2025, found the interior of the kitchen ice machine covered in the discoloration. The dietary manager, standing in the kitchen when inspectors made the observation, confirmed what they were seeing. She said she and the kitchen staff had tried to scrub it out themselves. It would not come off.
Two days later, inspectors sat down with the maintenance director. He confirmed he was responsible for the machine and cleaned it monthly. He confirmed the dark brown buildup was there. He said he had not known about it before that conversation.
Forty minutes after that interview, the administrator said she expected both the maintenance director and kitchen staff to clean the machine regularly and thoroughly each time.
Seventy-six residents were receiving nutrition or hydration from that kitchen.
The dietary manager told inspectors the maintenance director bore primary responsibility for the machine. The maintenance director said the same thing about himself. The administrator said she expected both of them to handle it. Nobody had.
The inspection was conducted as a complaint investigation. CMS rated the violation at the minimal harm level, meaning inspectors determined no resident had been confirmed harmed, though the buildup created conditions that put all 76 residents at risk of foodborne illness. The facility's own policy, revised just four months earlier in April 2025, required the ice machine to be cleaned at a frequency sufficient to prevent exactly this kind of accumulation.
Whether any resident consumed ice from the machine during the period the buildup was present, and for how long the buildup had been there before inspectors arrived, the report does not say.
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Reserve at Appling of Journey LLC, The in APPLING, GA was cited for violations during a health inspection on August 28, 2025.
Inspectors visiting the facility on August 25, 2025, found the interior of the kitchen ice machine covered in the discoloration.
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