King David Post Acute: Cold Food Violations - OH
A federal inspection completed in September found that the facility, which serves a largely kosher population of roughly 259 residents, was sending meals to units without thermal plate liners, in carts that bled heat fast enough to drop food temperatures below acceptable service levels before residents finished being served. The inspection was triggered by three separate complaints filed against the facility.
One resident, identified in the report as Resident #58, put it plainly during an interview on September 8. She said there was no good help in the kitchen, that the food was strictly kosher and she wasn't getting enough of it, and that by the time it reached her, it was cold. She said it came from the kitchen late. It wasn't good.
Resident #272 said the food was gross, cold, and not cooked properly. Resident #192 said it was bad and she couldn't eat it.
The staff confirmed what the residents were saying. A certified nursing assistant, CNA #708, told inspectors on September 11 that she heard food complaints constantly. Residents told her they were receiving small amounts and had to pay for food at the facility's café because they were still hungry. An LPN, #693, said the same thing independently, in an interview two minutes later: residents were going to the café and buying food because they didn't like what they were served or weren't getting enough.
That detail, residents spending their own money at an in-house café to supplement meals that a nursing facility is obligated to provide, appears four times across the staff interviews in the report. Nobody contradicted it.
Inspectors watched the lunch service on September 11 and placed a test tray on the meal cart at 11:41 a.m. The cart reached the Fairmount Pavilion six minutes later. By 11:58, all residents had been served. One minute after that, the surveyor and the facility's interim certified dietary manager tasted the food and took temperatures.
The eggplant cheese lasagna had dropped to 138 degrees Fahrenheit. The eggplant cheese lasagna without tomato sauce was at 123 degrees. The green beans were 121 degrees.
Those numbers mattered because the facility had already identified the problem during its own pre-service temperature check. At the steam table in the kitchen, the veggie patties had registered only 137 degrees and the pureed green beans had come in at 134, both below the threshold the facility used for acceptable service temperatures. Staff pulled both items and reheated them, the veggie patties to 160 degrees and the pureed beans to 170, before plating resumed. Then the trays went onto the cart with no thermal liners, and the temperatures fell anyway.
The interim dietary manager, CDM #508, confirmed after the test tray that the lasagna without tomato sauce and the green beans were not at an acceptable service temperature for palatability. The report notes this without elaboration. It didn't need any.
The violation was cited at the level of minimal harm or potential for actual harm, and it was found to have the potential to affect every resident in the building except six who had physician orders for nothing by mouth.
What the inspection report doesn't resolve is how long residents had been supplementing their meals with café purchases, or whether anyone with authority over the kitchen had been told. The CNA and the LPN both said they heard the complaints frequently. Neither said they had reported the problem upward. The report doesn't say whether anyone asked.
Resident #58 said the kitchen was short-staffed. The food arrived cold because there weren't enough people to move it faster. She didn't frame it as a regulatory matter. She was just hungry, and the food was cold.
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KING DAVID POST ACUTE NURSING & REHABILITATION LLC in BEACHWOOD, OH was cited for violations during a health inspection on September 22, 2025.
The inspection was triggered by three separate complaints filed against the facility.
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.