Cassville Health Care Center: Food Safety Failures - MO
When inspectors visited Cassville Health Care Center on September 23 and 24, 2025, they found that gap repeated across the kitchen: multiple refrigerators running well above safe temperatures, food logs that didn't reflect reality, and a dietary manager who acknowledged her staff wasn't cleaning or monitoring as directed.
Inside the Avanti reach-in refrigerator running at 48.7 degrees, inspectors found an open gallon of mayonnaise, sliced cheese, eggs, pre-cooked sausage patties, cooked pork in a steam bin, and more. The pork was dated September 13, ten days before the inspection. The dietary manager took the temperature of bologna stored in a separate small refrigerator and read it herself: 53.4 degrees. A third refrigerator measured 46 degrees internally when she checked it during the inspection. She said staff "may have to work on moving the food" to a refrigerator that was working properly.
The dietary manager told inspectors that the Avanti unit sometimes runs warm because staff put pitchers of freshly brewed hot tea inside. She said the protocol when a refrigerator runs high is to move everything to another unit. There was no indication that had happened.
The kitchen surfaces told a similar story. The griddle had significant grease and food debris baked onto the surface. The oven exterior was heavily soiled, and the oven handles were tacky to the touch. On a shelf below a food prep area, cutting boards and pans sat among crumbs, food scraps, and small pieces of trash. In a locked dry-storage room across from the kitchen, a bulk bin of breadcrumbs carried a label dated April 18, at least five months before inspectors arrived.
A gallon of milk in a chest refrigerator had its original best-by date covered with tape showing a newer date. The dietary manager said she didn't know why.
The administrator told inspectors he didn't know whether staff were logging refrigerator temperatures every shift, and didn't know whether the refrigerators were holding safe temperatures. He said the kitchen should be cleaned daily.
The dietary manager said she had been struggling to get some dietary staff to clean as directed.
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CASSVILLE HEALTH CARE CENTER in CASSVILLE, MO was cited for violations during a health inspection on September 24, 2025.
The pork was dated September 13, ten days before the inspection.
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