Southgate Health Care Center
Southgate Health Care Center in METROPOLIS, IL — inspection on November 19, 2025.
Found 1 citation. Severity: Standard violations.
Health inspections identify deficiencies that facilities must correct within required timeframes. Violations range from minor documentation issues to serious safety concerns and are subject to follow-up verification.
Inspection Findings
Based on observation, interview and record review the facility failed to maintain the kitchen free from roaches.
This failure has the potential to affect all 94 residents residing in the facility.Findings include:On 11/18/25 at 10:25 AM, a cockroach was crawling across the back of the hand washing sink in the kitchen.On 11/18/25 at 10:33 AM, a cockroach was crawling along the wall under the 3-compartment sink in the kitchen.On 11/18/25 at 11:28 AM, two cockroaches were crawling along the wall next to the three-compartment sink in the kitchen.On 11/18/25 at 10:28 AM, V3 (Cook) said the kitchen had a lot of cockroaches and had been trying to get rid of them since V3 started in January of 2025. V3 said a pest control company would come to the facility once a month and the cockroach problem would get better, but they would slowly return. V3 said staff tried to keep the kitchen as clean as possible to decrease the cockroach population.On 11/18/25 at 3:50 PM, V4 (Chief Executive Officer) said the dietary manager should have told us there were roaches in the kitchen and he would have called the exterminator to come back and spray. V4 said he had called the pest control company to ask what they were using to exterminate the cockroaches and question why kitchen was still infested. V4 said the pest control company told him the kitchen was large, and they had been trying to exterminate the cockroaches and V4 said he told the pest control company they were going to have to try harder because this was unacceptable.The facility's 11/18/25 Pest Control policy documented in part .This policy establishes standardized procedures for preventing, identifying, reporting, and treating pest activity within the facility.
Reporting. 1.
Staff must report any pest activity immediately to: Maintenance Director. 3.
Maintenance will notify the contracted pest control provider if immediate treatment is required outside of their monthly inspection.
The facility's 11/18/25 Daily Census documented 94 total residents living in the facility.
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