Prairie House Living Center

In the surveyor’s words

From the most serious findings on record at Prairie House Living Center, in the surveyor’s own words.

• No harm, potential for more than minimal, widespreadF812Feb 26, 2026

  Based on observation, interview, and record review, the facility failed to store, prepare, distribute, and serve food in accordance with the professional standards for food service safety for 1 of 1 kitchen reviewed for kitchen sanitation. The facility failed to ensure refrigerated, freezer, and pantry items were properly stored, labeled, and dated.These failures could place residents at risk of food-borne illnesses.Findings included:Observation of the pantry on 02/24/2026 at 9:16 AM, revealed dried onion pieces were observed on the floor and on top of food containers.Observation of the preparation area in the kitchen on 02/24/2026 at 9:20 AM revealed 12 covered bowls containing what appeared to be breakfast cereal, not labeled or dated.Observation of the deep freeze on 02/24/2026 at 9:21… […]

• No harm, potential for more than minimal, widespreadF812Sep 21, 2023

  Based on observation, interview, and record review, the facility failed to store, prepare, distribute, and serve food in accordance with the professional standards for food service safety for 1 of 1 kitchen reviewed for kitchen sanitation. The facility failed to ensure items in the freezer, pantry and refrigerator were properly stored, labeled, and dated. The facility failed to ensure items that were expired were disposed of and out of circulation. These failures could place residents at risk of food-borne illness. Findings include: Observation of the deep freeze on [DATE] at 9:24 AM revealed the following: 1. (1) bag of California vegetables had, no manufacturer use by date, sell by date, or best by date and no facility received date documented on the package. 2. […]

• No harm, potential for more than minimal, widespreadF727May 26, 2021

  Based on interview, and record review, the facility failed to use the services of a registered nurse for at least 8 consecutive hours a day, 7 days a week. The facility failed to provide RN coverage for 8 consecutive hours daily. The facility was missing 6.50 hours of RN coverage on 2-28-2021 and did not have any RN coverage on 3-13-21, 3-14-21, 3-27-21, 3-28-21, 4-4-21, 4-10-21, 4-11-21, 5-1-21 and 5-2-2021. This deficient practice had the potential to affect residents in the facility by leaving staff without supervisory coverage for coordination of events such as emergency care and disasters such as COVID-19 outbreak, freezing, flooding, power outage, tornado, fire, etc. […]

• No harm, potential for more than minimal, widespreadF812May 26, 2021

  Based on observation, interview, and record review, the facility failed to store, prepare, and serve food under sanitary conditions in 1of 1 kitchen when they failed to: Ensure stored food was properly labeled, dated and used or discarded before the expiration date. This failure placed residents who ate food served by the kitchen at risk of cross contamination and food-borne illness. Findings included: Observations on [DATE] beginning at 9:27 AM of the refrigerator revealed: 11 beef base containers unlabeled, undated with no expiration date. […]

• No harm, potential for more than minimal, patternF584Feb 26, 2026

  Based on observation, interview, and record review the facility failed to provide a safe, clean, comfortable and homelike environment for 1 of 1 facility observed for environment. Failures included a sticky floor in the resident lounge and peeling texture on the ceiling in the main dining room. On the secure unit, there were tables and chairs in need of repair and cleaning as well as dirty ceiling fans and light fixtures and a broken light fixture. These failures could affect residents by placing them in an uncomfortable and unsanitary environment.Findings included: In an observation on 02/24/2026 at 11:45 AM, the Memory care dining area had 2 ceiling fans that were dirty and dust was hanging from fan blades. Light fixtures were dirty with cobwebs all around them. […]