Balmoral Home

Kitchen inspections

The local health department inspects the kitchen that serves residents. Results are in the agency's own words.

Chicago Department of Public Health: Balmoral Home, INC.

• Aug 27, 2026 (complaint): Pass.
  1 violation

  • Physical facilities installed, maintained & clean. Inspector’s note: observed multiple areas in the food prep and dishwashing areas with chipped paint on the ceiling. management instructed to scrape and repaint all affected areas. observed several broken floor tiles in front of the spray sink for the dishwashing machine. management instructed to replace broken floor ...
• May 26, 2026 (canvass): Pass. No violations listed.
• Jul 9, 2025 (canvass): Pass.
  3 violations

  • Thermometers provided & accurate. Inspector’s note: broken internal thermometer inside the left walk-in cooler. instructed to replace.
  • Non-food/food contact surfaces clean. Inspector’s note: interior of the double stacked ovens noted dirty with excessive grease. instructed to clean and maintain.
  • Physical facilities installed, maintained & clean. Inspector’s note: missing grout between floor tiles at the dish machine area with pooling liquid and debris. instructed to place missing tile grout.
• Sep 25, 2024 (canvass re-inspection): Pass. No violations listed.
• Sep 23, 2024 (canvass): Pass w/ Conditions.
  3 violations

  • Proper cold holding temperatures (Priority). Inspector’s note: observed improper cold holding temperature of (tcs foods) inside of the cold holding cooler.observed milk in (half pint cartons) at improper temperatures ranging from (45.1f-47.1f).management voluntarily discarded approximately 100#'s of food worth $101.50.instructed management to monitor and ...
  • Proper cooling methods used; adequate equipment for temperature control (Priority). Inspector’s note: observed the cold holding cooler located in the dry storage room with an air temperature of 46.1f.the cooler was used to store (tcs foods) half pint cartons of milk.instructed management to repair and maintain said cooler at 41f or colder at all times.management immediately notified refrigeration ...
  • Food & non-food contact surfaces cleanable, properly designed, constructed & used. Inspector’s note: observed stained cutting boards in the ktchen food prep areas.instructed to resurface or replace the cutting boards and maintain.

Source: the agency's records, inspections since Oct 16, 2023, as of Oct 15, 2026. Pass: No critical or serious violations found. Pass w/ Conditions: Critical or serious violations found and corrected during the inspection. Fail: Critical or serious violations not corrected during the inspection. Priority / Priority Foundation / Core: The city's severity levels under the 2017 Chicago Food Code; Priority is the most serious.

Location and nearby care

Nearest hospital with an emergency room

Methodist Hospital Of Chicago, Chicago. 0.7 miles away, straight line.

Nearest Medicare nursing home

Continental Nursing & Rehab Center, Chicago. 0.4 miles away, straight line.

Nearest home health agency office

God Gift Health Care LLC, Chicago. 1.0 mile away, straight line. Agencies travel to clients, so ask which ones serve this address.

Nearest pharmacy

Walgreens. 0.6 miles away, straight line. From OpenStreetMap, which does not list every pharmacy, so one may be closer.

Area

USDA classes ZIP code 60625 as metropolitan (metropolitan core).

Dialysis within 15 miles

Nephron Dialysis Center, Ltd., Chicago, 1.0 mile away, straight line (CMS rating 3 of 5 stars)
Zclosed - Fmc - Uptown, Chicago, 1.8 miles away, straight line (CMS rating 2 of 5 stars)
Fmc - Rogers Park, Chicago, 2.1 miles away, straight line (CMS rating 2 of 5 stars)

Hospice

29 Medicare hospices tell CMS they serve ZIP code 60625.
Vitas Healthcare Corporation Of Illinois, office in Chicago, 8.0 miles away, straight line (CMS family survey rating 2 of 5 stars)
Unity Hospice Of Chicagoland, LLC, office in Chicago, 9.0 miles away, straight line (CMS family survey rating 3 of 5 stars)
Guardian Healthcare & Hospice, LLC, office in Northfield, 9.1 miles away, straight line (CMS family survey rating 3 of 5 stars)

Nearest geriatric medicine practice

Northwestern Medical Faculty Foundation, Chicago. 0.9 miles away, straight line. 1 geriatric medicine doctor listed there.

Distances are straight lines from the community, not driving distance. Hospitals, home health, dialysis, hospice and doctors come from CMS provider data (CMS, hospital list updated Jul 22, 2026). Star ratings are CMS’s own.

Emergency and natural hazard risk

Public hazard maps for this location. Ask the community about its emergency plan, its generator and where residents would go in an evacuation.

Flood zone

Outside the high and moderate risk flood areas on FEMA's flood map (Zone X, minimal flood hazard, or not studied). (FEMA flood map)

FEMA National Risk Index

Overall: relatively low. By hazard: hurricane very low, inland flooding relatively moderate, coastal flooding very low, tornado relatively high, heat wave relatively moderate, earthquake relatively low. These are FEMA’s ratings for the census tract, compared with tracts nationwide. (FEMA, December 2025)

A flood zone describes the map at this point, not the building's elevation. In an emergency, follow the local emergency management agency.

What we checked

Every public source we searched for this community. “Nothing on record” means we found no record that matched it. A record can be missed when a name or address differs.