Birchwood Plaza

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: Birchwood Plaza INC

• Mar 10, 2025 (canvass): Pass.
  6 violations

  • Food & non-food contact surfaces cleanable, properly designed, constructed & used. Inspector’s note: must not use milk crates as a means of elevation for stored items.
  • Food & non-food contact surfaces cleanable, properly designed, constructed & used. Inspector’s note: raw wood shelves inside the chemical room in the hallway by the dishroom, not cleanable.instructed to provide a smooth cleanable surface
  • Non-food/food contact surfaces clean. Inspector’s note: debris inside the ovens must be cleaned and maintain.
  • Plumbing installed; proper backflow devices. Inspector’s note: leaking faucet at three compartment sink at south area of the kitchen.repair issue
  • Physical facilities installed, maintained & clean. Inspector’s note: must keep floor dry in dishroom and kitchen.excess water on floor.
  • Adequate ventilation & lighting; designated areas used. Inspector’s note: two protective light shield in front of dishmachine are covered with brown substance,remove replace. kitchen ceiling and wall with splattered foods or brown stains.clean and repaint.
• Jul 3, 2024 (canvass): Pass w/ Conditions.
  6 violations

  • Hands clean & properly washed (Priority). Inspector’s note: observed employee in the dishroom handling dirty dishes/glasses and put them thru the low temp dish machine, wiped her hands on cloth on top table and handled and stored clean dishes.no handwashing.food handlers must wash hands and change gloves after any possible contamination. manager discussed ...
  • Adequate handwashing sinks properly supplied and accessible (Priority Foundation). Inspector’s note: handwashing sink in the dishroom not accessible for handwashing. hot water handle was turned off from water valve under the sink. hot water handle broken. per my request,manager called engineer to corrected issue. at 10:26am engineer was able to repair handwashing sink in dishroom area.a new faucet ...
  • Food-contact surfaces: cleaned & sanitized. Inspector’s note: interior of ice machine compartments white front panel not clean (interior top and bin). ice is used for human consumption. instructed to clean, sanitize and maintain unit.
  • Food & non-food contact surfaces cleanable, properly designed, constructed & used. Inspector’s note: missing screw inside ice machine that holds white panel at ice bin.repair issue.use not rusty material. must not use milk crates as a means of elevation for stored itemsincluded inside the walk-in cooler
  • Food & non-food contact surfaces cleanable, properly designed, constructed & used. Inspector’s note: must not use duct tape as a means of repair on pipes above food stored on shelves in the kitchen,remove or relocate shelves
  • Physical facilities installed, maintained & clean. Inspector’s note: observed stagnate water between floor tiles.missing groute on said tiles, some part of dishroom area specially in front of dishmachine.

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.

Care and services

From the community’s website

What Birchwood Plaza says about itself, quoted from its own site. We have not checked these claims against licensing records. Ask about each one on a tour.

• Offers respite or short-term stays. Respite Care (page, checked Oct 15, 2026)
• Nurse on site: 24 hours a day. 24 Hour Skilled Nursing Care (page, checked Oct 15, 2026)

Location and nearby care

Nearest hospital with an emergency room

Saint Francis Hospital-Evanston, Evanston. 1.0 mile away, straight line. CMS overall hospital rating: 2 of 5 stars.

Nearest Medicare nursing home

Fargo Health Care Center, Chicago. 0.1 miles away, straight line.

Nearest home health agency office

Great Paragon Healthcare, Inc, Chicago. 1.5 miles away, straight line. Agencies travel to clients, so ask which ones serve this address.

Nearest pharmacy

Walgreens. 1.0 mile away, straight line. From OpenStreetMap, which does not list every pharmacy, so one may be closer.

Area

USDA classes ZIP code 60626 as metropolitan (metropolitan core).

Dialysis within 15 miles

Fmc - Rogers Park, Chicago, 1.6 miles away, straight line (CMS rating 2 of 5 stars)
Davita Evanston Renal Center, Evanston, 2.3 miles away, straight line (CMS rating 3 of 5 stars)
Nephron Dialysis Center, Ltd., Chicago, 3.4 miles away, straight line (CMS rating 3 of 5 stars)

Hospice

30 Medicare hospices tell CMS they serve ZIP code 60626.
Guardian Healthcare & Hospice, LLC, office in Northfield, 7.4 miles away, straight line (CMS family survey rating 3 of 5 stars)
Moments Hospice Of Chicago North LLC, office in Des Plaines, 10.2 miles away, straight line
Accentcare Hospice & Palliative Care Of Illinois, office in Rosemont, 10.3 miles away, straight line (CMS family survey rating 2 of 5 stars)

Nearest geriatric medicine practice

Oak Street Health Physicians Group PC, Chicago. 1.4 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 moderate. By hazard: hurricane very low, inland flooding relatively low, coastal flooding relatively low, tornado very high, heat wave relatively high, earthquake very 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.