Fargo Health Care Center

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: Fargo Health Care Center

• Feb 13, 2025 (canvass re-inspection): Pass.
  3 violations

  • Non-food/food contact surfaces clean. Inspector’s note: encrusted food debris inside the oven by the south window.clean and maintain
  • Plumbing installed; proper backflow devices. Inspector’s note: addition water flow is required at faucet of handwashing sink in the kitchen.when water is used at dishmachine or three compartment sink water flow is minimize and hot water becames cold at said sink and not able to wash hands repair issue.
  • Physical facilities installed, maintained & clean. Inspector’s note: missing floor tiles inside men and women's locker room/washrooms.surface must be smooth and cleanable.replace said tiles
• Feb 11, 2025 (canvass): Pass w/ Conditions.
  5 violations

  • Food-contact surfaces: cleaned & sanitized (Priority). Inspector’s note: we observed the low temperature, chemical dish machine not dispensing chlorine chemical sanitizer while dishes were being washed,presently 0ppm. instructed to set the three compartment sink to wash, rinse and sanitize for all dishware. dish machine tagged held for inspection and must not use until ...
  • Proper hot holding temperatures (Priority). Inspector’s note: we observed cooked ground beef stored inside the hot holding unit at temp of 76.9f to 122f. cook stated 'got from cooler no too long ago'. prior to store food at steam table, must reheat products at 165f and above. trayline is not a reheating equipment but a hot holding unit. pounds discarded 3, ...
  • Non-food/food contact surfaces clean. Inspector’s note: encrusted food debris inside the oven by the south window.clean and maintain
  • Plumbing installed; proper backflow devices. Inspector’s note: addition water flow is required at faucet of handwashing sink in the kitchen.when water is used at dishmachine or three compartment sink water flow is minimize and hot water becames cold at said sink and not able to wash hands repair issue.
  • Physical facilities installed, maintained & clean. Inspector’s note: missing floor tiles inside men and women's locker room/washrooms.surface must be smooth and cleanable.replace said tiles
• Apr 19, 2024 (canvass re-inspection): Pass.
  5 violations

  • Food-contact surfaces: cleaned & sanitized. Inspector’s note: interior of ice machine compartments not clean (interior top and bin). ice is used for human consumption. instructed to clean, sanitize and maintain unit.
  • Plumbing installed; proper backflow devices. Inspector’s note: backflow prevention device by the grease trap inside the large cabinet in food storage is leaking.repair issue. leaking water from under the garbage disposal unit attached at low temp dishmachine.must remove all broken dirty, broken caulking,not easily cleanable, already used to repair. surface ...
  • Sewage & waste water properly disposed. Inspector’s note: floor grease trap has accumulation of debris around cap from water backed up.clean and maintain. a strong foul odor from it.resolve issue.
  • Physical facilities installed, maintained & clean. Inspector’s note: excess debris on floor around the ice machine,at grese trap area(waste water dried up)in food storage and inside the chemical room by the coffee units.clean and maintain.
  • Adequate ventilation & lighting; designated areas used. Inspector’s note: no mechanical ventilation provided at women's and men's washrooms.repair issue.
• Apr 16, 2024 (canvass): Pass w/ Conditions.
  8 violations

  • Proper cooling methods used; adequate equipment for temperature control (Priority). Inspector’s note: we observed improper air temp inside the walk-in cooler:45.7f to 50f. tcs foods were stored inside the said unit: milk,eggs etc. air temp must maintain 41f and below. tagged unit "held for inspection".do not use. priority violation:7-38-005,citation issued. engineer was able to repair issue and by ...
  • Food-contact surfaces: cleaned & sanitized. Inspector’s note: we observed no chlorine detected at the final rinse of the low temperature dish machine,0ppm to 10ppm,even after three to four times attemps. management instructed to repair and maintain the machine with a final rinse of 100ppm chlorine. use three compartment sink: wash,rinse and sanitize. tagged ...
  • Food-contact surfaces: cleaned & sanitized. Inspector’s note: interior of ice machine compartments not clean (interior top and bin). ice is used for human consumption. instructed to clean, sanitize and maintain unit.
  • Proper cold holding temperatures. Inspector’s note: tcs foods at improper temperature stored inside the walk-in cooler:milk at temp of 45.6f,yogurt at temp of 45.7f,various kind of 8oz cartoons of milk at temp of 45.7f to 50f; chocolate and strawberry supplement drink at temp o 47.8f. fresh eggs at 45.6f. cold food must maintain temp of 41f and ...
  • Plumbing installed; proper backflow devices. Inspector’s note: backflow prevention device by the grease trap inside the large cabinet in food storage is leaking.repair issue. leaking water from under the garbage disposal unit attached at low temp dishmachine.must remove all broken dirty, broken caulking,not easily cleanable, already used to repair. surface ...
  • Sewage & waste water properly disposed. Inspector’s note: floor grease trap has accumulation of debris around cap from water backed up.clean and maintain. a strong foul odor from it.resolve issue.
  • Physical facilities installed, maintained & clean. Inspector’s note: excess debris on floor around the ice machine,at grese trap area(waste water dried up)in food storage and inside the chemical room by the coffee units.clean and maintain.
  • Adequate ventilation & lighting; designated areas used. Inspector’s note: no mechanical ventilation provided at women's and men's washrooms.repair issue.

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 Fargo Health Care Center says about itself, quoted from its own site. We have not checked these claims against licensing records. Ask about each one on a tour.

• Nurse on site: 24 hours a day. Our skilled nursing staff is on hand 24 hours a day. (page, checked Oct 15, 2026)
• Provides transportation. To make your visits as convenient as possible, we offer ample parking and are easily accessible by all means of public transportation. (page, checked Oct 12, 2026)
• Apartment types named: private room, semi-private room. Spacious Private and Semi-Private Rooms (page, checked Oct 12, 2026)

Staff pay and workplace safety

Federal records about how the employer here treats its staff.

Federal wage and hour cases

The Department of Labor checks that staff are paid minimum wage and overtime as the law requires.

• Findings for Sep 28, 2014 to Sep 25, 2016. Violations found: Overtime. Back wages: $1,256 owed to 13 employees. DOL marked the employer as a repeat violator. Employer as DOL recorded it: Arbour Health Care Center (Arbour Health Care Center. LTD). Case 1801800.

Source: U.S. Department of Labor, Wage and Hour Division enforcement data, loaded Oct 15, 2026. Concluded cases only. The dates are the period in which DOL found violations, not when the case opened or closed. Back wages are what the employer agreed to pay; penalties are what DOL assessed. DOL does not publish a page for each case, so search the dataset by case number.

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

Birchwood Plaza, 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, 1.5 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, 3.3 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, 7.5 miles away, straight line (CMS family survey rating 3 of 5 stars)
Moments Hospice Of Chicago North LLC, office in Des Plaines, 10.1 miles away, straight line
Accentcare Hospice & Palliative Care Of Illinois, office in Rosemont, 10.2 miles away, straight line (CMS family survey rating 2 of 5 stars)

Nearest geriatric medicine practice

Oak Street Health Physicians Group PC, Chicago. 1.3 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.