Kensington Place Nursing & Rehab

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: Kensington Place Nursing and Rehabilitation Center

• Nov 6, 2023 (canvass): Out of Business. No violations listed.

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.

Chicago Department of Public Health: Kensington Place Nursing and Rehabilitation Center

• Aug 11, 2025 (canvass): Pass.
  4 violations

  • Food properly labeled; original container. Inspector’s note: observed food storage containers without labels containing the common name of foods. instructed to provide.
  • Food & non-food contact surfaces cleanable, properly designed, constructed & used. Inspector’s note: observed milk crates being used as shelving throughout the prep and storage areas. must remove and provide shelving that is 6" off the floor and provides floor accessibility to ensure adequate facility cleaning.
  • Non-food/food contact surfaces clean. Inspector’s note: observed grease buildup on cooking equipment, walls, surrounding floors and shelving units in the kitchen/prep areas. instructed to degrease, clean and sanitize.
  • Physical facilities installed, maintained & clean. Inspector’s note: observed grease buildup, food debris, and dirt on floor under cooking equipment, along walls and in all corners in prep, dish washing, storage and basement areas. instructed manager to clean floors under all equipment, along walls and in all corners in all areas. observed dust buildup on fan in ...
• Jun 11, 2024 (canvass): Pass.
  3 violations

  • Non-food/food contact surfaces clean. Inspector’s note: observed the sides of the cooking equipment with a build up grease spillage. instructed to clean and maintain.
  • Physical facilities installed, maintained & clean. Inspector’s note: observed the floors in the dry storage area with a build up of dirt and food dbris under the shelving along the walls. also observed the walls and floor in the food service dish washing area with a builf up of dirt, splatter and debris in the corner under the dish machine. instructed to clean and ...
  • Physical facilities installed, maintained & clean. Inspector’s note: observed the floors in the walk in cooler with a build up of food debris and spillage. instructed to clean and maintain. also observed milk crates being used to store items on top of in the walk in freezer. instructed to remove and use proper shelving for cleaning purposes.
• Nov 13, 2023 (canvass re-inspection): Pass. No violations listed.
• Nov 6, 2023 (canvass): Fail.
  3 violations

  • City of chicago food service sanitation certificate. Inspector’s note: observed no valid original city of chicago sanitation manager certification on site. instructed person in charge that valid original city of chicago sanitation manager certificate is required on site at all times (no photocopies are accepted). priority foundation #7-38-012. citation issued.
  • Adequate handwashing sinks properly supplied and accessible. Inspector’s note: observed no handsink in dishwashing area(handsink removed). instructed person in charge to install handsink with hot and cold potable running water under city pressure and soap and paper towels in dish area and maintain. priority foundation #7-38-030(c). citation issued.
  • Food-contact surfaces: cleaned & sanitized. Inspector’s note: observed mold like substance on interior of ice machine dripping onto ice(ice used for human consumption). instructed person in charge to remove all ice, sanitize and maintain machine. priority foundation #7-38-005. citation issued.

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 Kensington Place Nursing & Rehab 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 diabetes care. Diabetes Management (page, checked Oct 15, 2026)
• Offers behavioral support. Behavioral Care (page, checked Oct 15, 2026)
• Smoke-free. For the safety and welfare of all residents and staff, we are a non-smoking facility. (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.

DOL also concluded 1 case here with no violations found, most recently for a period ending Jun 26, 2022.

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

Insight Hospital And Medical Center Chicago, Chicago. 0.9 miles away, straight line. CMS overall hospital rating: 1 of 5 stars.

Nearest Medicare nursing home

Ryze on the Avenue, Chicago. 0.1 miles away, straight line.

Nearest home health agency office

Comprehensive Quality Care, Inc Foundation, Chicago. 0.4 miles away, straight line. Agencies travel to clients, so ask which ones serve this address.

Nearest pharmacy

Pharmacy. 1.2 miles away, straight line. From OpenStreetMap, which does not list every pharmacy, so one may be closer.

Area

USDA classes ZIP code 60616 as metropolitan (metropolitan core).

Dialysis within 15 miles

Fmc - Bridgeport, Chicago, 1.2 miles away, straight line (CMS rating 2 of 5 stars)
Davita Kenwood Home Training Pd, Chicago, 1.4 miles away, straight line
Davita Kenwood Dialysis, Chicago, 1.4 miles away, straight line (CMS rating 2 of 5 stars)

Hospice

30 Medicare hospices tell CMS they serve ZIP code 60616.
Unity Hospice Of Chicagoland, LLC, office in Chicago, 1.7 miles away, straight line (CMS family survey rating 3 of 5 stars)
Vitas Healthcare Corporation Of Illinois, office in Chicago, 3.5 miles away, straight line (CMS family survey rating 2 of 5 stars)
Chicago Hope & Palliative Healthcare Inc, office in Palos Hills, 13.1 miles away, straight line

Nearest geriatric medicine practice

The Board Of Trustees Of The University Of Illinois, 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 moderate. By hazard: hurricane very low, inland flooding relatively moderate, coastal flooding very low, tornado relatively high, heat wave relatively high, 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.