Kenwood Vlge Nursing and Rehab 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: Kenwood Vlge NRSG and RHB CTR

• Mar 7, 2025 (canvass): Pass.
  3 violations

  • Plumbing installed; proper backflow devices. Inspector’s note: observed the hand sink in the kitchen in poor repair (broken hot water hanlde). also noted a leak at the 3 comp sink underneath 3rd compartment. must repair and maintain all plumbing issues.
  • Physical facilities installed, maintained & clean. Inspector’s note: floors need cleaning through out the kitchen around equipment, in the dry storage room, dish washing area and in the dining areas on the 1 and 2nd floor.
  • Physical facilities installed, maintained & clean. Inspector’s note: observed damaged floor tiles in the kitchen and damage ceiling tiles in the kitchen and basement dining area. must repair/replace where ever needed.

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: The Estates of Hyde Park, LLC

• Mar 7, 2025 (canvass): Out of Business. No violations listed.
• Mar 12, 2024 (canvass): Pass.
  3 violations

  • Toilet facilities: properly constructed, supplied, & cleaned. Inspector’s note: instructed manager to provide and maintain a garbage with a lid as required in the women washroom.
  • Physical facilities installed, maintained & clean. Inspector’s note: floors need cleaning around the cooking equipment and through out kitchen along the wall base and in corners to remove spills, debris and/or grease.
  • Physical facilities installed, maintained & clean. Inspector’s note: observed some damagedand/or missing floor tiles through out the kitchen and storage areas. must repair and maintain smooth and easily cleanable.
• Nov 14, 2023 (canvass): Pass w/ Conditions.
  5 violations

  • City of chicago food service sanitation certificate (Priority Foundation). Inspector’s note: no city of chicago food service managers certificate. the person in charge has a certificate issued february 21, 2023 from the always food safe company. instructed to obtain the city of chicago food service managers certificate through reciprocity. priority foundation violation 7-38-012 citation ...
  • Non-food/food contact surfaces clean. Inspector’s note: instructed to clean the interior bottom of the fryer to remove excessive grease, clean exterior surface of fryer.
  • Plumbing installed; proper backflow devices. Inspector’s note: observed the attached compartment under the dishmachine that catches food particles from going into the plumbing system is leaking when machine is in use; instructed to correct. observed a constant trickle of water at the two comp sink faucet in the prep area; intructed to correct so that faucet is ...
  • Physical facilities installed, maintained & clean. Inspector’s note: the wall under the sinks in the kitchen need cleaning. the floor under and around the cooking equipment need cleaning. the floor under the dishmachine in the dishwashing room needs cleaning.
  • Physical facilities installed, maintained & clean. Inspector’s note: observed cracked and missing floor tile in the dishwashing room; instructed to replace floor tile where needed.

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: Kenwood Vlge NRSG and RHB CTR

• Feb 17, 2026 (license): Pass.
  2 violations

  • 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.
  • Adequate ventilation & lighting; designated areas used. Inspector’s note: observed two burned out light bulbs at ventilation hood. instructed to replace 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.

Care and services

From the community’s website

What Kenwood Vlge Nursing and Rehab 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.

• Offers diabetes care. Diabetes Management (page, checked Oct 15, 2026)
• Offers behavioral support. Behavioral Care in Chicago, IL | Kenwood Village (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)

Location and nearby care

Nearest hospital with an emergency room

Provident Hospital Of Chicago, Chicago. 0.9 miles away, straight line.

Nearest Medicare nursing home

Community Care Nursing Center, Chicago. 1.1 miles away, straight line.

Nearest home health agency office

Mhn My Home Nurses, Chicago. 0.7 miles away, straight line. Agencies travel to clients, so ask which ones serve this address.

Nearest pharmacy

Walgreens. 0.5 miles away, straight line. From OpenStreetMap, which does not list every pharmacy, so one may be closer.

Area

USDA classes ZIP code 60653 as metropolitan (metropolitan core).

Dialysis within 15 miles

Davita Kenwood Home Training Pd, Chicago, 0.3 miles away, straight line
Davita Kenwood Dialysis, Chicago, 0.3 miles away, straight line (CMS rating 2 of 5 stars)
Provident Dialysis Center, Chicago, 0.9 miles away, straight line (CMS rating 5 of 5 stars)

Hospice

30 Medicare hospices tell CMS they serve ZIP code 60653.
Unity Hospice Of Chicagoland, LLC, office in Chicago, 3.4 miles away, straight line (CMS family survey rating 3 of 5 stars)
Vitas Healthcare Corporation Of Illinois, office in Chicago, 5.1 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

University Of Chicago, Chicago. 1.7 miles away, straight line. 14 geriatric medicine doctors 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 low, 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.