Ryze West

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: Symphony of Chicago West/ryze

• Oct 29, 2025 (canvass): Out of Business. No violations listed.
• Apr 22, 2025 (canvass): Pass.
  3 violations

  • Non-food/food contact surfaces clean. Inspector’s note: observed walk in cooler wall with patches of fuzzy dark stained areas on walls throughout cooling unit. instructed to clean walls of equipment and maintain free of buildup.
  • Physical facilities installed, maintained & clean. Inspector’s note: observed floors located in both dry storage areas in need of cleaning. intrusted to remove all dried food debris under storage racks.
  • Physical facilities installed, maintained & clean. Inspector’s note: observed black crates used to store items in dry storage room. instructed to remove and provide smooth and easily cleanable equipment for storage.
• Jun 28, 2024 (canvass re-inspection): Pass w/ Conditions.
  6 violations

  • City of chicago food service sanitation certificate (Priority Foundation). Inspector’s note: 2-101.11 no city of chicago certified food service sanitation certificate holder on site while open and operating, preparing, serving eggs, milk, deli meat, etc. instructed to maintain at least one on-site at all times. priority foundation violation. #7-38-012. citation issued.
  • Insects, rodents, & animals not present. Inspector’s note: 6-202.16 approximately a 1/4 inch gap between the door and floor in the compactor room. instructed to enclose gap to prevent pest entry.
  • Plumbing installed; proper backflow devices. Inspector’s note: 5-205.15 piping attached to 3-compartment sink in rear prep dripping into bucket, noted faucet in women's toilet/locker room washbowl on right side hot water handle leaking as well as sink on left-hand side not draning properly with water pooled inside sink basin. instructed to repair and maintain ...
  • Toilet facilities: properly constructed, supplied, & cleaned. Inspector’s note: 5-501.17 to provide garbage can in women's toilet room with covering.
  • Physical facilities installed, maintained & clean. Inspector’s note: 6-201.13 no wall base, and the yellow wall is in disrepair leading into prep. instructed to repair wall and provide base.
  • Physical facilities installed, maintained & clean. Inspector’s note: 6-201.11 pooling water in the dishwashing room during the time of inspection. instructed to regrout floors replace missing tiles surrounding equipment in said area.
• Jun 20, 2024 (canvass): Fail.
  7 violations

  • Food-contact surfaces: cleaned & sanitized (Priority Foundation). Inspector’s note: observed ice machine located in rear prep area with yellow slime and mold-like buildup on internal panel of equipment dripping onto ice used for human consumption. instructed to clean and sanitize food contact surface and maintain. priority foundation violation. 7-38-005. citation issued.
  • Insects, rodents, & animals not present (Priority Foundation). Inspector’s note: observed approximately 35 small and large live flies flying throughout the following areas during the time of inspection...rear prep/dishwashing area near piping and drains, on equipment surfaces of serving line, on shelving units in dry storage room and indoor refuse area. instructed to contact ...
  • Insects, rodents, & animals not present. Inspector’s note: observed approximately 1/4 inch gap between door and floor in compactor room. instructed to enclose gap to prevent pest entry.
  • Plumbing installed; proper backflow devices. Inspector’s note: observed piping attached to 3 compartment sink in rear prep dripping into bucket, noted faucet in women's toilet/locker room washbowl on right handside hot water handle leaking as well as sink on left-hand side not draning properly with water pooled inside sink basin. instructed to repair and ...
  • Toilet facilities: properly constructed, supplied, & cleaned. Inspector’s note: instructed to provide garbage can in women's toilet room with covering.
  • Physical facilities installed, maintained & clean. Inspector’s note: observed pooling water in the dishwashing room during the time of inspection. instructed to regrout floors replace missing tiles surrounding equipment in said area.
  • Physical facilities installed, maintained & clean. Inspector’s note: observed no wall base and yellow wall in disrepair leading into prep. instructed to repair wall and provide base.

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: Ryze West

• Oct 29, 2025 (license): Pass.
  4 violations

  • Adequate handwashing sinks properly supplied and accessible. Inspector’s note: observed no handwashing signs in staff toilet rooms on floors 1-5. instructed person in charge to provide handwashing signs in all restrooms and maintain.
  • Toilet facilities: properly constructed, supplied, & cleaned. Inspector’s note: observed no covered receptacle in restrooms for women's use. instructed person in charge to provide covered receptacle in all restrooms for women's use.
  • Physical facilities installed, maintained & clean. Inspector’s note: observed water damaged ceiling tiles in dry storage room (canned goods). instructed person in charge to replace all damaged or missing ceiling tiles throughout facility.
  • Physical facilities installed, maintained & clean. Inspector’s note: observed trash on floor in men's locker room and kitchen break room. instructed person in charge to clean 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 Ryze West 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. 24/7 Skilled Nursing Care (page, checked Oct 12, 2026)
• Offers hospice care on site or works with hospice providers. Palliative & Hospice Coordination (page, checked Oct 12, 2026)
• Apartment types named: private room, semi-private room. Private & 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.

DOL also concluded 1 case here with no violations found, most recently for a period ending Jul 7, 2023.

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

Loretto Hospital, Chicago. 0.6 miles away, straight line.

Nearest Medicare nursing home

Complete Care at the Boulevard, Chicago. 1.0 mile away, straight line.

Nearest home health agency office

Anuco Home Health Care LLC, Chicago. 0.3 miles away, straight line. Agencies travel to clients, so ask which ones serve this address.

Nearest pharmacy

Walgreens. 0.3 miles away, straight line. From OpenStreetMap, which does not list every pharmacy, so one may be closer.

Area

USDA classes ZIP code 60644 as metropolitan (metropolitan core).

Dialysis within 15 miles

Fmc - Austin Community Kidney Center, Chicago, 1.3 miles away, straight line (CMS rating 2 of 5 stars)
Fmc - West Suburban Dialysis Center, Oak Park, 1.4 miles away, straight line (CMS rating 2 of 5 stars)
Fmc - Oak Park Dialysis Unit, Oak Park, 2.0 miles away, straight line (CMS rating 3 of 5 stars)

Hospice

33 Medicare hospices tell CMS they serve ZIP code 60644.
Vitas Healthcare Corporation Of Illinois, office in Chicago, 4.1 miles away, straight line (CMS family survey rating 2 of 5 stars)
Unity Hospice Of Chicagoland, LLC, office in Chicago, 6.0 miles away, straight line (CMS family survey rating 3 of 5 stars)
Sanctuary Hospice, office in Westchester, 7.2 miles away, straight line (CMS family survey rating 2 of 5 stars)

Nearest geriatric medicine practice

Oak Street Health Physicians Group PC, Berwyn. 2.9 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, 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.