Deupree House II - Residential Care Facility

The local health department inspects the kitchen that serves residents. Results are in the agency's own words.

Cincinnati Health Department: Deupree House East

• Jul 2, 2026 (routine / critical control point): Approved - Minor Violations.
  9 violations

  • Nonfood-contact surfaces - cleaning frequency. Inspector’s note: Nonfood-contact surfaces are not cleaned frequently enough. Soiled exhaust fan in walk in cooler. Soiled filters under the hood.
  • Food Storage Containers - Identified with Common Name of Food. Inspector’s note: Working containers of food are not properly labeled. Unlabeled salt and pepper containers.
  • X. Chemical - Working Containers - Common Name. Inspector’s note: Working containers of poisonous/toxic materials are not labeled. Unlabeled chemical container. Working containers of poisonous/toxic materials are not labeled. Corrected on site.
  • VII. Protection from Contamination - Equipment Food-Contact Surfaces and Utensils: Clean to Sight and Touch. Inspector’s note: Food-contact surfaces were not clean to the sight and touch. Soiled can opener blade. Clean it daily. Corrected on site.
  • Cleaning- Frequency and Restrictions. Inspector’s note: The physical facilities are not cleaned as often as necessary to keep them clean. Ceiling on return air duct detached. Paint peeling and chipping on ceiling above dishwasher.
  • Equipment - Good Repair and Proper Adjustment. Inspector’s note: Equipment components were not intact, tight or properly adjusted. Ripped gasket on on frozen veggie cooler. Replace gasket.
  • Storage - Excluded Locations. Inspector’s note: Cleaned and sanitized equipment, utensils, laundered linens, or single-service or single-use articles were stored in a prohibited area. To go container stored on the floor in dry storage. Store all food contact surfaces 6 inches above ground.
  • X. Chemical - Conditions of Use. Inspector’s note: The operator is using a poisonous/toxic substance that is not approved for use in a food facility and/ or the substance is not being used according to law, conditions of licensing or to the manufacturer's directions. Sanitizer used to clean food contact surfaces was not approved to clean food ...
  • Cleaning- Frequency and Restrictions. Inspector’s note: The physical facilities are not cleaned as often as necessary to keep them clean. Soiled light shields on ceiling through out the kitchen. Soiled ceiling vents. Clean light sheilds and vents regularly to prevent contamination of food.
• Sep 18, 2025 (routine / critical control point): Approved - Minor Violations.
  8 violations

  • Food Storage or Display: Contact with Water or Ice. Inspector’s note: Food items are stored or displayed directly in contact with ice, water or undrained ice.
  • VI. Time/Temperature Controlled Safety Food - Ready-to-eat, TCS - date marking. Inspector’s note: Refrigerated, ready-to-eat, TCS food that is prepared in the food facility and held refrigerated for more than 24 hours is not properly date marked. Cooked shrimp with no discard date
  • VII. Protection from Contamination - Equipment Food-Contact Surfaces and Utensils: Clean to Sight and Touch. Inspector’s note: Food-contact surfaces were not clean to the sight and touch. Wash and sanitize can opener blade after each use
  • Sanitizing solutions - Testing Devices. Inspector’s note: There is no test kit available for measuring the concentration of the sanitizer.
  • Floors, walls, and ceilings. Inspector’s note: The floors coverings, walls coverings, or ceilings are not designed, constructed, and installed so they are smooth and easily cleanable. Re-secure corner FRP Board in dish room
  • Linens and napkins - Use Limitation. Inspector’s note: Linens are being inappropriately used in contact with food.
  • Cutting surfaces.. Inspector’s note: Cutting surface(s) unable to be effectively cleaned and sanitized.
  • Preset Tableware. Inspector’s note: Preset tableware was not protected from contamination by being wrapped, covered, or inverted.
• Apr 24, 2025 (routine / critical control point): Approved - Minor Violations.
  7 violations

  • Indoor areas - surface characteristics. Inspector’s note: Indoor floor, wall, or ceiling surfaces are not smooth, durable, and easily cleanable in areas where FSO or RFE activities are conducted.
  • Cleaning- Frequency and Restrictions. Inspector’s note: The physical facilities are not cleaned as often as necessary to keep them clean.
  • VI. Time/Temperature Controlled Safety Food - Ready-to-eat, TCS - date marking. Inspector’s note: Ready-to-eat, TCS food that was prepared in a food processing plant and subsequently opened in a FSO or a RFE is not properly date marked.
  • Drying Mops. Inspector’s note: After use, mops are not placed in a position that allows them to air-dry without soiling walls, equipment, or supplies.
  • Equipment - Good Repair and Proper Adjustment. Inspector’s note: Equipment components were not intact, tight or properly adjusted.
  • Preset Tableware. Inspector’s note: Preset tableware was not protected from contamination by being wrapped, covered, or inverted.
  • Covering Receptacles. Inspector’s note: Outdoor refuse/recyclables/returnables receptacles are not covered with tight fitting lids or doors.
• Oct 1, 2024 (routine / critical control point): Approved - Minor Violations.
  5 violations

  • Thawing TCS. Inspector’s note: TCS food was improperly thawed. Observed frozen berries thawing in hot water. Thaw under COLD RUNNING water or in cooler overnight. (Prep sink malfunctioning due to work on dish machine, product moved to a different prep sink to thaw correctly)
  • Plumbing system. Inspector’s note: Plumbing system is not maintained in good repair. Drip at faucet at three comp sink--repair
  • X. Chemical - Poisonous/toxic material. Inspector’s note: Working containers of poisonous/toxic materials are not labeled.
  • VI. Time/Temperature Controlled Safety Food - Ready-to-eat, TCS - disposition. Inspector’s note: Ready-to-eat, TCS food was not discarded by the date mark, or was undated and not discarded or was not discarded when the date mark exceeded the required time/temperature combination. Expired lemon wedges--discarded. PIC to assure all TCS Foods are disposed of as per Ohio Food Code
  • Preset Tableware. Inspector’s note: Preset tableware was not protected from contamination by being wrapped, covered, or inverted.
• Apr 24, 2024 (routine / critical control point): Approved - Minor Violations.
  5 violations

  • Storage. Inspector’s note: Cleaned and sanitized equipment, utensils, laundered linens, or single-service or single-use articles were stored in a prohibited area. Discontinue storing boxes of food containers directly on floor
  • VI. Time/Temperature Controlled Safety Food - Ready-to-eat, TCS - disposition. Inspector’s note: Refrigerated, ready-to-eat, TCS food dispensed through a vending machine with an automatic shut-off was not discarded as required. Observed expired salad dressing, chopped tomatoes and cheese. Discarded. PIC to assure all TCS foods are disposed of as per Ohio Food code
  • Preset Tableware. Inspector’s note: Preset tableware was not protected from contamination by being wrapped, covered, or inverted.
  • Refuse/recyclables/returnables. Inspector’s note: Outdoor refuse/recyclables/returnables receptacles are not covered with tight fitting lids or doors.
  • In-use utensils - between-use storage. Inspector’s note: In-use utensils are improperly stored. Discontinue storing in-use knives between equipment

Source: the agency's records, inspections since Oct 16, 2023, as of Oct 15, 2026. Critical: Marked critical in the Ohio Uniform Food Safety Code as cited by the city.

How Medicaid pays for care in Ohio

• Assisted Living HCBS Waiver Program (Assisted Living Waiver). Ohio Medicaid's Assisted Living Waiver can pay for services in a licensed residential care facility that the Ohio Department of Aging has certified. A person who is eligible is enrolled only if the waiver has not reached the number of participants the federal government approved for that year. (state page)

Ask the community whether it accepts Medicaid.

Nearest hospital with an emergency room

The Jewish Hospital-Mercy Health, Cincinnati. 4.2 miles away, straight line. CMS overall hospital rating: 4 of 5 stars.

Nearest Medicare nursing home

Deupree Cottages, Cincinnati. 0.1 miles away, straight line.

Nearest home health agency office

American Mercy Home Care, LLC, Cincinnati. 2.0 miles away, straight line. Agencies travel to clients, so ask which ones serve this address.

Nearest pharmacy

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

Area

USDA classes ZIP code 45208 as metropolitan (metropolitan core).

Dialysis within 15 miles

Davita Norwood Dialysis, Cincinnati, 2.5 miles away, straight line (CMS rating 3 of 5 stars)
Fmc - Liberty Norwood, Norwood, 2.8 miles away, straight line (CMS rating 2 of 5 stars)
Davita Silverton Dialysis, Cincinnati, 3.2 miles away, straight line (CMS rating 2 of 5 stars)

Hospice

9 Medicare hospices tell CMS they serve ZIP code 45208.
Heartland Hospice (Cincinnati), office in Cincinnati, 0.3 miles away, straight line
Hospice Of Southwest Ohio, Inc, office in Cincinnati, 3.4 miles away, straight line (CMS family survey rating 4 of 5 stars)
Hospice Of Cincinnati, Inc, office in Cincinnati, 6.2 miles away, straight line (CMS family survey rating 3 of 5 stars)

Nearest geriatric medicine practice

The Christ Hospital Medical Associates, LLC, Cincinnati. 0.8 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.

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 moderate, wildfire very low, tornado relatively moderate, heat wave relatively moderate, 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.

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