Beechwood Home for Incurables

Kitchen inspections

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

Cincinnati Health Department: Beechwood Home

• Jul 22, 2026 (routine / critical control point): Approved - Minor Violations.
  1 violation

  • Single-Service Articles and Single-Use Articles - Storage. Inspector’s note: Single-service and single-use articles were not stored in the original protective package or were stored by means that did not protect them from contamination. Clean utensils stored uncovered. Keep all food contact surfaces inverted or covered to prevent contamination.
• Mar 12, 2026 (complaint / complaint): Approved - No Violations. No violations listed.
• Sep 11, 2025 (routine / critical control point): Approved - Minor Violations.
  3 violations

  • Plumbing System- Maintained in Good Repair. Inspector’s note: Plumbing system is not maintained in good repair. Pipes under two comp sink are leaking--repair
  • Floor and wall junctures - coved, and enclosed or sealed. Inspector’s note: In FSOs or RFEs in which cleaning methods other than water flushing are used for cleaning floors, the floor and wall junctures shall be coved to no larger than one thirty-second inch (one millimeter). Resecure baseboards in dish room
  • Equipment - Good Repair and Proper Adjustment. Inspector’s note: Equipment components were not intact, tight or properly adjusted. Replace torn door gasket on True freezer
• May 22, 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. Repair flooring in dish room
  • 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. Observed open bologna with no Discard date. Pic to assure frozen foods pulled to cooler are redated
  • 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. Dried food on can opener blade
  • VII. Protection from Contamination - Packaged and Unpackaged Food - Separation, Packaging, and Segregation. Inspector’s note: Ready-to-eat food was not protected from cross-contamination by raw animal food. Observed raw shrimp stored above RTF
  • 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.
  • Food Storage: Preventing Contamination from the Premises. Inspector’s note: Food items are not protected from contamination during storage. Discontinue storing boxes of food directly on floor inside walk ins
  • Equipment - Good Repair and Proper Adjustment. Inspector’s note: Equipment components were not intact, tight or properly adjusted. Replace torn door gaskets on small on True freezer
• Oct 15, 2024 (routine / standard inspection): Approved - Minor Violations.
  9 violations

  • Equipment, food-contact surfaces, nonfood-contact surfaces, and utensils. Inspector’s note: Non-food contact surfaces are dirty. Mold observed inside two compartment prep sink--clean and maintain clean
  • Plumbing system. Inspector’s note: Plumbing system is not maintained in good repair. Pipe beneath the three compartment sink is leaking, base of faucet at two compartment prep sink is leaking--Repair
  • 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. Open lettuce and open package of Turkey with no DISCARD DATE. PIC to assure all open processed foods held > 24 hours have a DISCARD DATE. Best practice is to ...
  • VI. Time/Temperature Controlled Safety Food - TCS - hot and cold holding. Inspector’s note: TCS foods were being hot held at temperatures <135° F or a roast <130° F. Chopped pork held at 110, Ham steak held at 121, Grren beans held at 129, puréed pork held at 116, puréed green beans held at 107, whipped sweet potatoes held at 120 and purred beef held at 121 degrees F. All Reheated to 165 ...
  • Facilities: Cleaning: Frequency. Inspector’s note: The physical facilities are not cleaned as often as necessary to keep them clean. Floor beneath/behind grill area soiled--clean
  • VI. Time/Temperature Controlled Safety Food - Equipment. Inspector’s note: There is not adequate equipment for cooling, heating or holding food.
  • Equipment. Inspector’s note: Equipment and/or components were not maintained in good working order. Warmer set at highest temperature but did not maintain internal temperature of more than 123 degrees F. Warmer must be able to maintain internal temperature of a minimum of 160 degrees F. Repair/Replace
  • 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 Turkey (10/07). Discarded. PIC to assure all TCS foods are disposed of as per Ohio Food Code
  • Equipment, good repair, doors, seals. Inspector’s note: Equipment components were not intact, tight or properly adjusted. Replace torn door gasket on reach in freezer
• May 20, 2024 (routine / critical control point): Approved - Minor Violations.
  7 violations

  • Backflow prevention device. Inspector’s note: An air gap or an approved backflow prevention device is not installed as required.
  • VI. Time/Temperature Controlled Safety Food - Ready-to-eat, TCS - date marking. Inspector’s note: Date marking was not done in a consistent manner according to the code. PIC to assure all open processed foods ad prepared TCS foods held > 24 hours have a DISCARD DATE. Best practice is to document both open/prep and use by dates on each item. The day opened or prepared plus 6 days, not to exceed ...
  • VI. Time/Temperature Controlled Safety Food - TCS - hot and cold holding. Inspector’s note: TCS foods were being hot held at temperatures <135° F . Observed puréed Mac and cheese held at 129 degrees F. Reheated to 165. Maintain hot TCS foods at 135 degrees F or above
  • VII. Protection from Contamination - Cleaning frequency. Inspector’s note: Food-contact surfaces or utensils not cleaned when they were contaminated. Black mold on ice machine shield. Drain, clean and sanitize Ice Machine
  • Facilities: Cleaning: Frequency. Inspector’s note: The physical facilities are not cleaned as often as necessary to keep them clean. Flooring outside of office is sticky--clean
  • Equipment, good repair, doors, seals. Inspector’s note: Equipment components were not intact, tight or properly adjusted. Replace damaged door gasket on warmer
  • Refuse/recyclables/returnables. Inspector’s note: Outdoor refuse/recyclables/returnables receptacles are not covered with tight fitting lids or doors. Maintain doors/lids covered at all times on dumpster

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.

Care and services

From the community’s website

What Beechwood Home for Incurables 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 hospice care on site or works with hospice providers. Hospice (page, checked Oct 15, 2026)
• Apartment types named: private room, semi-private room. Rooms consist of 76 private rooms and 2 semi-private rooms. (page, checked Oct 15, 2026)
• Smoke-free. Answer: No, Beechwood is a smoke free facility which means there is no smoking in the facility or anywhere on the premises. (page, checked Oct 15, 2026)

Location and nearby care

Nearest hospital with an emergency room

University Of Cincinnati Medical Center, LLC, Cincinnati. 2.3 miles away, straight line. CMS overall hospital rating: 3 of 5 stars.

Nearest Medicare nursing home

Carecore at Margaret Hall, Cincinnati. 0.4 miles away, straight line.

Nearest home health agency office

American Mercy Home Care, LLC, Cincinnati. 1.3 miles away, straight line. Agencies travel to clients, so ask which ones serve this address.

Nearest pharmacy

Equitas Medical Center and Pharmacy. 1.6 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

Dci - Cincinnati, Cincinnati, 1.4 miles away, straight line (CMS rating 2 of 5 stars)
Fmc - Liberty Norwood, Norwood, 1.8 miles away, straight line (CMS rating 2 of 5 stars)
Davita Norwood Dialysis, Cincinnati, 1.9 miles away, straight line (CMS rating 3 of 5 stars)

Hospice

9 Medicare hospices tell CMS they serve ZIP code 45208.
Heartland Hospice (Cincinnati), office in Cincinnati, 3.0 miles away, straight line
Hospice Of Southwest Ohio, Inc, office in Cincinnati, 6.1 miles away, straight line (CMS family survey rating 4 of 5 stars)
Hospice Of Cincinnati, Inc, office in Cincinnati, 8.0 miles away, straight line (CMS family survey rating 3 of 5 stars)

Nearest geriatric medicine practice

University Of Cincinnati Physicians Company LLC, Cincinnati. 2.3 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: very low. By hazard: hurricane very low, inland flooding very low, wildfire very low, tornado relatively moderate, heat wave relatively moderate, 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.