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Skilled nursing, assisted living, memory care, independent living, and Continuing Care Retirement Communities across TX, OK, LA, NM, and AR rely on Facilitec Southwest for NFPA 96–compliant kitchen exhaust cleaning that respects residents, protects survey scores, and documents every cleaning in the format state long-term care surveyors and Life Safety Code inspectors expect.
Senior living kitchens cook every meal, every day, for people who cannot be relocated and cannot wait. They're also on the survey list every year — state long-term care surveyors, Life Safety Code inspectors, local health departments, and the community's insurance carrier all look at documented kitchen exhaust cleaning before they sign anything. Facilitec Southwest works with executive directors, dining services directors, and plant operations managers who need the kitchen cleaned, residents undisturbed, and a binder-ready report that holds up on survey day.
Regular exhaust cleaning dramatically reduces your risk by keeping flammable grease out of the exhaust system and ensuring your suppression system can perform properly during an emergency.
Central production kitchens serving three daily meals plus texture-modified and therapeutic diets to medically complex residents.
Full-service restaurant-style dining with rotating menus, made-to-order cook lines, and china-service table settings.
Secure-unit dining with family-style service, small-volume cook lines, and resident-facing layouts that require exceptional discretion.
Casual cafés, pubs, and grab-and-go venues serving residents and families on their own schedule throughout the day.
Chef-driven fine dining restaurants on Life Plan campuses, including wood-fired and display cook lines serving residents and guests.
Private dining rooms, family event spaces, and on-campus catering kitchens used for holidays, celebrations, and family gatherings.
We confirm meal schedules, identify quiet hours, coordinate with dining services and plant operations, and brief the crew on the community's resident-interaction protocol.
Sealed containment around the cook line, controlled-odor hand scraping of hood, plenum, and duct — protecting residents, servers, and dining room furnishings alike.
Food-safe, low-odor degreasers and contained rinse systems — designed for occupied residential environments, not empty restaurants after midnight.
Dated NFPA 96 sticker on the hood, before/after photos, and a Life Safety Code–formatted digital compliance report emailed to the ED, DSD, and plant ops.
Work in the windows that don’t disturb residents:
Protocols crews follow in secure units:
Records formatted for how surveys actually read them:
We work with — not against — your team:
Your rooftop is just as vulnerable as your hood. Facilitec Southwest installs and maintains rooftop grease containment systems to stop leaks, protect roofing materials, and prevent costly repairs.
Yes. NFPA 96 applies to every commercial kitchen exhaust system regardless of setting. Senior living communities also fall under NFPA 101 (Life Safety Code), and both state long-term care surveyors and Life Safety Code inspectors routinely request documented kitchen exhaust cleaning records during survey visits.
Most skilled nursing and assisted living main kitchens are on a quarterly program. High-volume CCRC signature restaurants with wood-fire or char-broil equipment move to monthly or bi-monthly. Low-volume memory care kitchens and private dining rooms are typically semi-annual. We match frequency to actual cook volume and fuel type, not a calendar.
No. We schedule between meals, after dinner, or before breakfast — whichever window the dining services director approves. Residents should not see a cleaning crew in the dining room, and odors should not reach occupied spaces. That’s the whole point of our senior living program.
Yes. Our compliance reports reference NFPA 96 (2021 Edition) and include the dated service sticker, before/after photography, and technician certification — the format Life Safety Code inspectors and state long-term care surveyors expect during routine and focused surveys.
Yes. Continuing Care Retirement Communities typically have multiple dining venues plus a skilled nursing kitchen. We sequence cleanings so no more than one venue is offline at a time, consolidate documentation per campus, and provide a single account manager across every venue on the property.
Yes. We work with regional and national senior living management companies running communities across all five of our service states. One account, one point of contact, consolidated invoicing, and rolled-up compliance reporting across every property in the portfolio.
