Ice machine for a nursing home (assisted living / long-term care)

A nursing home, assisted-living community, memory-care neighborhood, or long-term care building is resident ice at a published 6 lb row, plus, sometimes, a staff and visitor cafeteria. Those are separate worksheets. Putting 50 resident beds on the hospital 10 lb/bed line, or copying the hotel 5 lb per occupied room guest-hopper onto every bed, is how the floor buys bags at 6 a.m. — or how an open dietary bin sits in a hallway where residents fill cups.

This is not the hospital page. That guide keeps hospital patient ice at 10 lb/bed. This page is the nursing-home 6 lb census. It is not a school cafeteria lunch-rush page, not a hotel guest-floor page, and not a gym trainer-pack page.

This is a planning page from published application factors and current OEM sheets. It is not a dealer quote, not a review score, not medical advice, and not a health-code or infection-control opinion. Confirm electrical, plumbing, clearance, and sanitation with the people who inspect the building. Follow the facility’s ice-handling policy and the clean/sanitize interval on the machine sheet.

Who this is for

Nursing homes and skilled nursing sizing resident ice from a published 6 lb per bed or 6 lb per resident factor.
Assisted living and memory care when the published row that matches the building is that same nursing-home line. None of the charts opened here print a separate assisted-living, memory-care, or skilled-nursing pound. We do not invent one.
Dietary / facilities deciding a dispenser on a resident-accessible floor versus a modular head and bin that only staff can reach, and when a nursing-station undercounter is actually too small.

It is not a hospital census. Corridor dispensers look similar; the lbs/bed math on this page is 6, not 10. It is also not hotel guest-floor ice and not a campus dining hall.

Published nursing-home / cafeteria factors

Foodservice charts do print a nursing-home row, and they print it next to a different hospital row. Those are dealer / buyer-guide rules of thumb, not a manufacturer warranty, not a clinical standard, and not a lab measurement. We do not invent a VenueIce average in the middle, and we do not average 10 and 6.

Published line	Factor	What the source is talking about
GoFoodservice, nursing home patient ice	6 lbs per bed	Healthcare block on their buying guide. A different row from hospital 10 lbs per bed on the same chart. Last updated Sep 20, 2026.
GoFoodservice, quick-reference nursing home	50 beds → 360 lb; 100 → 720 lb; 250 → 1,800 lb; 500 → 3,600 lb	Rooms/beds calculator. Copy on that section: all figures include a 20% buffer for peak demand. 50 × 6 × 1.2 = 360. 100 × 6 × 1.2 = 720. 250 × 6 × 1.2 = 1,800. 500 × 6 × 1.2 = 3,600.
GoFoodservice, hospital patient ice	10 lbs per bed	Same Healthcare block. Stays on the hospital page. Their buffered hospital cells are 50 → 600 lb and 100 → 1,200 lb. Do not use those cells on a nursing-home census.
GoFoodservice, healthcare cafeteria	1 lb per person	Same Healthcare block. Staff / visitor meal ice, not resident beds. Their 20% language on this article sits on the rooms/beds calculator, not on a printed cafeteria cell.
The Kitchen Spot, nursing homes	6 lbs per resident	Application chart marked add 20% for a safe margin. Same page: hospital patients 10 lbs per patient, hospital cafeteria 1 lb per person.
KaTom, nursing homes	about 6 pounds per patient bed	Healthcare paragraph: hospitals 10 pounds per patient bed; nursing homes “slightly less at about 6.” Cafeteria and staff rooms “should be calculated separately.” Their quick-reference header is Guidelines (+20% for Safety).
KaTom, quick-reference nursing homes	100 → 720 lb; 250 → 1,800 lb; 500 → 3,600 lb; 1,000 → 7,200 lb	Columns are labeled customers, not beds. The row is 6 lbs. per person. 100 × 6 × 1.2 = 720. No 50-customer column. We do not invent a 50-bed KaTom cell. Their hospital row on the same table is 10 lbs. per person, 100 → 1,200 lb.
GoFoodservice, listed-capacity derate	Actual output may be 10–15% lower in hot rooms	Same page. Do not stack this on a 90/70 cell you already chose.
The Kitchen Spot, hot room	15% or more less make	A machine in a 90° kitchen with ~70° water. A dietary dish pit is that room.
The Kitchen Spot, usual bin	10–20% larger than daily make; expect the pile to hold 10–20% less than the printed bin pounds	Peak shutoff. A bin twice daily make is their “usually a bad idea” line, except a one-or-two-days-a-week building. A nursing home turns ice every day.
KaTom, usual bin	About 75–80% of what the machine produces	Their example is a 560 lb head on a 420–440 lb bin. Different object from Kitchen Spot’s 10–20% larger bin. Use one bin rule, and say which.

The VenueIce sizing table has a nursing home / assisted living / long-term care row. Start from GoFoodservice 6 lb per bed, because that chart names the bed and prints the buffered cells. Kitchen Spot 6 lb per resident and KaTom about 6 lb per patient bed are the same published band, not a second factor to add. Say which buffer you used. Do not also stack Kitchen Spot’s 20% on a GoFoodservice cell that already includes 20%.

Assisted living, memory care, and skilled nursing use this 6 lb row when that is the published match. Hotel 5 lb per occupied room stays on the hotel page. Hospital 10 lb/bed stays on the hospital page. School 1–1.5 lb per student stays on the school cafeteria page.

Separate lines — do not stack the same bed

Nursing-home beds vs hospital beds. GoFoodservice, Kitchen Spot, and KaTom each print 6 and 10 as different rows. Do not add 10 + 6 on one bed, and do not average them into 8.
Pick one 6 lb source, then one buffer. GoFoodservice’s quick-reference cells already include 20%. Kitchen Spot’s chart says add 20%. KaTom’s table header says the guideline columns include +20% for safety, and the prose also says to add 20%. Do not put all three on the same 300 lb.
Staffed beds, not licensed beds you are not running. Work the census that actually takes ice. We do not invent an occupancy percent.
Cafeteria is staff and visitors, not a second pass over the resident. GoFoodservice healthcare cafeteria and Kitchen Spot hospital cafeteria are 1 lb per person. KaTom says the cafeteria and staff rooms are separate and does not print a healthcare-cafeteria pound on the page we opened. A resident already counted at 6 lb does not also get 1 lb because they ate in the dining room.
Hotel guest ice is a different building. 5 lb per occupied room does not belong on this census. A family lounge that uses a dispenser still uses 6 lb/bed here. Hopper physics (a small stored-ice number against a short pull) is the same idea as the hotel page.
School and gym ice are not resident ice. School cafeteria and gym stay on those pages.

Cube, half-dice, crescent, nugget, and flake shape math lives on cube vs half-dice vs nugget vs flake.

Dispenser on a resident-accessible floor

If residents or visitors can reach the ice, GoFoodservice’s buying guide points at a dispenser, not an open bin and a scoop.

GoFoodservice: “Anywhere an ice machine may be accessed by someone other than staff or employees, a dispenser is the best choice.” Their dispenser “best for” list names hotels, hospitals, self-service areas, public access points. Their modular-bin paragraph says reaching into an open storage bin creates contamination risks, which is why those bins sit where only staff handle the ice. That is a buyer-guide sanitation design sentence, not a claim that an install “meets” an infection-control policy.
Scotsman HID525 is filed on Scotsman’s Healthcare / Ice-Water path. The page describes patient-care and staff/visitor settings, touch-free dispensing, and H² nugget ice. That is OEM channel copy, not a clinical endorsement, and not a swallow-safety determination.
Open bin in dietary. A modular head + bin is a staff plant — tray line, bag fill, cafeteria dump. Do not treat it as resident self-serve.
We do not write infection-control rules. Follow the facility policy and the manufacturer sanitation instructions. This is not a health-department letter and not a clinical protocol.

Dealer notes on flake / nugget (not medical advice)

GoFoodservice’s ice-type table lists flake’s best applications as “Healthcare (packs and bends for injuries), fish/meat packing, food displays,” and says to oversize because you will use more. Cubelet/nugget on the same table is their chewable fountain row. Dealer recommendation, not medical advice. We do not say which ice a resident may have.

Other dealer soft-ice sentences (including Tundra and HVACDirect lines already written up on the hospital page) stay on that page. We did not re-open those two articles on this pass.

Use nugget / cubelet when the facility wants chewable dispenser ice. Use flake when the job is packs or a display, usually as a second cabinet. Use hard cube on the dietary drink line if that is what staff scoop. Two ice forms means two systems.

Production lb/24 hr is not the hopper

A 24-hour rating is not a bucket. Resident ice is often taken in short windows — morning, meal trays, evening water — not as a few pounds every hour for 24 hours. The hourly split below (24-hour rating ÷ 24) is arithmetic, not an OEM hourly guarantee. Harvest is cyclic. See ice bin sizing.

Kitchen Spot: expect the pile to hold 10–20% less than the printed bin pounds, because ice peaks and the machine shuts off. A nursing home is not their church / one-or-two-days-a-week exception.

Worked ~50-bed nursing home

Same peak-day method as the sizing page: count the beds that take ice, pick the 6 lb row, add the reserve that source already prints. Not the hospital 10 lb row.

50 resident beds.

GoFoodservice / Kitchen Spot / KaTom 6 lb: 50 × 6 = 300 lb
GoFoodservice quick-reference cell (already +20%): 360 lb
Kitchen Spot +20% on 300 lb: 360 lb. Same arithmetic as that GoFoodservice cell. Do not add it twice
KaTom prose is the same about 6 lb per bed (300 lb). Their table has no 50-customer column. We do not print a KaTom 360 lb cell
Hospital 10 lb if you wrongly copy that row onto these 50 beds: 500 lb. GoFoodservice’s buffered hospital cell is 600 lb. Kitchen Spot +20% on 500 lb is 600 lb. That is the hospital line. It stays on the hospital page

300–360 lb is past every undercounter bin in this directory (largest built-in on the NEO sheet is 90 lb) and past the 90/70 make on that cabinet (UYF-0140A 100 lb). It is a floor dispenser and/or a modular head + bin for the building — not a 90 lb nursing-station leftover.

How the directory heads sit on 300 and 360, using 90/70 when the sheet has it:

Scotsman HID525 380 lb @ 90/70 (air-cooled, current product page) covers 300 and 360 as 24-hour make if one cabinet serves the building and the pull is spread. The hopper is 25 lb. That is not a 300 lb dump bin.
Manitowoc IYT0450A 378 lb @ 90/70 on the iT0450 PDF covers 300 and sits 18 lb over 360. That is close enough that a hot pantry can miss 360. Pair it with storage, not with the 490 lb @ 70/50 headline.
Hoshizaki KM-520MAJ HTML: approximately 556 lb / up to 556. 90/70 production is not on that page. 556 covers 300 and 360 on the brochure number. If you apply Kitchen Spot’s “15% or more” because the page has no 90/70 cell: 556 × 0.85 ≈ 473 lb. That is arithmetic on their derate sentence, not a printed 90/70 cell, and it still covers 360. “Or more” means the dietary pit can be lower than 473.
Ice-O-Matic CIM0430A 320 lb @ 90/70 covers 300 and misses 360. The 435 lb @ 70/50 cell is the cool-room number.
Scotsman C0330MA-1 288 lb AHRI @ 90/70 misses both 300 and 360.

Hopper vs a morning pull

Example assumption, not a care schedule: 15 of the 50 beds take 4 lb in a 2-hour morning window.

Pull: 15 × 4 = 60 lb in 2 hours
HID525 stored ice: 25 lb. Make at 380 lb @ 90/70: 380 ÷ 24 × 2 h ≈ 31.7 lb. On paper: about 57 lb against a 60 lb pull. The hopper, not the 380 lb day, is the constraint.
UYF-0140A bin: 90 lb. Make at 100 lb @ 90/70: 100 ÷ 24 × 2 h ≈ 8.3 lb. On paper: about 98 lb against a 60 lb pull if the bin starts full. That window fits. The 300 lb day does not. A 90 lb leftover is not the 50-bed plant.
IYT0450A on a D-570 (543 lb storage on the same PDF) covers a 60 lb staff scoop from stored ice. It is a staff bin. Kitchen Spot’s 20% less on 543 lb is 434 lb usable, which still covers a 360 lb day if the bin starts full and the pull is the whole day. A D-400 is 365 lb. After 20% less: 292 lb, which misses 300 and misses 360.

Worked ~100-bed facility

100 resident beds.

GoFoodservice / Kitchen Spot / KaTom 6 lb: 100 × 6 = 600 lb
GoFoodservice buffered cell: 720 lb
Kitchen Spot +20%: 720 lb. Do not add it on top of the GoFoodservice cell
KaTom quick-reference nursing-homes cell at 100 customers: 720 lb (table header already +20%). Their 250 / 500 / 1,000 cells are 1,800 / 3,600 / 7,200 lb. The 250 and 500 cells match GoFoodservice’s 250- and 500-bed nursing-home cells
Hospital 10 lb on these same 100 beds: 1,000 lb, or 1,200 lb on the GoFoodservice and KaTom buffered hospital cells. That is the hospital line

600–720 lb is past one HID525 at 380 lb @ 90/70, past one IYT0450A at 378, past one CIM0430A at 320, and past one C0330MA-1 at 288. KM-520MAJ “up to 556” misses 600 on the HTML number, and that page does not print 90/70 production.

Two-cabinet arithmetic, labeled as arithmetic:

Two HID525 at 380: 760 lb of 24-hour make, which covers 600 and 720 if both run at the 90/70 column. Two hoppers are still 25 lb each. Resident floors want the dispenser near the rooms. The hopper math in the 50-bed section still applies on each floor.
Two IYT0450A at 378: 756 lb, which covers 720 at 90/70. The iT0450 PDF and the URI listing both say the head is not stackable. Two heads means two bins (or two dispensers), not a vertical stack.
Two KM-520MAJ: the product page says mount 2 units side-by-side for 2× the ice. 556 × 2 = 1,112 lb on the brochure number. Kitchen Spot 15% on each 556 is about 473, and 473 × 2 ≈ 946, which still covers 720. That derate is not a printed 90/70 cell.
Two CIM0430A at 320: 640 lb. Covers 600 and misses 720.
Two C0330MA-1 at 288: 576 lb. Misses 600 and misses 720.

GoFoodservice’s 250-bed cell is 1,800 lb and the 500-bed cell is 3,600 lb. KaTom’s matching customer columns are the same pounds, and KaTom also prints 1,000 → 7,200 lb. One head in this directory does not cover those cells. Kitchen Spot’s multiple-machine paragraph (backup, closer to the ice, more than one ice type) is the planning shape. We do not invent a 1,800 lb model.

A B-700SF holds 700 lb. That is in the neighborhood of a 600 lb day and short of 720 as stored ice. Kitchen Spot’s 20% less is 560 lb usable, which misses 600 if the day’s ice leaves before the head refills. A dietary plant that feeds floor dispensers all day is a buffer bin plus make. A plant that dumps the census in one window needs the larger storage, or more than one bin.

Worked small wing — when a 90 lb bin fits, and when it fails

Same 6 lb row. No separate assisted-living pound. GoFoodservice does not print a 12-bed or 20-bed cell. The buffered figures below are Kitchen Spot’s +20% (the same 1.2 the GoFoodservice calculator uses). They are not printed GoFoodservice cells.

12-resident wing or station (assisted living / memory care using the nursing-home row):

12 × 6 = 72 lb
+20% = 12 × 6 × 1.20 = 86.4 lb
UYF-0140A 100 lb @ 90/70 covers 72 and 86.4 as daily make. 137 lb @ 70/50 is the cool-room number
Built-in bin: 90 lb. Kitchen Spot’s 10% less is 81 lb usable; 20% less is 72 lb usable
The 72 lb line fits the nominal 90 lb bin and sits on the 20%-less edge. The 86.4 lb buffered line does not fit an 81 lb or 72 lb usable pile
If the 72 lb leaves in 2 hours: make ≈ 8.3 lb. Nominal 90 + 8.3 ≈ 98 lb if the bin starts full. After 20% less: 72 + 8.3 ≈ 80 lb, which still covers 72 and misses 86.4

A 12-bed pull can be an undercounter only on the unbuffered 6 lb line, with the bin starting full, and with eyes open about pile-up. It is the wrong machine for the +20% day.

20-resident neighborhood:

20 × 6 = 120 lb; +20% = 144 lb
100 lb @ 90/70 does not make 120 or 144
A 90 lb bin does not hold 120 or 144
That wing is a dispenser or a small modular head, not a NEO undercounter

The 50-bed and 100-bed plants above fail this cabinet for the same reason, by a wider margin.

Cafeteria as its own 1 lb/person line

Do not fold staff and visitor meals into 6 lb/bed.

Example: 80 people at the peak staff / visitor meal. Residents already counted at 6 lb are not in the 80.

GoFoodservice healthcare cafeteria 1 lb per person: 80 × 1 = 80 lb
Kitchen Spot hospital cafeteria 1 lb per person, chart +20%: 96 lb
GoFoodservice does not print an 80-person cafeteria cell. Their 20% buffer is on the bed calculator. If you apply 20% to this 80, say so: 96 lb. Do not also multiply those 80 people by 6
KaTom says calculate the cafeteria separately and does not print the pound on the page we opened

80–96 lb is its own dietary line. It is not 80 + 300, and it is not a reason to put the resident census on a 90 lb undercounter. A cube head on a staff bin — the same shape as a school cafeteria meal window, with this page’s 1 lb healthcare row — is the cafeteria tool. C0330MA-1 at 288 lb @ 90/70 covers an 80–96 lb cafeteria day and still misses the 50-bed resident line.

Form factor

GoFoodservice draws the line this page uses: dispenser when someone other than staff can reach the ice; modular head + bin when production is high or storage is chosen separately and access is staff-only; undercounter when the built-in bin covers the pull.

Job	Typical form	Do not use it for
Resident-accessible floor	Ice-and-water dispenser (HID525 class)	An open dietary bin in the corridor
~50 beds at 6 lb (300 lb, or 360 lb with the printed 20%)	One dispenser whose 90/70 covers the day and whose hopper survives the window, and/or a modular head + staff bin (IYT0450 on a D-570, KM-520 on a B-500 / B-700)	A 90 lb undercounter as the building plant; hospital 10 lb (500–600)
~100 beds (600 lb, or 720 lb buffered)	Several floor dispensers, and/or two heads. IYT0450 is not stackable	One HID525; one 288–378 lb head; averaging in 10 lb/bed
12-resident wing, pull inside a 90 lb bin	Undercounter half-dice (UYF-0140, 100 lb @ 90/70, 90 lb bin) on the 72 lb line only	The 86.4 lb buffered day after pile-up; a 20-resident wing (120 / 144 lb)
Staff / visitor cafeteria, 1 lb/person	Modular cube head + bin sized to that meal	Stacking 1 lb on the 6 lb bed line
Packs or a display	Flake as its own cabinet	The cafeteria cuber; a 25 lb hopper as a pack bin
Hospital 10 lb/bed, hotel 5 lb/room	Other guides	One hopper for every load in a mixed campus

Undercounter is one 115 V cabinet with a built-in bin. GoFoodservice’s undercounter band is 50–500 lb/day make and 7–250 lb built-in storage. The NEO bin we opened is 90 lb. That can cover the 12-bed unbuffered line. It cannot cover 50 beds.

Dispenser storage on GoFoodservice’s chart is 8–250 lb, production 200–800 lb/day. HID525 stores 25 lb and makes 500 / 380 lb. It has to keep making ice during the window. Scotsman files this SKU under Healthcare / Ice-Water. That is channel copy, not a clinical endorsement.

Modular head + bin is the dietary plant. Order the bin or dispenser, and any top kit, from the head’s compatibility list. GoFoodservice’s modular line is 250–2,500 lb/day, staff access. Form-factor background: undercounter vs modular vs countertop. Cooling is a mechanical choice: air-cooled vs water-cooled.

Current resident-floor dispenser (OEM sheet)

Figures opened 2026-09-26. Full citations live on the directory page. Street prices omitted.

Model	Ice	Cited make	Storage	Cabinet / power	Nursing-home note
Scotsman HID525	H² nugget	Product page: 500 lb @ 70/50, 380 lb @ 90/70. Summary says those cells are the air-cooled model. Water-cooled is listed as an option; its 90/70 cell is not in that summary	25 lb hopper	21.25″ × 24.38″ × 35″; 115/60/1; max fuse 15 A; minimum circuit Cord. Page copy: 7.5 ft cord and NEMA 5-15P	Primary resident-floor tool in this directory. 380 lb @ 90/70 covers a 50-bed 300–360 lb day as make and misses a 100-bed 600–720 lb day as the only maker. The 25 lb hopper is the morning constraint. R290. 4.18 kWh and 12.0 gal per 100 lb. 6,800 BTU/h. Healthcare path copy, not a clinical endorsement.

Current modular heads for dietary (OEM sheets)

These are staff machines. They are the wrong open bin for a resident hallway.

Model	Ice	Cited make	Bin	Cabinet / power	Dietary note
Hoshizaki KM-520MAJ	Crescent	HTML: approximately 556 lb / up to 556. 90/70 production not on that HTML	Head only. Page lists B-250 through B-1300 and DB/DM dispensers. B-500SF 500 lb. B-700SF 700 lb	22″ × 27.375″ × 28″; 115 V hardwire, 10.6 A, 20 A max fuse; 7,000 BTU/h	Brochure 556 covers a 50-bed 360 lb day and misses a 100-bed 600 lb day. Two units side by side is the page’s 2× sentence. Top kits sold separately. ENERGY STAR on the page. R-404A (1 lb 10.8 oz). 4.68 kWh and 14.7 gal per 100 lb @ 90/70.
Manitowoc IYT0450A	Half-dice	iT0450 PDF 01/18: 490 / 378 lb. URI HTML prints 490 and does not print 90/70	Head only. Same PDF: D-400 = 365 lb, D-570 = 543 lb. URI suggests D400 / D570 and does not print those pounds	URI: 30″ × 24.5″ × 21.5″. PDF drawing labels 21.50″ and 24.50″. 115/60/1, MCA 11.9 A, air-cooled max fuse 20 A. Electrical entrance — the PDF does not print a cord-and-plug	378 lb @ 90/70 covers 300 and is only 18 lb over 360. It misses 600. Not stackable. D-570 is the staff bin that still covers 360 after a 20% pile-up loss. ENERGY STAR 3.0 on the PDF. R410A. 5.52 kWh and 19 gal per 100 lb @ 90/70. 3,800 average / 6,000 peak BTU/h. Clearance: 12″ top and sides, 5″ back.
Ice-O-Matic CIM0430A	Half cube	PDF Rev 9/17: 435 / 320 lb air-cooled	Head only. PDF bin chart: B55 = 510 lb, 30 in wide	30.25″ × 24.25″ × 21.25″; 115/60/1; min. circuit 11.0 A; fuse 15 A; 5,100 BTU/h	320 lb @ 90/70 covers 300 and misses 360, and misses 600. “Up to 500 lb” on the feature list matches water-cooled CIM0436W at 70/50 (500 lb), not this air-cooled row. The directory page already flags a later reprint at 310 lb @ 90/70. This PDF prints 320. Treat 90/70 as labeled if the sheet in your hands is the later one. R404A. 5.43 kWh and 19.8 gal potable per 100 lb @ 90/70. 6″ air clearance. Junction box, not a listed plug.
Scotsman C0330MA-1	Medium cube	Rewonline listing: 400 lb @ 70/50, 288 lb AHRI @ 90/70	Head only. Bin pounds were not on that listing	30″ × 24″ × 23″; 115/60/1, 14.3 A. Plug not printed	288 lb @ 90/70 misses a 50-bed 300 lb resident line. It can cover the 80–96 lb cafeteria example. ENERGY STAR on that listing. kWh, water gallons, and refrigerant were not on the listing — omitted. Street price on that page omitted.

Water-cooled siblings on sheets we opened, for the cooling choice only: IYT0450W is 470 / 420 lb with 140 gal/100 lb condenser water (ENERGY STAR excludes water-cooled on that PDF). CIM0430W is 460 / 380 lb with 169 gal/100 lb condenser water. HID525 lists water-cooled as an option and does not print that model’s 90/70 cell in the summary we opened. Many cities restrict once-through cooling. Do not pick water-cooled to hide a hot pantry.

Cited 70/50 → 90/70 drops (air-cooled):

Model	70/50	90/70	Drop
HID525	500 lb	380 lb	24%
IYT0450A	490 lb	378 lb	23%
KM-520MAJ	~556 lb	Not on the HTML — omitted	—
CIM0430A	435 lb	320 lb on the Rev 9/17 PDF	26% on the 320 lb cell
C0330MA-1	400 lb	288 lb AHRI	28%
UYF-0140A	137 lb	100 lb	27%

Compare the 90/70 column to the peak-day target when the sheet has one. A 500 lb dispenser that makes 380 lb in a 90° alcove is a 380 lb machine that day.

Bins already on the dietary sheets

Hoshizaki application capacity on the pages we opened is volume × 30 lb/ft³. Top kits sold separately. Standard 6″ painted legs. The page prints 46″ H; it does not spell out whether that 46 includes the legs.

Bin (current OEM page)	Application capacity	Width × depth × height	Why dietary looks at it
B-500SF	500 lb (16.33 ft³)	30″ × 32.5″ × 46″	Staff bin for a 50-bed 360 lb day if it starts full. Kitchen Spot 20% less is 400 lb usable, which still covers 360 and misses a 600 lb dump. 22″ KM-520 needs the top kit. 3/4″ FPT drain.
B-700SF	700 lb (24.77 ft³)	44″ × 32.5″ × 46″	Nominal 700 covers 600 and sits on 720. After 20% less: 560 lb, which misses a 600 lb one-window dump. 3/4″ FPT drain. Top kit sold separately.

Manitowoc bin pounds are on the iT0450 PDF, not on the URI HTML: D-400 storage 365 lb, D-570 storage 543 lb. Stack height with legs at 6″: 59.50″ (D-400) or 71.50″ (D-570). Width 30″. Depth 34″.

Undercounter — small station only

Model	Ice	Cited make	Bin	Cabinet / power	Station note
Manitowoc UYF-0140A	Half-dice	137 / 100 lb (NEO 140/190 sheet, 6501D 6/22)	90 lb (90% of volume × 33 lb/ft³)	26″ × 28.50″ × 38.50″ on 6″ legs; 115 V, 5 A, 15 A max fuse, 6 ft NEMA 5-15P	12-resident 72 lb line only, and tight once the bin is not perfectly full. Fails 86.4 lb after pile-up, fails a 20-resident wing, fails 50 beds. Family sheet lists R-404A. 2,150 average / 2,600 peak BTU/h. 9.2 kWh and 16.7 gal per 100 lb @ 90/70. Air in the right, air out the left; recommended clearance 5″. Open leftover, not a resident dispenser.

Drain, air, filter (alcove / dietary realism)

Nursing-home ice often sits in a tight alcove or a hot dietary room: one circuit, a floor drain down the hall, a closed louver. Read the sheet before the bid.

Power. HID525 and UYF-0140A are NEMA 5-15P on 115 V. KM-520MAJ is a hardwired 115 V head (10.6 A, 20 A max fuse). IYT0450A is 115 V, 11.9 A minimum circuit, 20 A max fuse; the 01/18 PDF shows an electrical entrance, not a listed plug. CIM0430A is 115 V, 11.0 A minimum circuit, 15 A fuse, junction box. C0330MA-1 is 115 V, 14.3 A; confirm cord vs hardwire. Two cabinets plus a cart on one alcove circuit is an electrician question.
Drain. KM-520: 1/2″ FPT inlet, 3/4″ FPT outlet. IYT0450 PDF: 3/8″ FPT ice-making water inlet, 1/2″ FPT ice-making water drain, 3/4″ bin drain. CIM0430 PDF: 3/8″ FPT potable in, 3/4″ FPT water out. B-500SF / B-700SF: 3/4″ FPT drain. NEO: 3/8″ FPT inlet, 1/2″ FPT ice-making drain, 1/2″ FPT bin drain. Melt water is not optional. HID525 drain fitting was not in the product-page summary we opened — omitted. Confirm the current HID sheet.
Air. KM-520 rejects 7,000 BTU/h. IYT0450: 3,800 average / 6,000 peak. CIM0430A: 5,100. UYF-0140: 2,150 / 2,600. HID525: 6,800. Those BTUs become room cooling load on an air-cooled cabinet. Use the 90/70 column when the sheet has one. CIM0430 wants 6″ for intake and exhaust. IYT0450 PDF: 12″ top and sides, 5″ back. NEO recommended clearance is 5″.
Filter. Ice-machine filter on the ice-maker inlet. The iT0450 PDF lists Arctic Pure as an accessory, sold separately. See filters and descalers.
Water pressure. KM-520: 10–113 psig. IYT0450, NEO, and CIM0430: 20–80 psi. HID525 water pressure was not in the summary we opened — omitted. Too little pressure and harvest fails.
Cleaning. Follow the clean/sanitize interval on the machine sheet. This is not a service recipe and not health-code legal advice. See how to clean.
Do not use a household countertop nugget machine as if it were NSF commercial equipment unless the listing says it is. The NEO family sheet cites NSF/ANSI 12. The C0330 listing cites NSF. We do not turn those marks into a code letter.

What this page is not

Not the hospital page. 10 lb per bed, and GoFoodservice’s 50-bed 600 lb / 100-bed 1,200 lb hospital cells, stay on ice machine for a hospital. Do not average 10 and 6.
Not a hotel guest-floor page. 5 lb per occupied room stays on ice machine for a hotel. A dispenser in a family lounge still uses 6 lb/bed here.
Not a school cafeteria or gym page. Student 1–1.5 lb and athlete 5–10 lb stay on those guides. Healthcare cafeteria 1 lb per person on this page is staff and visitors, not a lunch period of residents you already counted at 6 lb.
Not a separate assisted-living factor. Assisted living, memory care, and skilled nursing use the nursing-home 6 lb row when that is the published match. GoFoodservice, Kitchen Spot, and KaTom do not print a different pound for those licenses.
Not medical advice. GoFoodservice’s flake “packs and bends” line is a dealer application sentence. Scotsman’s Healthcare path for HID525 is OEM channel copy. We do not say which ice a resident may have.
Not a code letter or infection-control protocol. Follow the facility policy and the manufacturer sanitation instructions.
Not a review. No scores, no invented install counts.
Not a price list. Street prices omitted.
Not a blended healthcare lb/bed.

Sources

GoFoodservice, Commercial Ice Machine Guide — Healthcare Nursing home patient ice 6 lbs per bed; Hospital patient ice 10 lbs per bed; Cafeteria 1 lb per person; rooms/beds calculator Nursing Home 50 → 360 lb, 100 → 720, 250 → 1,800, 500 → 3,600 and Hospital 50 → 600, 100 → 1,200, “all figures include a 20% buffer”; dispensers best for hotels, hospitals, self-service / public access; modular bins are staff access; flake “Healthcare (packs and bends for injuries)”; modular 250–2,500 lb/day; undercounter 50–500 lb/day with 7–250 lb storage; dispenser production 200–800 lb/day and storage 8–250 lb; actual output may be 10–15% lower in hot rooms. Live header Last updated: Sep 20, 2026 (retrieved 2026-09-26).
The Kitchen Spot, Ice Machines: Sizing for Application — Nursing homes 6 lbs per resident; Hospital Patients 10 lbs per patient; Hospital Cafeteria 1 lb per person; chart add 20%; 90° kitchen / ~70° water can cut make by 15% or more; bin usually 10–20% larger than daily make; expect 10–20% less than specified bin pounds; multiple machines for backup, access, and ice type (retrieved 2026-09-26).
KaTom, Guidelines for How Much Ice Your Commercial Kitchen Needs — nursing homes about 6 pounds per patient bed; hospitals 10 pounds per patient bed; cafeteria and staff rooms calculated separately (no healthcare-cafeteria pound on that page); quick-reference Nursing Homes 6 lbs. per person at 720 / 1,800 / 3,600 / 7,200 lb for 100 / 250 / 500 / 1,000 customers, header Guidelines (+20% for Safety); no 50-customer column; bin about 75–80% of production. Retrieved 2026-09-26.
Scotsman, HID525 product page — 500 / 380 lb air-cooled, 25 lb storage, 21.25″ × 24.38″ × 35″, 115/60/1, 15 A max fuse, minimum circuit Cord, 7.5 ft cord, NEMA 5-15P, R290, 4.18 kWh and 12.0 gal per 100 lb, 6,800 BTU/h. Healthcare / Ice-Water path. Water-cooled 90/70 not in that summary (retrieved 2026-09-26).
Hoshizaki, KM-520MAJ product page — approximately 556 lb, 22″ × 27.375″ × 28″, 115 V hardwire, 10.6 A, 20 A max fuse, 7,000 BTU/h, 4.68 kWh and 14.7 gal per 100 lb @ 90/70, R-404A, bins B-250–B-1300, two units side by side. 90/70 production not on the HTML (retrieved 2026-09-26).
Hoshizaki, B-500SF and B-700SF — 500 lb (16.33 ft³ × 30 lb/ft³) and 700 lb (24.77 ft³ × 30 lb/ft³); 30″ × 32.5″ × 46″ and 44″ × 32.5″ × 46″; 3/4″ FPT drain; top kits sold separately; standard 6″ painted legs (retrieved 2026-09-26).
Manitowoc, iT0450 spec PDF (footer 6478 01/18) — IYT0450A 490 / 378 lb, 5.52 kWh and 19 gal per 100 lb, MCA 11.9 A, air-cooled max fuse 20 A, R410A, D-400 365 lb, D-570 543 lb, not a listed cord. URI listing prints 490 lb, 30″ × 24.5″ × 21.5″, 115 V, MCA 11.9 A, max fuse 20 A, R410A, suggested bins D400 / D570, not stackable, and does not print 90/70 (retrieved 2026-09-26).
Ice-O-Matic, CIM0430/0435/0436 spec PDF — CIM0430A 435 / 320 lb, 30.25″ × 24.25″ × 21.25″, 11.0 A / 15 A, 5,100 BTU/h, B55 510 lb at 30 in; CIM0430W condenser water 169 gal/100 lb; CIM0436W 500 lb @ 70/50. Rev 9/17 (retrieved 2026-09-26).
Rewonline, Scotsman C0330MA-1 listing — 400 lb @ 70/50, 288 lb AHRI @ 90/70, 30″ × 24″ × 23″, 115 V, 14.3 A (retrieved 2026-09-26). Street price on that page omitted.
Manitowoc, NEO 140/190 family sheet — UYF-0140A 137 / 100 lb, 90 lb bin, 26″ × 28.50″ × 38.50″ on 6″ legs, 115 V, 5 A, 6 ft NEMA 5-15P, R-404A (6501D 6/22; retrieved 2026-09-26).
Existing VenueIce pages: how to size, ice bin sizing, cube vs half-dice vs nugget vs flake, undercounter vs modular vs countertop, air-cooled vs water-cooled, filters and descalers, how to clean, hospital, hotel, school cafeteria, gym.

If two sheets disagree, we say so and prefer the latest OEM page or PDF. On KM-520, the HTML does not print 90/70 production. On CIM0430A, the PDF opened here prints 320 lb @ 90/70; a later reprint flagged on the directory page prints 310. On HID525, the current page prints 380 lb @ 90/70 air-cooled; older 02/21 PDFs listed on the directory page said 365.