Chesaning Nursing and Rehab: Catheter Dragging on Floor - MI
The catheter bag had a privacy cover. It was hanging on his wheelchair, unused, while the bag and tubing trailed behind him.
A nursing assistant watched it happen.
During an interview with inspectors on August 19, the CNA identified in the report as Nursing Assistant J acknowledged exactly what she had seen. "Yes, I see it," she told inspectors, referring to the catheter dragging on the floor. "He just came in from outside, it should not be on the floor."
She was right that it shouldn't have been. She saw it. The bag was wet from being dragged outside, and when the resident came back in, the moisture transferred to the hallway floor.
A urinary catheter is a tube inserted directly into the bladder to drain urine. The bag that collects that urine is a direct extension of a sterile system running into the body. When that bag drags across an outdoor surface and then a hallway floor, it picks up whatever is there. The privacy bag hanging unused on the wheelchair existed precisely to prevent this.
The resident had been outside. He came back in. Nobody had secured the bag before he went out, or when he returned, or at any point while the CNA was watching it drag across the floor.
The inspection, conducted as a complaint investigation and completed August 20, 2025, cited the facility for failing to provide care that maintains dignity and protects residents from preventable harm. Inspectors classified the level of harm as minimal harm or potential for actual harm, with some residents affected.
That classification reflects the lowest tier of documented harm under federal inspection standards. It does not mean nothing happened. The bag was wet. The floor was wet. The catheter system connected to a resident's bladder had been in contact with outdoor ground and an indoor hallway floor, uncovered, while a staff member watched.
The same inspection captured something else entirely, from someone outside the building.
A family member, identified in the report as Family Member 1, spoke with inspectors by phone that same morning. Her account had nothing to do with the catheter incident. She was describing what her father had told her about the facility itself. "My dad said the therapy room is dirty and smells," she told inspectors. "He said it was disgusting. The halls smell and the place is dirty."
She was relaying her father's words, and inspectors recorded them. The therapy room. The hallways. The smell. The word her father used was disgusting.
The inspection report does not describe what inspectors found when they examined those areas, or whether a separate citation was issued for sanitation. What it records is a resident's assessment of the place where he lives, passed through his daughter to a federal investigator: the therapy room smells, the halls smell, the place is dirty.
He used the word disgusting.
The catheter violation and the family complaint arrived in the same inspection, on the same day, at the same small facility in a town of roughly 2,500 people in Saginaw County. Whether they reflect isolated failures or something more systemic, the inspection report does not say. What it does say is that a nursing assistant saw a catheter bag dragging on the floor, said out loud that it shouldn't be there, and the record does not indicate that anything was done about it in that moment.
The privacy bag was on the wheelchair the whole time.
Full Inspection Report
The details above represent a summary of key findings. View the complete inspection report for Chesaning Nursing and Rehabilitation Center from 2025-08-20 including all violations, facility responses, and corrective action plans.
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Chesaning Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Chesaning, MI was cited for violations during a health inspection on August 20, 2025.
The catheter bag had a privacy cover.
Health inspections identify deficiencies that facilities must correct. Violations range from minor documentation issues to serious safety concerns. Review the full report below for specific details and facility response.