Umpqua Valley Nursing: Leaking AC, No Bathroom Doors - OR
Federal inspectors arrived at the facility on August 18 and found a unit in one resident room leaking along its entire bottom panel, water running onto the bedside table and streaking down the wall. The wall panel itself had warped from the moisture.
A certified nursing assistant, identified in the report as Staff 21, told inspectors the unit had been leaking for the entire summer. Maintenance had come to look at it several times. The problem kept happening. A second CNA, Staff 22, said she noticed the leak about six weeks before the inspection and reported it to both nursing staff and maintenance at that time.
When inspectors spoke with a maintenance assistant, Staff 23, on August 20, his account raised a different concern. He said he was unaware the unit was leaking. He also said the maintenance department did not complete monthly audits of resident rooms and instead relied on housekeeping and nursing staff to flag repair problems when they spotted them.
The maintenance director, Staff 11, had a different account. He told inspectors he was aware of the leak and explained its cause: the coils inside the unit would form ice when the temperature was set too low, then melt when the unit was shut off, sending water down the wall. He knew this was happening. The unit had not been fixed.
At a Resident Council meeting on August 20, residents brought up a second leaking air conditioner, this one in another room. They told inspectors the unit had been dripping long enough to ruin posters and damage shelving stored beneath it. A CNA assigned to that area, Staff 27, confirmed she had reported the leak to nursing and maintenance. The maintenance director acknowledged that unit as well, offering the same explanation about freezing coils. The administrator, Staff 1, told inspectors the facility was in the process of replacing its air conditioning units and expected them all to be working properly.
The same Resident Council meeting surfaced a second problem that had been addressed with a workaround residents found inadequate.
The pocket doors on the bathrooms in two resident rooms were broken. Pocket doors slide into the wall rather than swinging open, a design common in nursing homes because they do not block wheelchair access. When those doors stopped working, the facility replaced them with shower curtains.
Residents told inspectors the curtains left them without real privacy. They raised concerns about odor control. They also worried about fire safety, describing the curtains as a potential hazard in a situation where a proper door would matter.
The maintenance director confirmed both doors were broken and said parts for the pocket door hardware were no longer available. The administrator acknowledged the broken doors and said the facility was working on repairing them.
The inspection covered five hallways. Inspectors documented these conditions across two of them.
The violations were cited under the federal standard requiring nursing homes to maintain a physical environment that is safe, functional, sanitary, and comfortable. CMS assigned the deficiency a harm level of minimal harm or potential for actual harm.
What the report leaves unresolved is how long residents in those two bathroom rooms had been pulling a shower curtain across a doorframe for privacy, and whether "in the process of repairing" moves faster now that inspectors have written it down than it did across the weeks when CNAs were already reporting the same problems to the same maintenance staff.
Full Inspection Report
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UMPQUA VALLEY NURSING & REHABILITATION CENTER in ROSEBURG, OR was cited for violations during a health inspection on August 22, 2025.
The wall panel itself had warped from the moisture.
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.