Morrow Manor Nursing Center: Assessment Failures - OH
Federal health inspectors cited the facility on August 25, 2025, for failing to complete required PASARR screenings, the federally mandated process that identifies nursing home residents with mental disorders or intellectual disabilities. The deficiency was one of ten violations inspectors documented during the same visit.
PASARR, which stands for Preadmission Screening and Resident Review, exists for a specific reason. Nursing homes are not psychiatric facilities. When a resident arrives carrying a mental health diagnosis or an intellectual disability that nobody has formally documented and reviewed, the facility may not arrange the specialized services that resident needs. The screening is the mechanism that is supposed to prevent that from happening. At Morrow Manor, inspectors found it was not being done correctly for at least one resident.
The deficiency was classified at Scope and Severity Level D, meaning inspectors characterized it as isolated, affecting a limited number of residents, with no actual harm documented. But the classification also carries a specific qualifier: potential for more than minimal harm. That phrase is not bureaucratic padding. A resident with an unidentified mental health condition living in a facility that does not know to account for it is a resident whose care plan may be built around an incomplete picture of who they are.
Inspectors found ten separate deficiencies at Morrow Manor during the August inspection. The PASARR failure fell under the category of Resident Assessment and Care Planning, a broad area that governs how facilities gather information about residents and translate that information into individualized care. When assessment breaks down, care planning follows.
The facility reported a correction date of September 18, 2025, roughly three weeks after the inspection.
What the inspection report does not say is which resident or residents were affected, how long the screening gap had existed before inspectors arrived, or what care decisions, if any, were made in the absence of completed screenings. The public record is narrow. What it establishes is that the gap existed, that inspectors found it significant enough to cite, and that the facility was given a date by which it had to demonstrate a fix.
The PASARR process was designed with a particular vulnerability in mind. People with mental illness and intellectual disabilities have historically been placed in nursing homes without adequate review of whether those settings could actually serve them, and without access to the specialized services they required. The screening requirement was meant to change that. A facility that does not complete the screenings does not eliminate that vulnerability. It just stops looking for it.
Morrow Manor is a nursing home in a small Ohio county seat. It is not a large urban facility with hundreds of beds and sprawling regulatory history. But the size of a facility does not change what a missed screening means for the individual resident it concerns. For that person, the question is not whether the deficiency was isolated or widespread. The question is whether anyone knew what they needed, and whether the care they received reflected that knowledge.
The facility's ten cited deficiencies from the August inspection span a range of care categories beyond resident assessment. The PASARR violation was not the only area where inspectors found problems. The full picture of what inspectors documented across all ten deficiencies is part of the public record, even if each individual finding tells only part of the story.
Morrow Manor reported its corrections to the PASARR deficiency as complete by September 18. Whether the resident or residents affected by the screening gap received any retroactive review, or whether their care plans were updated to reflect information the facility had not previously captured, is not addressed in the inspection report. The correction date marks when the facility said it had fixed the process. It does not describe what happened to the people caught in the gap while the process was broken.
Full Inspection Report
The details above represent a summary of key findings. View the complete inspection report for Morrow Manor Nursing Center from 2025-08-25 including all violations, facility responses, and corrective action plans.
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Data source: This article is based on inspection data downloaded directly from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) via Medicare.gov. CMS releases inspection reports in bulk; we publish the findings as documented by state surveyors in the official Form CMS-2567 Statement of Deficiencies.
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MORROW MANOR NURSING CENTER in CHESTERVILLE, OH was cited for violations during a health inspection on August 25, 2025.
The deficiency was one of ten violations inspectors documented during the same visit.
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.