Riverside Nursing and Rehab: Unlicensed Administrator - OH
From May 12 through June 10, an interim nursing home administrator identified in inspection records only as NHA #630 oversaw daily operations at the 164-bed facility on behalf of management. He had been hired through an employment agency, which provided documentation showing an active Ohio Nursing Home Administrator license. The facility's regional director of operations accepted that documentation and brought him on.
The license number was real. The person it belonged to was not him.
Ohio's Board of Executives of Long-Term Services and Supports, the state agency that licenses nursing home administrators, later confirmed that license number 7258 belonged to a different person entirely, a licensed administrator who lived in Englewood and whose date of birth did not match the interim administrator's. The interim administrator, according to BELTSS records, was registered only as an Administrator in Training. He had never been issued a license of his own.
The two men had similar names. That appears to be where the similarity ended. Different Social Security numbers. Different addresses. Different dates of birth. The interim administrator listed his date of birth as October 23, 1973, and gave a Cincinnati address. The actual holder of license 7258 lived roughly 15 miles north of the facility he was unknowingly claimed to represent.
BELTSS board administrator #635 told inspectors the agency was notified of a concern about the validity of the interim administrator's license and launched an investigation. That investigation confirmed what the records showed: the interim administrator had used another person's license number to obtain a position he was not qualified to hold.
The regional director of operations confirmed all of this to inspectors on August 5. She said the facility had relied on the employment agency's documentation when hiring the interim administrator and that the agency had provided paperwork showing an active license. Whether anyone at the facility or the agency independently verified that license number against the name and identifying information of the person presenting it, the inspection record does not say.
For 29 days, 164 residents lived under the administrative oversight of someone whose credentials were, in the most direct sense, borrowed without permission.
Federal inspectors cited the facility under a provision requiring nursing homes to be administered in a way that uses resources effectively and efficiently. The violation was tagged at the level of minimal harm or potential for actual harm, and classified as affecting many residents. It was investigated as a complaint, complaint number 2578224, meaning someone reported it rather than inspectors discovering it on a routine survey.
The inspection report does not identify who filed that complaint, or how the concern first surfaced. It does not say whether the interim administrator knew whose license number he was using, or whether he selected it because the names were similar enough to create confusion. It does not say what, if any, decisions he made during his 29 days at the facility that might now be reviewed.
What it says is that a man without a license ran a nursing home for nearly a month, and that the facility, the employment agency, and anyone else in the chain did not catch it until someone made a call.
The actual holder of license 7258, the licensed administrator in Englewood whose credentials were used without his knowledge, is not mentioned again in the report after his identifying information is used to establish the fraud. What he was told, or when, the record does not say.
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RIVERSIDE NURSING AND REHABILITATION CENTER in DAYTON, OH was cited for violations during a health inspection on September 2, 2025.
He had been hired through an employment agency, which provided documentation showing an active Ohio Nursing Home Administrator license.
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