Putnam Center: Dirty Floors, No Linens, Open Attic - WV
The administrator walked the unit with inspectors. He agreed, without much argument, that rooms 152, 153, and 154 were the worst of it. He confirmed the facility's auto scrubber had broken down. The floors needed to be swept and mopped. They hadn't been.
That was at 12:25 in the afternoon.
Ten minutes later, inspectors were looking at the ceiling. Two tiles outside the activity room had gone dark, stained from what appeared to be a leak, and hadn't been replaced. At the corner of the nurses' station on the 100 unit, a large trap door to the attic hung open. Hot air was pushing down into the building from above.
Maintenance had been working in the attic the day before, on September 17th. They left the door open when they went home. The administrator confirmed it. He also confirmed the stained ceiling tiles needed to come down and be replaced.
Nobody had closed the door overnight.
By 12:50 PM, inspectors had reached the linen closet. Several beds on the 100 hall were sitting unmade. A nurse aide explained why. "Sorry, I would have made the beds but we are out of linen," she said. When asked whether this was a one-time problem or something that happened regularly, she didn't claim it was unusual. "Well, it happens sometimes," she said.
The closet bore that out. No fitted sheets. No flat sheets. No blankets.
The administrator confirmed what the empty shelves already showed. "The laundry is working to get the backlog out here," he said.
Putnam Center is a 119-bed facility. The inspection was conducted in response to a complaint. Inspectors cited the facility under the federal standard requiring nursing homes to provide residents with a safe, clean, comfortable, and homelike environment, a citation classified as causing minimal harm or the potential for actual harm, affecting some residents.
What the inspection captured, in about 25 minutes of walkthrough, was a facility that had let several basic maintenance and housekeeping functions slip at the same time. A broken floor-cleaning machine had gone unaddressed long enough for dried liquid and debris to accumulate across the unit. A ceiling access point left open by a maintenance worker had gone unchecked through the night and into the following day. Stained ceiling tiles had not been swapped out. And somewhere between the laundry room and the linen closet, the supply of clean sheets had run out entirely, leaving aides with nothing to put on the beds.
The aide's phrasing was matter-of-fact. It happens sometimes. Not a crisis, in her telling. A recurring condition.
For the residents whose beds sat stripped on a September afternoon, the difference between "sometimes" and "rarely" probably didn't matter much.
Full Inspection Report
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PUTNAM CENTER in HURRICANE, WV was cited for violations during a health inspection on September 23, 2025.
The administrator walked the unit with inspectors.
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.