River Oaks Healthcare: Hazards Left Open to Residents - WV
The October inspection found three separate hazards at the 116-bed facility on Parkway Drive, each one in a space residents could reach. None required a major discovery. Inspectors walked the building and found them.
In the day room at the end of the hall on one of the facility's resident courts, a container of Sani wipes, the kind with the purple top, sat on top of a vending machine. The cleaning product was within the common area where residents spend time. An employee, identified in the report only as employee number 105, acknowledged it shouldn't be there. Her explanation was partial: most residents use wheelchairs and can't reach the top of the machine. Most, she said. Not all.
The second hazard was harder to explain away. An area described as an internet cafe and storage room was open and accessible to all residents. Inside, inspectors found multiple pieces of medical equipment: beds, lifts, pumps, chairs. Also on the counter was a broken picture frame with sharp edges. A registered nurse, identified as RN number 58, confirmed the room was open to everyone in the building and also used for staff training. Nobody had secured it or cleared the broken frame from the counter.
The third was the wiring. A wall box outside a resident room had no cover, leaving wires exposed in the hallway. The housekeeper's explanation, that the staff were in the middle of repainting, did not address why the box was uncovered or how long it had been that way. He said the wires had been there a while.
Taken individually, each of these findings is the kind of thing a facility director might call minor. A container of cleaning wipes left out. A storage room that hadn't been locked. A wall box missing its cover during a paint job. The inspection report rated the level of harm as minimal, or potential for actual harm, which is the lower end of the federal scale.
But the report also noted that each hazard had the ability to affect more than one person, and the facility houses 116 residents. The cleaning product on the vending machine is a chemical disinfectant. The storage room held equipment heavy enough to tip, a broken frame sharp enough to cut, and no barrier between any of it and whoever walked in. The exposed wiring sat in a hallway.
What the inspection captured, across three unconnected locations in the building, was a pattern of things left unaddressed. The wipes were left on the machine. The storage room was left open. The wall box was left uncovered. In each case, a staff member confirmed to inspectors that the situation was not how it was supposed to be, and in each case the explanation pointed toward something that had simply not been done.
The housekeeper's comment about the wiring stays with the report. The wires have been there a while. No urgency in that sentence. No indication that anyone had flagged it or put in a work order or taped a warning over the box. The painting was underway and the wires were exposed and that was how the hallway was.
River Oaks Healthcare Center is a for-profit facility. The inspection was a complaint survey, meaning someone prompted regulators to look. The report does not identify who filed the complaint or what specifically they reported. What inspectors found when they arrived was a day room with chemical wipes on top of a machine, a room full of equipment open to every resident in the building, and a wall with the wiring showing.
Full Inspection Report
The details above represent a summary of key findings. View the complete inspection report for River Oaks Healthcare Center from 2025-10-16 including all violations, facility responses, and corrective action plans.
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RIVER OAKS HEALTHCARE CENTER in CLARKSBURG, WV was cited for violations during a health inspection on October 16, 2025.
The October inspection found three separate hazards at the 116-bed facility on Parkway Drive, each one in a space residents could reach.
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.