Rehabilitation Center of Hampton: Fly Infestation - IA
That is not a paraphrase. Two certified nursing assistants confirmed it to inspectors on November 19, 2025: there were flies in the facility, and residents were being given fly swatters to kill them themselves.
The Director of Maintenance, identified in the inspection report as Staff D, said he had known about the fly problem since the beginning of November. His response was to interview staff. Staff told him the flies weren't that bad. He stopped there.
He never spoke to a single resident.
By the time inspectors arrived, the problem had been sitting unaddressed for the better part of three weeks. No outside pest control company had been called. No follow-up treatment had been arranged. The facility handles its own pest control internally, the administrator confirmed, and no outside contractor is used.
That detail matters because the facility's own written pest control policy says something different. The policy, dated October 2023, states plainly that if there is a suspicion or actual problem with pests, the facility will contact a pest control company to inspect. The pest control company, the policy continues, will then determine whether follow-up treatment or further inspections are needed.
The facility wrote that policy. Then, when flies appeared in resident rooms, nobody followed it.
Instead, Staff D interviewed a few employees, heard that things weren't so bad, and moved on. The residents living in those rooms, the people the policy was written to protect, were not consulted. They were handed fly swatters.
It is worth sitting with what that picture looks like. Nursing home residents, many of whom have limited mobility, chronic illness, or cognitive impairment, left to swat flies in their own rooms while the maintenance director decided, based on staff interviews alone, that the situation did not warrant further action. The facility's own policy required calling a professional. Nobody did.
The inspection was a complaint survey, meaning someone raised an alarm before inspectors ever walked through the door. Inspectors confirmed what they found on the afternoon of November 19. Staff B, a certified nursing assistant, told them directly: there are flies in the facility, and residents are given fly swatters to kill them. Staff C, another CNA, confirmed the same thing minutes later, adding that some resident rooms specifically had flies.
The administrator's explanation to inspectors was that the facility manages pest control on its own. No outside company is contracted. That is consistent with what Staff D said. It is not consistent with the October 2023 policy sitting in the facility's own files.
CMS tagged the violation under F0925, which covers the physical environment, and rated the level of harm as minimal harm or potential for actual harm, with some residents affected. That is among the lower severity ratings in the federal inspection system. It does not mean the finding is trivial. It means inspectors determined that, so far, no resident had been seriously hurt. Flies in a healthcare setting carry bacteria. They land on wounds, on food, on the hands of people who cannot easily wash them without assistance.
The maintenance director's decision to stop his inquiry after talking to staff, without ever asking the residents who were actually living with the flies, is the clearest failure in this report. He had the information he needed to act. The policy told him exactly what to do. He chose a narrower path, got a reassuring answer from employees, and closed the matter.
Residents got fly swatters instead.
Full Inspection Report
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Rehabilitation Center of Hampton in Hampton, IA was cited for violations during a health inspection on November 19, 2025.
The Director of Maintenance, identified in the inspection report as Staff D, said he had known about the fly problem since the beginning of November.
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