Warren Nursing & Rehab: Crumbling Dialysis Unit - OH
When inspectors walked into the dialysis unit on December 9, they found 17 chipped and cracked gray floor panels, each roughly 30 inches long, with large missing pieces exposing the subfloor beneath. The panels were lifting at the edges and ends. The unit also smelled of biological waste, consistent with a drain backup.
The damage traced back to a flood in June 2025. Water had pooled several inches deep in a common area outside the dialysis unit and flowed in under the entry door. A restoration contractor, identified in the inspection report as RC #845, told the facility after the flood that water had gone underneath the flooring and recommended the dialysis unit be closed for proper restoration. The facility told him it could not close the unit. He was told a flooring company would come the following Monday to replace the floor.
Six months later, the floors were still broken. Dialysis RN #841 told inspectors the panels had never been installed correctly to begin with, and the flood made everything worse. She said a company had come out several times to clean the drains, but the body waste odor from the dialysis machines draining under the floors to the outside would not go away. "A dialysis unit should not have an odor of body waste," she said.
Elsewhere in the facility, inspectors found a plastic door protector on a resident room entrance that had separated from the door and was hanging loose, leaving a sharp corner jutting into the doorway. A privacy curtain inside the same room had a roughly three-foot-by-two-foot stain of what appeared to be dried blood or feces. A nursing assistant confirmed a resident could be injured on the exposed corner.
The door protector was taped back with duct tape. The tape came unstuck within days. A unit manager said she would put in another work order. It was finally screwed into place on December 31, the last day of the inspection period.
The dialysis unit floors were still waiting.
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WARREN NURSING & REHAB in WARREN, OH was cited for violations during a health inspection on December 31, 2025.
The panels were lifting at the edges and ends.
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.