Bella Terrace Nursing Center: Cockroach Infestation - OH
Inspectors who visited Bella Terrace Rehabilitation and Nursing Center beginning December 30, 2025, found a cockroach infestation running across all three floors of the facility, from the first-floor dining room to the memory care entrance on the second floor to a shower room on the third. The facility houses 82 residents.
The inspection began with a walk through the first-floor dining room at 12:26 p.m. on December 30, where inspectors observed multiple dead insects along the walls near the windows, including insects that resembled spiders and cockroaches. The next morning, they found the same on the second-floor windowsill near the entrance to memory care.
Resident 88 told inspectors on December 31 that the roaches come out when the housekeeper mops. She said she watches them climb the walls and she fears they will fall down on her. "The roaches aren't living with us," she said. "We are living with them."
The Maintenance Director said that day that he felt the problem was getting better. He noted the facility had switched pest control companies three months earlier, and that he no longer had cockroaches running across his desk.
Inspectors kept returning. So did the roaches.
Resident 87, interviewed January 5, said she had been killing cockroaches in her room and in the hallways and had watched them come out of the kitchen. She said she wished the facility had fumigated the whole place. Resident 56 said he found one or two in his room but mostly saw them in the hallways. Resident 90 said the problem had been bad but felt it had gotten better.
That same afternoon, the Regional Maintenance Director told inspectors that a resident's room had been identified as a source of the infestation. He said the resident was a hoarder, and that when the resident was away, staff entered to clear out trash including empty shampoo bottles and grocery bags. Inside, they found a cockroach infestation and called exterminators in that day. He confirmed the insects were German cockroaches.
The following morning, January 6, an inspector observed a cockroach crawling up the wall in the third-floor shower room. The Regional Maintenance Director was standing there and confirmed it was a German cockroach.
Resident 74, on the third floor, told inspectors on January 7 that she hadn't had many bug issues where she was. She said on the first and second floors, the cockroaches were everywhere.
Two cockroach traps sat near the kitchen door when inspectors arrived on January 8. The Dietary Supervisor said the facility had issues with cockroaches but felt it had gotten better.
It had not gotten better enough for the residents still living with them.
Resident 50 told inspectors on January 12 that she didn't want housekeeping coming into her room because she believed they brought the insects in on their mops. Resident 268 said she had seen roaches come out from under her bed. Resident 35 said his biggest complaint was the cockroaches because they were repulsive.
Resident 27 was direct. "The place was roached out," he said. He told inspectors they were everywhere, that they came out at night, and that he had seen one just two days before.
Pest control work orders reviewed by inspectors dated back to September 9, 2025, with visits on September 29, October 6, October 17, October 22, October 29, December 8, December 16, and January 5, 2026. Every one of them focused on cockroach eradication in both individual rooms and common areas.
On January 13, an inspector watched the exterminator walk up to maintenance managers and ask them where he should focus.
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BELLA TERRACE REHABILITATION AND NURSING CENTER in COLUMBUS, OH was cited for violations during a health inspection on January 29, 2026.
The facility houses 82 residents.
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.