Bella Terrace Rehab: Maintenance Failures Across Facility - OH
Inspectors visiting Bella Terrace Rehabilitation and Nursing Center in January found the same complaint repeated across rooms on the same evening: dim, inadequate lighting in spaces where residents spent their days and nights. One resident said the dimness bothered him. Another said it would be helpful to have more. A third, Resident #16, had turned on every fixture available and still sat in a room inspectors described as very dim.
The lighting was the least of it.
In the room occupied by Resident #18, the handrail beside the toilet was very loose and showed rust near the pipe. He confirmed he used that bathroom. The sink in his room was missing enamel, and the edge left exposed by that missing enamel was sharp. Drywall was exposed on the corner near the sink. Paint was missing from the wall. The drywall in the back area had been ripped. Above his bed, stains spread across the ceiling. Resident #18 said they were unsettling. He didn't know what they were. The light above his sink was missing its cover.
In the room next door, Resident #22 had no hot water at the sink. A two-inch strip of wall around the sink had never been painted. She also mentioned, without apparent expectation of resolution, that she didn't have a chair in her room anymore and would like one.
The damage in other rooms followed a similar inventory. Missing drywall on the corner near the sink. Loose trim. Paint missing across the full length of the wall beside the bed. Significant scuff marks on a front door. Out in the common hallway, chunks of wall were missing near a bookcase, the railing was marred along its full length, and paint was gone in patches along the wall.
In Resident #12's room, the wardrobe drawers were stuck together. She couldn't open one without opening both at the same time. The top sliding door on the wardrobe was also missing. She said it would be helpful to have it. The lights were all on. The room was still very dim.
Another room had damaged laminate around the sink, torn paint near the entrance, water damage on the ceiling in the back right corner, and holes in the wall outside the door where a soap dispenser had apparently been removed and never replaced or patched.
On January 13, the facility's Maintenance Director, the Regional Maintenance Director, and the Regional President of Plant Operations toured all of these areas together. They confirmed that the described areas had not been maintained. That was the finding, stated plainly in the inspection record: they looked, and they agreed nothing had been done.
The physical condition of the rooms wasn't the only problem inspectors documented. Starting December 30, they observed approximately two inches of dark grime running along the edge of the flooring in the main lobby and the adjacent hallway near the elevator. They observed it there every day. It remained through January 12, when a housekeeper was seen scraping it off the floor.
That housekeeper, when interviewed, said the buildup was accumulated wax. He said it hadn't been there long. Inspectors had been watching it accumulate for two weeks.
In the memory care shower room, a certified nursing assistant confirmed a patch of white paint on a tan wall and an overhead fan coated in dust. She said she didn't know who was responsible for cleaning the fan.
On the third floor, five wet towels were piled on the shower room floor on the morning of January 13. A certified nursing assistant confirmed they were there and said a resident must have showered overnight, and that staff would normally remove them if someone told them about it. Nine days later, on January 22, inspectors returned to the same shower room. There was another pile of wet towels on the floor. The same certified nursing assistant confirmed them again. She said she didn't know who was covering the area.
Resident #18 still didn't know what left those stains on the ceiling above his bed.
Full Inspection Report
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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.
One resident said the dimness bothered him.
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